Jeff Newton
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So…check this out…I don’t know if I am doing it right or not but here is what I came up with and it seems to work…for right now…I say that because who know’s tomorrow.
So, in my audio/video settings my sequence preset is set to: DV NTSC 48 KHz – 23.98 and my capture preset is set to: dv advanced (2:3:3:2) pulldown removal.
My log and capture: ‘capture settings’ are set to:
Device Control: DV NTSC
Capture/Input: DV NTSC 48 KHz advanced (2:3:3:2) pulldown removal.Before I go and import this I create a new timeline that is has the 16:9 setting checked…then I go and import my clips and store then in my bin. I DO NOT place them in the timeline yet I just import them all as I need them. Once I am done importing them I check that they imported as 16:9 by double clicking them in the bin to open them in the viewer…not the canvas/timeline. Once I know that they imported correctly I select the timeline and go to the sequence tab and select settings and remove the check in the 16:9 anamorphic to make the timeline a 4:3 timeline.
Then I can start moving the clips to the timeline without them being stretched and they fall perfectly in line with a widescreen format within the 4:3 ratio. I was even able to view it on my external video monitor and in my eyepiece on the xl2 to make sure that it was regristering as a 16:9 image on the tv screen.
So…that being said…I have no freakin’ idea if this is the correct way…especially since it is not the way everyone else is doing this and it is not the way that I have to do it on my laptop…so who knows.
Don…does this way sound absurd??? And one more question. Where is this:
” And make sure you’ve clicked the Anamorphic check box. In FCP 4.5 it’s in the first tab.”
I went to my laptop to check and see if that was checked and I just didn’t realize it but I am not sure which one you are talking about. On 5.0 on my G5 I dont even have an anamorphic box checked right now and I am being able to do what I just explained.
It’s all a bit crazier than I would have expected for FCP.
Well, Im off to bed. I have to be up around 4am to head out to shoot more. I’ll be checking this post as soon as I return.
Thanks again, Jeff.
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Don,
So, on my G4 laptop with FCP 4.5/Mac OX 10.39 it’s working perfectly with all the normal settings. I dont have anamorphic selected in the log and capture window…I actually never have. It just always captured it in 16:9. When you were watching it as it was being captured it would show as 4:3 but when you selected it in the bin it would then show up in the viewer window as a widescreen file.
So, I am trying everything imagionable…but on my G5 tower with FCP5/Tiger it will not work. If I select anamorphic in the log and capture window it gives me a pop up when I go to capture that says…’general error’. I have never seen that with my laptop or even on my desktop.
I even switched my settings the timeline like you said to make the timeline 16:9 but that just seemed to stretch the image. The XL2 records in true 16:9 so I dont want to stretch it anymore.
I also dont fully understand what you meant by:
“You must also choose to use the DN NTSC Anamorphic codec in the preferences window, instead of just DV NTSC.”
I have never worked with DN NTSC before and I looked in my preferences and I couldn’t find it there. Im am seeming like I dont know what Im talking about but I have worked in the program before and I have never came across this problem. I dont know if it is a FCP 5.0 problem…but I just edited a full music video in 5.0 and it was fine. Now…that was not recorded in 16:9 so I didn’t run into this problem…but I have done work on my laptop with 4.5 using 16:9 and never had to change the timeline to a 16:9 timeline.
Sorry to make this so crazy but I am frusterated right now and I have to leave tomorrow morning at 4am to go up North to shoot more footage and come back tomorrow night and edit all the footage to show Monday at the agency…AHHH.
Thank you again, Jeff.
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Don,
So, on my G4 laptop with FCP 4.5/Mac OX 10.39 it’s working perfectly with all the normal settings. I dont have anamorphic selected in the log and capture window…I actually never have. It just always captured it in 16:9. When you were watching it as it was being captured it would show as 4:3 but when you selected it in the bin it would then show up in the viewer window as a widescreen file.
So, I am trying everything imagionable…but on my G5 tower with FCP5/Tiger it will not work. If I select anamorphic in the log and capture window it gives me a pop up when I go to capture that says…’general error’. I have never seen that with my laptop or even on my desktop.
I even switched my settings the timeline like you said to make the timeline 16:9 but that just seemed to stretch the image. The XL2 records in true 16:9 so I dont want to stretch it anymore.
I also dont fully understand what you meant by:
“You must also choose to use the DN NTSC Anamorphic codec in the preferences window, instead of just DV NTSC.”
I have never worked with DN NTSC before and I looked in my preferences and I couldn’t find it there. Im am seeming like I dont know what Im talking about but I have worked in the program before and I have never came across this problem. I dont know if it is a FCP 5.0 problem…but I just edited a full music video in 5.0 and it was fine. Now…that was not recorded in 16:9 so I didn’t run into this problem…but I have done work on my laptop with 4.5 using 16:9 and never had to change the timeline to a 16:9 timeline.
