Rob Postroz
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Hi Joe,
Did the upgrades to the OS and FCP and it worked!! Thanks so much for the help!! Really means a lot.
Best,
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Hi Joe,
Thanks for testing this! Yeah that screenshot looks good. Hmm. I’ll upgrade my OS and FCP and see if that does it. Will let you know if works.
Thanks again!!
Best,
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Hi Joe,
Thanks so much for offering to investigate! that would be a great help! Ive uploaded a short clip of the raw D810 footage to a dropbox folder. Here is the link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nqqnktfpmlqa163/AAC7dMI_rQRichSzyamI8zE1a?dl=0
Please let me know if you have any questions or need anything else.
I feel like I’ve used ‘save current frame’ on this type of footage before with no problem, so I’m thinking it has something to do with the settings in this particular project I’m working on.
Thanks!
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Hi Ronny,
Yes I’ve been using PNG – have done this a lot in the past and never had the problem. I think Joe is right when he says it seems to be converting the color scale to 8 bit for some reason. So not sure why it’s doing this.. -
Hi Joe,
I tried all the file format options they give – TIFF PNG – and it’s the same. You’re right, it seems like 8 bit processing. When looking in inspector the ‘color space override’ is OFF for Camera LUT it’s ‘OFF’. There are no effects on this particular clip (which is 1920 x 1080 23.98 p), but i have done some minor color grading on some others in the sequence. The only thing i can think of is that this footage is in a sequence with lower-resolution 720 x 480 29.97p footage..This footage of the screenshot i want was shot on a Nikon D810 camera (the other footage is from a Canon Xl1).
The version of FCP i’m using is 10.4.
And my Mac OS is Sierra 10.12.6
Thanks so much for the help!!
Best,
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Joe, thank you so much for taking the time to test this! Really means a lot. I will try what you suggest in FCP – sounds like that’s the best fix.
Thanks again,
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Hi Joe,
Thanks so much for offering to take a look at a small piece of footage! I have a clip 6 seconds long, 22 mb that I’ve attached:
12923_21474836471106060000.mov.zip
One final thing I discovered yesterday which may be affecting things: to capture the footage into FCP, I used the tape deck from a different Canon camera – that’s why the camera listed in the inspector is from a Canon Vixia not Canon XL1. Not sure how this affects everything within the settings, but the two cameras are totally different, so maybe that’s what’s causing the issues.
Please let me know if you need anything else.
Thanks!
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Hi Gary,
I wasn’t aware at the time that there was a 25% loss in quality – I shot this footage almost 15 years ago and the “frame mode” looked so cool I didn’t bother to check if there was any quality loss. bummer. By any chance is there a way to get that 25% quality back through some third party software?
Re: changing some options in the viewer, I did try the “show both fields selection in the viewer” that Brett suggested and this helped a lot, but I still noticed some subtle interlacing lines when compared to the raw footage viewed in Quicktime. Is there any other options I should try?
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Hi Joe,
Thanks for responding. Yes, the camera that I used to shoot the footage was an old canon xl1 – I’m not sure why that other camera name is listed in the inspector, although when looking at the MediaInfo profile below, it lists Canon Vixia in there as well…
Thanks for the suggestion of those programs. I downloaded MediaInfo and ran it on one of the clips. Please see below info results in the categories you requested (I couldn’t find the FORMAT settings CABAC, GOP, Reframes listed):Format : DV
Codec ID : dvc
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 24.4 Mb/s
Format profile : QuickTime
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan type, store method : Interleaved fields
Scan order : Bottom Field FirstBelow is the full screenshot of the info in case I missed anything:
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Hi Gary,
Thanks for the help. The camera I shot the footage on was a canon xl1.
Thanks again,
Rob
