Greg Barringer
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Mirjam, I watched your video a second time and this time when it hesitated I paused it and waiting several minutes. Then I hit play and it worked fine. Beautiful work, good color, can’t wait to see more.
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When you’re ready to try BD-R let me know. I have it figured out that FCP does not render upon export.
Greg
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Mirjam,
I went through the tutorial you listed above “Setting up Final Cut Pro for Nikon D300 Video” I agree with his Compressor settings but in FCP his audio/video setup did not match his footage and FCP gave him a warning to change the sequence settings. Follow the steps I gave you and the sequence setting will match the footage.
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I knew you’d appreciate the details, I have days and days of trying to get it right in FCP and Compressor. I have to thank the members here for their help.. The ultimate is burning a BD-R and watching it on a large HDTV. The quality is surprising, especially it you mix in full res photos.
I have the 14-24 and like you said it’s a beautiful lens. On a full frame camera it’s so wide it almost becomes fisheye at 14mm. I also have the 24-70 f/2.8, it’s also a fantastic lens. I’ve noticed the wider you go the more easy it is to hand hold. I tried my 105 f/2.8 Micro VR. VR is On constantly while shooting video but at 105mm it’s a little close. In the Macro setting you must use a tripod. I wish they would add VR to the 24-70. I need to practice shooting more with mine. We have 30 inches of snow here and it’s not easy to get out. The low light ability of the camera is fantastic for indoor shooting, it’s like it creates it’s own light.
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Mirjam,
I have a D3s and FCP Suite 3. From what I saw of your video it looks sharp and well focused. About a minute into the video it stops, hesitates, plays about 10 sec. and stops again. It continues to hesitate, I never did get past about 1 min. 30 sec. This could be caused by your web server or the size of the file. For web site video I use Vimeo.com and embed the HD video into my web site. A Vimeo Plus membership is $60/yr. You may want to look into that. To me the video didn’t looked stretched, it looked like it was shot at a wide angle like using a 14-24 f/2.8 lens. Which lens did you use?
Since this camera was just introduced in late ’09, like everyone else with a D3s, I’m new to working with it in FCP. I can only tell you what I’ve found to work best so far. Here’s my steps:
1. Copy the CF card to the HD of the computer
2. Open Compressor, in these next steps we’ll make a custom Droplet.
a. In the Settings tab, select Formats > Quick Time > Apple ProRes 422
b. Drag this to “Drag Settings & Destinations Here” and click it
c. In the Inspector, select Encoder
d. Select Video Enabled, then hit Settings. Frame rate 24 > OK
e. Select Audio Enabled, then hit Settings. Choose 48 kHz
f. Save As. Name it. It will be in > Settings tab > Custom
g. Click your new Cutom setting
h. File > Create Droplet
i. select your new custom setting
j. save it to the desktop, leave destination as source.
3. open the Droplet,
4. drag all you D3s clips in, change destination to a new folder
Now you have all your original .DVI and the converted ProRes clips
5. Open FCP, select Final Cut Pro > Audio/Video Settings
6. in the Sequence Setting tab select Apple ProRes 422 1280×720 48kHz
7. Clip Duplicate and give it a new name
8. change the Editing Timebase to 24 > OK
9. select the summary tab click Create Easy Setup
10. name it, give it a description > Create
11. the next time your open FCP use this Easy Setup
12. your D3s clip should not need rendered now.
13. When your done editing use Send to Compressor
14. Vimeo will accept a wide varity of formats
15. I use Quicktime H.264 with settings set to best
16. For Blu-ray I use Export to QT Movie and use Sony DVD Architect to author the BD at 35 mbps, but that’s another story. -
What if you crop each image using the peg holes as a guide for the crop.
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Same here, I bought an Epson R280 on Black Friday at the Epson online store for $39. Cheaper than ink. I use Ridata white printable DVD-R and BD-R. Change the inner hub setting to 21mm in the Epson software to print closer to the center hub.
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I’m no expert at Motion, I’m learning it now using the Creative Cow training DVD purchased here. But here’s my workflow and it’s working well.
I use a Droplet created in Compressor to convert the camera footage to ProRes 422 before bringing it into FCP. In FCP, the Sequence settings match the ProRes. In Motion I use File > Share and select the same ProRes 422. When I import into FCP the Motion Export does not need rendered.
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If it’s the Radeon 9600 Pro, it has dual DVI ports
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I wondered about that. I saw them but wasn’t sure if that’s what they were for.
Thank You,
Greg