Sorry to make this so crazy but I am frusterated right now and I have to leave tomorrow morning at 4am to go up North to shoot more footage and come back tomorrow night and edit all the footage to show Monday at the agency…AHHH.
Thank you again, Jeff.
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https://mvwire.com/dynamic/article_view.asp?AID=11120
There is the link to the story on the Music Video that I am talking about.
If you look at the video it’s the warmth in the tones of the colors…which could always be done in post but that also has a lot to do with being able to control the amount of artifical/ambient light and know how to combine them…i would think that using a EF lens with full manual control would give you more of that…
The other thing that I liked about the video is the beautiful depth of field…it looked like something I could have got from my Hasselblad.How has your experience been with the EF Adapter thus far. Have you ever done a comparison with ones of the lenses that come with the XL cameras…of have you been able to notice the difference if you switch between the two formats.
Also…and I feel most importantly…how does the conversion factor affect the way you shoot. It seems like you would almost only be able to shoot with wide angle lenses to make it happen. For me I want to know that I can frame a good close up of someone and not have to be 20 feet back from them to make it happen.
That is the one thing that I love about the 3x anamorphic lens is that it is so beautifully wide and that I can get so close to people and not lose that connection with my subject.Thanks for the reply and offering your help.
Have a good day, Jeff.
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A little more info:
This is from a reply in the FCP forum and this was one more question that I asked. I am hoping that someone who freakin’ rocks in Motion will know. Thanks
(I forgot to mention that I am running tiger on my G5 tower with motion 1.0.1 and that is where it doesn’t work…but on my G4 powerbook I am running 1.0 not the update…and on my powerbook it works if I continually update from one to the other…but that is why is bought my tower so I could finally get off of my laptop on big projects..AHHH.)So, let me make sure that I have this right. Instead of selecting the embed option I should leave the origional file in the fcp timeline as sort of a marker. Then I go to Motion and work on the video file, tweak it to where I want it and then go to file>export and then save it as a quicktime movie and then from FCP I import that quicktime file with all the adjustments into the timeline and replace the untouched file?
Or…what do you think about possibly just opening the files that I know that I am going to be using in my project and before even going into FCP…open them up in Motion….color correct them…save them if they need to be updated and then when I feel that they are ready…export them to a quicktime file and then finally put them in them FCP and then in the timeline. Would that make sense?
Thanks again for the reply and the the help…I was so freakin’ frusterated lastnight…
Have a good day, Jeff.
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Sean,
Hey man, thanks for the reply.
(I forgot to mention that I am running tiger on my G5 tower with motion 1.0.1 and that is where it doesn’t work…but on my G4 powerbook I am running 1.0 not the update…and on my powerbook it works if I continually update from one to the other…but that is why is bought my tower so I could finally get off of my laptop on big projects..AHHH.)
So, let me make sure that I have this right. Instead of selecting the embed option I should leave the origional file in the fcp timeline as sort of a marker. Then I go to Motion and work on the video file, tweak it to where I want it and then go to file>export and then save it as a quicktime movie and then from FCP I import that quicktime file with all the adjustments into the timeline and replace the untouched file?
Or…what do you think about possibly just opening the files that I know that I am going to be using in my project and before even going into FCP…open them up in Motion….color correct them…save them if they need to be updated and then when I feel that they are ready…export them to a quicktime file and then finally put them in them FCP and then in the timeline. Would that make sense?
Thanks again for the reply and the the help…I was so freakin’ frusterated lastnight…
Have a good day, Jeff.
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Hello, sorry to tell you this but you should definitely stay away from these companies. I bought my XL2 in December from
B&H in New York and paid 4299.99 (I think it is now about 4000.00)
When I had finally made up my mind to purchase the camera I did some major research online and found some places that were advertising the XL2 for 3000….32000 and so on…I couldn’t believe it. I am a photographer who is making the transition to music video directing so I have already made numerous purchasing from B&H. I knew I could trust them.
I started checking the BBB to see their reports and legitimicy and then I started calling them and asking them point blank how they could offer the XL2… that at that time had only been out for about a month or so… for so much less than B&H/Samys and other places like that. Finally after numerous…numerous calls I got the answer I didn’t want to hear.They were actually opening the box and removing the microphone and eye piece and selling the seperate. Or other ways like that…and then they would kill you on the warranties and what not. I think I remember one place offering a four year warranty for somewhere around 500/600 when I got mine for I think 160.00.
Sorry. I know this was a long answer…hope it helped out for you.
Jeff.