Bouke Vahl
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You don’t need a base unit, you need a power supply only.
Then you can daisy chain / run parallel.hth
Bouke
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That looks like DCP indeed!
I can’t see the entire file names.
Inside the file names (and the XML) is encoded what the kind it is (In your case it’s probably ‘feature’)
And, I can’t compare with my own work (I’m on holiday this week.)
DO copy ALL the files inside the original folder!.But, most important, are black / white levels OK?
And, YUV to XYZ colorspace can go horribly wrong if you have illegal levels.
So, you definitly want to find a real theatre to test!Bouke
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ah, that’s new to me ☺
What are the files / folders you have? Something with Assetmap?
If you show me the file structure, I can tell you if it’s a DCP alike.
Nevertheless, make friends with your local theatre, create a test DCP and view it there on a monday morning.Bouke
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This makes no sense at all.
First:
DCP players are by nature Linux based. You should deliver a EXT2 formatted disk.
Then:
Your biggest problem is how to create a DCP. This is NOT ‘just a file’.
For that you need specialized software, and a lot of knowledge.
(Going from one colorspace to another, padding HD to proper 2K resolution, make sure you have no interlaced material in it, mapping audio tracks, do proper naming etc.)So, make a good master and outsource, or spend at least a week learning all this stuff.
(Outsourcing probably sets you back 600 bucks, but you might get lucky.)Bouke
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I disagree.
For projection, they could be smaller, and a bit lower.
Also, I would drop the drop shadow, just stick with a (small) outline.To batch change them, what plugin did you use, and how did you create them?
TEP is an option, my Subbits is an option, but you can also do a search/replace on an XML of the subtrack only.
But if I were you, I would want to have a subtitle file seperate from the FCP project. (For future use, changes, other outputs like SRT / broadcast / interchangable for closed captions start etc.)
So you need ‘something’ at least.More important is the readability. But that cannot been judged from a still 🙂
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It can be done, but requires a bit of effort.
The charset used for ALE seems to be ‘macintosh’ (also on Windows).
Note that there is no BOM (Byte Order Mark)So, open the provided ALE in a text editor, and see if it looks allright.
Then see if you can set the charset for saving in your text editor.
If you can’t find a text editor that allows for this, I can write a conversion util.Bouke
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I’ve not clicked on Todds link, but I’m pretty sure it will explain everything.
There are two flavours of alpha, straight and premultiplied.
Premultiplied will look ‘normal’, and straight will look bad if the alpha is not applied.
(There could be a lot of garbage, but if the key signal says it’s not to be used, it does not matter of course. It’s the same that outside the set you see lights, flightcases and half empty coffee cups.)However, both flavours contain the same data, only the math is different.
Most NLE’s accept only straight alpha. AE lets you choose.
So, don’t worry about it, just re-import in a NLE, overlay on ‘something’, then you can do QC.Bouke
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A few hundred shots or a few hundred episodes?
If it’s a few hundred shots you should be done with it already by doing it manually.And, if the player can remove the pulldown on the fly (which I don’t believe if there are cadance breaks in the original master tapes), and you output over HDMI, it won’t be that bad.
But a true 23.976 DVD (I made lots of them) will have the pulldown added by the player, it’s not in the encode. Thus it will not have cadance breaks.
You suggest the DVD’s are made from NTSC edited masters, from film that has been scanned to tape with added pulldown.
You can put up some stuff for others to look at. But first tell me, what is it? And how much do you have? And do you have budget?
Bouke
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Get a 29.97 i file from a ripper, and put that into Resolve.
Let the scene detection run, check it. (Or use my ReCut app that I originally designed for this type of work, restoring old movies.)
Render out individual clips of all shots.
Import those into AE, set ‘interpret field’, and let it guess. (Interpret fields can be set in batch, don’t know if the ‘guess’ will work in batch though.)
Then, re-assemble the show.Yes, it takes time, but not that much.
And it WILL work.There might be a problem at cuts that are on an interlaced frame, as the full frame info is just not there anymore. Those might have to be trimmed out, meaning you have to trim out some audio here and there as well, or speed up the sound.
Bouke
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