Graeme Nattress
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I don’t think there’s a way to extract the timecode from FCP so there’d be no available input into the widget. What I suggest is pointing a video camera at the timecode display, zooming in and feeding that to a large video projector.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Could just be bad compression for DVD – it happens.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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It should look normal as soon as you play it on an NTSC TV. Remember PAL has fat pixels and NTSC has thin ones – both none square!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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The X800 only takes one slot, and is great. It, most importantly, plays Doom3 very well 🙂
I don’t know what the difference is on different editions though.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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[stokestack] ” I set the rate at 23.98 and then put the stuff into a 29.97 FCP timeline with some regular 60i stuff. The result looked a little stroby. FCP should’ve just done 2:3 pulldown, but knowing FCP, there’s no telling what it actually did”
FCP drops and duplicates frames. It does not add 3:2 pulldown. If you want to do that, try my Standards Conversion which does that great.
[stokestack] “I just made a 23.98 timeline, plopped the stuff in, and now I’m running it through Compressor to put on DVD. We’ll see what that looks like.”
That should work. I’ve made many 23.98fps DVDs that way and it’s great.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Have you checked back out through your HD monitor, because FCP’s preview is often low rez.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Use the cinema tools “conform” option to conform to 23.98fps.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Yes, Film Effects does the 3:2 pulldown, and there’s also a weave control to make the whole thing wobble left and right, which might also be what you’re looking for. Try the demo, and drop me an email graeme@nattress.com if you need any more help or info.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Yes, in hardware – that’s what Grant told me when I discussed it with him at NAB.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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The scaling is because both HDV and DVCproHD use non-square formats, 1440×1080 and 1280×1080 instead of the full 1920×1080. For this formats to be output over SDI as 1920×1080, obviously some scaling has to be done. Both Decklink cards and AJA cards do this, but AJA call this “Accelleration” which I find a very poor choice of words, as it makes you think of Cinewave style accelleration, which it is most obviously not. Decklink don’t call it anything as they didn’t think they needed to bring attention to this.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP