John Christie
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I stand corrected, Shane. My monitor is an older “M” not an “L”
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Hello Kelley
The Sony PVM L5 is an old-school standard def monitor. It’s no good for colour correcting HD, but makes a great second monitor in a colour correcting set-up if you can view both an HD and SD monitor at the same time. That’s what we use with our Koona 3 card, one output feeds a Panasonic HD monitor and one output feeds a Sony 20″ SD monitor.
You will need some sort of HD monitor and an output card. Make sure the Intensity is compatible with your G5. Do not colour correct on a standard computer monitor if your project is for broadcast. The colour space is different between the computer world and the broadcast world.
Cheers
John C
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I agree with Alf, the T2i is the place to start. Identical video quality to the 7D and 60D, but not as solidly built and not as good of a still camera as the other cameras. I’ve worked with all three and own a 60D and a 7D.
Cheers
John Christie
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Hi Chang Hun Kim
What you are seeing is a 50 or 60 cycle (depending where in the world you are) hum. I don’t know of any way to remove it easily. There might be some specialized software or plugins for minimizing this, but because the bars are moving, it’s very difficult to deal with. Neat Video make an interesting noise reducer plug in, but I don’t think it will work with moving hum bars.
Cheers
John Christie
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And these lines were moving gradually from the bottom of the screen to the top?
Looks like an electrical grounding problem, where two pieces of equipment were connected together with different electrical grounds. Were you using a separate camera and recorder? It can also come from a mixer if both the mixer and camera are AC powered. If it’s recorded onto your tape, there’s not much you can do to get rid of it.
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Interlaced ALWAYS looks bad on a computer monitor. You can choose to live with it on your computer, and it will look fine when you’re finished edit is played back on a TV/monitor. Or, if you’re final result is going to be web-based, Vimeo, Youtube etc. check out Too Fast Too Soon plugins for FCP. They are free and have a filter called blend fields that does a great job (but slow) converting interlaced to progressive) Much better than the de-interlace filter in FCP
Cheers
John C
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Interlace footage ALWAYS looks bad on a computer monitor. If your going to go back out to tape and watch it on a TV that’s OK. But if your end result is web or computer use, consider the Too Much Too Soon filters:
https://www.mattias.nu/plugins/
Blend fields does a great job converting 60i to 30p
Can’t speak to your contrast issues, if you’re coming in via firewire from HDV, then FCP isn’t doing any processing of the footage, just transferring the data.
Cheers
John Christie
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Strangely enough, I just saw this today in Safari. Never seen it before and my Mail is fine.
Only new thing I’ve done is install Office Mac 2011.
A restart of Safari made it go away.
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Hi Mark
I’m very happy with the transcode quality and speed. I don’t have to turn things around ASAP and you can set up files to transcode overnight.
At home I have an OWC 4 drive raid connected via firewire 800 to a two year old iMac. I have no problems editing Pro Res with that setup.
At work I deal with a 40 TB Xsan installation with 12 edit suites attached. We edit SxS, DVCproHD and Pro Res. Pro Res has the largest files, but the least issues of any of the other codecs.
As to greenscreen, in thirty years of editing, my number one rule has always been: Don’t!
I haven’t tried greenscreen from the HMC150 so I can’t comment on it.
I am impressed with how much I can colour correct AVCHD converted to Pro Res though, there’s lots of information in their to work with.
Hope this helps
John C
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All I would add to this is that some users have had problems with SDHC cards in Panasonic HMC-150 cameras (usually cheap no name cards, but also some of the name brand ones)
That said, I’ve got an HMC150 and love it. I’ve never had a problem with a card, being able to travel with 8 16 GB cards is huge, I don’t have to travel with a computer to download the cards.
I haven’t heard of many problems with P2 cards, they seem to be more robust.
Cheers
John Chrisie