Joe Hedge
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“The better workflow is to capture or transcode to ProRes on ingest.”
So that means sending the live feed directly through the IO HD to the CPU (and external storage), bypassing the P2 cards and/or Firestore device? What I’m wondering is if the IO will essentially just act as a P2 card reader while transcoding to PR422, or do I have to follow the workflow you described of “the computer has to transcode the DVCProHD data from the timeline in realtime to ProRes data to send to the ioHD.”
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“I’m finding that 24p is quite jittery on the pans and zooms. 30p seems much nice.
do I need to use compressor to capture 30p footage the same way I used it for 24p?”
“capturing” is when you digitize from tape, which you didn’t do with Compressor (sorry to be nitpicky but you gotta use the right terminology). And yes, HDV sucks – panning and zooming looks blurry/jittery because of the way HDV compresses the video and there’s nothing you can do about it short of capturing uncompressed HD right out of the camera with a RAID drive (if that) and bypassing the tape. Read up about intraframe (HDV) vs. interframe (DVCPRO HD and up) compression.
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“captured it as directed my apple ”
Did you take the pulldown out first as per below, so it actually is 24p?
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT2410?viewlocale=en_US
“tried h.264 export from compressor but it came out 1440×1080 not 1920×1080.”
it’s anamorphic 1920, which means it’s 1440 until you stretch it out in QT…open it in QT, hit Command-J, select video track, unclick “constrain aspect ratio” and enter 1920 in place of 1440
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“Why are you opening this clip in FCP without removing the pulldown? Do this in Compressor or Cinema Tools before importing the files.”
I already created different clips using Compressor that removed the pulldown – that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the original camera clips that play back at 30 fps with no dupe frames in the QT player, yet when you open them in the FCP viewer, they play back at 24fps with dupe frames and pulldown. Larry says it’s because FCP is not showing the fields, whereas QT is.
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Not talking about interlacing – yes the original camera clips it are interlaced. And I am stepping through frame by frame in QT – there are 30 frames per second but no dupe frames or pulldown when I open them in QT. But the exact same clips in the viewer (not the canvas) in FCP shows duplicate frames (pulldown). I know it’s hard to wrap your head around unless you actually see it. Just wondering if anyone can explain it. Tomorrow I’m auditing Larry Jordan’s advanced FCP class here in Burbank and I will bring my laptop and the clips and see what he says and report back, thanks, Joe
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Yes I already took the pulldown out as per apple’s instructions – that’s not what I’m talking about. When I open a clip I shot in 24p mode with the HV20 in QT, that I have not yet used Compressor to remove the pulldown/duplicate frames from, there is no pulldown and no duplicate frames. It plays at a continuous 30fps with no dupe frames. When I open THAT EXACT SAME CLIP in the viewer in FCP 6, it plays at 30fps WITH the dupe frames and pulldown. Why???