Jason Jenkins
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Interesting… No rendering needed in FCP. I haven’t tried to adjust the display. I’m going to try to hook the cam up to a CRT monitor and see if it looks any different. An LCD is a progressive display, correct?
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Yes, HVX.
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Thanks! So simple… no wonder I couldn’t find it. Unfortunately, the clip looks exactly the same after I set both the sequence and the clip to “none” for field dominance. I’ll mention again that I see this same aliasing when I play the clip directly from the HVX P2 card to my BT-LH1700W monitor.
Should the timebase be 29.97 or 30? They come into FCP as 29.97.
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I can set the sequence to “none” for field dominance, but the clip comes into FCP as lower field dominant. How do I change that? In Premiere and AE there is a clip interpretation dialogue, but I can’t find the equivalent in FCP. Still looking…
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Thanks for taking a look at it Jeremy. You don’t see the aliasing on the horizontal lines of the building during the pan? Did you play it in FCP?
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I calculated my costs and determined that I need to make $150 per hour, based on billing 20 hrs per week. Figuring out what you need to make and making it are two different things. I think a big part of this equation is confidence. It’s taken me nearly 10 years of hard work to build my skills and my confidence, but now I KNOW I’m worth every penny of $150 per hour. A good eye-opener for me was freelance editing at an ad-agency for nearly two years. They billed all my work at $250 per hour. All that being said; getting the right clients is the hard part. I still do a fair amount of freelance work at $75 per hr to fill in the gaps. I have a client that I started working for 5 years ago for $15 per hr. Now I bill them at $100 per hr. That’s tough to do unless your work is great. Seven years ago I was making $9 bucks an hour as a midnight dubber! I guess my point is that there is hope! You may have to raise your rates gradually, but when you do you’ve got to stick to them and keep moving forward. I’m confident that in a couple of years, I’ll be turning away work at $150 per hour because I’ll be booked!
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How do you normally work with MXF files?
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Here’s an MXF file if someone wants to throw it on the timeline and see what I’m talking about (nasty stairstepping). I hope I’m wrong and it’s just operator error…
61 MB
https://www.flowmotionmedia.com/clips/0048PU.MXF
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[Noah Kadner] “Perhaps you have an issue with sequence settings in your NLE.”
That’s what I thought too, until I tried playing the footage directly from the camera to the BT-LH1700W. It looks bad right out of the camera. It’s very similar to when I shot some DVCPRO50 24p. In that case the camera adds pulldown to get to 29.97. I’m uploading an MXF right now so you can see it for yourself.
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Have you tried adjusting the shutter speed on the HV30?