Matt Devino
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You could also use compressor to spit out an mpeg version which will speed up the DVD encoding process, just use one of the presets for DVD high quality included in it. Or you can go the route of downconverting to SD and letting DVD Studio do the compression, however this is an extra step and may introduce more compression artifacts along the way. If you do it this way make sure your SD timeline is at 23.98, there is no need to convert to 29.97 as DVD can support the 23.98 frame rate, and it will play back better that just trying to render 23.98 in a 29.97 timeline in Final Cut.
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Thanks Dave. Do you know how much more drive space the new files take?
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I haven’t reported this to apple, do you know where/who I would report it to? Also I just re-read my earlier post and realized my wording wasn’t perfectly clear: if you render at RGB it will also fix the problem. Sorry if there was any confusion.
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Hey All,
I get this problem with FCP all the time in anything that is 10bit YUV. The only way I can get around it it to either play out my timeline without rendering, which for some reason keeps the banding from occuring when it’s a real time effect, or going into my sequence settings and rendering everything at white (not super white) 8-bit YUV and motion filtering at best instead of normal or at RGB. The weird thing is you will only see this on an interlaced monitor, it doesn’t show up on a progressive monitor. You can actually open up your color meters and see the artifact in your scopes! It’s definitly a final cut rendering bug that apple needs to fix, and I hope 6 will fix it. It doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that you are using HDV, as it happens with D5 material, and 10bit SD material, it is anything that is 10-bit YUV. HDV isn’t 10-bit, but final cut defaults to rendering everything that is YUV at 10-bit super white instead of whatever it’s native format is. I hope this helps!
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Are the edit to tape/assemble windows in the edit to tape tool greyed out? I’ve had this problem with D5 decks before (can’t get a straight answer from apple or blackmagic as to why) but what works for me is changing the tab up top in your edit to tape tool from editing to mastering then back to editing. If that doesn’t work I change my device control in the edit to tape window, then change it back to what I need it to be. Usually this fixes my problem. Hope it helps.
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If this was done at a post house you should definitly go get your Beta’s re-dubed for free. Sounds like they blew it big time.
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Get an intern off of Craigslist to go through and subclip everything with the correct logging info, usually there is someone on there willing to work for 12 hours for a sandwich. You just might have to actually hire them in the future if you have a pesky conscience.
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We have an Xserve raid that has worked really well. We need it because we work in the uncompressed world off of 4:4:4 SRW tapes. If you are only going to be doing varicam DVCPRO HD some of the 1TB firewire 800 drives would work fine. We use firewire 800 all the time for that codec. If you think you’ll ever do anything uncompressed definitly go raid, and the Xserve is great just not the cheapest. AJA has some nice stuff as well which I’m sure you’ll want to round out your system.
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Well, I downloaded the 1080p video and I can’t say I was impressed. It had a lot of compression artifacts and I’m sure a lot of it was the H.264, which makes watching those videos a fairly poor sample of image quality. Of course maybe there isn’t that much compression and a lot of the artifacting was caused in camera, not that adding any compression on top of Mpeg-2 is a good idea. I guess I can’t know until I use it or someone else who has does a comparison. The other thing that worried me about the video on Canon’s website was that it was 1080p and the HV10 only shoots 1080i, so they added another compression step in there, although it’s just combining fields. In any case, all I got out of the sample videos was that the camera could capture 1080 video.
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If you have after effects, motion, or shake you should really do this in one of those programs. The keying tools in FCP are not the best. If you have motion it comes with Primatte RT and this is much better than the color keyer in FCP. Give it a try and see what happens.