Rafael Amador
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That’s not a problem. You nee to add “Movement Blur”.
I do it with GennArts Sapphire, but i guess there are other plugins to do it.
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[Ben Knight] “File format: DV Stream”
What’s that?
Forget about “DV Stream”. With that you go nowhere.
Export to Prores.
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[Michael Moreau] “Well, having spent years editing SD projects in the DV codec I know that SD stuff not only takes less hard drive space but also renders and exports WAY faster and I miss the speed. I just don’t see the point of editing HD only to output to DVD each and every time.”
I’ve been years shooting DV and making DVDs for mi clients too.
Now I shoot HD, master in Prores HD rendering in “High Precision” color grade in Color and then I downscale with SHAKE to make my DVDs.
I could had keep shooting in DV and making things easier for me, but the quality I achieve now and the product I give to my client has nothing to with what I used to get when I shot DV. That’s call evolution.[Michael Moreau] “A recent wedding project (all in HD) took up over 200gb of hard drive space and took HOURS to export from the timeline to a self-contained Quicktime file….when the same project in SD probably would have been less than 100gb of disc space and exported in like 45 minutes”
You are right. Convert everything to SD before editing. See how long will take you to downscale everything to SD before editing and see which workflow is better.
I’m not trying to convince you which way is better. I just told you how I would do it and why. The rest is up to you.
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[Ben Knight] “Hi Rafael… I actually tried that…. Hate to say it, but I thought it was too… fast.
Do you think that’s the only way to keep the sharpness?”
Then try with the second option: Frame blending.
The point is to not reprocess every single frame.
Fast mode will work just repeating the missed frame (24 > 25).
Frame Blending will do the same but will get the missed frames by blending the adjacent.
Motion Compensated and “High quality Motion Compensated” (Optic Flow), will reprocess every single frame and will soft the picture.
As Shane says, the best option is a Teranex, and as Blackmagic has reduced the prices from few tens of thousands to barely 1K, Teranex is not anymore an option limited to megabucks productions.
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[Ben Knight] “best frame rate conversion.”
Make a test with Fast (Nearest frame).
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FC has a very well known bug that makes drift audio when the sequence when you edit the audio has a different time-base than the default sequence (Easy Set-up).
So if you have your default sequence for 29.97fps, you makes a 23,98 fps sequence and you import audio and edit on the 23,97 fps sequence, the audio will drift because FC considers that that audio has a 29,97fps time base.
The easier fix is to set a default sequence with the time-base you intend to edit the audio, before importing the audio.
For more complicated scenarios:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/lyon_matt/rafael
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[Michael Moreau] “Ok, so how do I accomplish what I’m trying to do? I want to work in standard definition since it means smaller file-sizes and faster renders.”
Yes, less time to render your final movie, but more time on downscaling the whole of your footage. Good quality downscaling in Compressor, may takes longer than rendering on FC.If you want to edit SD, you will need to convert first your AVCHD stuff to Prores (FCs L&T, ClipWrap). Forget about DV (your footage is already compressed, if you convert it to DV, and the makes an MPEG-2 for the DVD, you will get crap).
Then you will have to downscale it. The best option is Compressor. MPGSTreamclip makes good job too. Probably you haven’t used the proper settings. Export always to Prores. Other good option to get smaller files and easy FC editing, would be PhotoJPEG at 75% quality.The only reason I would go the SD way is if had no storage space.
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[Michael Moreau] “So pretend for a moment that you shot an entire job on an XA10 in AVCHD 1920×1080 60i and you want to edit for DVD. What workflow would you follow? (other than editing in HD and resizing it in compressor).”
I don’t know why you don’t want to edit in HD and downscale later on, but that’s the proper workflow to fallow.
Other than that you can L&T and edit on an SD sequence.[Michael Moreau] “So the question is, is there any way to force FCP to import the files from the XA10 (AVCHD 1920×1080) in standard definition?”No. L&T is just a transcoding process; no resizing.
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[Scott Goldberg] “My camera, the EOS 1D Mark IV only has 60fps in 720 (this is the only rate that will shoot in slow motion, and I used the Cinema Tools program to do so)
My 24fps settings only shoot in 1080, NOT 720.
So therefore, what should my FCP 7 settings be if I want to have the 1080 footage be changed automatically to 720 when it goes into my bin and on my timeline? (is this even possible?)”
You need to do that on two steps:
– Use CinemaTools to Conform the 720p60 stuff to 720p24. The clips will play at 24fps.
– The use Compressor to upscale the 720 to 1080. Set the “Control Frame ON” and export as Prores.
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[William Fedanzo] ” the internal HD is only a 5,400 rpm drive…sucks”
For a System HD 5.400rpm is OK.
The only thing you will get from a faster HD is to boot faster, but you won’t get more performance.
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