[Jonathan Reed]

I do have an DS Tech Pryo AV link from 2004. the issue is that it’s NTSC 3:4 AND it randomly will make the signal go “negative” mid capture for some random reason.

[Jonathan Reed]

So how are all these people doing their “let’s plays” of video games?

[Jonathan Reed]

I’ve got Final Cut Studio 3 with 24 gigs of ram, but i’ll use the 23.976, thanks.

[Jonathan Reed]

The majority of the footage was shot 1920X1080 30pfs, The footage i knew was going to be slow motion was shot in 1080X720 60fps.

I converted the 1080X720 to 1920X1080 to avoid rendering.

I’ve also converted the H.264 footage to Apple Pro Ress.

Once i’m done, i’ll export back to 1920X1080 H.264 for a lower file size but keeping the quality.

Ah yes, the good old days of Film. Unfortunately, I’m a broke filmmaker/film student using the film schools T3I, so while i’d love to work with Film, i’ll have to make due with this.

[Jonathan Reed]

sorry sorry sorry, that was suppose to be 1920 X 1080,
that was a it’s its 2am and i’m tired and i wanna go to bed typo

[Jonathan Reed]

Just for clarification, i dragged and dropped the H.264 files into a folder on my harddrive. My FCP7 Wont log and transfer the SD card for some reason.

Step 2: opened MPEGSTREAM CLIP, transcoded the 1080X720 60fps H.264 to 1920X720 60fps Apple Pro Ress.

Step 3: followed your tutorial, however the rest have been taken from 1920X1080 30FPS H.264 to 1920X1080 29.97FPS Apple Pro Res, so I choose (initially) 29.97 as apposed to 23.98 to make it match up.

Of course to make you more correct, the 23.98 worked a bit better cuz it was a smudge slower, i was just trying to keep the PFS the same.

I am drooling over the GOPRO though, and I’ll check out this new program. thanks for the update on that.

[Jonathan Reed]

i set my T2I to 60fps, then transcoded it to apple pro ress, larger resolution but same fps,
then i followed your instructions and went to 29.97 and then 23.98

As far as i know i can’t get my T2I any higher than 60, and can’t get 23.98 any lower… so better camera then?

This program? what does it do?

[Jonathan Reed]

First off, thank you.
Your tutorial was very well put together and easy to follow.

Is there anyway to push it further?

I’ve dropped it to 29.97 and to 23.98 but i had to compare it to the original footage to even see a difference.

I grabbed some shots of water spraying out a leak in a hose, we have footage of leaves and some of falling paper and tomorrow, um later today (its midnight) we have shots of a woman playing a cello and we want slow mode close ups of the bow on string.

Is there anyway to push it further?

[Jonathan Reed]

okay, shot a movie on my HDV camera. It shoots in widescreen.
my question is, when i Capture it onto FINAL CUT PRO using my non-controbable device, (an analog to digital converter that use the red yellow and white connectors) how do i get it to capture in widescreen not fullscreen. I know about the panoramic setting, but its not TRUE widescreen, its just fullscreen stretched out to widescreen.