Mark Petereit
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Try keyframing your luminance down to zero.
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Oh, sorry. I didn’t realize you were a professional cameraman. (It must have been when you said “HM100” and “autofocus” that threw me.)
Please excuse me while I bow out and let all the other professional cameramen who use autofocus chime in here.
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Your camera is working exactly as it’s designed. Autofocus isn’t magic. When given multiple objects in a frame to focus on, it can only focus on one — and in most cases, it’s the wrong one. That’s why professional camera operators do not use autofocus. The only time I have ever found it useful is when setting up a run-n-gun shot, where I hit the autofocus momentarily as a shortcut, because sometimes the camera gets it right and it saves me a second or two.
Bottom line: there’s nothing wrong with your camera.
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Those are kind of weird dimensions. I’ve heard some people suggest that output dimensions should always be divisible by 4.
What are your source’s dimensions?
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Make sure before your presentation to click on your wireless icon in the menu bar and turn off your airport card. This will prevent your system from checking for software updates, thus preventing the update dialog from popping up.
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Try H.264 at native resolution first. If it stumbles, then drop down to 720p.
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Funny, I was going to suggest he avoid doing a DVD for exactly the same reason — to avoid the complexity.
Export your compilation to a QuickTime movie. Pull it up in QuickTime, Cmd-L to set it to loop, Cmd_F to go full screen. Done.
Just think of all the additional steps he’d need to go through to compress for DVD, pull the file into iDVD or DSP, futz with the menu, set the loop point, test the setup, burn the DVD, hope he doesn’t create a coaster, yada yada yada.
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Well, if you’re going to buy another machine anyway, I’d say go ahead and get a 12-core. Because then you’re sitting pretty if/when the next version of Motion is fully multi-core capable, you’ll have those additional 4 cores available to your QCluster until then, and you’ll be investing in current-version technology instead of being one version behind from day one.
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Have you posted a query directly to BlackMagic support?
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If you’re already running an 8-core, I don’t think you’re going to see much of an improvement with 12 for exactly the reasons you state.
Let’s hope the next version of FCS is fully multi-core.