[Phil Radelat]

The only change was the monitor and how it receives it’s signal, HDMI & DVI instead of a VGA feed. No other changes were made or software installed.

I had actually bought the monitor a while back but didn’t install it because I was in the middle of a large project and didn’t want to change anything until it was done. I’m unfortunately out of the time window to return the unit for something else.

Other than this weird phenomenon, the monitor works beautifully however.

[Phil Radelat]

Although obviously you want a good-quality stabilization, my primary concern is SPEED. The warp stabilizer is painfully slow, and chokes my system in the process. I’ll have to test out their demo to see if it’s any better. Unfortunately the new version doesn’t work as a plug-in, so it wouldn’t help me on my present project, which has multiple video and audio sync’d up.

[Phil Radelat]

Thanks for your reply. I’m on a Windows workstation, so Mercalli would be my alternative. Have you tried any of these, and if so, do they seem faster than the Warp Stabilizer? Thanks.

[Phil Radelat]

Unless you plan to do any type of image processing in PP, you’re better off using another app. On the PC side, you can used the free app VirtualDub to do this.

[Phil Radelat]

Thanks. What tools are you referring to?

[Phil Radelat]

Thanks for your replies. I can’t say I agree about transcoding raw footage, it’s obviously inefficient, but that’s neither here nor there. If a network wants to put up with that, that’s their business. I know I wouldn’t.

So I noticed I could download a 30-day trail of MC, is it possible somehow to get a trial of NewsCutter if need be? Anytime I tried searching for NewsCutter on the Avid site it just brought me back to the MC page. Also, is there anywhere I can find videos on learning NewsCutter?

Thanks again.

[Phil Radelat]

Thanks for all your replies. I’ll try it out first in PP to see what I get. I don’t have access to old high-end decks, but I still have an old VHS recorder I plan to send the footage through and bounce it back, perhaps knocking the tracking off a bit. I shot the footage with a late 90’s Sony TRV-900 Mini-DV camera to have the footage in 4:3 SD. I originally wanted to shoot it with an old analog camera, but I didn’t have access to one. I’m hoping bouncing it once or twice through the VHS deck will give me the analog look I want. Are there any effects filters in PP that can do this?

[Phil Radelat]

I don’t know why that’s happening, but if you need to keep the in-camera audio in your project, export the audio as a wav/aif and re-import it into the project, throw it on the time line and shut off the video track audio. See if you still have the issue. If so, you can break the audio track up between quiet gaps with room tone or background noise areas, re-sync, and crossfade the room tone/background noise.

[Phil Radelat]

…guess not. 🙂

[Phil Radelat]

Thanks for the info, I’ll check it out, even though it’s for CS6, not CS5. My only concerns about the import settings would be with maintaining proper field order and audio sync so when rendering out to true 1080p 30 the proper fields are being used to render a progressive frame, and sync maintained. Due to the nature of h.264 it’s always a lose/lose scenario because all your footage is re-rendered, unlike the old SD MiniDV codec that only rendered altered data. As long as the proper frame field order and audio sync is maintained, it should be no different than importing (and thus ultimately exporting when the project is done) true 1080p 30.