Graeme Nattress
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FCP Studio comes with Sountrack Pro, which, I think, would be great for this kind of thing. Couple that with Garage Band too, and you’ve got a very powerful, affordable and easy-to-use solution. For getting high quality audio in and out of your mac, I’d look at something like the Motu 828 mk II, which is what I’m using and I’m very happy with.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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No, it shoots REAL 24p (unlike the Z1u) then adds 3:2 pulldown to go out to 1080i60, leaving you with a proper looking 24p. Although software like my Film Effects can get close to a 24p look from 60i, and indeed does a hell of a lot better job than the in-built CF24 mode on the Sony, the best way to get 24p is from a camera like the HVX that shoots 24p.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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SD is “Standard Def”. People often mean it to mean uncompressed standard def video. If it isn’t high def, it’s SD. SD comes in many falavours, all compressed to some extent though.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Yes, 8bit has it’s day’s numbered. Got to move forwards now.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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[Eric Nichols] “When I capture I know the video gets compressed and I loose quality,”
No, this is not the case. It’s a direct transfer of what’s on tape. No quality is lost in the process.
[Eric Nichols] “If I set up an AJA system to capture uncompressed video would this work better with the deck, rather then using a deck and firewire like I currently do?”
Absolutely not. You’ll get worse results actually.
[Eric Nichols] “I mostly loose the quality with my DVDs I make in DVD studio. But I think there is quality loss when I print to video as well.”
That’s the nature of the beast. Best way to avoid DVD problems is to do your final render of video to “uncompressed” and hence you don’t add in an extra layer of DV compression.
When going to DV tape, there is no way to avoid that second DV compression.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Look at XDCAM HD where the >30fps progressive modes are half rez, so making them quite useless for their intended purpose of generating good slowmo….
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Graphire 1, Graphire 2, Intuos, and Intuos 3 widescreen. The Intuos Widescreen 11×6, I think is by far and a way the nicest wacom I’ve used.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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The new widescreen wacom is superb. Love it. Best wacom I’ve used.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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but correct 3:2 pulldown doesn’t get added via this method.
If you need to add 3:2 as a render to convert 23.98fps to 29.97fps, use can use my G Film Converter plugin in Standards Conversion: https://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/GFilmConvert.htm
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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1) only way to avoid HDV artifacts is not to shoot HDV.
2) converting to another format can only make things worse, not better
3) A high quality LCD will make things appear as they really are. CRTs make things look better than they are, plasmas make them appear worse than they really areBest thing to do is avoid rendering back to HDV or back to HDV tape. Go out to a disc format for distribution direct, or master to a much higher quality tape format like HDCAM SR or D5.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP