Graeme Nattress
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Was the capture timebase set to 29.97fps or 23.98fps. It should ALWAYS be 29.97fps or the advanced pulldown will NOT be removed correctly. Fix that, and you’re laughing. For playaback, make sure it’s 2:3:2:3 and that will look great.
Glad the article helped!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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What, exactly, were your capture settings?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Check file permissions on the plugins. They need to be read and write enabled, and the folder containing them. Failing that, contact me via email and we can run through the possibilities. There’s nothing in the plugins that needs updating for either FCP5, new mac OS X or Intel FCP, so it’s most likely the OS X file permissions got changed in the update.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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What issues are you seeing with 75%? I’ve never seen it create compression artifacts at that level, even under extreme colour correction.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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If the 24p cameras were running at 24p normal and you’re editing in a 29.97fps timeline, then my Film Effects plugin will make your 30i footage look like the 24p footage, with the same 3:2 pulldown characteristic etc.
If you’re shooting 24pA and editing in a 23.98fps timeline, my Standards Converter will convert your 30i to 24p for you.
You can try free demos at http://www.nattress.com and email me if you need any help.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Yes, using nests got broken in in FCP5. In previous versions you could make it work. Drazen has emailed me, so we’ll figure it out!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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30p from a standard NTSC DV camera? No problems, just use NTSC DV easy setup as normal.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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There are certainly decks that do so on analogue input and output, but I’ve never come across one that alters digital bits off tape to an SDI output in such a manner.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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You can hardly blame the SMPTE for a mistake made in NTSC many years ago. Japan had the sense to drop setup back in the 80s and PAL has never had it. Neither can you say digital is at 0IRE – that just doesn’t make sense. A digital signal has no analogue leve – that’s like trying to measure height with a weighing scale.
If a SDI output shows video darker, then whatver is converting that SDI digital signal to analogue is wrong, not the SDI signal. If that’s in the monitor, then that monitor is not functioning correctly.
As for the original poster, black should read at 0% on the FCP scopes. That corresponds to an 8bit digital code of 16, which is the correct international standard for digital black. If it’s not, and you’re in an all digital workflow, there’s probably some switch set wrong or some setting wrong on a menu in the HD camera.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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If you see black at the left or right, then that’s correct. Because analogue video can “move” around with sync and timebase errors, digital video was designed to record more to the left and right than actually would normally exist in analogue video to make sure that even with sync errors, nothing is missed.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP