[John Sullivan]

Andrew Kramer’s “plugin” is nothing more than a script for After Effects. It’s something you can do manually using AE’s TimeWarp effect plugin. The script he made just allows you to simply punch in your source and target frame rates and the expression will determine what the speed setting will be on TimeWarp plugin. If you watch the tutorial on this you will see he gives the expression to you towards the end.

And by the way, I used this technique and it takes 3x longer than Twixtor. And even Twixtor takes too darn long.

But I know a much better way of getting a good result. First of all, 30p can look every bit as good as 24p. Native 24p looks best of all because its shot that way from the get go. But messing with frames to convert 30p to 24p will either look like crap or no different at all. I take m2ts avchd 60i footage and deinterlace it using TomsMoComp using Avisynth. And I tried every plugin out there. This is the best and the fastest. It gives superb progressive looking footage. You end up with a 60p file. I then throw the resulting file into Virtualdub and go up to the video menu > FrameRate. In there you can choose to decimate by 2. Then you can resave the file into whatever format you want. You end up with the smoothest 30p file and to me looks more pleasing than converting to a broken 24p file.

If anyone looks at a 30p file and thinks it looks like video, then they dont know how to shoot video like film.

[John Sullivan]

I for one know I won’t be taking the plunge to get CS5. It should be obvious to dedicated users as to why. Much of it has already been said at this point so I won’t bother going into that.

If you look at the transition we have seen in the video world, going from SD to HD, you could see it coming and you knew without a doubt how hard it would hit before it actually did. There was fair warning to start working towards HD at some kind of pace. Many are still working in SD with the intention to migrate to HD. They are the procrastinators and the lovers of the status quo. But its not too late for anyone.

Then look over at Adobe and their “grande” ideas. Turning their backs on technology that is still front and center of the consumer world is equal to turning their backs on consumers. They candy coat their new ideas. Imagine a new President of the United States trying to change the liberties of America and finding some clever scheme to trick citizens into “wanting” the change. We saw this with the last “prez”. But I would like to think that consumers aren’t so dumb. Fairly intellectual people edit video. Thinkers. The kinds of people that would look at Adobe and say, “How dumb do you think I am?”.

To tell me that all my 32-bit plugins will not work is like coming into my house and stealing my software, and then trying to sell me something.

NADA.

WON”T HAPPEN.

I will be a CS4 user for some time. And it might just take some clever hackers to fix the bugs, since Adobe clearly will not. You couldnt ask for a better product without going with a different company. That’s why I love Fusion.