Irina Abraham
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thank you. so, I have a g-raid with FW 800. do you think e sata is better? i could try to edit from the 10 bit, but I was really hoping to use the apple pro res. doesn’t it keep like up to 90 percent quality? I think my mistake is in the compressor and DVD studio pro. I must find the right settings there. any ideas for that?
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well, i did convert the 10 bit uncompressed into apple pro res. I thought that the 10 bit is just not a proper editing codec, but tell me if I’m wrong. was the conversion into apple pro res an unnecessary step?
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oh, great. the film is not longer than 5 minutes now. I didn’t realize that the default DVD setting had this pitfall, thank you. in terms of the look, it’s grainy and (it’s b/w) it lost a lot of info in the dark and light areas, in other words it looks too rough and contrasty
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Shane, first of all you are right, I AM inexperienced, unfortunately. But the thing is that everything on that project was poorly planned: they shot super16 without even thinking of what they wanted to do with it later. and then they threw me on it, not explaing anything about their plans for it. So i had to really second guess. here is a better explanation: the master is HD, 23.98. The downconversion is apple prores 422, 29.97. i pulled it down to 23.98.
what confused me is that the info in CT when i just imported the flex files, showed 30NDF for some files and 24p for others (in detail view window). In FCP however in item properties they were all 29.97. i don’t know why, maybe i’m just not reading something right. i’m not sure what’s going on with the sound, but that’s what they told me: 30fps. you can pull it down though, it’s possible. what i did for now, I imported the flex file into CT, connected them to apple prores clips, pulled them down to 23.98fps. I created a project in FCP with apple prores in easy set up. i’m just trying to figure it out as i go. you have to start somewhere, right? i’m not sure yet how to connect the dat recorder to my comp… but in the post production manual i’m using, it says that it’s fine to have video at 23.98 and audio at 29.97. not sure why, but that’s what it says. what do you think? -
thank you, Shane!
yes, all footage on HD master is 23.98fps. however, in my flex files it shows that some SD files are at 30NDF and some are 24p. is it some kind of mistake that the lab made? -
wow, thanks for all the info.
well, you see i didn’t know i could edit directly from HD, my comp is mac book pro and apple told me it couldn’t handle HD files. I was asking them for 10bit uncompressed QT on a harddrive to begin with. but they told me since my mac can’t process HD i should get downconversions and then go back to them to conform to HD. the HD master is 23.98 with pull down. what confused me in their SD files is that in CT some show as 30NDF some as 24p. that seems weird. the sound was on dat tapes at 30fps, not synced yet. i’ll have to pull it down. they gave me the flex files, so, supposingly everything should macth to the HD masters, that was their plan at least the super 8 is also 23.98 with pull down on the HD masters. do you really think it’s gonna be a mess if i edit the SD and make an EDL from it for the lab?