Joseph Owens
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Have you tried correlating the conversion on some media that has burned-in TC?
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There is one possibility that your preview RTE settings are lowering your display resolution, but more likely what is happening is that by showing “excess luma”, what you are recovering is the over/under shoot spikes that the PC2TV converter coded into the (composite?) output.
Maybe you can add a sharpen filter, maybe you should re-do the text graphics…
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Have you tried H.264 instead?
Should be compatible with Flash…jPo
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Ummm…. SDI decode? AES decode?
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Ah, well, it ain’t popularly referred to as “Media Mangler” for nothing.
You should see what it does to projects that are assemblies of COLOR-rendered with helpful names like 1_g1.mov-1-2-2-v.movBut so far, my favourite show on TV is Untitled.
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We didn’t used to have this facility, right?
I can recall a project from a couple of years ago that was shot 1080i60 (DVCProHD). The only way to pull it in was over 29.97 and then Reverse Telecine to get it back to 23.98, which the camera people all swore they were shooting. Well, yes, but at that point only 720P60 would flag the redundant fields for real-time ingest in the base frame rate, so we were at the mercy of the famously balky Panasonic FRC.jPo
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Aspect ratio “Distort” in the Motion tab. Letterbox/ Anamorphic, etc., etc.
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“So why don’t you give them an EDL/cut list/use automatic duck and have them recapture to whatever they want from tape? ”
I think because the media has been “treated” already in AE and recapturing from original source would mean re-creating that treatment.
But I’m as confused as anybody with this workflow. Export to tape and “final CC”? You don’t mean Closed Caption, but another round of color correction? On an AVID? ????? Like Tape to Tape but not???? Over top of the AE “treatment”…??? And you can’t use “COLOR”?
I must be missing something crucial here…
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My first experiences with FCP7/Kona were horrific, and not quite out of the woods yet.
I thought that it was killing my 8-core, and was almost convinced that it had fried the GPU. Most of this eventually boiled down to Snow Leopard and the “desktop” version of Kona3 6.5/7. Installing the NDD version helped a lot. At least it doesn’t crash instantly anymore.The behaviors I saw were non-random crashes that started accelerating until I couldn’t run FCP for more than a few seconds at a time whereupon it would freeze. It couldn’t sustain a render. I have experienced that whole thing where FCP won’t even launch, but I haven’t sorted out whether its because it encounters the Kona Drivers which won’t hand over control to FCP or just what’s going on there, but there are other issues.
I’m getting all kinds of garbage in blanking, right at the start of H-blanking, and if there is any frame-translation going on (conversion in framerate or resolution) then more garbage in the form of green lines in the vertical interval. You need an external scope for most of this since the FCP scopes are blissfully ignorant of anything going on outside of the visible image area.
At this exact second I’m trying to come up to deliverable spec for the National Film Board and it ain’t happening. I have now blown a week trying to fix a 9 minute short so it meets their standards. Trying to add Closed Caption is another issue altogether.
All in all I still find it stunning that Apple gets away with classifying this trash as a “Pro” application, but apparently there is no regulation other than constant rejection by the broadcasters. The ones with standards, anyway.
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Had this issue a few months ago where FCP/Kona kept flipping into DV50 in Edit to Tape. The sequence was originally HDV but the editor had left it in 1440×1080 when exporting a ProRes QT. Changing the aspect ratio (exporting a new 1920×1080 QT) fixed the problem.
An undocumented feature of the 6-legged kind.
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