Justin Ferar
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What we should be talking about here is “gain” and “noise”.
The footage was shot on high gain thus has video noise (mosquitos, artifacting, whatever you choose to call it).
The only suggestion I have is a “remove noise” filter but you will lose some details.
“Too much too soon” has a remove noise filter.
Good luck.
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Chris- good question.
I find that I use different filters to acheive very specific tasks. It just works better than an all in one filter- more image control. I tend to commbine Nattress 24p with Magic Bullet looks. I also use AE plug-ins inside FCP.
The video is shot perfectly neutral with no gamma stuff or frame rate mods.
I have found Natress quite amazing but it takes time to figure out how to acheive the same look from AE filters that I am used to.
Everything looks beautiful until displayed on my new HDTV. Standard def just looks like shite on the HD monitor.
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I’ve been wondering the same thing regarding upsampling but have not had time to experiment.
My DV projects are very heavy in the filter area- usually a stack of 5-8 filters on every shot. I wonder if upsampling would help in this regard?
Anyone?
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I’ve been using the system with 4 drives (Maxtor 300 GB) striped as a single RAID for about 6 months now, plus the boot drive. Honeslty I was worried about the heat but I can tell you that in my G5 dual 2.7 it has been a total non-issue. I only edit DV but I render as much as anyone- often an hour straight and the fans only come on intermitently.
For DV you can’t beat it.
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“I cannot imagine what possible difference a linear ramp could make to the aural presentation.”
The Original posters point is that often FCP cuts the audio too fast at the tail. I find this particularly annonying when ending a long form sequence and would like to fade out the music track nice and long. But FCPs curve cuts the long fade too quickly and one must zoom in and add more nodes- PITA!
Media 100 was different- it was linear.
So how do we turn the curves off? Like I said earlier- I didn’t think it was possible.
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I’ve also longed for linear ramps and have found nothing about it in the manual.
Bogiesan- your response was a bit short in my opinion. There is an option for linear audio transitions but I have never heard of linear ramps for FCP. Please let us all know where this option is.
Audio energy is not linear?
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Thought I would chime in here- I too bought the Max Upgrades product and have been very happy.
At my old gig we used all Medeas (about 20 of them) and they went down often. You can’t beat the simplicity but if you know what you are doing you can acheive the same performance and uptime (if not better) by using the Max Connect product. I like being able to choose what drive to use as manufacturers seem to double performance and capacity each year. When bigger better drives come out you can swap the drives out without fuss. With the medeas you are stuck having to purchase a new unit.
Now I just have to figure out what to do with all the EIDE drives filling up my closet!
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I put the settings as you suggested and there is no difference.
Oddly- even after effects shows slight blurriness- but is cleaner than FCP.
Hmm.
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I made my block size the largest size as well.
I am curious- have you had any problems with the Maxtors?
I have a 4 drive SATA raid with the 4 port firmtek card with the same drives.
Things started out rocky- lots of dropped frames but after a lot of experimenting and finally re-building the system from scratch things have settled down.
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I guess there is no fix.
Luckily I have After Effects but what a PITA!