John Treffer
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[Shaleece Haas] “Other than the 8GB capacity difference, does anyone know if there would be a compelling reason to use one of these cards over the other?”
I was told by my reseller that the newer generation has a stronger metal casing that makes the xqd card more durable. Apparantly there was a demand for that especially from rental company’s. This is supposed to have made the physical internal space smaller, hence the 8GB capacity difference.
I still don’t get why they can make a 240GB card in the same space, but that’s the answer I got.
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I’m using an FS7 with a kit lens and a couple of canon and canon-mount lenses. I have both, the metabones adapter and the speedbooster.
One year back I tested some Sigma ART lenses with both metabones and I discovered that the speedbooster does affect the image quality. Sharpness and deformation significantly increases, especially towards the corners.
However I still sometimes use the speedbooster for an extra wide angle or for extra light. But I use the adapter 9 out of 10 times.
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I discovered the cause: a broken D500 Graphics card.
Luckily Apple replaced both free of charge, so now Resolve is running great again! -
I actually had a complaint once by a client about it who had to pass the files on to an archive.
I am convinced some other, more technical clients, will see the Metadata as well.
Probably they will not really care.
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I discovered an okay workaround: replacing the filled out fields with a space instead of deleting them.
I still hope there will come a solution to not having to do this for every export, but it is better than fiddling with metahoot or the terminal.
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You might be right. There is something really buggy going on there.
If I drop a 25fps clip in a 24fps timeline it streches by 4%.
Not by conforming or applying automatic speed. But by dropping a frame and than doubling it.
The weird thing is if I apply “automatic speed” it streches another 4% and now there are two doubled frames in a second.I still can not replicate my original bug, because if I paste this 100%-speed-yet-streched clip in a 25fps timeline it now goes back to normal.
To me this is a serious bug. If FCP X degrades the quality of footage in a minimal way, than it is not a reliable tool I can trust. I hope Apple will fix it in an update soon and will conform this, because I think I will use FCPx less for the moment.
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If the viewer will see the film in 25/30 fps than it is helpfull to edit in 25/30, because you know better what the footage will look like to the viewer. 25/30 may stutter with quick pans and movement, but it can also give a more filmic/cinematic feel.
However I believe Youtube retains 50/60 fps framerate for some years.
John
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My main question, and I know it sounds dumb, should I have the timeline at 25fps or 50fps? And if I need to have it at 25fps, can I get the clip to run at ‘normal’ speed (dropping every other frame)?
It depends on what/who you deliver to. If final playback is at 25 it is best to edit at 25fps.
Actually you’re footage length should not get twice as long when you drop it in a 25fps timeline. Only if you want the slowmotion effect you should choose speed “normal”, which in this case is the same as 2x.
The problem is that sometimes the Timeline(Project) speed is automatically adjusted to the first clips framerate. You can get around that by throwing in a 25fps clip first or a some generator like a color bar. Than place one or more 50fps clips in the timeline and than again delete the color bar.
The thing about recording in 50 fps for 25 fps usage is you have to take care with you shutter time/angle. Most people use 1/50th second shutter time, or 180 degree for most 25fps footage. Shorter shutter times may stutter. So you can run 50 fps, but I’d advice to make you’re shutter time as long as possible. Or only shoot 50fps when you need it.
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Did you try to contact BMD?
I had problems last year with 4K in Resolve on a MacPro can and they helped me out with settings and it is running 4K fine since. -
I think the Eizo monitors are an interesting option for Grading monitors below top-end. I’ve got an CG248-4K but the CG318-4K is a more useful size for 4K. Reproduces 98% of DCI-P3. Got very nice internal calibration system. Saves the cost of a spider, buts also the hassle of applying it.
Downside is that there is no SDI, only HDMI/Display Port, but it works as well. In my research last year this ended up having the best price/quality rate. Eizo has a long history in making high-end displays for photography and print, so they have experience in manufactering.
I believe they have a rec.2020 mode where the monitor indicates what pixels are out of the range, but I never tried that.
Good luck, John