Peter Litwinowicz
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[Janaki Cedanna] “So if I’m running FCP 5.1.4 currently, do I need to do anything differently/additionally when I install FCP 6?”
You’ll be good to go. FCP 6 will find the plugin if it is already showing up in 5.1.4.
Pete -
Twixor 4.5 works just fine with FCP of Studio 2 (except that you can only process in 8 bits per channel currently).
Why don’t you try the demo version, available in the “Downloads” subsection for Twixtor on our website.
Pete
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Twixor 4.5 works just fine with FCP of Studio 2 (except that you can only process in 8 bits per channel currently).
Why don’t you try the demo version, available in the “Downloads” subsection for Twixtor on our website.
Pete
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[Steve Roberts] “Reelsmart Motion Blur can sometimes distort objects that aren’t moving directly across the frame. “
Well, that’s the problem with optical flow techniques.
We suggest that you separate objects that are moving in different directions (where a stationary background is considered an object) and motion blur each layer separately from the object(s) behind them (and so on). Many times that’s not possible (in the case of articulated figures, for example)… but many times it is not only possible, but the multiple passes can still be faster to perform with RSMB.
Your mileage may vary, of course 🙂
Pete Litwinowicz
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[Piotr Janowski] “Although I think that I have a strong hardware setup…MacPro 3.ghz, Ati 1900, 6 gb ram, the rendering process is awfully slow (hdv footage) which makes it almost impossible to use it as a editing decision tool. Of course, if I decide to change a whole clips speed, than there is no problem, I just make a longer coffee break, but what if I would like to make accurate speed adjustments that can be easily reviewed.”
You can always turn the Motion Vector Quality to None, which will then just do frame blending without any motion vector analysis (and allows you to better use Twixtor as an editing decision tool). We do this here all the time. Perhaps that will help you out?
Also, I noticed that we received some bounced back emails from your system when trying to send you your invoice, did you get the registration keys? You can email us at sales(at)revisionfx(dot)com.
Pete Litwinowicz
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[Piotr Janowski] “Although I think that I have a strong hardware setup…MacPro 3.ghz, Ati 1900, 6 gb ram, the rendering process is awfully slow (hdv footage) which makes it almost impossible to use it as a editing decision tool. Of course, if I decide to change a whole clips speed, than there is no problem, I just make a longer coffee break, but what if I would like to make accurate speed adjustments that can be easily reviewed.”
You can always turn the Motion Vector Quality to None, which will then just do frame blending without any motion vector analysis (and allows you to better use Twixtor as an editing decision tool). We do this here all the time. Perhaps that will help you out?
Also, I noticed that we received some bounced back emails from your system when trying to send you your invoice, did you get the registration keys? You can email us at sales(at)revisionfx(dot)com.
Pete Litwinowicz
https://www.revisionfx.com -
Oops, my bad.
There is traditional pulldown in the footage I have. Didn’t realize that 60p versions of 24p never have advanced pulldown (learning something new). And then I responded Gary’s message as if he typed “60p footage never has pulldown”… which is NOT what he said! Gotta read more carefully next time. 😉
Okay, that said.
Got it fixed by taking it into After Effects and removing the pulldown.
However, not being a Panasonic camera or Final Cut Pro guru, I was trying to give my customer a workflow that didn’t involve removing the pulldown within AE (so I’m trying to understand all the issues… thank you guys for that!). My customer had already edited the 60p footage within a 60p FCP timeline, and with cross dissolves, etc, that meant that there was several different places in the pulldown cadence being edited together and he was trying to remove the pulldown after being edited (because he really wanted 24/23.976 footage at the end). Eek!
So I was trying to give him a workflow that brought his footage into FCP as 23.976 so that the editing process just worked naturally, without any pulldown removal issues after the editing. So, for now, I ‘ve told him to remove the pulldown on his ALREADY shot footage and re-edit using a 23.976 timeline in FCP (thank goodness it’s not a large project).. In the FUTURE, I’ve given him the information he needs to shoot appropriately so he can remove the pulldown upon import into FCP from his Firestore-100… which will ease his workflow tremendously (duh!).
Thanks for all the help!
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[gary adcock] “There is no advanced pulldown with progressive content.”
There is if you set the camera to record 24p in a 60p piece of media on the P2 card or Firestore-100. So the content is recorded as 60p, but there is really only 24p content within it. Pulldown (either advanced or standard) is added. Yes, I realize that you can record 24p natively, but this was not the camera setup when shooting.
The frame rate converter comes with FCP 6 (Final Cut Studio 6). It also comes with FCP 5.1, but you have to install it with a separate installer. And to remove the duplicate fields/frames from 60p material when really shot at 24p, the camera has to be set up to tag the duplicate frames.
Turns out the camera was not set up properly so that the Panasonic-supplied frame rate converter did not work on the footage I was trying to remove the duplicate frames. On another forum website I found this: “Make sure that the UB MODE setting (in the RECODING SETUP menu) on your HVX is set to FRM RATE. FCP uses this to locate the frames to remove. ”
Pete Litwinowicz
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Also, make sure to read through the manual first, because there are some non-obvious things you need to know. the manual is installed with the plugins when you install (either in demo or registered mode).
Many people just install the plugins into AE’s plugin folder and forget to look for a manual, which is why I mention that there is one! 😉
The tutorials are more just sample projects to look through and not step-by-step tutorials per se. For this we apologize. But hopefully the manual, in combination with the sample projects, will get you up and going.
Pete Litwinowicz
RE:Vision Effects, Inc.
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I just tried the converter, and it doesn’t work on the footage I received. I get a message that says “An error occurred during processing, unable to conform source media”
I’m wondering if the “convert 59.94 to 23.976”, with remove duplicate frames, only works on Advanced Pulldown and not standard pulldown? (The footage I have has standard pulldown ). The frame rate converter manual is not much help here… it says you should make sure the media files contain frame tags when capturing within FCP, but this is not an option because I’m getting the media files as QT movies directly from the Firestore 100. I presume that the files have tagged duplicate frames, but cannot verify this. Help?
Pete