Lars Wikstrom
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I can’t seem to get it to work. I went into Photoshop and painted in the areas that I wanted raised. I painted onto a seperate file that was the same size and in grey scale. I loaded that into the texture in the Displacement. The little priview that I have for the texture shows the raised areas but when I apply it to the sphere nothing happens, it is still smooth. What am I doing wrong?
Also I do not have advanced render. So should I change my sphere which is now 100mm and 48 segments to like 100 segments, is that how you sub divided?
-Lars
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Huh, I knew I came to the right place. I am guessing that the displacment map is a grey scale that I paint in Photoshop then?
-Lars
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I found the prices of Matte boxes to be way over priced for what they are. Some I saw were over $1500 for a piece of plastic that sits in front of your lens. Then I found these guys who seem to agree with me.
I have not bought it yet because I am still trying to find a good solution for my RedRockMicro 35mm lens attachment. But just for a lens shade $298 is a good price compared to the over price ones on the market right now. My opinion only : )
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-Lars
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I got mine in 2 weeks and it used the same serial number. But I thought that Apple ended the cross grade promotion in late December. I remember sending mine in 2 days before the offer expired. Maybe they extended it.
-Lars
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Ya know Chris every one is different. That is great news about the FS using native frame rates. When I do a project I think about the whole project from Pre to post and then the back up and back up was the big one for me. In the good old days when people recorded to tape you could just put that tape on a shelf and you are done. But with the P2 if you want to keep a back up you have to use DVD-R’s, hard drives or buy a DVCpro 100 deck if you are shooting HD.
I was simple and I bout a 4 gig card which happens to fit on a 4 gig DVD-R. That made the math easy for me. Plus I think it is still the cheapest 25 cents per DVD-R or about 8 cents per gig. When hard drives are that cheap I will have to review my back up.
Also the P2 cards are best suited for me because I am a scuba diver and want to get into underwater video. I can’t add a firestore to an underwater housing as far as I know. I have yet to invest in the $6000 gates housing for this camera but that was the goal from the start for me.
-Lars
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One thing to take into consideration is that buyign a new camera right now it comes with an 8 gig P2 card. You should be getting a really good deal if no P2 card is coming with it. I think I would pay, and this is just me, $3700 if it is in good condition with 8 gig P2 card. That is just me though.
As for the Firestore I can only say it depends on what you shoot. I love shooting 720 24pn but the Firestore can’t shoot 24pn. It can do PA from wahat I heard but then it is another step to remove the extra frames. the other reason I decided not to go with a Firestore or other hard drive is, what am I going to do with all that media when the drive is full? I back up to DVD-R’s and that is easier to do when shooting with a 4 or 8 gig card.
Every one is different and that is the great thing about this camera. There are so many different ways of shooting.
-Lars
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That is it, DV 50 is DVCpro 50. I shoot alot with my HVX using DVCpro50 and when you drop that into a Sequence that is DV50 you don’t have to render because that is what it is made for.
-Lars
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What version of final cut pro are you using? I think you need version 5 or better. I just upgraded to the latest 5.1.x but I was about to see the DV 50 in the presets in version 5 as well. If you have 4.5 or bellow then you might be out of luck.
-Lars
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Wow you said a mouth full on that one. I didn’t know that the HVX was that complicated.
—–>I know that the Drop frame started when color signal was introduced. I found this article that talks about how drop frame started..Drop frame timecode dates to a compromise invented when color NTSC video was invented. Basically, the NTSC re-designers wanted to retain compatibility with existing monochrome TVs. Unfortunately, the 3.58 MHz (actually 315/88 MHz = 3579545.45 Hz) color subcarrier would absorb common-phase noise from the harmonics of the line scan frequency. Rather than adjust the audio or chroma subcarriers, they adjusted everything else, including the frame rate, which was set to 30/1.001 Hz.
This meant that an “hour of timecode” at a nominal frame rate of 30 frame/s was longer than an hour of wall-clock time by 3.59 seconds, leading to an error of almost a minute and a half over a day. This caused people to make unnecessary mistakes in the studio.
To correct this, drop frame SMPTE timecode drops frame numbers 0 and 1 of the first second of every minute, and includes them when the number of minutes is divisible by ten. This almost perfectly compensates for the difference in rate, leaving a residual timing error of roughly 86.4 milliseconds per day, an error of only 1.0 ppm. Note: only timecode frame numbers are dropped. Video frames continue in sequence. i.e. – Drop frame TC drops two frames every minute, except every tenth minute.
Drop-frame timecode is used only in systems running at a frame rate of 30/1.001 Hz.<------
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I see what you are saying. So if one wanted to they could mix SD 29.97 and HD 30p which is 29.97 and it works find.
Does the HVX do whole number as well as ntsc standard?
-Lars