[Ged Yeates]

Hello

Thanks for the suggestions, I will give them a go. My apologies fornot mentioning the renders, I did indeed render them out to Quicktime movies. I tried rendering out a 1920 x 1080p movie and a PAL 50i movie in the Animation and ProRes 422 (HQ) codecs. Unfortunately both displayed the flickering blue sky.

Each shot was taken with the same exposure, shutter and white balance setting at 15 second intervals of the period of one hour.

I am beginning to wonder if it is something peculiar to the JPEG sequences I’ve imported (I’ve tried three different sequences) as the filter works like a dream on video footage I’ve tested it on.

Thanks for your replies, they were very welcome – Ged Yeates (Scotland)

Ged Yeates – Lighting Cameraman

[Ged Yeates]

Hello Peter and Larry

My apologies for the late response to the suggested solutions, the New Year in Scotland always causes a few wee delays in getting back to work! I just wanted to say thank you to you both for replying and I will utilise your suggestions and let you know how things work.

Again, many thanks for your replies – Ged Yeates, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.

Ged Yeates – Lighting Cameraman

[Ged Yeates]

Hello Kevin

A big thank you and I owe you that dram! Thanks for taking the time to give me the answer to my dilemma and for not scoffing at my lack of knowledge with ‘Motion 3’.

Very much appreciated – Ged Yeates – Isle of Lewis, Scotland.

Ged Yeates – Lighting Cameraman

[Ged Yeates]

Hello Jeremy

Thanks for your responses which were of definite interest to me and have helped me move forward. I seem to have cured the banding issue on plain surfaces. I decided to place my ‘io HD’ unit in a different location and wired it in again from scratch taking care to keep signal cables seperated from any nearby mains power cables. This appears to have done the trick as the captures are now clean visually.

I’m still having issues with regards to timecode being captured through the LTC port. I took your advice and downloaded ‘VTR Exchange’ which sure enough did capture the actual timecode but will not capture audio even though I’ve been into the capture settings and tweaked in several variations. I’ll give it another few goes as perhaps PAL SDI capture with embedded audio is not soimething it likes. It looks and sounds fine whilst capturing but on replay the captured file has an industrial mechanized rhythmic sounding audio track!

I’m hoping all of my problems are simply down to me somehow setting things incorrectly as at least these can be resolved but if it is the hardware….patience will be required in the hope that future firmware updates will cure them.

I did attempt to upconvert some 625i (25) video to 1080i (25) and the ‘io HD’ does this and allows 1080i to appear from the HD-SDI output but I cannot get ‘Final Cut Pro 6’ to capture the upconverted video from the frame buffer. It’s not a big issue for me at present but is certain to become one within a few months as I undertake more HD projects.

Bye – Ged Yeates – Lighting Cameraman, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.

Ged Yeates – Lighting Cameraman