Blub06
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I think I saw the same show in New York last year at the Hilton. I also think I received a DVD or something of the same footage. It was clear to me that the film had been messed with in the transfer. I confronted the panel with my qualms and the guy who was the DP started to answer then was stopped by the Sony guy they all nervously giggled. How can you take 35mm and burn the highlights and crush the blacks and put it next to the best video and claim its a fair side by side comparison, unless your trying to sell the HD? Oh, I forgot it was a Sony show and that
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Kodak and Fuji have an exposure latitude of greater than 5 stops, this has little to do with highlights and is mostly focused on the shadow area. Film is king of shadow detail, this has been known for decades. There is simply no study or article I am aware of that in anyway successfully argues otherwise.
Your argument is so shockingly against the facts I can only imagine you make it as a way of mixing things up.
And so you have!
Chris
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Have you output a copy to tape and messured that tape with scopes? If all you are using is fcp as a messure before Aja changes things back to 7.5 how do you know what is out of spec?
Chris
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Thanks for the clarity!
Chris
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Start from the beginning. Is it FCP, is it the deck?
Create a new sequence, put a master clip on it, no edits. try to output that. What happens
Do the same but just hit record on the deck and play on the time line, what happens once you check the tape?
If you get a clean out, one of these ways, go to your cut program select an in and out export as a single file. Import put on new sequence and output.Some times you just gotta get the job done, however…
The description of your output might support some sync problem with your deck, check connections…
Chris
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I thought that DVCPROHD was a digital product, made up of 1s and 0s. If you capture/transfer it even onto a laptop you have an exact copy of the original, how could it have a degraded image quality? I don
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Sometimes I hear voices in my head…
After the phone rings.
Chris
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Could be any of a number of kinds of diffusion.
I think the show is shot on film, as you might know, DPs have for 30 years begged Kodak to make their film stock softer, with less contrast etc. Fuji had been typically softer or less contrast so Kodak has had an incentive to give the DPs what they want. I sense the ones that ask for the lower contrast film are the ones who cant seem to get control of the tools outside the film stock so they ask someone else to solve their lack of skill. Interestingly, DPs who shoot on 16 have been super happy with the contrast on their Kodak film stock, so, Kodak, without making it public knowledge has been making one stock for 35 and one for 16 but talking about the matching stocks as if they were the same. Took me years to figure this out and finally a Kodak rep admitted it at one of their in house shows.
DPs often use diffusion to cut this contrast but it is often done in a less then subtle way. The first kind that was popular, and is still used is to stretch one layer of a woman
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Do you do the Fandango?
Chris
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DS is real time with most of all it can do which is much deeper than FCP, and its HD and its real time HD! Its a massively fantastic platform, vs. FCP are you kidding?
With that said, for editing I would go with FCP over anything. For effects work give me the Avid. Can Motion Shake and AE act as a good substitute for DS? I don