Joel Peregrine
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Hi Jason,
I’m not sure about HDMI, but if HDV capture over firewire is acceptable there a capture app not based on QuickTime that do allow concurrent multiple captures:
https://www.bigmugsoftware.com/capture/
The trial is fully functional.
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Hi Rob,
I’ve had Cinema Desktop get flaky too occasionally. Have your trashed your FCP preferences? Seems to work for me. Is it possible to bypass the receiver and go directly to the monitor, even if just as a test to see if that is the problem?
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“Y’know, I just shake my head when I read threads like these.”
You should realize that there are many reasons to shoot with laptops. A big part of my business is editing and presenting the same day of the event, i.e. same day edits – logistically impossible to do with a tower when there are multiple locations. Knowing the abilities and limitations of your equipment you’re using in the field, under deadline, is invaluable information. Its because I’m on laptops all the time that I have the confidence to do what I do in situations that others would never even think of attempting a promised presentation.
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Hi Greg,
I’m the same boat. I’ve been using the Neat plugin more often and am noticing that its slowing down my workflow. I’ve switched to a process that puts all of a projects assets, including renders, on a esata external so I can swap a long render over to another MacBook Pro that I use for rendering, encoding and capturing. That at least allows me to get to work on another project while the other computer is chewing away on the rendering.
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Hi Tom,
Its not necessary to convert quicktime to flv. Use QuickTime to encode with the H.264 codec, then delete the .mov extension and add .flv. Works perfectly and is an accepted standard.
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Hi Michael,
I kept one system on 10.5 while updating the other to 10.6. That was about four weeks ago. Just yesterday I switched the second to 10.6 after a plug in I use often was updated to work with Snow Leopard. I don’t notice any differences between the two OS’s when working within any of the FCS applications, but I really like the GUI and additional features of 10.6. I don’t use any additional capture cards or third party interfaces that might cause conflicts.
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Hi Michael,
Deinterlacing is often advised as a way to fix basic field order problems in the workflow. Bear in mind you will be reducing your overall resolution with deinterlacing.
In my experience if the fields are combined with a quality encoder there isn’t a perceived loss of resolution. In fact visually the the real-world impression of progressive is of finer detail when compared to deinterlaced. A lot of detail here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_scan
Try sorting your field order issues as deinterlacing will not make slo mos as smooth as interlaced done correctly.
I’ve found that editing interlaced footage as interlaced and blending the fields in the mpeg=2 encoding process makes for very smooth slow motion as well as a complete elimination of interlace artifacts like stairstepping and twittering. Its a very viable option to add a progressive look to your footage.
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Hi Mark,
You’ve got everything right. With the preset you’ve placed on the clip selected click on filters > deinterlace > algorithm field that says ‘Odd’ you’ll see other options: blur, even, sharp etc. Choose blur. Also be sure to place the Dolby Digital audio preset on your clip. Both will be needed for DVDSP.
The deinterlace filter in the filter tab is called ‘legacy’ in the manual because its function is now available in the Frame tab also, at a higher quality but at the expense of a longer encoding time.
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Hi Mark,
What you may be seeing is the interlaced qualities as opposed to progressive. When you see your work on a computer monitor the fields are blended, much like the frames of real film. When you output to TV monitor those fields are represented as interlaced, as distinct fields. That may be the amateur look you’re referring to. A simple fix is to de-interlace during the encoding process in Compressor. Encode the MPEG2 file with the legacy filter deinterlace applied. Make sure the deinterlace option of ‘Blur’ is set. Then just make the DVD as you normally do. This will smooth out the edges and give the DVD a more film-like feel.