David Battistella
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Alan,
I first learned about this when finding a solution for converting HD footage that was shot 59.94 but needed to be converted to 24P. After many tests it turned out that the Compressor presets looked awesome.
so you can create a preset that makes a clip playback at 1/2 speed or 1/4 speed and if you turn the optical flow to high it does a great job interpreting the inbetween frames. You can just drop those clips into compressor, run the preset and then reimport into FCP.
David
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Compressor does a fantastic job of slowing footage down, because it uses SHAKE’s optical flow technology. Try a few tests that way too.
You have to create preset that will slow the footage down, but you can work with all of your shots and then do the compressor thing last and replace the media in your timeline.
David
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It is no secret that FCP slomo is not the greatest. You are talking aout taking progressive scanned images and converting them to interlaced images and changing the speed.
Revision is one way, AE is another, but FCP will not be the best slomo tool.
Much of it has to do with your workflow and how much you actually are going to slow down. If it is all slomo and speed then it might be a good idea to run some tests first so that you do not have to predict problems but find out what they are.
David
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Ransley,
This is a very subjective question you are asking. You say it looks great in camera, on te monitor and on a small projector. If you really want to make it look great in that theater then I would lod the film on a laptop bring it to the cinema and solor correct it there for that screening. Maybe you can get in in the daytime and do a CC pass with your editor/colorist there for that specific event.
The larger you go with the DVX the more you will see it’s limitations. You have not even stated what you were projecting from, Tape, DVD, etc.
To many factors to really answer the question. You seem satisfied with everything but this one room. If you maximize for that room how are the rest of the forms of media going to look?
David
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I have always liked cartoni. They just have never made a real affordable tripod for DV until tis year. The Manfrotto I bought was part of a kit that included head, legs, plate and soft case. Very reasonable and high quality at a good price. The Cartoni was not available yet so I went with it.
David
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Walter is right.
Both of the codecs he mentions are easily handled by firewire drives and you editor will actully see everything in the frame with a very high level of detail.The DV is 3.8 mb/sec and the HD will be 11mb/sec @24 frames so your only real question is storage.
On the offline online process:
FCP has some problems media managing projects when switching machines so make sure that the project you are going to online is created by the offline editor on the laptop.
David
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I was trying to drag and drop. duh?
David
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I have a manfroto and it is a little workhorse. Good in all kinds of weather, ball head and smooth pan and tilt, Model 501. If I was looking for a new one I would take a serious look at a Cartoni.
David
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David
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Let’s all pitch in a nd get graeme a chiroracter. 🙂
He is the great hope for those who shoot DV,SD,720P and want to finish HD. I bet this product will have teranax style results.
Great wishes for speedy recovery Graeme and if you need anything at all you know where to find me.
David