Flavio G. garcía
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Shane,
as I?ve said before, I?ve done this test with Avid Media Composre software only.
It?s not only that I?ve done the test, it?s that I do it very often.
Let?s say you edit some dv clips in a sequence. Now, you edit a DNxHD clip in that sequence. You?ll see that your Hd clip keeps its original quality. No green bars, no previews, no need to render to see the quality.
This is, as you know, because in Avid the sequence itself doesn?t have a codec, the different clips stay there with their original codecs.
When you do this in FCP, when you render the Hd clip, it gets rendered to a Dv codec, and there is where I think the problem starts. Playing the Hd clip with the green bar is really depressing. It looks like a Offline to RT codec.
In Avid, you only choose if you display your sequence in SD o Hd, but you won?t see a difference in quality in the Hd clip.
You?ll have to resize before output, sure, but the resize has an incredible quality.
This is a very Apple thing, as we all know. Everything sounds amazing and superb. Now start working with it…
In some areas, FCP looks to everyone far superior than Avid, where Avid is really superior, but not everyone knows about it.
As an example… compare Optical Flow in Motion 3 (not even FCP), and Fluid Motion in Media Composer.
Compare workflow and results.
Media Composer is the winner, but now everyone is talking about optical flow in FCS 2, due to its popularity.
I like FCP and use it very often, btw…
Flavio.
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Last week I had this Dv Pal anamorphic sequence with Dv clips on my timeline.
I had to edit a HD Prores HQ clip inside that sequence.
I was about to see FCP open timeline doing its job.
What a big dissapoinment!
First: once edited between the Dv clips, the Hd clip had the green bar over. This means that what you see in real time is preview, and it looks awfull. Really…
If you do full render of the clip, the green bar goes away, and the quality is a bit better, but only a bit. The clip still looks a lot worse than the original clip.
I would expect that a higher resolution clip in lower resolution sequence looks really good, interlacing issus apart, but it
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For me, the Final Cut Studio suite has some problems regarding media management:
1) Media Manager.
It just doesn
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Using the new Mac Mini here, with FCS 2.
We only use it to capture dv tapes and do basic editions. Also to teach the basics of FCP…
No problems…
Flavio.
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Ok, this should work:
Do the motion analysis in Final Cut Pro, where you can analyze multiple clips at the time, as FCP do this in the background.
Then, select all the clips, then select “Send to Motion project”.
Motion should keep the analysis of your clips. Now go to the Motion Tracking behaveur tab and change mode from “Smooth” to Stabilize.
The only thing with this is that FCP is much slower than Motion doing the Analysis.
Tell us if it worked.
Flavio.
Flavio G. Garc
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Ok, this should work:
Do the motion analysis in Final Cut Pro, where you can analyze multiple clips at the time, as FCP do this in the background.
Then, select all the clips, then select “Send to Motion project”.
Motion should keep the analysis of your clips. Now go to the Motion Tracking behaveur tab and change mode from “Smooth” to Stabilize.
The only thing with this is that FCP is much slower than Motion doing the Analysis.
Tell us if it worked.
Flavio.
Flavio G. Garc
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