[Mark Hatch]

Render in Final Touch in the same codec I imported in? If that is your suggestion, I will try it.

However, if you mean render in After Effects in the same codec I imported in, then as I mentioned in my post, I did just that.

Imported: Uncompressed 10 bit, 1920×1080, 23.98
Rendered: Uncompressed 10 bit, 1920×1080, 23.98

Any other suggestions?

[Mark Hatch]

Jeremy,

I did the easy setup and it got me a little further. In the audio playback area (under the “View” menu), I now get “[Missing] DVCPRO HD Out” (Grayed Out). So it thinks it is missing. The deck shows that the 1394 Video input is locked and the 1394 audio input is locked, but fcp shows that only video output is working and the audio output is missing. Very odd. Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Mark

[Mark Hatch]

Mike,

No, I really don’t think I can do this myself. You know, the interesting thing is that we did the same video to film test with a company out of Canada called Digital Film Group and the results were excellent. However, because of reasons beyond my control, we decided to go with this other film house which delivered unexpected results. Perhaps it’s time to go back to Digital Film Group. So, how do you suppose that they got the process right on when so many things can go wrong?

Thanks,
Mark

[Mark Hatch]

Mike,

There in lies the problem. We sent the film place a tiff sequence of our video. Just a couple of minutes for a test. They sent us back film and we went to a local theatre to view it sand it seemed desaturated and was more contrasty than we expected. Somewhere in the process, something didn’t convert correctly. So, we are trying to fix that ourselves by doing the linear to logarithmic conversion ourselves. Who know, would that even make a difference?

Thanks,
Mark