[Nick Price]

HI nils,
change the field dominance in the browser has never affected a clip for me. Not sure what you are tryign to achieve, but the way i do it, for example when i have a DV sequence and want to up convert it to uncompressed, is to just add the shift fields filter (from Effects/video).

Can you explain why you want to do this, and we might b able to give a workaround

thanks
Nick

[Nick Price]

Hi Stuart,
I am not sure that this is easy to do, FCP is trying to display your footage at the best resolution possible, and you cant have one side of the screen at a different resolution than the other, if that makes sense. I dont think you will ever be able to do a true test in the same frame because one screen cant show 2 different resolutions at the same time.

You will have to ‘fake’ it i think. Try putting the HD footage in a SD timeline, you might see the difference depending on your output video hardware. Or just have 2 separate timelines and switch between them, playing one at a time. Depending on your hardware you should be able to see the difference on an external monitor quite easily.

cheer
sNick

[Nick Price]

HI,
ask the network what the require, but 9 times out of 10 16:9 widescreen means full Height anamorphic. Letterbox is essentially 4:3 with the widescreen picture placed in the middle, with black bars on top and bottom, giving the appearance of widescreen. It isnt widescreen at all.

It is the broadcasters job to transmit to the different types of TVs out there, so just ask them what they want.

And most DVD players can tell (or be told) what type of tv they are connected to and change from 16:9 widescreen to letterbox depending on the TV.

So if you have shot in 16:9 then edit and deliver in 16:9.

Cheers
nick

[Nick Price]

Hi April,
this should be simple to do using the 3way CC. You can isolate a colour to affect using the limit effect bit at the bottom, the use mids/highs and lows to get bit more contrast.

nick

[Nick Price]

HI max,
i kind of depends on your footage format and your delivery format. Most broadcasters specifiy DigiBeta or HD delivery (some just DVcam). Then look at your footage format.

If you are shooting DV and delivering digibeta, stay with that all the way to the final sequence then change the render settings to Uncompressed SD or prores (but i imagine you wont see that much of a difference with ProRes)

If you are shooting DV and delivering HD then you might want to look at capturing to ProRes and rendering the final sequence that way.

If you are shooting and delivering Digi then stay uncompressed SD all the way, and maybe render the final sequence as ProRes.

As for widescreen, again it depends on the broadcaster delivery requirements, but most people nowadays want FHA (full height anamorphic) . So full screen, no letterbox. It is the broadcasters job to sort out transmission to 4:3 tvs. They often letterbox it to 14:9 here in UK.

cheers
Nick

[Nick Price]

Hi Martha,
you mentioned the QT doesn’t look as good as in FCP. Well it should be identical. Make sure you have qt preferences set to high quality video, but it should look he same. It is just duplicating the same media with your effects added.
nick

[Nick Price]

HI michael,
…send the bill…that sound like it could be fun. I have known about this problem for 5 years, i just thought there would have been a way round by now. it just makes FCP look a little light when convincing people to use it. Cameramen always love setting the hour TC, it makes them look professional….

thanks anyway
nick

[Nick Price]

Hi Jeremy,
both a camera and decks, M10 and dsr45

thanks
nIck

[Nick Price]

HI stephen,
i have found much better results using compressor to upscale footage, DV/HDV to Prores, making sure you turn on ‘Frame Controls’ in your compressor setting. This gives a much better version that FCP doing the rendering, but it will take a LONG TIME!! I would finish off the project, media manage to just the clips you want and uprez that in compressor. There should be a way to replace the clips automatically if you are clever with your file naming.

As you say hardware conversion at a posthouse or with the kona for example would be preferable, but again as you say, not to everyones budgetary tastes…

good luck
nick

[Nick Price]

Hi brian,
i like colourista for overall exposure, but for raising the shadows you cant beat Lyrics free Shadow Highlight plugin. A combination of both of these usually does wonders. You will need to adjust you colour balance once brightened, any slight white balance issue is much more visible!

thanks
Nick