[Nick Meyers]

“a good way to make this image… look more like this image”

short answer: no. 🙁

you may be able to get SOMETHING out of the underexposed stuff,
but it wont look great, and it really wont look like the A-Camera.

i’ve been lifting some outrageously underexposed stuff recently.

i use a few tools for this:
the free Lyric “Shadow Highlight” plugin is good.
i use the Free To Much To Soon “Diffusion” plug in.
i don’t actually add any diffusion, 9I have that set to zero)
but i like the plug in as it gives you a simple way to feed the clip back into itself via a composite mode.
using Add mode really lifts the exposure.
there is also a control to affect the Shadows, Highlights, or everything.

sometimes you have to use both of these, and sometimes more than one instance.
this does freaky things to the colour,
adding a 3way CC after each instance helps to control.

it also adds a lot of noise,
so my final tool is the Neat Video noise reducing plug-in.

i had a quick go at something here: (this is PRE-noise reduction)

in this image, i also used the free Marcus Herick “Facelight” plug in, to punch some extra light into just the face area.
and used the ‘limit colour” effect in a 1way Color Corrector to tone down the outside, which had gone neon green

you can see blotchy colours in the face, too, unfortunately.

here it is with some NR:

as you can see, it’s hard to get something good out of those shadows.

if you want i can email you a project file so you can see what i did, and tweak it.
i’ll send you the version without NR, as thats not a free filter.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

oh, i forgot..

nesting a sequence will DOUBLE the amount of audio track RT needed.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

hey, Donato.

what’s happened is that because of the upgrade, your preferences have been re-set.

the relevant one in this case is the number of real-time audio tracks FCP will play back.
(User prefs, front page)
cant believe that’s still set at 8.
you can probably quadruple that with no problem,
but if that seems to severe, at least double it.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

ha!
ok, david, so what really is the goal?

most often in my reality, the goal is to change (PAL) video’s 50 images a second to 25.
pretty sure i said every thing else i had to say on that in the first post.

after that it’s a matter of how you go about it.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

thanks for the reply, Rafael.

the guy doing our grade convinced me (by showing me examples) that setting his timeline to fields = NONE the results were not as good as De-interlacing.
this was with text, in particular, in mind.
it could be that i was misled.

but simply working in a Progressive timeline wouldn’t get the best out of interlaced footage, i’d reckon.
or am i missing something?

regarding the BBC requirements, again i could be wrong.
i was referring to this passage:
“All delivered high definition master tapes must be 1080i25 (whether acquired
1080p25 or 1080i25). Rollers and moving captions must be added in
1080i25 to prevent unacceptable judder.”

but that is from a document which could be out of date:
“HD: Summary of Delivery Formats”
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/dq/contents/television.shtml#HD%20delivery%20summary>

or maybe i just read the wrong doc.
there are a lot of them!

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

“its timecode is the one present in the old clip, thus non-continuous cause of the cuts. ”

how on earth is this possible!?
maybe you are exporting as a non-self contained quicktime movie?
but that would have the TC of the sequence…

how can you remove parts of the clip, then export the CLIP?
what the???
what exactly is your process?
and what version of FCP are you using?

as an attempt at an answer,
you can easily modify a clip’s TC in FCP.

open it in the viewer,
then go to Modify Menu > Time Code.

puzzled,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

de-interlacing in Compressor is a simple one-stop-shop for de-interlacing.

you are using ONE setting only for your entire project.

in my experience you need to use different de-interlace settings for different sorts of motion,
and for text.

that’s why i de-interlace in my FCP timeline.

in general, i prefer to NEST my master sequences
and use the Nattress “Smart De-Interlace”
this is the best within-FCP de-interlacing filter there is, IMO.

applying it to a nest will de-interlace any motion effects and transitions.
i’m particularly sensitive to interlaced / progressive images, and if i see a move that’s 50i when the image is 25p, it jars. (i’m using PAL figures, cos that’s where i’m from)

HOWEVER, as a side note, i did notice in the BBC specs that they, for one, don’t want the mofx and transitions de-interlaced – they want them interlaced,
as they do any title roll, or crawl,
so take my nesting advice with a grain of salt.

after rendering my nest, i’ll blade out any sections that need particular de-interlacing attention.

i’ll often add a Too-Much-To-Soon “Blend” filter to the text elements (within the nest),
or the FCP “Flicker” filter set to max.
if you’re not nesting, this is still a good idea.
it makes the text look nice and solid.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

that seems like a very long time.

maybe you have LOTS of effects in your timeline?

the best way to do this is to NOT do hte conversion in FCP.

work in your sequence,
render,
export as a Quicktime Movie, same settings.

bring that clip into COMPRESSOR,
and do the h264 conversion there,

even if it takes a long time,
you can keep working in FCP.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

you cant “link” video clips the way you can audio clips, if that’s what you’re hoping.

the only ways in FCP are to:

a. make a multiclip of the clips (as in multi-cam style editing)

b. nest the clips (they behave, and appear as one clip

c. do it manually:
lasso all the clips and work on them together, to move them,
use the “multi_ iteration of your tools SHift-B will blade al, Shift+T will select all tracks forward.
use the “Group” tool to select multiple edit points for trimming.

what is it you want to do??

nick

[Nick Meyers]

Shane is right, it is a shutter speed effect.
a smaller shutter speed means less motion blur.
each image is very crisp, and when payed back has a “jerky” look

if you’ve shot INTERLACED,
then applying a de-interlace filter, and only using ONE FIELD will give you a (slight) approximation of the effect.

nick