Graeme Nattress
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That’s right Mike. You can do some pretty neat stuff without plugins, but you’re still missing out on 24p and gamma curves, which as far as I know, can’t be done without a plugin or three!
I guess what I’d do is download the Film Effects demo, see what’s possible, and try and duplicate it with free tools. If you can get the look you want then fine, but if you can’t, then the decision is up to you.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Matte, the blurryness the original poster could be seeing could indeed be FCP playing one of it’s many nasty tricks that you advice will solve, however…. The scaling in FCP is, although improved in FCP5, still way below the quality of, say, Shake or After Effects, or any other compositing package I know other than perhaps Motion, which although I’ve not checked Motion2, wasn’t terribly good in Motion 1.
So yes, absolutely go with Matte’s advice to see FCP’s scaling at it’s best!! But if that’s still not good enough for you, then that’s just because the scaling in FCP is lame.
Thanks Matte for filling in the piece of the picture I missed in my speed to castigate the abilities of FCP. Appreciated.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Thanks! Just had my first ever Father’s Day as a Father and it was wonderful!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Thanks. The only difference with the Canon is the naming of the pulldown modes – 24pAdvanced is 2:3:3:2 and 24p is 2:3:2:3
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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The scaling algorithms are improved i n FCP5, but although downscaling is vastly improved, I don’t see much better on upscaling. AE or Shake has better scaling than FCP – remember FCP is an editor, not an effects package.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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“DC30 Xact Driver includes RT support for Photo-JPEG; open Final Cut Pro 4 or
4.5 and select “Squared 5” for Photo-JPEG in the Effect Handling (System
Settings) of FCP and you’ll get RT support for Photo-JPEG at any frame size
(I call it “Online RT” because it is not limited to 320×240). If you have
Final Cut Pro 5, then you will have to wait for the next version of DC30
Xact Driver because the current version is not compatible with Final Cut Pro
5.Regards,
Squared 5″Is the reply I got! Sounds like we need to get the new driver.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Do you have the Xraid set to static IP address, or are they still on the DHCP default? If they’re on the default, you need to be running a DHCP server somewhere on your network for the controllers to see, and get an IP address from. The quickest way to get one running is just to turn on internet sharing on your mac. If you don’t want it permanently, on, do so so that you can see the controllers, then set them to a suitable static IP.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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I think Shake 4 has something that will help, also, look at: https://www.istabilize.de/index.html which might help.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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And once you’ve found the appropriate Easy Setup. just modify it to be Anamorphic, and you’re done.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP