Graeme Nattress
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24p is one of the supported DVD frame rates. All Hollywood movies are encoded this way, with 24 unique frames per second, rather than the 30 that NTSC normally uses. This gives a great advantage in picture quality as more of the avaliable bit rate can be used on the fewer frames, rather than wastefully encoding the 3:2 pulldown pattern as used to bring 24p into NTSC.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Everything in the article applies to the Canon as much as the Panasonic, but Canon tent to name things a little differently – that’s all. The workflows are the same.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Ken Stone has just such a tutorial on his site, although I don’t recommend such tricks for producing a film look as they never look as good as a plugin (and yes, I do sell such plugins, but trust me, I wouldn’t have written them and wouldn’t be selling them if I could have achieved the same quality of effect without using them). The above trick basically is a blend de-interlace. If you want that effect, there’s plenty of free and no-so-free plugins that will do it in FCP. However, it does 30p not the 24p you need for the true film look, and it won’t allow you to edit the video on a 23.98fps timeline which is what I thought was needed.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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https://www.nattress.com/standardsConversionMovie.htm
Shows you how it can be done inside FCP.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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I still can’t get the interlace mode work. Anyone managed to make it work?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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My FCS hasn’t arrived yet, so I don’t know. Indeed, the quality might be good, but I’m also betting it will be very, very slow indeed. Some video doesn’t work well with Optical Flow analysis, so the quality is footage dependent, whereas what I’m doing will be faster and totally consitent. Perhaps the Best standards conversion available is the Snell & Wilcox Alchemist, and I’ve had very favourable comparisons with what I do compared to it, sometimes in favour of what I’m doing. Personally, I think it’s good that people have options. They can use my converter, Dv Atlantis which looks different again, and now Compressor, which will be different also, and they can choose what will render fastest for the quality they need.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Yes, you can view an SD downconvert at the same time as the HD version, which you can use for what you suggest on the Decklink. Although, being the heretic I am, I don’t think the LCD is so bad that you can’t do a very good CC on it indeed.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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No revolution needed. The technology is here today.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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All the gamma stuff goes on in the HDLink, and you can go as far as custom 10bit LUTs if you want.
I read that the Dell stretches 16:9 to 16:10 on the component input though, and this alone, IMHO, would make it unusable for me. However, over the HDLink it will not do that. HDforIndies.com had a report on it last week. It will have some form of calibration on the component, but nothing as advanced as what is able to be done through the HDLink, which goes way beyond brightness and contrast.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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I’ve got the old and new 23″ sitting next to each other, and they both look great, although the video image though the HDLink looks better than video through the computer. I’m not seeing any nasties like pink.
I guess the key difference going in via the HDLink is you get to do all manner of gamma / levels adjustments for calibration purposes, which you might not get going in over component.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP