Graeme Nattress
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Phill, you might need a new beta as I think the external sync was broken in one direction in an older version. Drop me an email and we can figure something out.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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If you make a combined NTSC movie / audio track, and bring that movie into the PAL timeline, then, say, delete the NTSC video, FCP should account for the speed difference and get the audio to line up with the PAL video. It’s all because NTSC doesn’t run at 30fps but 29.97fps.
In the next release of my standards converter, there will be an option to produce a conversion that works with audio from the unconverted source, but I don’t know if it would help too much with this mixed workflow, but my above idea should work for you.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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At FULL quality, C2 looked very good indeed, but there’s still some frame blending / ghosting going on, which I thought their Optical Flow stuff would remove. But, here’s the killer – over 35 times as long to render as my plugin, so on my dual 2Ghz, that’s 4h30m for 1 minute of conversion. Ouch.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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HDCAM is 1440×1080 downsampled from 1920×1080. Formats, such as HDCAM SR which record the full 1920×1080 are said to record the full raster, the word raster referring to the horizontal rows of pixels that make up the image.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Check out my Standards Conversion plugin at http://www.natress.com
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Or quicker still, “File -> Export -> Quicktime Movie…” accept defaults, and take that movie to Compressor yourself.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Arnie, you’re right on there! If you are using the plugins on another persons’s machine, then the chances are the they’re not licenced for that machine and the online facility needs to buy copies for their machine if they are to remain legal.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Optical Flow processing plays no part in MPEG2 encoding though……
I was, however, doing some tests with Opical Flow in Compressor 2 and it was like render times of 4h30 for 1 minute of footage. Apple’s got to be pulling our legs with that kind of “speed”.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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