Douglas Spotted eagle
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It may be his authoring system can’t properly see the flags, what app is he using?
You’re exporting the 24p w/pulldown, yes?Douglas Spotted Eagle
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I have used/reviewed SpeedEdit.
It’s a very fast tool. First tool I’ve seen that can approach the speed of Vegas. it’s very format-friendly.
It doesn’t have the feature set of Vegas, not by a long shot. But it wsn’t really intended to.
It doesn’t do anything Vegas doesn’t do, but it does have a couple of better features, particularly the keyer. But that’s not saying much. 🙂Douglas Spotted Eagle
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You might consider archiving in XDCAM/MXF format. This way, it’s less compressed than the original, more compressed than uncompressed (obviously), and can be opened by any NLE you choose, so it’s a great archive format.
Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Most formats, including DV and HDCAM, are 8 bit.
Douglas Spotted Eagle
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What 10 bit camera do you have?
32 bit floating allows for greater precision in color, dissolves, and other processes. The greatest immediate difference is seen when working with gradients/gradual color such as a sky. The banding which is very prevalent in DV particularly, but also in high compression formats effectively disappears with 32bit float. The end delivery is still 8 bit video, but like anything else, the better the editing/post quality, acquisition source, etc…the better the final product.
You’ll also notice significantly better glows, light rays, etc. with 32bit processing.
HDV, XDCAM, XV color, AVCHD all benefit from 32bit, but DV’s primary benefit is that the banding we all despise will disappear.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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What 10 bit camera do you have?
32 bit floating allows for greater precision in color, dissolves, and other processes. The greatest immediate difference is seen when working with gradients/gradual color such as a sky. The banding which is very prevalent in DV particularly, but also in high compression formats effectively disappears with 32bit float. The end delivery is still 8 bit video, but like anything else, the better the editing/post quality, acquisition source, etc…the better the final product.
You’ll also notice significantly better glows, light rays, etc. with 32bit processing.
HDV, XDCAM, XV color, AVCHD all benefit from 32bit, but DV’s primary benefit is that the banding we all despise will disappear.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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1. Shoot
2. Use Chromakey, Mask tool, or secondary color corrector to create transparent areas.
3. Render as uncompressed avi and in Custom, select the “render Alpha Channel and Create OpenDML.This will give you the transparent channel you want. Only a 32bit file can carry the alpha channel.
You could also output a sequential PNG with transparency.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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All audio tracks may be automated.
You’re putting the track back into READ mode after writing?Douglas Spotted Eagle
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You mean like this one?
That’s a very fast build in Vegas over generated media.
I built this one in Vegas in under 2 minutes.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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This almost always boils down to one of two things;
a-the HDV device is in HDV mode and you’re trying to use DV capture
b-the HDV device is in DV mode, and you’re trying to use HDV capture.Check downconvert modes on the camera, check which capture mode you’re using for Vegas.
Douglas Spotted Eagle
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