John Heagy
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[Kelly Kowalski] “I can’t see much difference between 60p and 24p”
I would suspect it’s not playing at 60fps then. More likely 30fps, in which case you won’t see a big difference. You will see a difference 60 vs 24.
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Set your viewer, source or canvas, to 100% and all will be revealed.
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Happy Holidays to you too Gary!
I tried the Arri sim but it’s non functional in Safari, and crashes FireFox. Is it meant for iPhone/iPad only?
I read up on the SxS naming… very nice, but have a few questions.
We had a demo here for a day and shot a few clips.
example: A001C021_101217_R1QG.mov SxS volume/tape name A001R1QG
So the camera serial is 1QG in base36… how perfectly German!
The user decides on the camera index letter (A), and the R or L camera prefix preceding the serial. What’s with that… R or L?
The incrementing clip index C021, followed by the date. Only a two digit year instead of 4 like in the manual? Is that user defined?
My big question is the 001 reel index following the the A. The manual says the reel index shall be reset at the start of a shoot. What’s the start of a shoot?… power up? Or is that determined by the user?
Interesting that the reel index does not get assigned on format, only when the first recording is begun. So if I format a card and pull it out, how will it be named? What if I format in camera A then record in camera B? Or does a format not name it anything ie NONAME?
Sounds like there’s no way to ensure a unique volume/tape name for every card formatted. That’s okay… just trying to predict what the camera will do.
I’m sure I’m making this more complicated than it is.
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We get that all the time with movies captured with our custom app. It could be something as simple as a movie not having a UUID. Next time you get that warning check if FCP updated the modified date after import. If so it punched something into the file… I hate when it does that. Last thing we want is FCP corrupting clips just to dot an “i”.
Bottom line… the warning never amounted to anything.
John Heagy
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Twixtor is good but the results greatly depend on the footage. Anything with lots of crossing motion ie arms crossing body or body crossing complex background will be troublesome and the image will “tear and pull”.
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As yes, I know that well. I complained and a fix was quickly provided: In the “Advanced Media Handling” preference uncheck “Generate full size thumbnails from file system”
I could never get more than a few hundred of our 5000+ weekly movies to import… now never a problem with that pref unchecked. I am using the Mac version but Java is Java so it should help.
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Correct, the KiPro will not control, but the SR deck can. The SR deck can control the KiPro via 422 and accurately edit to it’s self. There are many SR models. I don’t know if all of them have this feature.
John Heagy
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Why uncompressed HD? That was my thought as well after reading your post. A few facts:
below are all in Megabits/sec (Mb)
uncompressed HD 10bit 1300
uncompressed HD 8bit 1000
Sony HDCam SR 440
Digital Cinema JPEG2000 250
ProRes (HQ) 220
ProRes (SQ) 140
HD BluRay Max 36
HD Broadcast Max 19Avatar was shot with HDCamSR
What is your camera original file format/data rate and your deliverable format?
Unless it’s Arri RAW or DPX film scans with tons of green screen work, there’s no perceived benefit to uncompressed after the deliverable is made. Even with vfx work I’d recommend ProRes 4444 over uncompressed. I’d also recommend ProRes (HQ) or (SQ) over 8bit uncompressed due to ProRes being 10bit.
Working in uncompressed sounds better than it looks after all the costs associated with it.
Avoid “turning it to 11”
John Heagy
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Thanks Rolf,
I just tried 8.1.10, the TOD is great. I didn’t think of the TC extra track settings on export. That does the trick, but there’s no way to exclude the TC Text. Turns out FCP ignores it but I’d rather it not be there. I just need the TC/Reel track but not the visual Text Track.
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CatDV has an Offset Timecode tool that will batch offset the TC of movies. The standard version at $90 will do this. One of it’s many useful tools.
https://www.squarebox.co.uk/index.html