[Graeme Nattress]

Smoke and water are more of an issue for MPEG2. Noise, as in random fine details are bad for DCT, not for their randomness, but for the fine detail.

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

The biggest factors that wil help DCT are lack of noise and low edge contrast / soft edges. Overall image contrast probably won’t effect things much.

Low noise helps ALL compression types though!

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

I found that the method you see in the article for NTSC DV, although worked great, was difficult to translate over to other chroma samplings and due to errors in FCP, it won’t render in 10bit.

So I developed a new way of doing it! And this new way works with all samplings and 10 bit, although I find the best results for NTSC DV involve using both plugins together, G Nicer and G Chroma Sharpen.

Anyway, I should be getting this new release out today, so you can try them later on.

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

You can “get away” with a graphire on a dual 23″ set up if you’re used to the wacom, but even I think that’s a tad too small. For a single 23″ it’s fine though. For a dual set up I’m using a 6×8 I think, and that’s fine.

But Wacom’s are lovely, super and wonderful no matter what size you get!!!

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

Thanks Michael. And the good news is that V2.5 of Film Effects is finished, and I’m just working on finishing up the instructions. V2.5 is a free upgrade from previous versions and includes a whole host of new features:

Faster Rendering
Newly optimised de-interlacers for all occaisions
new gamma plugins
new chroma sharpening plugins (suitable for HDV, HD, DV, PAL DV, SD etc.)
Anti-Aliasing option

and I’m sure some more that I’ve forgotten about!!

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

And for the proof:

https://www.nattress.com/Chroma_Investigation/chromasampling.htm

Although BetaSP is about as far below “uncompressed” as DV is, it certainly benefits from the rendering in FCP not going back to the DV codec as it avoids the mixing of BetaSP and DV artifacts, and that also implies that if you want to keep a master copy for yourself, you’re far better off mastering to DV than BetaSP, and best still mastering to Digital Betacam, which although not uncompressed, is very lightly compressed and is certainly visually lossless in it’s compression.

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

It seems to me that the greatest cost in a P2 card is the housing / RAID controller and testing. I think the one thing that is going to bring down the price of the P2 cards is a little camera called the HVX200 🙂

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

Yes, just select it and press delete.

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/video_levels_nattress.html

For more info on black levels, and what happens when you import a photoshop image into FCP.

Graeme

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[Graeme Nattress]

But an SDI DVCproHD dub will degrade the picture. Ony a firewire dub will keep the integrity of the footage.

Graeme

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