Graeme Nattress
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It’s not RT enabled (and why not, Apple) but you can “hack” the RT enabler file to make it so!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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I’m sure a lot of us DO use it!!
I use it for final renders before going to DVD if I need to save disk space, else I use uncompressed. Similarly I use it for final renders of HD projects to save space. It works very well for this.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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If you change the length of the generator before you add it to the timeline, I think you can make it a lot longer.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Never had a single problem having an edit mac on the internet.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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The XL1h is a good choice, but FCP cannot currently edit the 24f natively. There might be other solutions, but none as seamless as FCP native support.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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The HD clips I’ve seen are the ful width. The reduced width is due to the 720 pixels being wider than the active picture area. Due to the innacuracies in analogue video, a wider raster than necessary was built into the digital video spec to allow for room for overshoot and undershoot.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Perversely it could be lack of noise that’s the issue. Noise hides compression artifacts and 8bit banding. DVCproHD is pretty severe compression, more severe than DV and a lot lot more compressed than DV50. Compression can remove some of the natural noise that acts as dither to hid 8bit banding. Also, all these formats are more compressed in shadows than highlights, and that’s where banding is worst.
Never-the-less, I’m working on some noise reduction plugins that are doing a great job with my 720p30 HDV footage, but I think what people are seeing are compression artifacts, not noise.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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It’s Panasonic who need to make the new format, not the EBU. DVCproHD is getting old and out of date anyway. The Varicam was never designed with PAL users in mind, hence low sales over there, it’s such a muck on to shot 25p or 50p and play with the frame rate converter to get out to, say PAL DigiBeta, or so I’m told.
There is a DVCProHD1080i50 codec though, that Apple promised to support, but I’ve not seen that appear.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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https://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/GFilmConvert.htm – This is the plugin for FCP, part of my Standards Conversion set.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Steve, thanks – that’s usually the very best workflow. FCP does a very good job of decompressing HDV. I don’t find that 10bit gives any advantage though (over 8bit uncompressed), but uncompressed 8bit certainly does over and above rendering back to HDV.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP