Mitch Lewis
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If you haven’t heard, there are some simple (cheap) solutions.
Toast 10 ($99 plus $20 blu-ray plug-in)
Believe it or not, you can use Toast 10, your normal DVD burner and a normal DVD-R disc to burn blu-ray discs. The only negatives with this technique is that you can only store about 30 minutes worth of HD footage on a DVD-R disc, and there have been compatibility problems with the DVD-R discs not being recognized on some blu-ray players. You’d want to do some basic testing before you commit to this as a permanent solution.
I’ve been using this workflow for a while now and it’s worked out great. My only issues have been with compatibility. Most Sony blu-ray players will play the discs, but Samsung and Pioneer players wont. The one Denon player I tested played the disc without issue. I haven’t done extensive testing as we own a LG blu-ray burner which solves the compatibility issue.
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Sony EX3, Letus Ultimate, Nikon lenses, Sachtler tripod
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Two choices
1) If you truely want to duplicate frames, you can simply use “Time Stretch” to set the length you want. AE will add the appropriate duplicate frames to make the clip the correct length. (it will make your footage look like it’s playing in slow motion…..sort of)
2) If you use the Time Warp effect, you can achieve the same thing, except that AE will actually create new in-between frames to make the slow motion effect look much smoother. This is what I would recommend. Only problem is that it takes a while to render.
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Sony EX3, Letus Ultimate, Nikon lenses, Sachtler tripod
20 years as a videographer/editor – HD and 35mm adaptor newbie
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Thanks Todd (again!). I’ve already modified my Interpret Rules text file (didn’t help). But I haven’t tried the settings recommend by the user (Michael) in the final comment. I’m at home now, but I’m going to try it when I’m back at work tomorrow.
Just to be clear, I’m shooting Sony XDCAM EX footag, importing that into AE. Then rendering as ProRes 422 HQ progressive (1920 x 1080).
BTW, I wish I knew the code to set up the Interpret Rules text file to make XDCAM EX interpret as Rec 709. Maybe the solution might be to make it interpret all 1920 x 1080 video as Rec 709….but I’m too chicken to try it. 🙂
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Sony EX3, Letus Ultimate, Nikon lenses, Sachtler tripod
20 years as a videographer/editor – HD and 35mm adaptor newbie
Experienced with Apple products, Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite, MOTU Digital Performer, Flip4Mac, etc… -
Okay, so I’ve been religiously changing all my HD footage to Rec 709 and changing my Project Color Space to Rec 709. But unfortunately the gamma is still much darker than the original footage. In fact the entire project looks dark when rendered out to ProRes.422 HQ. My work around has been to add an adjustment layer and boost the gamma, but it’s not a great workaround.
I’m worried this is my fault. I’ve heard that there is some new color space functionality with AE CS4. Maybe I have something checked that shouldn’t be.
I still think the best example of the situation I’m talking about is from my earlier post. You simply import some HD footage, render it out and then compare it to the original footage. The rendered footage will always look much darker, even if I make sure the Project and Footage color spaces are both the same. (the manual recommends Rec 709 for HD footage). I’m guessing this is a Quicktime issue and Adobe is waiting to see what Apple does with Snow Leopard before they try and fix it.
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Sony EX3, Letus Ultimate, Nikon lenses, Sachtler tripod
20 years as a videographer/editor – HD and 35mm adaptor newbie
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Crap! How did I miss that! (I read that page about an hour ago).
Thank you very much! (HUGE time saver!)
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Sony EX3, Letus Ultimate, Nikon lenses, Sachtler tripod
20 years as a videographer/editor – HD and 35mm adaptor newbie
Experienced with Apple products, Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite, MOTU Digital Performer, Flip4Mac, etc… -
I was on hold for 75 minutes and I finally gave up. I did send a text message to them using their Support Portal. An answer should take approx. 2-3 days. (I’m not getting my hopes up)
I found a temporary fix though….
I set my Project settings to HDTV (Rec. 709), then one-by-one I Interpreted my all my footage and set it to HDTV (Rec. 709). This made everything darker than what I’ve been used to. But at least now, what I’m seeing in the Composition window before rendering now matches the final ProRes QuickTime movie.
I’m wondering if this is the reason all my projects have looked a bit washed out for the last 6 months.
Anyone know a way to select multiple clips and change the Interpret Footage settings for all of them? Doing it one-by-one is a pain. I also wonder if there’s a way to have AfterEffects automatically Interpret the footage using the “interpretation rules.txt file in the Application folder? (I’m on a Mac)
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Sony EX3, Letus Ultimate, Nikon lenses, Sachtler tripod
20 years as a videographer/editor – HD and 35mm adaptor newbie
Experienced with Apple products, Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite, MOTU Digital Performer, Flip4Mac, etc… -
I’m having the same problem. Thought it might be the fact that we’re “monitoring” using a AJA Io HD connected to an external monitor. So I turned off the AJA, relaunched AE 9 and re-rendered. No change. So then I tried turning off Multi-Processor. Re-launched and re-rendered. No change. So then I thought I’d do a test. I dropped some footage in to AE 9.0 and rendered it out. Then I dropped the same footage into AE 8.0 and rendered it out. Ah Ha! The rendered file from AE 8.0 looks correct, where as the AE 9.0 rendered footage looks like the gamma is way off (very dark, with blown out highlights).
I’m on hold with Adobe tech support right now.
Anyway, I thought I’d share.
(the worst part is that as usual I have a deadline. I’m thinking the fastest solution would be to rebuild the project in AE 8.0 and render it out. Or maybe add an adjustment layer to my AE 9.0 project and try and shift the gamma way up so it comes out normal when rendered. Fun stuff)
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Sony EX3, Letus Ultimate, Nikon lenses, Sachtler tripod
20 years as a videographer/editor – HD and 35mm adaptor newbie
Experienced with Apple products, Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite, MOTU Digital Performer, Flip4Mac, etc… -
I own an EX3 with Letus Ultimate and Nikon lenses. You should be able to find all your answers on the Letus site or this one: https://www.dvinfo.net/conf/let-us-discuss-letus/
But I’m happy to answer any questions you might have.
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Sony EX3, Letus Ultimate, Nikon lenses, Sachtler tripod
20 years as a videographer/editor – HD and 35mm adaptor newbie
Experienced with Apple products, Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite, MOTU Digital Performer, Flip4Mac, etc… -
I would recommend downloading the appropriate editing guide for your application and reading that. It will save you a lot of grief in the long run:
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Sony EX3, Letus Ultimate, Nikon lenses, Sachtler tripod
20 years as a videographer/editor – HD and 35mm adaptor newbie
Experienced with Apple products, Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite, MOTU Digital Performer, Flip4Mac, etc… -
https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-xdcamexsite/resource.downloads
Did you get the camera used? It should have came with discs and instructions on how to do this. That’s how I learned how to do it.
You use Clip Browser to transfer the files to your hard drive. Then you use XDCAM Transfer to view each clip, name the clips and then unwrap them (Import button) as MOV files for use in any of the Apple editing applications.
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Sony EX3, Letus Ultimate, Nikon lenses, Sachtler tripod
20 years as a videographer/editor – HD and 35mm adaptor newbie
Experienced with Apple products, Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite, MOTU Digital Performer, Flip4Mac, etc…