Graeme Nattress
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A cheap camera will work fine for most things. What you might run into though is:
LP playback. Avoid recording in LP as often it will only playback on the camera that recorded it.
DVCAM. DVCAM is like DV, but the tape runs faster. Some cameras won’t play it.Other than that, you’ll be fine. You’ll get slower fast forward and rewind than a real deck, and it won’t be as responsive for shuttling around, but it should work just great.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Good point Sean. PhotoJPEG is an amazingly good, simple and everywhere codec that should be fully RT in FCP, but it isn’t, and it’s obvious to me that Apple a re knobbling it for political reasons (or sheer ignorance).
PhotoJPEG is absolutely awesome, and it’s free. When Apple’s silly pixlet codec came out, I tested it agains PhotoJPEG and PhotoJPEG was better in every respect.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Is that one file 20GB in size? What I’d try, in that case, is plug a firewire cable between the laptop and the G5. Reboot the laptop, holding down the T key to start it in firewire target disc mode. Now it will appear to the G5 as a hard drive. Now copy across the 20GB file to the G5, and try it again in FCP.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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And be sure to watch the video back through the camera to a TV monitor, or you’re not seeing what it actually looks like.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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So think of the HVX200 as the DVX100c on steroids?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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The IO doesn’t have a video desktop feature, so should not be effected in any way.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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I can’t quite visualise how non-linear gamma relates to contrast ratios though….. Video is non-linear (about 0.4) for two reasons, to distribute more bits to the darker values so as to reduce banding, and hence not need 12bits just so that we don’t see artifacts, and to counter the 2.5 gamma of a CRT. But in any gamma 0=0 and 1=1 – those values don’t change, just how the values inbetween get distributed. Thoughts?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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No. They’ll get the benefit also when the timeline gets upgraded.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Most contrast specs are pure marketspeak.
Surely though, in 8bit video, the brightest bit is only 256 times brighter than the darkest?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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I don’t see the point in coming in analogue. Neither do I see the point of converting HDV to DVCproHD, as you’re just moving from one highly compressed format to another.
I’d:
Capture HDV as native HD.
Do edit.
“Upgrade” timeline to 8bit-uncompressed. De-interlace. Do final render.
That’s it for the PAL version, just downconvert and you’re laughing. For NTSC, conform to 23.98fps in Cinema Tools, then downconvert to 24p NTSC.
My de-interlace tools in Film Effects work good for this, and this route, if you can deal with the 4% slowdown in the NTSC version, will produce the best results possible.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP