Craig Johnson
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Great stuff Mark. Thanks. I asked the 24p question because if you look back in this thread, it was suggested to me to shoot it in HD 24p. I wondered why and is why I asked. I’ll practice setting it up with a newer film as these look incredibly frail and may be their last showing.
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First off…thanks….great stuff guys. Next it’s a bit on the low budget side and the projector provided is a major relic. It fired up, but there’s no way I’m trusting it, so I’ll try and score a better used one. Next, there is no sound track on any of these. Not sure what they want me to do about that but immediately, they want the transfer and to edit out the rotten film. These were not handled nicely at all and some pre-date WWII. I like Mark’s idea with the mirror. Is there an illustration somewhere so I can see the handling of the keystone in some detail? I did it with a still camera and slide projector a few years back and I had to crop the pictures and they looked slightly off. Lastly, if I shoot it at 24 frames, won’t that compound or exaggerate the already flickery kind of uneven jumpy look? Thanks again.
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Yes an important point. I figure you all saw me unload the box in my office and knew they were old film reels. Sorry….shouldn’t have left that out.
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Thanks for all the responses.
Hi Chris….I have tried many different configurations on all the different sets and the 2 projectors I own. Like I said, my projects don’t zoom much, but it is super annoying.
The only fun part of messing with all those settings on the plasma was stumbling across the 2D to 3D upscale feature and watching my movie with the 3D glasses on. It’s blu ray and that part was very cool and looked killer.
Like Jeff and Neil said…External Broadcast Monitor and associated goodies. I guess I can’t cheap out of this one.
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Thanks for your input.
Since there is no way I can pop for a $5K FSI broadcast monitor, I guess I need a work around. The new MBP comes with a thunderbolt port but I haven’t played with it yet but I am assuming there is way using that without I/O cards.
What I have noticed is that every time I play a dvd or blu ray back on my 1080 plasma, or our 1080 sony LCD, or my 1080 Epson projector on a 10 foot screen, my whole movie looks slightly zoomed in. It’s not horrible, but it does change the entire feel of it and makes it look a bit rushed along. There are no resolution issues whatsoever. I use wireframe and title safe always and had read that if I connected a 1080 HD TV of some sort as a monitor, it would give me a better idea of how the finished product would be scaled. Why is my end product looking slightly “zoomed in”?
Am I the only one that has this issue? Has anyone found a happy medium that get’s you pretty close without the $5K price tag?
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I bought a little 13 inch 3 months ago with basically the same specs you posted. I am a hobby level at home editor. That said, I get some jobs and make them blu ray. I have to say, this little machine with the sandy bridge is right on the money for speed and ease of handling the load. If I were a full time editor, I would spare no expense for the best of the best. I have a 6 month old 27 inch imac quad core with same basic stats, the MBP is quicker and I can take it and my drives in a very small bag and get stuff done.
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Check for old renders and blow them away. It made a huge difference on my rig.
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The basic FCP7 “Cross Dissolve”.
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Thanks. I’m clear now on what you meant. I was thinking that it might automatically render again and that was the real question. Since it appears that isn’t the case, what would your guess be as to why the difference in playback between a burned blu ray and playing back an mov file? I would think they would both play fine.
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No, the files weren’t brought in from the blu ray. I just took the mov files straight from After Effects and put them in a Pro Res 422 timeline in FCP7. My question is if I export it to a Quicktime self contained movie, does FCP automatically re-encode it?