Kevin Jones
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Try placing your camera as far as you can from the subject and zooming in.
This will also help to create a shallower depth of field.Kevin Jones
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Here’s Doug Jensen’s workflow:
Many people have written to ask me about my Final Cut Pro workflow for creating DVDs from XDCAM footage. Let me start by saying that I do not claim to be an FCP expert, and my workflow is so simple that I’m surprised I get this question at all. I don’t use any special tricks or extra rendering steps or anything. I just edit and render. Here are the steps I follow for Final Cut Pro.
1) I shoot most footage with the HQ1080/30P Video Format.
2) I open a new Sequence in FCP and use the “DV NTSC 48Khz Anamorphic” preset.
3) I change the Field Dominance to “NONE”
4) I edit the entire program within that Sequence.
5) When I’m done editing, I then Export a QuickTime movie of the Sequence. I choose “Current Settings” and I do NOT choose to “Make Movie Self-Contained”.
6) I then take that QuickTime movie and bring it into Compressor.
7) I then choose the Compressor preset for DVD Best Quality and modify a few of the settings (such as bitrate), but nothing major.
8) After that file is finished rendering, I bring it into DVD Studio Pro and author the DVD normally
These steps are exactly how my EX1 and EX3 DVDs were produced, and it’s the workflow we’ve been using with XDCAM HD and HDV for over three years.
I hope that helps.
Good luck.
Doug Jensen2.5GHz Quad-core PowerPC G5
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Thanks, I’ll give it a try.
kj
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In the past with a different camera, while shooting around large manufacturing machines with intense magnetic fields, I have seen a rolling like you describe in my viewfinder.
Was happy to see later that the rolling had not been actually recorded.
Only appeared in the viewfinder.kj
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Thanks Andy…nice response!
kj
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Hello.
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Rafael,
Could you please explain what “Render all YUV material in High Precision YUV” does to improve the look of SD renders?
Also, I wanted to compliment you on the beautiful video on your website.
Has a very nice almost 3-D look!
How are you achieving the vignette you use?
Looks great.
Thanks.Kevin Jones
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Shot with XDCAM EX. 1080i.
kj
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This helped a bit…
I zoomed-in on the Canvas to 800% and resampled her fringe hair with the Chroma-Key dropper. At this scale I was able to sample colors on a pixel level.
Looks better.
Thanks for the help.kj
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Ahh yes. But in Alabama it’s a humid heat. Very humid!
Shot 5 hours of firefighters and flames in the low 90’s.
No over-heating problems.kj
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Final Cut Studio 2