[David Battistella]

Mp3 does carry video.

I recently had to encode moves for smart card and needed to deliver in this format. I believe I had to use cleaner to do this as it is a muxxed file.

Compressor or QT Pro did not do the trick.

David

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[David Battistella]

Sean the best way to do this efficently is to use FCP. Make sure the scaling/render quality is set to best inteh sequence settings.

Set the ratio’s perfectly for one clip and then copy the attributes and paste them into what ever other clip that needs to be affected in teh timeline.

I am not aware of a plugin that does an upconvert for FCP. Just drop the 4×3 clip in the timeline and scale it to fit to the frame.

Depending on your SD source you may want to use a combination of filters from nattress.com to clean up the image a bit before the blow-up. I know Graeme had a DV to HD upconverter in the works but I am not sure it is available yet. If you e-mail him he can probably suggest a good combination of filters to apply before the blow up.

On the compressor side of things. Compressor uses the Optical FLow technology that is built in to Apple Shake. This is the cleanest way to remove motion artifacts an ensure that the image is being treated with “kid gloves”. Optical flow technology alows for very clean conversions from 59.94Interlaced material to 23.98 Progressive frames. That is one of the most demanding conversions out there.

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[David Battistella]

Try 4×4 filters with a matte box

https://www.tiffen.com/

This is a great tripod kit manfrotto, worth every penny, a professional tripod.

https://www.dvshop.ca/camera/kits.html

David

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[David Battistella]

Compressor might be the best thing to do this job.

Read about it on proapptips.com

https://proapptips.com/tips/index.php?topic=Compressor

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[David Battistella]

What serial number are you using?

Have you ever purchased a copy of FCP?

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I have seen this behavior lately too.

I removed the compresoor preferences file and placed it onthe desktop and relaunched compressor. Then I re-encodec the move and it was fine. I also did a shut down and restart.

David

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[David Battistella]

I wonder.

The workaround might be to set the capture to -2.0 or 2.5 (not ideal, i know)

This must have something to do with the pulldown order in the downconvert and how the time is being calculated. It should be recieveing the same TC signal, but maybe final cut is doing something because it is an SD source. It might even be the round number at the start time. what if you made the in 00:59:59:23? What happens then.

Also this could be a drop non drop issue as all 23.98 material is generally NON drop frame.

David

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[David Battistella]

and also,

I hated FCP when I made the switch. But I loved it more than media 100 and discreet EDit and Adobe premier and the editdroid. Many of the things you are complaing about are and have been legitimate “problems” with FCP when you look at things with an AVID perspective.

Walter has a good point here. FCP is not AVID and vice versa. I have come to understand media management in FCP (believe it or not) and I use it all the time to consolidate media etc.. On the double speed thing. This was one of the most anoying thins for me because when sifting through hours of doc interview I had to watch in double or 4x times speed to sift it. I actually implored the people who wrote the Aurora codec to come up with a fix for this, but it is just the way QT media handles audio.

Freeze frames. When you create one always drag a copy of it from the viewer into the browser and then cut that back into the timeline. This forces FCP to connect it to a piece od media.

Slo Motion. You will use fit to fill a lot more in FCP.

JKL does speed and eventually your ear will tune to FCP’s way.

ReMap your keyboard to your avid prefs.

The top things I like.
1. Media files in teh browser and on the drive have the same name
2. Scalable QT throughout the OS
3. Compressor
4. Use of photo’s and other media
5. Scalability (DV to HD) one box
6. Software updates to not require an OS change
7. Pricepoint

Mostly I like that AVID is no longer th eonly game in town. That’s democracy at work.

David

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I’ve answered my fair share of posts in these forums. I am not sure it is productive to drop three posts in complaining about how one piece of software does not compare to another piece of software. Then I get a bit cheekie and everyone gets on the high horse.

Ask your questions about FCP and they will be answered here. There is no need to state (which you did on three seperate posts on your private rant) that one is better than the other.

You broke the code. So did I and I apologize for that. I actaully wrote an article about this a while back!

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=122&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/battistella_david/good_grazing/index.html

David

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Why not dub all of your masters to DV and cut in Express Pro and finish on a Nitris?

No point in learning to use the most used editing software in the world. Just stay in AVID land and forget about it.

I’d love to sit here and waste my time on all of the benifits of the file stracture system that is built on the OS and not the software, but it would most likely be falling on dead ears. Actually as I type, I have figured out that this post is even more futile than your initial post.

So I will just stop right there, but I will add this. You can provide feedback to Apple from within Final Cut Pro and I am sure they will implement all of our requests. Maybe they will even change the name of software to AVID just for you.

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David

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