[David Battistella]

Ty,

I can confirm that it occurs with the tape as well.

David

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[David Battistella]

I wonder if Natress’s Deflash filter could help with this. He wrote it with the intention of finding the spots in a DV file when a camera flash pops, maybe it can be tricked into a different sensitivity.

David

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[David Battistella]

Thats because they use conventional copper plumbing instead of a serial digital pipeline.

david

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[David Battistella]

Do this as a test.

Make two copies of the same clip, name one copy.
Capture one clip with the regular preset.

Capture the other with the anamorphic preset.

Open them both with quicktime.

What I am saying is that with compressor you can FORCE the clip to display in the 16×9 (not letter boxed which is 4×3) aspect ratio, so that it is displaying as a full rectangle not a square with the black boxes.

David

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[David Battistella]

Are you going from SD to HD or HD to HD. I am sure that you know that they operate in different color spaces.

David

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[David Battistella]

Tom is right. You hire someone you trust and can colaborate with. Don’t be a “shadow director” nobody likes to work with them. By doing that, you are probably putting the person into an uncomforable position and that affects the product.

Have a discussion on how the scenes will be shot ahead of time. Make eyecontact with one and other. Work out a set of simple hand signals to describe what type of shot you are on. One for a close up, two for a medium, three for a wide, etc.

The best way to approach a two camera shoot is to loose the ego and figure out what is required.

David

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[David Battistella]

Enzo,

I think this is the absolute wrong workflow.

Here are my thoughts. Please find an FCP house that can take a media managed sequence and work on it on a “shot for shot basis”. If you want to provide a reference movie it is a good idea to nest a copy of your final sequence and apply the TC reader plugin before rendering out. Do this as a DV movie and it doubles as your sound reference file as well. SOund houses can deal with DV’s small file sizes and compatibility.

If you must go tape to tape then you should provided and edl to the DaVinci guy and that will at least let him “notch” the film. This will tell the Davinci where the edit points occur and then they can emulate a reasonably close to shot for shot correction.

Otherwise the tape to tape or flame or what ever box is being used to online will be adding the time of cutting up your quicktime file into events that can allow the colorist to correct ona shot for shot Basis.

Do not be fooled, FCP is a powerful and in many cases depending on how the room is set up, much higher picture quality online system than many Discreet or AVid Boxes (many older avids are still 8 bit for example the Adrenaline)

If you want to talk about this further, e-mail me off list and I can help guide you through to the best quality solution.

David

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[David Battistella]

Ty,

If you are looking to make a QT movie that will display in the correct aspect ratio then it might be wise to use compressor and make shure the preset forces the movie to display at 16×9.

These flags are put into the movie when FCP captures it as anamorphic footage as if you open then at the root level on your hard drive and look at the “get info” windo wof QT you will see that teh file size is actaully 853×480 indicating that the movie is indeed anamorphic because that is the frame size.

David

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[David Battistella]

Does that deck have the old 2-field 4 field switch, like Beta SP decks have?

If you take it out of Auto and force it to the 2 or 4 field this can solve those edit to tape issues.

That is the only thing I can think of other than moving the edit points by a frame on either the deck or the timeline.

David

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