Graeme Nattress
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Yes, HDV cam react badly to colour correction, but then again, so can DVCproHD – they’re both very compressed.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Capturng DV as DV is the best way to work – again if you saw choppy playback or lack of resolution, you’re doing somethign wrong! I’ll give you a call if it’s ok?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Sounds like something wrong in your FCP setup or monitoring if it’s looking blurry and choppy after de-interlace conform. It shouldn’t. It should look great. If you could try the G Map Frames suggestion, even though it might be wrong for your needs with it’s nice 40% slowdown, I’d be keen to hear what it’s looks like.
Am I right in reading you’re captuing DV as uncompressed 10bit? DV should be captured as DV. Drop me an email and I can give you a call and see if I can help.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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However, as they’re normal NTSC video, which is 60 field interlaced per second, you’re going to see really funky interlace artifacts if you just conform.
If youw ant a nice mapping of such video to a 24p timeline, you must do something about the interlace.
3 options:
1) use the Film Converter plugin as you’ve tried. This can be tweaked to give it the look you want – email me.
2) de-interlace first, then conform in cinema tools to 23.98fps.
3) use G Map Frames in the Standards Converter which will give you wonderful 40% slowmo footage, which might not be what you want, but will look lovely.Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Good to see your head up there Shane!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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There is no progressive DV format. Progressive DV cameras embed their progressive video inside the interlaced DV format. That’s why you don’t need special settings for import or export.
The “fields = none” setting in FCP only applies to motion effects that are created inside FCP. It doesn’t effect footage at all.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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This would be one book that I suggest:
https://www.poynton.com/DVAI/index.html
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Jan, my best wishes go to you for a quick recovery. You are an extraordinary product manager, who has witty insight, patience and intelligence. Please get well soon,
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Indeed, if you’re an FCP user, Film Effects http://www.nattress.com is much faster, and if you need to be on a 24p timeline, Standards Conversion is the one to use.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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See:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/video_levels_nattress.html
Black levels should always be at zero in FCP. Digital video has no notion of 7.5IRE setup. Digital black is always, worldwide at code 16, which FCP represents as 0%.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP