Rennie Klymyk
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[Andrew Kimery] ” If Roxio can figure out the ‘complex’ licensing issues I’m sure Apple can too.”
It wasn’t so much Roxio figuring out anything but more like Roxio being swallowed up by Sonic Solutions who’s sole market has been high end DVD authoring for 10 years. Scenarist is the only other pro-level bluray app to compete neck and neck with Sony who is new in this area. Sonic scenarist had their foot in the doors of all major studios already and we all have noticed how Sony can’t focus in any particular market but rather competes with everyone for everything. Hey, maybe with Sony Blu-Print now vieing for scenarist’s market share Apple is sitting back planning to buy Sonic after Sony squeezes them down. They are certainly in a position to toss a few wrenches in their spokes. I can see it now, Apple Scenarist… part of the new FCS3 suite.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[Richard Herd] “Sorry to get pedantic, but…just to be absolutely clear. The AG-HVX200 is not actually native 16:9. It is native 4:3 with a pixel aspect ratio of 1.33”
Actually the the HVX chips are 4.6809 x 2.6330 mm active area in size which is 16:9 format.
The common denominator is 3.4194.6809 X 3.419=16
26330 X 3.419=9If you shoot in 4:3 you are not using all the pixels on the chips.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The DXX 100B is a fine camera but the HVX has native 16:9 chips which is future proof. Also once you buy a couple of P2 Cards you are ready for a whole new world. I’m still getting by with 1 P2 card. If you know any buddies that shoot P2 in your area you can set up a loaner system which is great for this media and if you aren’t shooting every day yourselves and can do a bit of scheduling between colleagues.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[John Beck] ” I guess I was really off base assuming that the DVC tape would just run faster–not sure why that would not work though–if it had been designed that way. “
The reason we are able to shoot in HD for a $6000.00 investment is because there are no HD heads and tape mechanism. HD heads and tape transport systems make up about $12,000.00 of the cost of any HD camera that records to tape. Before P2 came along HD cameras cost $60,000.00. (and you had to buy a deck!).
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The key element is[Sophie Carapet] “over two days, on two different cameras,”
If this was a studio shoot and no lights were changed, sets were moved and the voltage was stabilized you could have close to the same conditions for lighting. Shooting outdoors is uncontrollable. You need to shoot a color chart on set and color correct accordingly in post.
Most likely though the differences you are seeing is the 2 cameras and lenses as Steve pointed out or improper white balance. Different ccds, digital signal processors and lens elements and coatings will create color differences just like 2 different brands or types of film do.
You could try to match the cameras using color or the 3 way color controls in FCP.
DVCAM and the way it is written on the tape made it possible to edit dv material at 4X speed using equipment like Sony’s EV-7 and DSR-85 decks. Otherwise the color info and everything else are all still the same 4:1:1 realm. It’s just a more robust method of writing to tape.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Also a lot of the dvcpro decks are menu deep- meaning there may be a menu setting for passthrough.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Like others have indicated this may not be the best project to start with color. However Apple has made the tools affordable so like anything else, the more you do with it the better you will get.
Color perception is something that can be learned I believe. I came from a photography background and learned to print my own prints. After a year or so of regular printing I found myself tweeking 1.5 cc’s of cyan out and adding 3cc’s of magenta to a negative to get that perfect color. I realized how sensitive I had become to observing color. I think we are able to hone this sensitivity with lots of practice.
All editors should be using proper evaluation grade monitors with stable consistent output and should have a controlled lighting environment to be working in.
It would also be helpful to take a color blindness test before you get too far with it. Color blindness effects about 9% of males and .4% of females. Some simple tests are here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I used to use a Mackie 1604 as it also functions as a switcher but it had just too big a footprint to keep close enough at hand to be convenient. I’ve settled on a 1202 vlz (the rca’s are useful) for it’s smaller footprint. Everything goes from there to an EV7100 amp to a pair of Mission 701 speakers. It sounds very real.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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To elaborate, there is no difference between mini-dv and dvcam once it is on your hard drive. The differences are the way the cameras and decks write the signal to tape. dvcam runs the tape 33% faster giving you 40 minutes on a 60 minute tape producing a 15 micron track pitch instead of 10, a much more stable method for linear editing.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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You can try increasing the size of the waveform cache.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow