Rafael Amador
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That kind of colored flashes are called “light leaks’.
have a look to this tutorial of our dear friend Shane:
https://www.artbeats.com/video_tutorials/12
Is not difficult to find some free clips/still to make them.
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[Michael Gissing] “Kevin, 720 x 576 is 4:3SD PAL. I know the numbers aren’t perfect but a device designed to take this will display as 4:3. “
720×576 is 4×3 or 16×9, depending of the pixels aspect (4×3 or PAL Anamorphic).[Kevin Camin] “That’s interesting. Sorry I unfortunately don’t do much PAL work.”
PAL or NTSC, 4×3 or 16×9, is the same when we are displaying on a computer screen (Squared Pixels).
To display the picture properly we have to keep the 4×3 or 16×9 relation in each case.[Kevin Brower] “Thanks guys It worked by creating a 576 timeline and dropping in 1080 footage. It automatically put on the letterbox bars. I then put it in streamclip and converted it to Mpeg 4 so I could play on my picture frame.”
Thats wrong.
Unless your time line has SQUARED PIXELS.
If the pixels are not Squared, QT will keep displaying the picture wrong.
And do you really want letterbox?
Do things well.
Your picture is 16×9, so keep that relation:
1920 x 1080
1280 x 720
1024 x 576
800 x 450
720 x 405
640 x 360
560 x 315
480 x 270
..etc..
..etc..
16 x 9
All those sizes will make computers display the picture properly 16×9 whatever the movie is HD, or SD, PAL or NTSC.
When dealing with PAL SD 16×9 (720×576 Anamorphic) the best option is 1024 x 576.
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Nothing wrong. QT Player do not understand of Pixels aspects.
If y
In the Movie Properties > Video Track > Visual settings, set 1024×576.
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Hi Nick,
I don’t use F4M since long but I remember I used to had an issue with Audio.
I’f I don’t remember wrong, it had problems when changing the Sample Rate, so if your original WMV is 44.1Khz, don’t try to export Prores with 48Khz audio. Keep it at 44.1Khz.
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As Shane say, is that probably the worst mistake you can get on FC.
What I would do is to open a new sequence (23,98fps), and in the wrong sequence, go clip by clip, copy the duration the clip, then “Match Frame” (with the play head on the first frame of each clip), and paste the duration. Then drag to the new sequence.
That way each clip will have the same IN/OUt and duration. You will get rid of the interpolated frames only.
rafael
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Hi Adria,
OK.
Are you traying to transcode directly from the disk?
If so, try to copy the VOBs to your computer and run MPPGStreamclip on them.
If you can copy the VOBs on your HD, them they may have some protection.
In that case you will need to use MacTheRipper or so.
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VLC is a player, not the proper application to make any kind of conversion.
Use MPGStreamclip and convert the audio to PMC 48Khz, so can be edited in FC without recprocessing.
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Jaimie, the “Gamma world’ is a can of worms that i have never fully understood.
Pictures are made of pixels that are values of RGB (or YUV), but depending on the system/screen and the application that you use to display them, can vary a lot.
The problem is that color management/consistency techniques where reserved for the print industry and high end graphic and film industry, and now that we can create and integrate graphics and video on cheap system with affordable applications, we find a lot of potholes.
There are many factors that can lead to this kind of problems, from the MacOsX system that you may be using (Apple changed the screen native gamma from 1.8 to 2,2 since Snow leopard), passing by the codec you are shooting with (now some acquisitions codecs have embed gamma info), to the color profile you are using to create or export your graphics in Photoshop or AE.
FC never had any kind of color management option because was created in a time when this was not an issue. This gamma “interpretation” option was added with FC.7. But now there is a general trend to get a better color management, and modern applications (last versions of AE, FCPX,..) allows to keep that color consistency.Anyway, one of the main problems, still being monitoring. You can not trust FC Canvas if you are using Snow Leopard or later.
The Canvas in FC was set to vamp the gamma from 1.8 to 2.2 to mimic the TV/PCs screens gamma (2.2).
So, from Snow Leopard on, that the screen gamma was changed to 2.2, FC keeps making a gamma correction that now is not necessary.
– Solution: Change the screen gamma to 1.8, so the Canvas will show the proper 2.2 gamma.
– Problem: That other applications that do not make the same gamma correction (Photoshop, Motion,..), will display a wrong gamma.The real and only solution is to use an external pro monitor and forget about what you see in the computer screens.
My only advice, is that if you make graphics on another application, whenever you can, use the sRGB color profile.
That the one that will match with your HD video footage.
As I said, a big mess.
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I have no experience with no one of those two interfaces, but if each device is using a different port and protocol, IMO should be no problem on running then together.
rafael