[Earthworm]

Thanks a million, Dwaine. I feel silly, I would’ve found that had I searched for MC Color instead of Artist Color.

Thank you!

[Earthworm]

I’ve run into this before: If your sequence was non-drop and you switched it to drop after putting in media, sometimes the switch won’t take.

The solution was to create a new drop frame sequence then copy the media into it. Your edit may be too long now but at least the TC will be accurate.

[Earthworm]

Any word if Blackmagic will allow other breakout cards with the new Resolve (Matrox/AJA)?

[Earthworm]

If you mean create a disc image and store it as data on a DVD there’s no reason that shouldn’t work. Data is data.

What we’ve been doing is building an actual Blu-Ray disc onto a DVD-R, which works as well but not in all the Blu-Ray players we tried.

[Earthworm]

Send to Compressor (or using the Share function) in FCP does does support virtual clusters, like the one you have set up. It’ll error out every time. Always export a QT (either self-contained or not, both work) and bring it into Compressor.

I’ve been told it’s not an error but ‘not supported.’

Sigh and wait for a 64-bit FCStudio.

[Earthworm]

2 reasons you may not be able to access Frame Controls:

The simplest is that in order to turn them on, you have to click the gear or star looking button to the right of the on/off dropdown menu.

The second is that you must have a clip and setting loaded.

The step by step:

Import your file into compressor.
Add a setting (Apple/Other Workflows/Advanced Format Conversions/High Definition/HD Uncompressed 10-bit 1080p24)
Then click on the Inspector, choose the Frame Controls tab.
Click the ‘star/gear’ button and turn Frame Controls On.
Use these settings:

Resizing Control:
Resize Filter: Best (Statistical prediction)
Output Fields: Progressive
Deinterlace: Best (Motion compensated)
Adaptive Details (leave checked)
Anti-alias: leave at 0
Details level: leave at 0

Retiming Control:
Rate Conversion: Best (High quality motion compensated)
Set duration to: 100% of Source

Then render. I suggest rendering overnight. It takes a looong time when you enable Frame Controls.

As others have said, yes hardware is better but it costs money.
I’m used to having to do things like these without any additional budget. Compressor is decent.

I’ll use hardware when I can afford it.

[Earthworm]

We had a similar issue with a doc we did.

I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of Compressor. Since you’re finishing 1080p 23.98: under Frame Controls set the Output Fields to Progressive, Deinterlace to Best (Motion Compensated) and Rate Conversion set to Best.

It’s a very very slow render but even with a lot of footage you can probably render overnight.

[Earthworm]

Kona 3 seems to be working fine input and output.

One small but very nice little addition that I didn’t notice on any of the ‘What’s New’ documentation is that in the right click/control click menu on items in the Browser there is a feature that says ‘Reveal Affiliated Clips in Front Sequence.’ Something that should’ve been there a long time ago but a nice little thing.

Slight disappointment with the Timecode Viewer. Unless I’m doing something wrong, it does not give you the incoming timecode while capturing. Still very useful while editing…

[Earthworm]

Will test input and output with my Kona 3 this afternoon.

[Earthworm]

The Panasonic HVX does a poor job in low light. I bet that’s where the graininess is coming from. If you shoot with this camera the best way to get a dark look is to light it for best exposure and color correct for that dark, contrasty look. From what I’ve always been told, this is how they shoot dark/moody horror films as well.