Holly Mcnamara
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Hey Ross, thanks for your response.
Sorry it I didn’t make it clear before, but that picture I uploaded before was mocked up in Photoshop to show three frames moving, rather than posting up three individual pictures. The video that I am working with only has one phone, as per the original video I shared in the first post. Sorry for the confusion.
In regards to your suggestion, yes, I’ve done what you said and more! I really must be doing something wrong!
I’ve turned on ‘track all layers’ to make sure I catch any fast movement, but that doesn’t really seem to help.
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I’ve spent the last several hours (and sleepless night) pouring over Mocha tutorials. I’ve done ‘phone screen tracking’ tutorials, I’ve done ‘corner pin tracking’ tutorials, I’ve adjusted settings from ‘luminance’ to ‘auto-channel’ back to ‘luminance’ again… and nothing!
*deep breath*
As soon as the phone moves, the planar surface goes all wacky and moves everywhere. All it takes is the phone to be nudged a tiny bit, and the edges go haywire!
I’ve tried numerous different ways of tracking by (1) eliminating the finger, by (2) only tracking the edges of the phone, by (3) tracking the edges of the phone and the green screen.
*sigh* I’m at my wit’s end! Is there something I’m doing ridiculously wrong?
Thank you.
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Unfortunately I don’t have access to the original camera or cards – only the footage on a brand new external drive (which has now been copied to a 2TB internal drive).
The cameraman told me he used the Sony XDCam Transfer software to import the footage to the external drive.
The problem is, I’ve downloaded Sony XDCam Transfer, Sony XDCam Browser, Sony XDCam Viewer. I also downloaded all the Quicktime codecs I could find, including CCCP Codec Pack and K-Lite Codec Pack.
Nothing on my computer will read the files. It’s not a case of the computer, external drives or programs being slow – all the programs (Avid, After Effects, Premiere, Sony Vegas Pro) just flat out say “error: unsupported file.”
I read up on the internet that you could transfer the XDCam EX MP4 footage back into usable MXF files using the windows version of Sony XDCam Browser, but even Sony doesn’t even register it’s own file!
After spending the whole weekend with no result, I’ve finally resigned myself to borrowing a Mac and using Compressor to convert the footage into being ‘Windows friendly.’
Which brings me to my next question:
How can I convert a XDCam EX MP4 file into a Windows-compatible file that will allow me to retain the same size and quality?
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The finished project will be exported to DVD. If they require timecode for reference, I am able to insert BITC later.
