Graeme Nattress
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Solid state memory is not as expensive as P2. P2 is expensive though, especially at the higher sizes. This will drop though….
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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FCP totally decompresses DV when you apply an effect. It doesn’t get any better than that, other than for the specific instances I iterate in my article on chroma sampling.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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“File -> Export -> Quicktime Movie…” good – use default settings, make self contained. Best quality output
“File -> Export -> Quicktime Conversion…” – only use for making web movies or you’ll incur problems with repeated Y’CbCr -> RGB -> Y’CbCr and other nasties.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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24f looks “ok” as long as you don’t botch the editing like Canon did for their demo video….. Main issue is total lack of compatibility.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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It’s lossy. It’s a hack for HDV.
For a real intermediate, I think you have a couple of choices – uncompressed or photoJPEG75% which is awesome and slightly (not visibly) lossy.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Picture is nice, ergonomics are not nice. Lens makes nice picture, but the servos are poor and laggy and feel like wet cabbage (as does the sony). Shoulder mounted, it tilts to the left – poor balance.
Main issues are can’t bring 30f or 24f into FCP, and can’t play them on any HDV deck, only the camera. So unless you shoot 60i, it’s pretty useless for FCP users.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Yes, Apple got it wrong.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Basically, it’s a hack to “fix” the poor FCP de-interlace, but you still loose rez. That’s why there’s 3rd party solutions. Also, there’s no free solution for 24p. Basically, you get what you pay for.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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1) 29.97fps. Why? All NTSC is 29.97fps. your camera shoots 29.97fps always. It may be called 30p or 30f but that’s just short-hand for 29.97fps.
1a) no.
2) set the timeline to fields “none” and no, you don’t want field rendered output.
3) DV is just fine, and the best option if mastering to DV. If you’re mastering to anything better, then uncompressed is the way to go for final render.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Try using uncompressed 8bit – that should avoid luma / gamma changes. You can select a portion of the HDV timeline, and file -> export -> quicktime movie…. and select uncompressed HD from the presets at that point, for generating your intermediaries.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP