Matt Pope
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The mxf portion of things is new to me, so I’ll definitely check the link you provided and see if I can’t make an argument to them to at least let us try that. Thanks for the suggestion.
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We’re talking about some relatively slow pans and moves in some places. And the handheld stuff as well – it just seems like you’re not able to actually *focus* your eyes on the image at almost any time that the camera is moving. Like I said, 30p came out rock solid.
As far as timeline and playback, here’s what we’re doing:
We cut the 24p segments in their own timeline to start with (more than one editor was working on the project at a time) and they were dropped into the timeline and let FCP change the timeline settings to match the clip. Same thing was done on the 30p stuff in its own timeline. So editing native XDCAM EX other than rendering to ProRes. When it came time to join the two together, we copied the stuff from the 24p timeline into the 30p timeline.
We’ve tried to change settings to see what if anything helps, and so far changing the timeline settings to 24/30/60 doesn’t seem to make much – if any – difference. Not sure what other settings we might need to check on or be aware of.
The playback is happening in two places: first on dual 24″ Viewsonic monitors, and then through an MXO2 via hdmi to a Panasonic professional 42″ plasma. We’ve tried different MXO2 settings as well, and again, very little if any change. It’s hard to tell if the image is better on the 24″ lcd, it might be slightly, but not much if it is.
What else can I try? Any pulldown/smoothcam/whatever that might help that I might not be thinking of?
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Basically…because that’s what the network is requiring. (yeah. I know. I even triple checked with them to make sure they knew what they were *really* asking for. They’re setting up a new workflow, and apparently xdcam disk is it)