Graeme Nattress
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The HDLink works well. From what I was reading elsewhere, if you put component HD video into the Dell, it gets stretched from 16:9 to 16:10, which, to me, is unnacceptable. The HDlink would make sure you see 16:9 with small black borders top and bottom on the monitor, pixel for pixel from the HD source.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Remember that NDF is also 29.97fps, in DF, it’s the frame numbers that get dropped, not the frames themselves and NTSC always runs at 29.97fps.
To play a 23.98fps timeline out to NTSC, you’ve got to add 3:2 pulldown. I think some hardware cards might do this, but I’ve not seen it myself, but FCP certainly adds 3:2 when going out over firewire to DV, or if that’s not applicable, I have a little plugin package, Standards Conversion, that will add 3:2 pulldown for you as a render process to convert 23.98fps to 29.97fps NTSC.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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People were reporting this over at the Apple forums. I don’t have my FCP5 yet, but I’m going to take a look and see what I can come up with as soon as it arrives, not least to compare what C2 is doing compared to my own little plugin.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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NTSC will play on any Region 1 (North America) or Region 2 (Europe and Japan) player. I don’t know about the rest of the world. However, the rest of the world will either be PAL or NTSC when it comes to DVD there are no other formats.
You are right that it’s the TV where the incompatibility lies in Europe. Most TVs work fine, but not all.
For safety and courtesy I would make a PAL and an NTSC version.
For conversion, you’re 24p right – if you can cope with a 4% speed up, just conform to 25p in Cinema Tools for PAL, and I’d just use decent software MPEG2 compression.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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It’s not just that. The original idea was for regions to only protect first releases to make sure that people got the chance to see the movie in the cinema before the DVD was in the stores. Now the DVD is making more money than the cinema release, and even ancient back-catalogue DVDs have region codes.
However, there are some excellent companies in the UK that remaster, restore and release classic British television (Network Video comes to mind as a great example) and their discs are PAL, but not region coded at all. Now that just makes total sense, does it not?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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I like to call my techniques “chroma reconstruction” as they don’t rely on blurring or interpolation techniques to smooth the chroma, but they use analytical techniques to reconstruct what the original chroma may have looked like. Matt’s plugins are great, but they have the same flaws and bugs as the Apple chroma smoothers.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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If the archival footage is normal NTSC 29.97fps (59.94 fields per second) video, then you can use my Standards Conversion plugins to convert it to 24p (23.98fps) so that it can be edited on a 23.98fps timeline. It, by necessity, does a film look on the video, but it should make it fit right in.
If you look at the 24p web movies on my site, like Bird Brains, that was all shot normal 60i NTSC, and turned into 24p in post using the filter, so you can see what a nice job it does.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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The XserveRAID should come pre-configured RAID5 on each side. If you have two sides, then stripe them RAID0 in the disk utility to get RAID50, or if you’ve just got one side, leave it RAID5.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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All region 2 players can play NTSC and PAL as Japan and Europe are region 2.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP