Mike Most -- account bouncing, bad address
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I’m hardly an “Avid person.” I was simply stating some historical facts to put your original statement into perspective.
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Avid is hardly “Windows inspired,” unless your idea of “windows inspired” is anything that Apple didn’t write and thus doesn’t look like Final Cut, DVD Studio, Soundtrack, or Logic.
In fact, Avid was Mac-only for a long, long time. It was migrated to the PC during the “dark years” of Apple, when the hardware was falling considerably behind Intel for high end application development. The interface was developed on the Mac, and has not substantially changed over the years since it was released – which was, as I recall, around 1988. The only Avid product that was developed solely on the PC, and thus has what some might want to call a “windows inspired” interface is the Avid DS – which was actually developed not by Avid, but by Softimage.
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The last time I checked, Cinema Tools can only remove field based 3:2 patterns, not frame based. I don’t know of any way to remove frame based (as in 720/60p->720/24) other than by first converting the 720p/60 to 1080i/60, which Cinema Tools can and will work with. My experience is that it won’t do anything with 720p material. Has this changed?
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If you already have what is essentially a 60i file, either the material in it is running too fast (if it was transferred one to one, film frames to video frames) or some kind of pulldown pattern was applied to bring the 18fps to 30fps. If it was one to one, you need to slow down the clip to 75% of its original speed, then convert the resulting material to 24 fps using something like the Natress 24p conversion plug in, or have a facility do it on a professional device, such as a Teranex. If it is still running at what is effectively its native 18fps speed, convert the 60i file directly using one of the above methods.
Next time, you might consider transferring this kind of material at a professional telecine facility, which can transfer directly to 24p or 60i formats from just about any camera frame rate, with proper pulldown patterns applied for the smoothest motion.
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I agree, it can be done with SATA. You should plan on at least 10 drives to get a 400MB/sec rate, however. And be aware that you will only get this kind of throughput with a Raid 0 array, at least if you use SATA. You’ll have to make sure the data is backed up on a regular basis and be prepared for disaster.
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If you’re talking about “real” 2K, that would be 2048×1556, and approx. 12MB per frame. 12MB x 24 fps = 288MB per second. You do, of course, need to have a drive system that provides more than that to ensure proper playback. Twice that would be comfortable in a professional environment, but you could likely get away with something that provides, say, 400MB/sec in many cases.
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A DVD is hardly “broadcast ready.” If this is on spec, it sounds to me like they’re just looking for a viewing copy. No broadcaster I know of is going to accept a DVD as a program delivery element.
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A surprising percentage of network television programs are assembled in linear online bays. Partly because the equipment already exists, and partly because it’s almost always faster than nonlinear assemblies.
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The DVD player adds 7.5 IRE setup on output. Come to think of it, that’s likely one cause of your problem. US televisions are designed to display images with 7.5 setup for NTSC. Computers have 0 setup, as they’re displaying pure RGB. Cards such as the Kona and Blackmagic make this adjustment for output over SDI. Your DVI connection does not, as it’s designed to plug into a computer monitor. If you were looking at HD, which also has no setup, you’d likely not have this issue. With NTSC (i.e., standard def, as in a DVD) you most definitely would.
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Well, in Final Cut, use Effects->Video Filters->Image Control->Gamma Correction. Try a setting of about .7 to start.