Claude Lyneis
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I have to test it out, but I think if I color correct at the beginning of the multicam edit, first with one camera selected and then with the other, those corrections stay with the clips as I cut from one to the other. That should save some time and provide a consistent starting point for some fine adjustments at the end of the edit. Normally, you can’t color correct clips that reside in the browser.
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Very interesting. After a few tries, I could see a difference in how your fingers looked as you tightened a screw. The 50p inserted into a 25 p project did show a slight lack of smoothness (less motion blur). Of course this is viewed on a 27 inch mid 11 Mac not a 5k screen.
One thing I am not sure of. If some a video using some 50 p and some 25 is mixed as you have done first with the 50p inserted into to 25p project and then second with the 25p inserted into a 50 p project, is the result the same?
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PF24 on the XA10 is some sort of progressive recording recording that was interlaced. https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/canon-vixia-series-avchd-hdv-camcorders/489157-can-someone-explain-plain-english-difference-between-pf24-pf30-f24-60i.html
I think this has since been abandoned. It may be the cause of those wavy lines. For the web, you would be better served by shoot PF 30 on the xa10. On the XA20 that I use now, I think it is best to use29.97 P MP4, which is truly progressive.
I used an XA10 for sometime, now use XA20 and it is an improvement, but still thinking about a camera that can do 4:2:2 10 bit properly.
I know if film school they all want you to shoot at 24 fps, but if it is going on the web, it seems to me 30 fps is the way to go. Of course I do a lot of sports and favor 60 fps because it makes slow motion so much better. -
Really looks great. Love the bokah and the color depth.
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[Noah Kadner] “Yeah the higher shutter speed you go above double your frame rate the more staccato the results will look. To get from 50 to 25 FCPX just throws away every other frame- as you would expect.
Noah”
I frequently shoot at 60 p for sports (lacrosse) because it definitely improves the look when using slow motion, 50% speed. So the project is set up at 60 p and the motion looks normal. Is FCPX really throwing away every other frame or is it just running 60 frames per second? Generally the output is compressed using Compressor set up for Youtube. Once though Compressor, the quicktime inspector shows the frame rate to be 60 fps (59.94). So in this case it doesn’t seem to be throwing frames away. I guess if you have a 30 f/s video and you insert some 60p into it, it may shed frames and in this case you lose half of the light and get less motion blur.
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While your video clearly shows your buddy was using an awkward approach to audio editing in PPro, I think it doesn’t clarify much about whether one is better than the other. If someone is an expert in X, PPro, ProTools or whatever, they have figured out how to make it work. Personally, I find handling audio(with associated video) in X to be more intuitive than the track based approach, but that is just me. I have used Pro Tools for audio editing by itself and there the track approach has its appeal.
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I have a $14.00 drone to fly around the living room. Does that count? Actually a reasonable trainer and maybe it will inspire me to go all in on a real drone. Still drone shots seem to be a specialty and good for a brief clip in whatever story you are trying to tell. Good for showing the devastation in Houston, though.
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It is rare that anything that comes out of a camera can’t be improved with some color correction. I have used the FCPX color bar, Color Finale and lately Chromatic. Like Chromatic best, Color Finale next and Apple’s thingy least. It is just not intuitive. So why not get CoreMelt to write a version of Chromatic that lives inside FCPX.
Note, I am hardly a Colorist, but it is quite easy to do color correction with the right tools.
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I was recently looking at an old FCP7 project and still have it on my Mac running Sierra. I got the FCP7 project open, made an XML file, converted it using SendtoX, opened it in FCPX and it seemed to all work. I guess that conversion option will disappear in High Sierra, because step 1 is to open it is FCP7, unless I make a bootable disks with Sierra on it.
Actually, the biggest challenge, was trying to remember how to do anything in FCP7.
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How about calling it FCPX vs PPro? Sure Avid and Resolve drift in and out of the discussion, but X vs Pro seems to get the blood pumping.