[Hope Holmesby]

Hi Walter, thank you for your commnets, appreciate

[Walter Soyka] “For example, if you have a 1 second clip at 60 frame per seconds (in other words, 60 frames) and use Interpret Footage to change the frame rate to 30 frames per second, it will still be 60 frames long, but now playback will take 2 seconds.”

wow, ok, well maybe it isnt really necessary to change the fps then?

[Walter Soyka] “(i.e., a 30 fps clip in a 25 fps comp),”

Ok, Walter, since I am doing as you say here, then i do need to turn on frame blending ?

What if I had just left the 30 and 29….fps movies as they were and not changed the frame rate in Interpret Footage, with the the comp set to 25fps for the PAL we use? Then what? Would it have been ok too? (or would one have had to turn on Frame Blending and Motion Blur in that case?)

Or
better to change frame rate, as then maybe it will be slightly less blurred?

Thanks again, Walter, as alwasy for you help / insights.

Warmly to you both,
Hope

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Hi

thanks for the answer….i Tried that…didnt work
turns out I had turned on Mouse Keys in Macs Accessibility area: Mouse and Trackpad.
Maybe there is a keyboard shortcut that turn it on by accident.

oh brother.

thank you Brian for your input.
inspired me to look further.

Warmly,
Hope

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Hi thanks for the reply Stephen (used to go to school with someone by your name too….)

426 x 240 px is the web size.

Ok, thank you. Will check out your link.
I guess, when i looked at the videos frame by frame, i did not see any horizontal lines, so I guess none of them are interlaced.
so deleted that setting.

Just changed in ‘interpret footage’, the frame rate as mentioned above, plus put frame blending and motion blur turned on for all of the footage in the timeline, as changing from 30 fps to 25 might require it? Not sure if one needs to do that tho. What do you think, as it is less frames and not more frames being added.

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Sumit

that deleting the plugin worked for me
after installing mavericks, in AE, color balance plugin is not working…keeps crashing…with the message that it is the opengl that is the problem. didnt even have it checked to use in the preferences…it was off, but still causing the problem.

BUT your suggestion to delete the plugin WORKED!!!
Now color balance is working. hurray

Thanks so much

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Thank you…that completely worked!!!
resetting the background processes

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ok, great idea Tom, it WORKED!

I have fcp 6 that is having the situation

the rebellion idea, brilliant, but computer system too old for it….sigh, even the archied versions

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dave…ok,
yes, great idea…thanks for the tip.
thanks again for you help

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hi Dave,
Thanks for answering…

wow…that bad, huh?
then you reset all your preferences?

sigh….

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Hi, Noam, glad it was useful… good luck on your doc

I have been helped so much by you all on this forum, glad i could contribute something (-:

Thanks for being one of the helpers for the forum.

however, now we see that you are moving to a new NLE…..?
good luck on that too…..

is it very interesting to me, too, to read what you, Mark and Craig said above…..

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Hi…
have no idea what kind of thing you are going for….however
what about something like this, sort of going for the HDR look…..

image controls: levels, hsv adjust, saturate –
sharpen; unsharp mask – these are the ones i usually use

Used below: sharpen, levels (made it lighter)

used below: or sharpen , levels (lighter), saturate (more color)

i did this is photoshop, but in fcp, you could use the filters for levels saturate, unsharp mask as mentioned.

or even just apply the unsharp mask default settings gives an amazing kind of look. (it is 500 when u apply it)

or here is one i tried actually in fcp:

used these setting for example:

can fool w the
image control;saturation settings and get a nice sepia look, or natural look
or more sharpen; unsharp mask for more hdr look,

or move radius for unsharp mask,

image controls: levels, hsv adjust, saturate –
sharpen; unsharp mask – these are the ones i usually use

or tint, levels (lighter), unsharp mask together can give an interesting effect

Good luck there.

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