Jon Barrie
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Thankyou for being able to post the Waveform. Sorry dude, but the footage is dark. Your monitoring settings must have been really high on brightness, (LCD on camera, TV monitor, even Computer) that’s what I’d say has happened. the range on the waveforms are really squashed in the darks end of the spectrum, matching the image (too dark). When on a shoot a pro camera operator/DOP would be using colour bars to calibrate the monitoring of the way camera is recording. The brightness and contrast are set without colour (can be best done with a pro monitor allowing you to see only blue shaded bars to get best Bright Contrast values) then pump up the colour info.
Sorry to be bearer of bad news.
If you can’t reshoot – which would be the best. You can capture all your stuff, add the effect of levels to bring your whites and blacks into a tighter realm so the spectrum grows on the waveforms. It will add lots of grain and other uglies, could be usable, but I strongly recommend a reshoot for best results. Unless you don’t mind grain and poor colour & bad contrast.
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rename it back to the one you were using before it should all update happy. Of course the DL function can’t find the stuff it’s looking at the project based on its disk/location/name. Why are you using Incremental saves and then not save as at the end with the same name so the DL can work with it?
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This might seem like a silly question, but are you absolutely certain the footage you are converting is NTSC? From the framerate issue you describe it sounds exactly like PAL trying to be NTSC. NTSC settings are default when exporting make sure the footage you start with is not PAL, check the frame size and frame rate, then export it with the same settings. If you manage to get one out, then use the same settings for the rest.
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Where and what was this file made in/on? PC? Mac? A Pinnacle hardware based NLE, Matrox? There is no reason a clean 8-bit Microsoft Uncompressed AVI file with 16-bit stereo audio shouldn’t come into PPro. I think there may be something else in the codec that’s having trouble bringing it in. Uncompressed is not simply uncompressed, especially if its coming from a mac. Is it 8-bit, 10-bit?
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you need to animate the scaled down clips position to have them enter the frame, then don’t add anymore animation keyframes. they will stay in the position last keyframed.
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I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the amount of detail one might assume is lost in the whites of video. Only when you see the vectorscopes will you see where they may be some embedded detail.
Use the effect:
“shadows highlights”
Play with these settings and you may be able to find some detail in highlights without ruining the mid and blacks areas.
You can pull out some more detail in the blacks with this effect too. Don’t use the auto settings (default) play with the parameters.
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the term being used is what’s causing the problem. CPU is not the same as Core. 1 x CPU can have multiple Cores. C2Quad example.
You will bet a huge render and export + pre-render (red) Quality playback. CPU’s would imply it renders over several computers like in 3D rendering… that is not supported in PPro.
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In order to capture HDV footage you must be in a HDV project. If you are working in a DV project and try to capture HDV it won’t work. Start a new HDV project (presets should be there)… Capture the HDV footage being certain the HDV out of FireWire is active. HDV won’t capture DV either, it’s a limitation I know, but that’s the way it is in CS3…. i’ve got a feeling CS4 will be open to capture HDV/DV/Etc in same project.
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It’s not a problem, but to get the best quality out of a HD clip in an SD project don’t scale the frame size, make it “Scale to Frame” by right clicking clips in the timeline. The can be automatically Scaled this way when added to the timeline with a setting in the Preferences.
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1440×1080 is anamorphic FullHD, which therefore isn’t real FullHD. It fakes the resolution of FullHD (1920×1080) by stretching the width (1440) by 1.33 PAR making it appear to be 1920. Anything you view online should be set to square pixel aspect ratio as some playback apps might not respond properly to the stretching fake widescreen of anamorphic video.
1920 / 16 = 120
120 x 9 = 1080this is 16×9 square pixel.
take this shape and divide the figures by the % you want to shrink it by. Keep to a size for MB size. I use 512×288 as the bare minimum for client approval for HD stuff.
25% of fullHD 1920/4 = 480
25% of fullHD 1080/4 = 270480×270
Hope this helps.
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