Mark Wilkinson
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thanks for the tips. in the end i used flash and made stand alone players for both windows and mac and they both play really well.
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trying to extract the info i need from this thread. so H264… does that mean you just have a video file sitting on the drive that the user has to double click on to launch ? or is this somehow made to autoplay ?
and in the end is the video in quicktime or something or mp4 ? like what is the file extension ? -
wow. giant piece of learning here. all of the input is appreciated. with regard to the the ‘duplicate the .movs and change the extension to THM – isn’t it the THM that contained the important data in the first place ?
and to your thought about monitoring jeremy, when i say we are seeing differences that is between four QT movies displayed in four quadrants of the same monitor and the difference is between movie 1 and movies 2,3, and 4. then when the same four movies are shown on a different system ( older OS and QT ) there is almost no difference between the four movies displayed.
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the process of getting the H264s off the cards just seemed like a process of moving files. we have the original H264 files sitting on drives. three copies in separate locations. in all my reading about moving files i didnt come across anything about retaining the file structures. it just seemed like the movie files would contain what we needed – i mean call me crazy but its a movie file.
anyway. as you say, the gamma shift is not severe and can be worked out in the final timing but it is good to know for the future that there are other workflows that might avoid this stuff in the future.
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yes, we have the original H264’s. that is what we have been starting with when we go to ProRes LT – can those go into the Canon App?. the gamma shift is noticeable in comparing the original H264 and the ProRes LT versions in QT Pro and in FCP. As i mentioned in my initial post though, this difference is not evident on a machine running Leopard and QT 7.6.2
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thanks for your help on this jeremy. i guess we are a bit hooped then for this method as the cards have been wiped dozens of times since we captured the first footage. great for next time though.
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i hear you but ( forgive my lack of knowledge about it ) can we take clips that were pulled directly off the SD cards and onto drives, and still run them through the Canon tool ?
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i have never used it – it transcodes to other codecs too ?
the only problem with that is we have 2 TB of footage already in on the drives for this project.
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well our original route was through MPEG Streamclip but when our editor noticed the gamma shift he started trying Compressor but Compressor was so crushingly slow that we gave up and started this posting process. i am not sure if he got clips out of Compressor or not to compare with MPEG Streamclip.
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ok, i will try building them at the more appropriate dimensions. odd that the movies (m2v) down scale better than the still. thanks for your input.