[Mike J.]

Seriously,

This question gets asked daily here. Search here at COw and you’ll get lots of hits. Type in the search engines like google and you’ll get loads of hits.

http://www.nattress.com
magic bullet software
cinelook
cgm filters

just to get you going.

[Mike J.]

Hightlight clip in Timeline/browser. Navigate to MODIFY/TIMECODE. Frame to Set should be on FIRST – Change the information in the timecode windows. I would check AUX TC 1 and paste the orginal timecode from SOURCE TC into this box FIRST, that way it’s there if you need to change it back.

And to note… modifying timecode is in the Manual – You just look up…. Timecode.

[Mike J.]

Take a second look at the Cinema Tools manual.

35mm film is most commonly used for theatrical releases, with 4 perforations per frame
(4-perf) the most prevalent version. Another common version uses 3 perforations per
frame (3-perf). There are other versions of 35mm, such as 8-perf, but they are not
currently supported by Cinema Tools.

It does support 3 perf…

Maybe you have an old Cinema Tools.

Also, Cinema Tools forum for film at http://www.2-pop.com is far more active in Cinema Tools usage than here at the COW.

[Mike J.]

You use an easy setup and capture your dv pal clip from a pal camcorder as PAL into Final Cut Pro.

THEN create an NTSC timeline and follow the directions in Graemes instructions.

[Mike J.]

So you feel that the images with additional DPI above 72 actually adds a moire pattern creepy crawly type (whatever fits best here) to the scaled or moving image in Final Cut Pro, Tom?

Would you only recommend taking 600 dpi images into Photoshop and resizing them to higher pixels vs higher than 72 dpi? It would seem that in Final Cut the effect of scaling higher pixel counts or higher dpi to the timeline size would be the same. You’re saying it isn’t?

Just asking.

[Mike J.]

Also,

what is the screen size you are working in, in the 8bit timeline? Is it DV sized at 720×480? Or maybe 720×486? Your .psd images are 640×480? Double click on your images in the timeline and look under the motion tab. Scale is not at 100% is it? Is it like maybe 112.5?

640×480 into 720×480 (guessing here) gets scaled. I believe that is your issue.

[Mike J.]

I wouldn’t simply say meaningless. Not the prefered…perhaps….but we all will address scanned photos to and from clients in DPI at some point.

72 is video DPI. It shows up in photoshop – which is also used for video – as 72 DPI. You do suggest changing the image size as a better method but at what DPI is that new image to be? – 72 DPI …it’s still out there. 144 dpi images mean you scale them double their size and so on.

The image size isn’t always going to be laid out pretty for video aspect ratios so dpi adds to calculating the zoom cabablities of an odd sized image for instance.

To clarify…are you saying that 72dpi images at larger pixels sizes work correctly scaled in FCP where images of alternate dpi’s like 144 do not scale or move correctly?

[Mike J.]

This may be way off, but last year… I had a decklink card installed and experienced the same thing…couldn’t change the font from the default at all. Turns out I had to shut off the view out to NTSC monitor and the popup window was actually open just in the second monitor hidden hidden behind either the video ouput or black.

So, maybe this is the same…maybe not.. but try turning of your ntsc monitor output and see if it’s there.

[Mike J.]

It’s not there yet. Sony – I just worked on multiple levels of the first BluRay feature release for SONY – and they are doing their BLURAY authoring… IN HOUSE. It’ll be that way for a bit too.

You can only prepare graphics materials to size and separate elements – SONY has to author them – you simply provide a quicktime mockup of how they’ll move. The graphics are done using a version scripting language of JAVA. It’s a pretty adventurous process which will venture outside of them..but that’s how it’s starting off.

Blu Ray burning to you will mean – DATA mostly – not blu ray DVD making for set tops. Basic playback blu ray of movies themselves may be possible very near future..but the button/menu stuff… not yet.

[Mike J.]

Look at them on an external NTSC monitor. Are they sharp there?

next..are they .pdf’s? They won’t look sharp in the computer monitor.

You’ll have to render them to look correct. The RT stuff does a number on the sharpness for simple viewing purposes as well. Just make sure you have render all set up in the render options so that RT isn’t trying to disply these graphics for you without rendering…they’ll look crappy.