Mark Maness
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I see a couple of things here.
First, your footage is interlaced and is a CU of a driver coming out of a curve. This is too much for interlaced footage to handle. A wider shot would not have been as noticeable for this. Any artifacts that are on the raw footage, I’d have to suspect that the camera is having some problems that need to be looked at by a repair shop. While you said it was shot Digibeta, the footage should have looked more pristine than I am seeing.
Usually artifacting is due to heavy compression methods. Digibeta is an excellent SD medium and should have looked much better than you are saying. The Quicktime you made for us is interlaced, just as your footage, but Quicktimes should be deinterlaced because computer monitors are not interlaced themselves. So any Quicktimes that are interlaced will look awful on them.
To remove artifacts on raw footage requires hard work and patience to remove them. There are plugins that will help but if the artifacts are bad enough, frame by frame manipulation is the only way. Or if you can, pick a different shot that looks better. Maybe a different angle or totally different shot.
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Wayne Carey
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Ok… Now that is making sense to me, now. I have to assume that your drive is setup to record straight to Quicktime. Good. That makes working and backing up easier.
You are backing up these files to disc, aren’t you? Please don’t say that you are keep ing these on hard drives. Hard drives do and will fail. DVDs or BluRay discs are much much more reliable.
Usually when one will say that they are using P2, we are meaning that the media is coming off the P2 cards. In that case, you have to use Log & Transfer to do this. Its just like Log & Capture but its meant for P2 and other file based mediums.
But to solve your rendering issues… Why do you need to add time code? If your Focus Enhancements’ hard drive is setup properly, it should record time code from the camera. There should be no need to add time code to anything except maybe old VHS footage.
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Wayne Carey
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Well, the timecode generator alone will cause you to render.
But I have to ask, why didn’t you import your footage using Log & Transfer?
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Wayne Carey
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By “raw” P2 footage, do you mean that you are editing the raw MXF files or are they files that have been brought in by Log & Transfer? And… How are you adding time code? Are you using the Timecode Generator plugin? If so, this will make you render.
I need some more info to help you out.
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Wayne Carey
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Here’s an idea, Ski…
Open your project, just as you would normally. Copy EVERYTING in your browser and paste this into a new project with the same settings as the one you are currently working on. Sometime a project will become corrupted and cause these issues. I’ve seen it a few times in the past. The mysterious project corruption…
Try it and see if it helps. Also, reset your preferences in FCP. This will help, too.
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Wayne Carey
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Explain what you are doing in finer detail.
Are you adding filters? If so, what filters are you using. Are you converting your video into another codec or are you just exporting to a Quicktime file?
You video card ONLY applies to FX plugins, not to rendering your timelines. That is based on the CPU, not the GPU. Your computer specs are fine. It has to be something in your workflow to cause such a problem.
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Wayne Carey
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Exactly what we do on a daily basis.
Awesome tool! AJA rocks!
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Wayne Carey
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[walter biscardi] “The workaround is to go into your Clip Settings in Log and Capture. Deselect the 14 bogus channels, then tell it to use “Current Settings” in the Batch Capture window. Then you will only capture 2 channels of audio. “
Thanks, Walter. I am aware of this and it is annoying to some extent. But it still happens, not all of the time but sometimes.
Yes, we are using Kona3 cards and HD10AVA converter boxes for the HDV decks.
I love the automatic logging of HDV-ProRes but it would be really nice if this could carry on to other capture methods, too. Sure would save a lot of time.
[walter biscardi] “This is the way it’s been since I can remember and I’ve spoken to AJA about this. There it nothing they can do on their end to force FCP to ignore the additional 14 channels of audio. Apple would have to address this so it only captures the footage as it was originally logged. “
Thanks for the remind on this. I, now, remember running into this years ago, too. I knew that someone out here would know something about this.
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Wayne Carey
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WOW! I’m surprised at the fact that so many here have forgotten about the Batch Export feature. This is a very powerful function for doing exactly what Dustin needed. Makes more since to output multiple timelines to Quicktime files, too.
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Wayne Carey
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All of the Sony HDV decks timecode is defaulted to Auto Timecode. You’ll have to get in the menu and set the deck to DF or NDF, whatever time base you are wanting.
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Wayne Carey
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