Graeme Nattress
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try the g chromasharpen in the new film effects 2.5 It will help I think. I’ll post up a free demo when I get back from my holidays.
G
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SC 1.1 is ancient. Please email me with your purchase details and I’ll get you the latest version.
Graeme
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You can’t use the FCP scope for this kind of work though. You really need an external scope which will tell you what the external analogue signal is doing.
On the more digital side of things, this article I wrote shows what is going on in FCP and how digital and analogue levels can relate:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/video_levels_nattress.html
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Blur dissolve should still be working, but if it’s not, I’ll certainly take a look at it and see. I’m on my holidays at the moment, but I’ll take a look as soon as I get back. Email me next week to remind me.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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And MB for Editors doesn’t do half the things that Nattress Film Effects does! Check out the demo and see for yourself at http://www.nattress.com
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Try http://www.nattress.com Set 2!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Sony HDCAM pixels are about 5 microns square, the ones in 1/3″ 720p HD about 3.7 microns, 1/3″ 1080 about 2.5 microns. The pixels in my 8.3megapixel Canon 20D are 6.4 microns. A lens that is sharp enough for the canon, is not sharp enough for an HD camera.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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I know that Film Effects is being used on the Tour broadcast in the UK on ITV…
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Still lenses for 35mm cameras don’t need to be as sharp as lenses for 1/3″ CCD HD cameras though. The lens requirements for the very small pixels in a 1/3″ HD camera are quite tough.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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“And btw, it’s really no use to compare still camera lens with ones designed for moving pictures.
Use is so different. You never use focus puller with still camera. You don’t have to get pans and track shots stay focus all the time with moving objects with still camera.”What I was getting at is that a “real” lens doesn’t have to have end stops, it just has to have a 1:1 relationship between the lens ring and the focus and be repeatable. Stills photographers don’t seem to think these lenses are any less real than the old way of doing thing, and stills photographers seem to be twice as picky as any video person.
Where I see the difference between a fixed to the camera lens and a removable “broadcast” stlye lens is in “feel”. Now, if you take a Sony camcorder, the feel is diabolical, the wet cabbge feel is what I call it. You turn the focus dial a little and nothing happens. You turn it a lot and the focus moves past the point you wanted in focus. You can never pull focus on these things reliably. But I’m told Panasonic doesn’t make their lenses like that. They make them and they feel like the lens I have on my stills camera in that the focus ring is not mechanically linked to the focus, but it “feels” like it is mechanically linked. Turn the focus dial a little and the focus moves a little. Move it fast and the focus moves fast and stops where you tell it – just as it would with a removable broadcast lens. The only difference is that the mechanical linkage has end stops and the electronic linkage does not. Just as you could have a poorly made sloppy mechanical linkage where focus is hard due to the slop, you can have wet cabbage style Sony electronic linkage focus. Panasonic make non-sloppy, repeatable, can work with a follow focus electronic linkage on their focus, or so Panasonic and people who’ve used a DVX100 reliably inform me…..
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP