[Brent Streeper]

Thanks for the replies.
I think what we’ll be doing is shooting the HVR-Z1U at 25p, import the HDV footage uncompressed, slow it down by 4% (it’s all MOS) and then output 23.98 to an HDCAM tape, which would then serve as our master.
Convoluted, yes, but I think it will work.
Thanks again,
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

Thanks Jerry.
I’ve never had to use Cinema Tools, so this will be a learning experience for me. I’ll go through the manual.
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

Thanks for all the great responses.

Yes, I have been working with FCP for about 3 years, but since I’m self-taught and work on small time projects, I’ve never actually had the opportunity or need to learn the protocol of a professional edit session.

As far as I know we will be shooting HD at 24p and downconverting using the Everts box straight to a hard-drive. As far as I know the Everts doesn’t downconvert to the DVCPro HD format. I should check to see if it will downconvert to one of the Apple Offline HD codecs. I guess a lot of my concern stem from the Everts box since I’ve never used one and don’t know the workflow.

Next month we will be getting either a Huge System or an Apple X-Serve Raid.

Should we keep the entire project, from start to finish, at 24p, to avoid any pulldown issues?

Thanks again for all the great tips and suggestions.

Brent

[Brent Streeper]

Hey,

Thanks for the replies. I tried switching the alpha type around without much luck.

Here are a couple of screen grabs showing the difference between the pre and post export alphas.

https://homepage.mac.com/jackhammerfilms/PhotoAlbum1.html

Again, I’m adding a luma key, matte choker and a gaussian blur affecting the alpha channel. The clip remains unrendered on the timeline. I’m exporting using the Animation codec, millions of colors+, best quality. If you need any more info on settings or anything, let me know.

Thanks again,

Brent