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Thanks guys!
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Hi Brett,
Thanks. That’s what I suspected. Here’s my dilemma – I had someone doing post production on my files. They took my footage off of PAL DV mini DVs and saved the files as 24FPS Animation files. They did their touch up (masking) in Animation 24fps mode… meanwhile, I believe PAL DV is shot in 25fps (in movie mode) – which has squeezed all the 25 frames now into 24 frames – distoring the speed in the animation file.When I go to elongate this at 30% slow motion speed, the file gets all funky – frames are not consistent or smooth.
Obviously this person didn’t know what she was doing. Is there anyway you know of to get footage which was originally recorded at 25fps PAL DV, converted to Animation 24FPS, back to it’s original 25FPS PAL DV? I’ve tried a million combinations in compressor with no luck, but I’m not an expert at this. The show opens tomorrow in Minneapolis 🙁 20 hours and counting…
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Hi Brett,
Thanks. That’s what I suspected. Here’s my dilemma – I had someone doing post production on my files. They took my footage off of PAL DV mini DVs and saved the files as 24FPS Animation files. They did their touch up (masking) in Animation 24fps mode… meanwhile, I believe PAL DV is shot in 25fps (in movie mode) – which has squeezed all the 25 frames now into 24 frames – distoring the speed in the animation file.When I go to elongate this at 30% slow motion speed, the file gets all funky – frames are not consistent or smooth.
Obviously this person didn’t know what she was doing. Is there anyway you know of to get footage which was originally recorded at 25fps PAL DV, converted to Animation 24FPS, back to it’s original 25FPS PAL DV? I’ve tried a million combinations in compressor with no luck, but I’m not an expert at this. The show opens tomorrow in Minneapolis 🙁 20 hours and counting…
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Todd, Thanks – that’s very helpful.
Actually, I think I found the culprit – there was a small setting which kept exporting the file in compressor at 25fps, when all the footge was set at 24fps… I thought I had all the setting aligned, but this one I didn’t.But now I have another question along these lines for you… I recorded a person doing some matrial arts, and they are moving pretty fast. I used aCanon GL/XM 1 camera in “frame mode” to capture the footage onto tape. I was told by a person in New York to import it and work with in as animation footage because that would give me the best quality, and the most information (and it appears a very large file)… but the footage was shot on miniDV – so is this not true – Am I wasting my time with such a large file? Is FCP interpolating the file (ress-ing it up) to the animation format the way I’m doing it?
The final piece is a museum video installation (fine art) piece which will be on display (beginning Saturday!). For me, I would like to get the highest quality picture I can get out of this.
The slow motion of the movement is causing me a headache as well b/c I’m realizing in a small low quality version of the file, the FCP result is fine, but when I go for a higher quality file, I’m noticing the quality of the frame blending is pretty poor. I’m testing (rendering as I write you) adding a 32 step motion blur at level 50 right now to see if that softens the effect…
Any suggestions about format (animation vs PAL DV, or somethign else), or slow mo techniques based on my final output of a DVD for an installation?
Many many thanks in advance for your reply.
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yes, FCP does multiple the frames 3-4 times, but every 60 to 70 frames (in the elongated 30% of original speed file), it will freeze frame for 7 frames (or when frame blending is on, you’ll see 3 frames in a row not change) – this is causing a slight stop action appearance on the rendered file.
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thanks – I’ll try that, but wouldn’t I loose some quality? I was told to keep in in animation format to keep the video at the highest quality possible.
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Hi Walter – where exactly is that in System Settings? Is it under “sequence” -> “settings”
I have that all maxed out. Check out my other reply to the previous post – I’ve added more information to my problem.
MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE
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Yes – I believe so, the setting for rendering is Sequence -> Setting yes?
As for an NTSC monitor, I’m only doing playback on my apple monitor – but I don’t think it’s a monitor issue or playback issue.
I forgot to mention – I was told ANIMATION mode was the highest resolution possible, so the file I’m having problems with is the Animation file. I just went back to the original file from the tape (PAL DV format – not Animation format) and when I convert the file to 30% in speed it is OK.
The problem is, I’ve had some of the Animation file cleaned up by a post production person, so i need to use that animation file…