Graeme Nattress
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Normally, I’d say lets do it today, but life is hectic in the Nattress household…. Have a great xmas and we’ll talk in the new year.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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The defaults are pretty much what works best most of the time – that’s why they’re the defaults. As for comparison with MB, I think they’re better, hence why I wrote them rather than paying out my own cash for MB.
For getting the look you want, I’ll need to see footage, and what settings you’re using, and a description of what you want and are not getting. It can be done, but it’s not easy on email. I’m really busy until the new year, but if you have time, I’ll be happy to work with you to get what you want, on phone and with an emailed or ftp’d copy of your footage. Try getting that level of customer support elsewhere….
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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De-interlacing 60i to get 30p works, and can work well, but the stock de-interlacer in FCP is poor. You should definately try my Film Effects as suggested. It does so much more than de-interlace though, and also does 24p for a more accurate film effect.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Absolutely!
But at that point I’d be suggesting PhotoJPEG75% as an intermediary also.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Welcome Gary. Glad to have you here!!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Going from one compressed format, to another very slightly less compressed format offers no real advantage. The only time I’ve seen it work is when I did a 1080i60 HDV to 720p24 DVCproHD test via my converter, and even then, I’d be getting better results going to PhotoJPEG75% (a very lightly compressed codec) or uncompressed.
You don’t need any kind of fancy HD card to do this, you can just use FCP (not quicktime as it mucks up the 4:2:0 chroma sampling of HDV) to convert HDV to uncompressed, and then use that as your intermediary to go to shake, AE etc.
To view it, you’d need an HD card, but to view HDV you need an HD card, so you need it anyway in my book.
I’m of the view that although DVCproHD is much more edit friendly and less compressed than HDV, it’s still TOO compressed for serious work. I mean, really, it’s more compressed than DV and people don’t consider that serious.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Compressing HDV as DVCProHD only makes them worse. DVCproHD is also highly compressed and exhibits many of the same problems as HDV, especially in the shadows, although not to quite the same extent.
Best go to an uncompressed workflow asap. Going to 10bit is probably overkill for an 8bit format, and Shake can work in float anyway, so I’d go out 8bit uncompressed into Shake, and that might avoid the gamma issue.
I’d also do your colour correction in Shake at the same time, rather than use Color Finesse as again you’re avoiding a translation and if you can use Shake, you can do everthing you need then more.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Very true. I run my xraid in RAID50 for speed and redundancy, but I can play or capture DVCproHD off the internal SATA drive.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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A normal SATA drive without RAID will playback and record all DVCproHD modes. No need to RAID unless you really want to.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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There’s a simple fun bargraph plugin in my set 2 that might help. http://www.nattress.com
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP