Don Greening
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[Steve Woronko] ” Can I delete BorisCC totally and not have FCP look for it when it loads. “
Go to: Macintosh HD>Library>Application Support>Final Cut Pro System Support>Plugins. Drag your Boris Continuum Complete plugins folder onto the desktop. Now FCP will not look for these plugins when it starts up.
See if that solves it.
– Don
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[Derek Hall] “We haven’t noticed any frame-edge focusing issues (yet) and my supplier hasn’t mentioned a recall (yet). “
The recall for the .75 W/A adapter was announced by Century/Schneider on May 16th. They had so many complaints from users about not being able to get whole frame in focus that Schneider pulled them off the market. I had one on order myself but it never arrived before the recall.
More info here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/142/858479#858671
– Don
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[Ryan Brown] “This should certainly make a big difference.”
It does. Any time you have more information to start with you’re going to end up with a better look. A perfect example of this is a standard def down convert from an HD source always looking better than the same thing shot with a standard def camera.
– Don
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[Joe Murray] “Nice. Where can I get one?”
Here’s one example:
https://www.letusdirect.com/cart/letus35-ultimate.html
– Don
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[Steve Wargo] “Now isn’t that special?”
Indeed. Comments like that usually elicit my “Aw shucks, it ain’t nuthin’ ” response.
Thanks, Chris.
– Don
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There’s been no recent announcement from Sony that I’m aware of regarding this. Supposedly the firmware update is coming but so far no joy.
Juan Martinez from Sony cruises the forums here at the COW so he may see this thread and respond.
– Don
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[Kathleen Rogers] “Do you reckon I should use Apple 422 HQ transcode in sequence compression for the on-line? ???”
Pro Res is an excellent codec and became wildly popular among editors the moment it was released, mostly because it’s virtually identical in quality to the source footage but with much smaller file sizes than the old HD codecs people were using up to that point. Pro Res has a larger data stream than HDV but it’s still doable over firewire. Pro Res is not limited to HD but works with SD as well, as you already know.
Since you now might have the option to show an HD version at the gallery one way to make that happen is to create a sequence using the same settings as your source footage (HDV) but set your renders to use Pro Res. This way the data stream between your media drive(s) stays relatively low but using Pro Res your rendering times will drop substantially. HDV has a 25Mbit per second transfer rate like Mini DV but is much more processor intensive than “I frame” codecs like Pro Res when it comes time to render because FCP has to “conform” the footage to the HDV spec.
Once you’ve finished your edit you can export a QT self-contained HD movie and then also export an SD version for DVD by using the “Export Using Quicktime Conversion” command and choosing your export codec like Pro Res, or another really nice SD codec like DVCPRO 50.
OR
You can export your HD movie, bring that into Compressor and this program will create an MPEG2 file directly from your exported HD movie.
With FCP there’s always 3 or 4 ways of accomplishing the same end result, depending on how you like to work.
– Don
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In the purest sense of the definition, a relay race is the act of passing the baton from one team member to another. With lenses a relay lens is the passing of the image from one lens to another lens, more specifically when you want to invert or extend the image.
– Don
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[Derek Hall] “‘m using the 0.75 zoom-thru adapter and find it excellent. “
I thought they were recalled due to focusing issues. Derek, you don’t have a problem getting focus at the edges of the frame?
– Don
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I’m sure there is a ton of EX footage out there that demonstrates progressive panning. One example I know of is my own, where I do a 180 degree pan in about 2 seconds with the camera recording HQ 35 VBR 1080p 30. If you’re interested it’s at my website and the panning shot is about 5 seconds into the movie (so you don’t have to watch the whole thing). The movie has been down converted to a 600 x 338 frame size.
https://www.reeltimevideoworks.com/wedding_samples.php
Click on the movie called:
95Crave FM Contest
sample3– Don