Graeme Nattress
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You can also get gear that will live-switch the Firewire DV stream and thus again only have one DV compression.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Will – do you have an earlier version? If so drop me an email and I’ll send 2.1 your way fast.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Yes, the Film Effects package has all the stuff you need in it. As Peter points out, the smart-deinterlace is a nice one, and should work great as it did for him on the Snooker.
Thanks,
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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I don’t see how component video can be described as uncompressed when it’s going to be noise and bandwidth limited to some extent, and has to be converted to digital video to be of any use. If the camera has an HD-SDI connector sending out pre-compression video, then I’d say that’s a fully legitimate uncompressed output, but component is neither uncompressed, nor digitally codec compressed but somewhere inbetween. I don’t doubt it’s usefullness in certain situations and workflows, but I dislike the naming of such outputs. Ok G, rant off – I guess I just want SDI connectors on everything, and that’s probably got to do with me recently buying an HD-SDI capture card….
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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But FW400 which is similar in speed to USB2.0 can transmit uncompressed 4:2:2 SD with room to spare. I think there’s no issue with the camera transmitting raw CCD data at a fast enough speed – but, they’ll do their interpolation up to HD when it gets onto the host computer, and that’s the other piece of the puzzle.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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But they seem to be runnin up against the limits of the lens on the DVX, and as the lens requirements for HD are very high, I doubt there’s going to be any extra resolution in the lens of the HVX to warrant pulling any higher rez from the CCDs, and we all seem to be guessing Panasonic will be using Pixelshift to it’s max to keep the noise levels off the CCDs low, so there’s no room to come and get any extra rez off them anyway. All you could hope for is a hack to record the output as totally uncompressed, avoiding the DVCProHD format.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Works differently, does a similar thing though – reconstruct the chroma based upon the luma. It’s in early beta now for inclusing in the next Film Effects. I sent it to Noah as he’s doing a lot of DV chroma key.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Have you tried the beta of the new chroma sharpening plugin yet, Noah? I wonder if that works better, or if the two in conjunction work best still??
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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If you have good lighting you can pull a good key off VHS! Yes – that’s the key, more than any video format or special camera – a good wrinkle free screen and good lighting. An hour spent getting the lighting right saves 10 in post 🙂
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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You should be able to do good blue or green screen with it, but really, for best results, it’s always best to take a direct uncompressed HD SDI feed off the camera (and the HVX200 doesn’t have this) and use that. Compression hurts the quality of the key as much as chroma sampling does.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP