[Graham]

Thanks for all your responses.
Jeremy, I have 1080 material at 23.98 with no pull down. When I set the Kona control panel for this rate my downconvert options are all grayed out. Are you saying you can get the downconvert to work with this material and add pulldown.

Bob, I often bring in material from my JH-3 and I DO NOT have the machine add the pull down to bring it to a standard frame rate. The reasons for this in my world are strong. I do a lot of heavy composite work with green screens. Working with pull down frames is impossible. When I cut in 24p I have beautiful clean frames to composite with. I have done this work on other systems…AVID DS…and want to get away from this box and do all my work on FCP…for obvious reasons. I was disappointed when it seemed that the KONA 2 card did not down-convert various frame rates with pull down. They advertise that the card will do down-conversion…but don’t point out that they can only down-convert certain formats. This is a major limitation in my world.

[Graham]

Bob:

Thanks so much for your informative reply. It is most helpful. I have spent a lot of time getting bits of info here and there…but nothing concise.

If I am down your way I would gladly buy you a beer or three!! If you should be in Calgary, Alberta, Canada I will buy you some real beer! It is a great place to visit!

[Graham]

Thanks Paul, this was most informative.

[Graham]

Thanks Paul, this was most informative.

[Graham]

Thanks Dan, you are right on the mark. I have build the end shot first.

I have figured a few things out via the responses and maybe could ask a more direct question.

Is there a way that I can change the Z space in my 100 layers incrementally via an expression instead of keying in the data? Another words have layer 1 at 100, 2 at 200, 3 at 300 etc. On various pre-comps I need to alter the Z space by various incremental amounts. I am guessing that I can’t as I would have to input the expressions on each layer anyway?

Thanks again.

G

[Graham]

Thanks Dan, you are right on the mark. I have build the end shot first.

I have figured a few things out via the responses and maybe could ask a more direct question.

Is there a way that I can change the Z space in my 100 layers incrementally via an expression instead of keying in the data? Another words have layer 1 at 100, 2 at 200, 3 at 300 etc. On various pre-comps I need to alter the Z space by various incremental amounts. I am guessing that I can’t as I would have to input the expressions on each layer anyway?

Thanks again.

G

[Graham]

Hi Dan:

The logos are going to come in like a starfield. I plan on spreading the logos out in Z space and then running the camera through that Z space to make appear to be flying by.

[Graham]

Hi Dan:

The logos are going to come in like a starfield. I plan on spreading the logos out in Z space and then running the camera through that Z space to make appear to be flying by.