Graeme Nattress
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That’s good. So we’ve checked the permisions, and we’ve checked they unstuffed right. Are we sure they’re going in the right place – from what you said above it sounds like the right place. I guess in that plugins folder you can see the MB and Boris stuff you have installed. The plugins should just appear in the effects tab as normal. We’ve restarted FCP – I’m at a loss to think of what else we can do. Anyone else got any ideas?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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It might fit in with you post worklow better, mixing with digibeta footage etc.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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The plugins, did their icons look like little cubes lego pieces?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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You can check permissions in the finder by using the “get info” menu on an icon. The little window that appears tells you all the permissions of the files. You need to make sure that they’re read / write.
You did unstuff the .sit archive they come in, right, on you Mac with FCP, not another computer?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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But no DV deck outputs native DV over SDI. They output uncompressed video over SDI, which, if you were to capture via SDI and then compress to the DV codec, would leave you a generation down before you began. If you capture DV over SDI and leave it uncompressed, you’re not loosing anything.
Sony did make a DVCAM deck with SDTI which allowed it to transmit the native DV compressed signal, but you needed a proprietary edit system to access it. It was designed so that you could injest at 4 times speed.
If you want native DV as DV on your system, avoid the SDI route and get a deck with firewire. Or keep it uncompressed.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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HVX200 gives choice, p or i, 1080 or 720. And, what could be very useful for you, a DVCpro50 mode for very high quality standard def shooting.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Surely much less interesting?? The HD100 does indeed look best of bunch with regards to HDV shooters, looking better than the Sony IMHO. But the HVX200 is doing everything 720, 1080, i & p, and most importantly for the original poster, a high quality SD DVCpro50 mode, which sounds to me right up their alley.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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The picture quality difference though will be utterly negligible.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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There’s a nice lens flare in Set 2, http://www.nattress.com
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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BetacamSP is much lower resolution than the digital formats, and basically, anamorphic is lowering horizontal resolution still further, so it could look very soft indeed when played back anamorphically. For instance, the BBC want all their programming that is anamorphic to be delivered on Digital Betacam – they would not accept SP as a delivery format. If you’re going to be getting a DVD in anamorphic made from this video (is this the only delivery method that supports anamorphic at the moment – I don’t thing North America has any anamorphic broadcasts) BetaSP is totally unsuitable to deliver the video as you’ll be adding analogue noise and compression on top of digital noise and compression making a mess. Basically, once video is digital keep it digital and keep it either in the native format or the best format you can. If it started off analogue, don’t go back to analogue as then you’re mixing both digital and analogue generations in such a way as to reduce the video quality quite noticibly. If you started with digital video, best not go back to an analogue format because of the visibly lower resolution of the analogue formats.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP