Jon Roemer
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Gary – Just curious if you had any luck recovering what was on the C300 CF card which had been re-initialized….
Just ran into the same problem.
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More info: the issue is compound clips as opposed to specifically synchronized clips.
Basically, a compound clip is stuck at “Spatial Conform: Fit”. “None” has no effect.
Since a synchronized clip is a compound clip then it is affected as well.
Is this a bug or a known limitation of a compound clip?
As a work around I just tried syncing sound via the Plural Eyes beta. That works and it allows you to keep sound and video separate. So, no compound clip and thus you can put a 1080 sync’d clip into a 720 timeline and set the Spatial Conform to “none”.
I am also seeing noticeable difference between a file done this way vs. the other way.
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I just figured it out I think. The issue is with Synchronized Clips.
If I take a clip that is in my Event Library but straight from the camera, set it to SC:None, and bring it into the 720P timeline it is immediately at 1:1 pixel mapping. I can even drag it into the timeline at SC:Fit and change it to SC:None after it is in the timeline.
If I do the same with the Synchronized Clips it doesn’t work. There is no change in size relative to the timeline.
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Me, too.
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More or less but I ran a test on the time-lapse project. With that there was a noticeable difference between SC:None vs. SC:Fit + transforming to enlarge image within the frame.
Made me wonder if there was a noticeable difference with dslr video. But since I can’t get it to behave properly it’s hard to know.
Are you using FCP or FCP X?
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Jason – thanks for your reply.
FWIW, I’m not finding things to work in FCP X quite that way.
-If I make a 720 timeline. Take my 1080 clip and set Spatial Conform “None” and then drag it into the timeline. It still doesn’t show a 1:1 pixel mapping.
-I don’t know why it behaves differently but when I did this working with a time-lapse, in that case the video is huge, each clip is 4896 x 3264 px, it did work properly. IOW, I could set the Spatial Conform to “None” and it would jump to 1:1 pixel mapping allowing me to have a sense of how much I could enlarge the image without losing quality. https://vimeo.com/34008482
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John,
I had purchased three of the lights. They all behaved exactly the same way (as I described and as you found.) I returned them immediately, got my money back.
My understanding is that that is how they work – so you either live it or not. To me the most annoying issues were the pitch and the poorly designed accessory adapter. The pitch was a deal breaker, and the adapter was worthless (it took a wrench to get it on or off).
The multicolored shadows are always going to happen when multicolored LEDs are used. You can diffuse the lights further to mitigate how visible they are.
FWIW, Zylights I later saw in the showroom at Abel Cinetech also performed the same way.
In the end I went with Litepanels. A two light 1×1 Litepanels kit was in the same ballpark as three Zylights (if I remember correctly and factoring Litepanel’s rebate.)
The Litepanels have a dimmer, have no pitch issues, can run off of batteries, easily take filters, and don’t have the multicolor shadow issues. They are obviously not as compact but that’s not necessarily bad. Litepanel’s makes smaller units, too.
Jon
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I just came across this as well. All the videos on my blog are much darker, more contrasty, and redder in Firefox. They are all h.264 (.mov or .m4v)
I played with Firefox’s color management options and nothing corrected it.
It looks like a color management issue (e.g. like a still photo that is in sRGB but gets mistagged or misread as Adobe RGB.)
I don’t see the issue when videos are hosted in Vimeo or YouTube. I don’t see it when it’s a flashed based video.
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Charlie,
Yes, I do have an email reply from you already. I appreciate your prompt attention to my concerns!
I have already sent you a reply off-list.
Thanks again,
Jon Roemer