Graeme Nattress
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It would mean just playing out of the timeline, over HD-SDI via, say, a kona card, to a mastering deck. The deck too uses compression, but milder and it does it all itself in hardware.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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FW is as good as it gets.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Some footage you’ll never see the difference, but some footage it’s night and day. I mean, the reason chroma sub-sampling works is because you’re not meant to see it, but, if you do, like, shoot red objects on black backgrounds, chroma subsampling fixing can really help.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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HDV is pretty slow to compress back to, but ProRes should be faster to compress back to. Processing times for adding effects would be faster on the decode on ProRes, but slower because you’re rendering more pixels as it’s full raster…. So, hard to tell precisely without a proper speed test, which we can’t do until it ships.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Sorry, there’s a bug in the demo code on that. Use G Chroma Sharpen instead! It’s all about what the timeline is set to – set it to 4:2:2, and that’s what the end result of the render will be.
As soon as I can get the Color plugins out, I’ll put out a new demo of Film Effects and new release with a new plugin and some small fixes.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Well, there are free demos of both!
Really they’re solving different problems. I’ve had good luck with DVX100 footage, where the reds tend to spill over, chroma-fixing them. I’ve also had good results with the FCP built in scaling.
I tried the demo of InstantHD, and found it tricky to use, and produced results so mildly different to FCP that I didn’t see the point. YMMV. It was also rather slow. I thought the Digital Anarchy one was better, but still, not the worlds greatest difference. Also, you need progressive footage for them to work. FCP will scale interlaced footage just fine.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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I think you’re right – might only be for recording. I think the deck “knows” what format the tape is for playback.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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You’re not half kidding, especially with the Adobe prices. I’ve got individual full PS, AE and Dreamweaver, but is there an upgrade that combines that lot – nope…. I’ve even got an old Freehand and Xres and Fontographer kicking around somewhere 🙂
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Methinks we go around in circles… 🙂
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Understood it’s expensive. What I’m getting at is that it’s most likely a processing issue rather than an inherent flaw in the SD quality.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP