Dave Gage
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[Justin Mrkva] ” I did find that apparently iPhone video can actually have variable frame rates.”
I have found the same thing with my MBP. It will do 30fps, but not if there is not enough light.
Dave
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[Jeremy Garchow] “As long as you are editing horror and suspense, I’d chalk this up to a happy accident.
Sweet effect. ;)”
I agree with Jeremy, I love that unintentional effect! Very Cool. Of course, it would nice to get the workflow fixed so it does work the way you want it to.
Dave
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[Julian Bowman] “Why can’t things just be made to work? And when they don’t, can’t we bill these companies for our time we spend dealing with their errors? I’m self employed. 30 minutes wasted on fixing things other people broke is 30 minutes of billable time :)”
Wow, that’s my life too. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve bitched and moaned to my wife about how I spend a good portion of my day and life fixing things I didn’t break. This is not just software, but my website hosting company, bank, refrigerator, washing machine, router, cable box, etc., etc.
At some point I gave up, and now my life revolves around “work-arounds”. I go out of my way to let things be as they may and jot down somewhere what I need to do to allow the thing to work the way it wants to. This also explains why I’m still on 10.6.8 and FCP X 10.0.4. Everything works to my satisfaction, so why screw it up with an upgrade and break other things I’m aware of and not aware of. Someday when I have a personal assistant, IT and house staff, I will consider upgrading software and other aspects of life. In the meantime, I just need to get work done to pay them silly bills.
Sorry for the rant within your rant, but I can definitely relate.
Dave
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[Herb Sevush] “I edited all her shows that she did in the 90’s and also some historical compendiums, so I have an intimate knowledge of her library.”
Herb,
What I saw was B & W and definitely shot prior to the 90’s, but for B & W footage which appeared to be 50’s-70’s era, it was extremely clean and pristine in HD. Really, some of the better B & W footage I’ve seen converted to HD. Kudos to you if this was something you had a hand in.
Dave
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[Gary Huff] ”
I wouldn’t bother uprezzing for “future-proofing”…just a good quality master at the highest resolution that was supported by the original material.”Okay, the best I could do today is 1080p anyway and since it seems there’s not a huge difference in 720p and 1080p, I’ll stick with what I’m doing. And frankly, because these classes go through the Adobe Connect servers anyway, the video quality is somewhere between okay and kinda crappy (did I mention my camera is the built-in webcam on my 2011 17″ MBP). I believe their frame rate is currently 10-15 fps, but in theory, they are supposed to be upgrading that soon. Maybe when they do, I’ll take a look at changing over to the 1920×1200 screen capture and 1080p timeline.
Thanks again,
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[Craig Seeman] “YouTube supports 1080. I believe they briefly supported 4K already but pulled it down.
As far as the viewer is concerned bandwidth is an issue.”Before I post the video at my website, I use Compressor and take the PR422 master from FCP X down to 640×360 and encode with x264 with both .mp4 and .m4v extensions for the Flash player and to also accommodate HTML5. I’m just trying to future-proof as much as reasonable so I don’t have to go back in a couple of years and re-edit 100-400 videos in a 1080 or 2k timeline. But, as I asked in the first post…
How does an up-rez to 1080 or even 2k or 4k come out? Has anyone here had to do that yet? I would think that if you can up-rez SD to HD with good hardware and software, this should be possible. And again, I’m not making movies here, just instructional video that I hope will last for a decade or two since I know the content is good.
Thanks,
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[Gary Huff] ”
Was it shot on 16 or 35mm thought? May not have been an uprez.”No way of knowing. But, the video was clearly from the 60’s or 70’s at best. It did look surprising good, but in a “classic” kind of way.
Dave
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[Michael Gissing] “If your client are happy with your work and it is largely for web use then I don’t see you have much need to change.”
The client is myself. It’s instructional video for my website in the members area and then I will ultimately make the best/most popular classes available for separate paid download.
Really what I’m doing at this point is live classes via Adobe Connect which I screen capture with ScreenFlow and then edit and add a bunch of lower 3rd comments and notes to clarify what I said (or add something that I may have missed saying in the presentation). They’re actually coming out great, but with 3 new classes a week, it’s a lot of work on top of everything I already had going.
I was shooting 5-10 minute tutorial videos with a camera in my studio, but this class thing has worked out great since members can attend live classes and/or watch the archived videos, so it has helped with membership sales. With that said, when I get caught up, I will also go back to shooting in the studio with the camera. When I do, I will take a look again at the BlackMagic and similar cameras.
Thanks,
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Jermy,
I know there are 3rd party apps out there that allow you to do stuff like this, but I’m not sure I care enough to spend time on it. As I said, now that I know it’s there, I’ll just right-click. I use the “Shift-Option-Command-V” all the time and was hoping there was an easy way to do it here.
Thanks,
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[Jeremy Garchow] ” That’s a finder operation, just like the spell check.
You’d map it through Finder not through fcpx.”
Okay, that’s doable. I do like the Apple default “Shift-Option-Command-V” to paste and keep the formatting where you are pasting into. I really thought based on how this command works in Mail and other apps, that it would work here or I could map it in the Keyboard Commands, but no such luck. In the meantime, right-clicking works fine.
I thought maybe this was available in a more current version of FCP X and would give me a reason to upgrade.
Thanks,
Dave