Bill Dewald
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[Lucita Jones] “how I can “attempt to work around them”? “
You’re on the right track with the deinterlance…
It’s been a while since I’ve worked with interlaced footage, but I’d try “Deinterlance” or “Motion Blur”.
Also, if you’re handy with Motion or After Effects, you may get better results.
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[Lucita Jones] “What could I do? Why can I only see this problem during playback in the DVD and not on the computer?
“Are you looking at a monitor while you’re working in FCP? That’s essential.
Most likely, your footage is interlaced, and slowing the image causes the flicker. If you use a monitor with your FCP system, you can detect the interlacing problems as you are working, and attempt to work around them.
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[Ane Vecchione] “I don’t quite follow the panning issue. How can I test this? “
Open the clip that you have ingested in the viewer. Are there two Mono tabs, or one Stereo (a1a2) tab?
What is the value for the “Pan” parameter?
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I’m not in front of FCP right now (first time in 12 hours today…) so pardon me if this is a little vague…
Check your clip’s audio in the viewer – how is the panning set? Do you have a stereo pair, or dual mono tracks?
My guess is that ingested your tape as dual mono tracks, and when you print back to tape, both channels are panned center.
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Well – be sure to use the TV (of course, a pro video monitor would be better) as you work on the footage.
Since you can’t eradicate the gain noise, try to stylize it using CC and other filters to get a look that you like.
Remember, horror is all about sound and pacing – stuff that you can’t see can be scarier that what you _can_ see.
And, from a former film student here, remember that this _is_ a learning process. You don’t have to strike gold (or oil) your first time out. Have fun with it and find a creative way to “fix it in post”.
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When you watch/view on FCP, what are you looking at? An external monitor?
What is the project setting? How are you generating the DVD?
[Derek Elrod] “Is this something to do with the 23.98 framerate for the DVD versus the footage’s original 24p frame rate? “
24p generally refers to the 23.98 (actually 23.976) framerate. Did you actually shoot 24 frame?!
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Short answer – HDV, being tape based, will cause much less change to your workflow.
When shooting with P2 cards, you will need to consider a storage / backup system for the P2 card images (the original .MXF data), as well as the QT files that you will use in the FCP edit. This effects both production and post.
However, there are advantages to the HVX. Let us know more details, and we can give more specific advice.
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[Derek Elrod] “1. VIDEO ENHANCEMENT — What is the best way to enhance this nighttime footage since no artificial lighting was used? Especially to smooth the darkness instead of it being so noisy, and anything that will make it scarier. “
Start with the 3-way color corrector. Dropping the black level will elimenate some of the noise… and probably a lot of the picture since you shot at night with no lights… Was the moon out?
[Derek Elrod] “2. MAKING HD VIDEO LOOK LIKE FILM — Is there any way to do this? Particularly in FCP? The camerawork is film-like but the screen texture doesn’t look quite like film. “
Again, shot at night with available light, you’ll have probably have to take what you can get… You can always add a “grain” effect. And there are 3rd party plug-ins that simulate film looks, but if you can’t see much anyway, how much can they help?
[Derek Elrod] “3. MUSIC POPS AND CLICKS — My music that I imported in Final Cut Pro for this project is 44.1 KHz, but DVD’s and etc all use 48 KHz right? Right now all my music has clicks that you can hear every second, yet there are none when I listen to the MP3’s in another program. How do I correct this and what could be wrong? “
Use ITunes to convert your music to 48KHz AIFF. Probably best to ingest straight off the CD, rather than recompressing MP3s.
[Derek Elrod] “4. CONVERTING MUSIC TO 5.1 — I’m planning on having a 5.1 Dolby audio option, and I’m hoping that Apple’s Compressor’s 5.1 Dolby export option is going to automatically divide my 2 channel mix into 5.1 channels and have everything basically play what the 2 channels were originally? I do NOT want the 5.1 option to only play the Front Left and Front Right channels.
“How are you planning to make a surround mix? Do you have access to a facility that has the proper monitors? If not, just make a solid stereo mix and don’t mess with 5.1. If you can’t hear what you’re doing, it won’t come out right…
Good luck!
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K, here’s what you do:
go to –
https://www.apple.com/trailers/
Pick a fave, find a size/format that you like, and then download it. Open it in Quicktime Player, and note the frame size and bit rate.
Then do that… Or something close to it. Compression is an art as well as a science, so it make take a few tries. Good luck!
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Compressor will give you better control over your export settings, and has the added bonus of not tying up your Final Cut app while it works…
I often use Quicktime Conversion for small, quick things – but if this is going out to the public, you may want to check out Compressor, and see what it can do.