Graeme Nattress
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http://www.nattress.com for Film Effects. Does all you need and more!! From an old film look through to modern film effects, from scratches and grain to bleach bypass, it does it all, including great 24p from your NTSC video, or 25p from your PAL video.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Oh dear. It seems that P2 finally has serious competition, although, on the downside, I wouldn’t trust anything with Iomega written on it with a 10ft barge pole. But 10bit 4:2:2 with a modern JPEG2000 codec knocks the pants off DVCProHD…..
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Mike has got it wrong, I think. FW is for DV, DV50 and DV100.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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You’ve also got to take into account the size of the market. Duck is excellent value as it does exactly what it says, does it well and can save you lots of money in time and hassle. However, it’s a much smaller niche than the sum total of all FCP users, and hence has to cost more. That’s just basic economics at work. You can’t compare the amount of “R&D” on absolute levels, or else, given that Windows or OS X cost around $150, no other software should cost more than them, as they’ve got the most engineers working on them….
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Sped up stuff should be ok, but I’d check and see.
The new pulldown plugins are for different workflows to you, but can be useful and interesting.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Actually, you’d want to use the Film Converter plugin in Standards Converter and it’s Film to NTSC option. This is because FCP cannot add 3:2 pulldown other than in real time out of firewire. Some SDI cards will also now add 3:2, but this was not always the case, so I’d check your SDI card and see what it does.
Due to changes in FCP 5, converter filters work best on a movie file and not on actual sequences (just have out the edit as a movie).
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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You’re right, Harry, that digital should make things easier, not harder. Whereas P2 solves a lot of problems, it does indeed generate others, although I do believe there’s a large net benefit to P2 use though. I think Panasonic really has to keep up the hard work to drop the prices on P2 and associated gear ($2500 for a 5 card reader – that’s silly) so that the benefits totally win through. Then we can enjoy high quality, easy to edit HD, with no mucking around with tapes to “capture” the footage, cloning master tapes etc. etc.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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If you shot 24pA for the 24p stuff, edit in a 23.98fps timeline and use my Standards Converter on the selects from the 29.97fps stuff to convert them to 24p.
If you shot 24p Normal, edit in a 29.97fps timeline and use Film Effects to make the 29.97fps stuff look like 24p.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Never capture 24p from DV at 24p. You must always capture at 29.97fps and remove pulldown afterwards. Use the easy preset!! See https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/24p_in_FCP_nattress.html
For your NTSC 60i footage, use my standards converter plugin to convert it to 23.98fps – get a free demo at http://www.nattress.com
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP