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Nels Chick
July 13, 2011 at 6:06 am in reply to: Canon 5D, Mpeg Streamclip, Interlaced Scaling?

Take a close look at your ProRes clips and check for interlaced artifacts. My guess is that you’re fine, and I wouldn’t worry about the other check boxes.

Deinterlace – Don’t use it because your 5D footage is not interlaced

Frame Blending – Don’t use it, unless you want to change the frame rate of your footage, and even then, MPEG Streamclip probably isn’t the best choice for that

Better Downscaling – Only use it if you are converting your footage to a smaller frame size, like 720p or SD

If you are converting 1080 24p H.264 Quicktime files to 1080 24p ProRes Quicktime files, there shouldn’t be any scaling involved, so Interlaced scaling wouldn’t be triggered (that’s just my guess, so take a close look at the footage).

I like to convert through the log and transfer function in FCP 7, but I also recommend Compressor or Droplet for batch conversions. I love MPEG Streamclip too. If you aren’t using the batch window, I suggest you do. Also, I like to make presets in MPEG Streamclip, so I don’t have to change all my settings every time.

All in all, my bet is that your footage will be fine.

Good Luck!

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Nels Chick
April 13, 2011 at 5:35 am in reply to: converting interlaced video to progressive in FCP

I’ve had pretty good luck using Compressor to deinterlace footage. It takes a lot longer, but the quality has been good, as long as you use the best settings on everything (some times you can get away with the second best settings and save some time).

A few things to double check are which fields are dominant in your footage, and which are dominant in your sequence. That’s bitten me a few times.

I use a ‘blend fields’ filter from Too Much Too Soon that works pretty well, but there is noticeable softening to the image.

I hope I’ve been helpful, interlacing has confounded me for years. Good Luck!

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Nels Chick
February 7, 2010 at 7:14 pm in reply to: 7D hand held rigs

I second the Indifocus stuff. Inexpensive, but pretty nice to work with. I went that route and don’t regret it. If I had a bigger budget I would go with something a bit more accurate and flexible, but for now the Indifocus UltraCompact does the job.

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Nels Chick
February 2, 2010 at 8:12 pm in reply to: looking for monitor

Agreed, SmallHD is much sexier!

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Nels Chick
February 1, 2010 at 6:23 pm in reply to: looking for monitor

I’m pretty close to buying a Small HD kit, but I’m wondering what others think about the Manhattan LCD field monitors. Any takers?

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Nels Chick
January 28, 2010 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Canon 7D Footage Stretched

Check your sequence settings to make sure you are editing at the appropriate resolution and pixel aspect ratio.

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Nels Chick
January 24, 2010 at 8:59 pm in reply to: 7D for professional production

Yeah, sadly I was under prepared. The client had about 12 ‘investors’ standing around during the shoot, and there were reflections everywhere. After a while I got fed up enough to tell them where to go 🙂 …outside! I find every new project brings new challenges and new lessons. All the same, I feel that camera performed pretty well. The client loved the project, so I hope to have some return business from them.

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Nels Chick
January 21, 2010 at 11:53 pm in reply to: 7d/5d export workflow

Yikes! That is a long render. That definitely hasn’t been my experience. MPEG Streamclip is one of the coolest programs I’ve ever used, and it’s free. I use it a lot, but typically I use Compressor for most project.

Have you tried sending the same clip through Compressor? I’ve noticed if I send a sequence to Compressor straight from Final Cut, it takes longer than exporting a Quicktime from Final Cut first, then using Compressor to transcode the clip. It’s a two step process, but so is sending the clip to MPEG Streamclip.

Of course, if MPEG Streamclip does the job for you, I wouldn’t deter you from it. It has some awesome features and uses the same Quicktime codecs that Compressor uses.

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Nels Chick
January 21, 2010 at 5:51 pm in reply to: 7d/5d export workflow

I transcode all of my 7D footage to ProRes before editing. After that point I treat the project like anything else I edit in FCP. I’ve exported to SD DVD and also to 720p H.264 for the web, using Compressor. I usually make sure the Frame Controls are active and the Resize Filter is set to Better(Linear Filter). This seems to offer great quality scaling without the extra processing of the Best(Statistical Prediction) filter.

Vimeo has a good compression guide on their site: https://www.vimeo.com/help/compression

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Nels Chick
January 21, 2010 at 5:43 pm in reply to: New 7d user.

Hey Chris,
I hope you love your 7D, I think it’s a pretty cool camera. I usually shoot 1080 24p with my 7D.

This is a pretty cool test for ISO settings. https://marvelsfilm.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/canon-7d-noise-and-iso-test/

I choose Compressor for file conversion. I feel like it has better batch functionality that MPEG Streamclip and I also love multi-core rendering. If you plan to slow down any 720 60p footage, Compressor is the tool to use. I compress everything to ProRes.

I love FCP 6 and 7 because of the ‘auto conform sequence’ feature. Just open a new sequence and drag a clip onto the timeline. You should be asked if you want the sequence settings to match your clips settings. Select OK and you are ready to edit!

Here’s another good link for setting up projects in Final Cut Pro. https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/project_setup_fcp6_balis.html

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