Paul Urubian
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Bob,
Thanks for that very informative reply.
Working with 1080p is kinda my ideal. But since this is still offline editorial, that’s flexible. Heck, I’ve usually used DV resolution. On this project, I just want to cut at some flavor of HD that will hold up for audience previews on a fairly large screen. So perhaps I could experiment and find a less bandwidth hungry format that will hold up to 90+ minutes of continuous playout?
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Check with the telecine house, and the colorist in particular. I find it impossible to believe they didn’t generate any files or printouts. Maybe the files just didn’t get delivered with your tapes, that’s happened to me. Without it, you’re seriously screwed. You’ll have a 1 in 3 chance every time you digitze of getting it right, so that’s gonna take some time. You’ve got no record of the pulldown cadence, so more trial and error to get a proper reverse telecine. Also, the potential for error when hand entering the key numbers is enormous. And you’ve got no way to double check the colorist’s work. Somenone who would forget to make a flex file is likely to have made other mistakes, such as allowing the key numbers from one camera roll to continue into the next roll. This is a not uncommon problem with lazy telecine operators. DI time is really expensive, and eye matching at that point is gonna be very time consuming.
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Sure looks like cinema tools 3.1.2 supports 3 perf, but there doesn’t seem to be any mention of it in the release notes. But 3 perf is definitley an option in the database setup and for clips. I’ve cut a number of 3 perf projects on Avid, but not yet on FCP. So I took a dailes tape and flex file from my Avid show and digitized into my FCP system. CT recognized the 3 perf and did a perfect reverse telecine. I haven’t generated a neg list, but I can’t see why that would be a problem. But what’s the deal with no telecine logs or files?! I don’t see how you’ll ever get it to work without this. The 3 perf designation is not a seperate column, it’s appended to the frame number and usually seperated by a dot, so the 3rd perf of the 10th frame would look like “10.3” This is vital for reverse telecine to work. What are you gonna be doing, hand entering all your key numbers?