Douglas Spotted eagle
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Color correction in the Project Media is the right way to always do this, problem is, if you have a lot of different clips frmo the same camera, it can turn into an issue.
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If anyone has a work-around for v8.0 that overcomes this problem please let me know!
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Noise can easily be fixed to a restored level if this is the worst it is. It’s not going to look like tight DV if you’re looking for a “brand new” kind of look, but it can be made more consistent.
Color correction? No sweat.
If those black frames such as 933703 area drop out, the length of those dropouts is important to know, but again, fairly easy to make imperceptable.
You’re gonna be stuck on the framing to a degree, unless you choose to convert it from 4:3 to a wide format, which in itself will offer a few benefits.
All that said…what matters most is the content. It’s old, so folks expect some degree of deterioration. It’s old, so no one will notice some slight re-edits, particularly if it’s never been seen before. We restored similarly damaged footage of Zappa a while back for Ike Egan, it came out very nicely. Had Topaz been available, I’d probably have tried upscaling it to 720p or even 1080p before working on clean up. You might consider the same.
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Convert your HDD from FAT32 to NTFS formatting.
See the Microsoft website for details on how to do this without disrupting the existing contents of your drive.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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It’s not about the disk type, unfortunately it’s about the file type. Final Cut is very specific about what it will accept. And once FCP has touched a file, for the most part it renders that file useless in most PC NLE systems and some Apple systems.
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Liz, even the most powerful machines have challenges with MP4, which is what your Xacti shoots. It isn’t really an ideal format, which is why it’s predominantely relegated to cheap cameras for the consumer.
Given the age/speed of your machine coupled with the challenging format…frustration is the norm.
DV, will edit very well on your machine, HDV will edit fairly well, and AVCHD? It’s gonna be a struggle. You might want to check out AVCUpShift from VASST/NewBlue. It’ll definitely cure your problem, but it does add an editing step.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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In your top menus bar:
VIEW | Active Take InformationDouglas Spotted Eagle
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assuming you’re rendering to a 640 x 480 stream for YouTube, check the “Stretch to Fill” on render as the easiest solution. There are others as well. Be sure all your media is either sized or cropped to fit the correct project settings.
If you know you’re going to YouTube *only* wth the media, open a 640 x 480 project before even beginning to edit, and have all media size to fit that aspect by either cropping or stretching.
If it’s going on a theater screen, you’ll prolly be using a DVD, which means it’s 720 x 480 MPEG2 output.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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No one is sending each other DVD’s of their vacation videos and weddings. They post it once on the web and send a link to the video to dozens of friends who then send it to their friends etc.. You just can’t do that with hard medium (DVD).
You’re preaching to the choir here… 😉
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There are also AVCHD comparisons on our YouTube channel. Aside from some proprietary practices that make minor differences, we simply encode to MP4 as our source. there are also comparisons between MP4 and WMV as source to Flash. They’re *very* close when encoded to the same rate Flash. WMV is slightly better for color, MP4 is slightly better for motion.
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yes, you can match that quality with AVCHD, but in a playable format. I quit watching the buffalo loads at 15 seconds, as I can’t bear stuttered, slow playing video, particularly when it’s Flash.
Again….you’re not making accurate comparisons. They are still both encodes to Flash.
Yet using Flash as the basis to support your point, you can still get a better/high quality encode from the AVC source.
A lot of people don’t understand downconverting and how to achieve it. It’s not an easy subject.
[edit] https://www.vimeo.com/1089994 is AVCHD source, it’s flash, it’s HD, and it plays on this fairly slow hotel connection.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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