Murray Ferguson
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I have a feeling you might be right
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I just get a conform window asking me if I want to conform the clip to a new format. Takes ages and looks awful.
Managed to get something ok with Mpeg streamclip but was hoping I’d just be able to bung it in the timeline -
This worked for me.
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We’ve been shooting re enactments for a doco series on the 5D and I have to say the workflow is clunky at best, though it’s fair to say I’m not at all techy either. When we got it right though, the images were pretty stunning. There are a lot of variables to sort through, but once you work these out you can achieve a good look. Some things to keep in mind are:
Camera sound is unusable really, so you need to record separate audio and work out a way of syncing it, i.e a clapper.
If you want to finish up with a 25 fps product then you need to shoot at 25 on the cannon. (ours defaulted to 24 constantly)
It doesn’t handle movement very well, either fast movement through frame or a moving camera, though this seemed to depend on the speed of the pan. We ended up adapting our shooting style to suit but this might be too limiting for some projects. I’d suggest doing lots of tests.
Even the codec used when importing the quicktimes effected the look. The M100 codec significantly darkened the images. The codec also has a huge effect on file sizes, which could have implications for storage. Especially considering that you end up with 3 versions of each file, a backup of the camera original, the converted QT, and the M100 version.
We imported the 5D files into a program called MPEG streamclip. From there you can export to QT. Lots of settings to experiment with. For instance, in our case we were downscaling the HD progressive images to SD interlaced, to match the project they were going into. Once you work out your preferred settings you can save them as a preset, import multiple files into a batch window, set it going and walk away.
You then import these new quicktimes into M100. That’s my experience of the 5D anyway.
I can’t guarantee it’s the best way to work with it but in the end we managed some beautiful images that we couldn’t have achieved affordably any other way. -
thanks peter,
I appreciate it -
Thanks for giving it some thought Eric, The workflow you suggest is exactly the one I tried, along with a dozen or so other variations. Anyway I replaced the roller with cards, and all is good. Luckily my work is nearly always for broadcast, and the dvd’s get made by people who know what they’re doing, so it shouldn’t be an issue for me. One day when I have time I might play around with it again. Thanks again.
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Thanks Eric,
It’s an SD pal project shot on XD and imported using M100HD codec. And yes, you’re right, when I re import the file into M100 it’s fine. The problem was that I was seeing the same effect on my test DVD made in DVDSP, with even worse jitter. So assuming the file is ok, it must have something to do with my very limited knowledge of DVDSP. The video content and static titles look great. Think I might just avoid credit rolls in future. -
Thanks Floh. Not sure if I’ll try it yet. None of it really stops me working at the moment. I just don’t relink clips when I unlink them. And I don’t have to send off any OMF’s to a mix for about 3 or 4 weeks. Maybe version 14 will come along by then. I think I invoked Murphy’s law by praising 13.0.2.
The thing that seemed to start this was an attempt to ingest some HDV material off a sony camera via firewire, at what was I thought at DVCam quality. I digitized a couple of short clips just to see if it worked ok, and it seemed to work fine.The next morning when I went to continue, all hell broke loose. M100 knew what the camera was, but there seemed to be a sync problem and it wouldn’t allow me to access the camera. All the buttons yellowed out. Also it was telling me it was getting an NTSC signal. When I checked the input settings, some of them had changed to NTSC. I trashed prefs and changed everything back to my Pal settings but these issues arose. I gave up and dubbed the HDV to my XD deck and all’s good, apart from those two issues. Bit of a saga I know, but maybe it’ll trigger an idea somewhere. Thanks so much for your time. -
Thanks for the prompt reply Floh.
Disk utility says everything is fine with the drives
The length of the file name appears not to be the problem. It happens with any music file.
Have sent the crash report to support, re the relinking files. It now happens occasionally when relinking the video and audio of a clip.
I’m wondering if I should do a reinstall of 13.0.2. If I do this, do I uninstall first, and how is this done. Do I simply trash it. Can’t see an uninstall utility anywhere. Should I trash the Kona stuff as well before reinstalling. Sorry about the barrage of questions. Thanks -
I should have added I’m on version 13.0.2. QT 7.6. Thanks