Don Greening
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I like this Rick guy. He’s smart 🙂 Thanks, Rick, for educating me. I guess that’s why I leave the lighting to the lighting guys.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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Do I have it backwards? If I’m inside and using incandescent lighting and want to balance them with the outside light coming in I use blue gel. Works as expected. So If I’m outside and want to warm up the shot wouldn’t I try to get the picture closer to 3200K?
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
I’m sure this same scenario was brought up not too long ago and Ian Cook had an explanation and a fix for it. You do a forum search using Ian Cook/XDCAM Transfer, etc as search terms and so will I. At the end of the day we’ll compare notes.
– Don
Update: Here you go:
Ian Cook writes:”you just need to upgrade XDCAM Transfer to 2.12 for Snow Leopard compatibility. the thumbnail errors are normal for versions <2.12 and OS 10.6."
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/142/874343
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
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[Robert Mosner] “I would like to get warmer skin tones.”
The w/b preset for outside is 5600K and 3200K for incandescent lighting inside. Just do some tests shooting a live human being outside. The dead ones don’t work well at all. Start lowering the kelvin numbers until you get the look you want. Use that as a new picture profile w/b preset. To warm up daylight kelvin you need to w/b with an orange card. The amount of orange will determine how ‘warm’ you want the shot to be.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
[David Choate] “My question is: How does the application know what version of Final Cut Pro I have installed in my computer and will it work when I install the 6.0 version?”
It doesn’t, but Quicktime does. The minimum version of QT Pro needed to run the XDCAM EX codecs is v.7.3.1. The minimum Final Cut Pro version is actually v.6.0.2 and you need Mac OS v.10.4.11 or better in order for it to all happen. Remember that the EX codecs reside with FCP only. When you upgrade to v.6.0.2 or better every piece of software that needs to know about those codecs will know.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
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Shooting EDCAM EX codec 270p 30 plus 48k 16bit audio 2 channels adds up tp 7.7Gbytes of space per hour. Keep in mind that the EXCAM EX codec only needs 20% more space than Mini DV or HDV.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
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If you’ve already set your output select to SD/SDI/Component then the Down Converter selection in the same menu screen will become active. Set it to Squeeze. This is from my EX1R menu. You didn’t say what camera you’re using.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
Shooting XDCAM EX 1080 interlaced or progressive is 16.8 Gbytes per hour.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
Apparently my information is incorrect. My apologies. I’ve always seen HD as upper field and SD as lower field and have been told the same. I’ve made a few interlaced DVD’s lower field first and they’ve looked fine but for the last several years my DVD’s have been progressive.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
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The field dominance for HD is upper field first. The field dominance for DVD is lower field first because anything that goes on a DVD formatted disc is standard def. which is always lower. When Compressor encodes for DVD it has to ‘shift fields’ during the process. Make sure that you check that in your encoding preferences. Either set the field dominance to automatic or set it to ‘lower.’
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com