[Roboday]

Also, I want to be able to quickly turn off tracks visibility, either by highlighting a single track and pressing ‘solo’ or by being able to just hold the mouse down once and running it over the little ‘eye’ icons. [kinda like in after effects].

Is there a better alternative program on the pc ?

[Roboday]

Hello Alan.

Well this for me is a tricky subject, I’ve ended up using Magic Bullete a few hours ago, it takes roughly 1 hour per 1 min of footage !!! [just pure deinterlacing].
Both are VERY easy to set up and use, however I saw that bullet was giving me better results somehow BUT I am going to do the same process through fieldskit because im very sure its capable.
The problem with MB is that it can make some VERY odd patterns with surfaces such as tarmac, or grass, I could only see these pattern when I paused it for a single frame within after effects.

I’ll try and upload a photo somewhere to show you guys the difference between, MB,FK and original.

[Roboday]

Hello Alan.

Well this for me is a tricky subject, I’ve ended up using Magic Bullete a few hours ago, it takes roughly 1 hour per 1 min of footage !!! [just pure deinterlacing].
Both are VERY easy to set up and use, however I saw that bullet was giving me better results somehow BUT I am going to do the same process through fieldskit because im very sure its capable.
The problem with MB is that it can make some VERY odd patterns with surfaces such as tarmac, or grass, I could only see these pattern when I paused it for a single frame within after effects.

I’ll try and upload a photo somewhere to show you guys the difference between, MB,FK and original.

[Roboday]

2 problems with that:
I dont have a steadicam kinda of device, and most of the time I cant take much equipment with me because Im hopping from car to car.

Magic Bullet seemed to cope a LOT better, but ofcourse the trade off is that its about a million times slower.

[Roboday]

2 problems with that:
I dont have a steadicam kinda of device, and most of the time I cant take much equipment with me because Im hopping from car to car.

Magic Bullet seemed to cope a LOT better, but ofcourse the trade off is that its about a million times slower.

[Roboday]

Cheers for the info, I just shot on 1080i PAL 50i

Now it seems like Im meant to have Aspect to flipping edit HD stuff, adobe haven’t a clue how annoying they are.
Anyway, does anyone have any more tips dealing with handheld PAL footage, 90% of the time im in FAST moving cars, so it tends to jerk around a fair bit until I stabilise it in post.

[Roboday]

Cheers for the info, I just shot on 1080i PAL 50i

Now it seems like Im meant to have Aspect to flipping edit HD stuff, adobe haven’t a clue how annoying they are.
Anyway, does anyone have any more tips dealing with handheld PAL footage, 90% of the time im in FAST moving cars, so it tends to jerk around a fair bit until I stabilise it in post.

[Roboday]

Ah ha.

I’ll have to experiment when I next get a chance.

Most of my footage has a moving camera, albeit sometimes mounted in a moving car window.

[Roboday]

Ah ha.

I’ll have to experiment when I next get a chance.

Most of my footage has a moving camera, albeit sometimes mounted in a moving car window.

[Roboday]

Hi Pierre.

Most of my shooting is done with Sony’s HDV camera range, either the Z1E or A1E. Im kind of at a loss what to shoot at exactly, HD or SD, then which settings to use [remember im in the uk, so I dont shoot ntsc]. As far as I can tell [the equipment is at uni, i dont have it here so its kinda hard remembering things], I cant shoot progressive. So Im fairly sure my footage can only be interlaced.
Most of the work I’ll do will end up on DVD, so I’d prefer it to look as crisp as possible, thus deinterlaced Im guessing is the way to go.

So setting up the deinterlacing is just a simple, import footage with no fields, deinterlace with plug in, render out with no fields – voilla done?