Samuel Frazier
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Okay, now I think we’re getting somewhere. The 1st film project I did was transferred to miniDv and for some reason the lab messed up the circle burn. When I tried to remove the telecine, I still had interlaced frames. Part of the problem could be that miniDV does not have timecode built in like something like digibeta does.
But, this does not sound like your problem. If you have no interlaced frames then you’re golden. Don’t worry about the burn in timecode after you remove the telecine. That timecode only works or is relevant from its native 60i format. Once you remove the telecine, it is removing some frames and what not (there’s definitely a better description of what’s happening somewhere), so you will end up with blurred burned in timecodes. This is normal. This is what I have.
So, as long as there are no interlaced frames, you’re good to go. So, your lab may have done everything fine. Actually, I think your editor really should have known to disregard the burned in timecode. How experienced is he/she? This is a pretty basic concept of 24p behavior. Of course, I’m also to blame as I should have realized this was what you were talking about with your mention of keycodes. My bad.
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Getting back to the speed issues, I typically use Boris Red as a filter inside FCP to do my speed changes (it looks much better by the way). Does using Red like this still cause problems with the media manager? I was just thinking it might be a potential work around and you’d get a pretty good piece of software in the deal as well.
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Oh dear, I’m afraid I’m at the end of my knowledge on this one. I’ve never used G-Cadence or any of Nattress’ filters. He’s a really good guy though, and if you post a new post here or on the Apple FCP forum then you should get some help. You could also try emailing him.
I’ve got to tell you though, you really should give your lab some trouble about putting you in this position. I know, it might not help, but you never know. I’m actually a little confused by what you mean when you’re talking about keycodes playing in order. As I say, I’ve only done 1 project, so I’m green too. All I know is that when I captured, I did so from the circle burn and ended each cature on a ‘0’. Deinterlacing via cinema tools was then painless. Of course, when I did this, the burn in timecode became a blur on some frames. This was to be expected as the interlaced frames had been removed. Also, you should expect some motion blur as you’re shooting at 24 fps. Definitely different than 60i. Forgive me if you know all this already.
Can you answer me 1- what kind of tape are you capturing from (mini dv, digibeta, etc) & 2- can you try recapturing from the circle burn as I described?Also, I believe you had some good results deinterlacing from the ‘2’ rather than the ‘0’.
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Sorry, more of my random anger/sarcasm here, but why would you need Media Management when you can put video on an ipod’s glorious 2″ screen?
Again sorry, random anger over. But, it would be nice to see reliable Media Management some day. -
Shane Ross over on Apple’s site gave a link here to a way that’s supposed to allow FCP 4.5 to run on the PCI-e G5s:
https://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/final_cut_pro_on_old_macs.html
I certainly hope this works. Please excuse my random anger, but this really pisses me off. Either Apple is spending too much time putting crappy video onto a 2″ screen (ipods) and not enough time on their pro stuff or they’re trying to get more money out of you by forcing you to upgrade. Either way, it’s pretty distressing for this recent Mac convert and does not give me great faith that Apple will take care of me in the long run if I buy a Quad.
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I can anticipate using the HD to SD downconvert a good bit, but not the SD to HD upconvert. Would you mind telling me how the upconvert is a part of your regular workflow?
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Yes, try this filter if all else fails. But, I’d be pretty pissed off if things aren’t working from the burn in circle thing. As I said, I once tried to deinterlace from miniDVCAM material where they put the burn in circle in the wrong place and everything was a mess.
My advice would be to call your lab and ask them what happened. Make sure they did 2:3 (not 2:3:3:2) pulldown and ask why using Cinema Tools doesn’t seem to work right from your burn in. When we did our reverse telecine we got some deinterlaced stuff, but with a slight blur during moving shots or swish pans. This is normal. Is this what you mean by the blur? -
I’m no expert, but if you see interlacing, then something has to be wrong if you can see interlaced frames on an lcd.
“is it normal that 2 selections will allow the keycodes to run in order?”
-I’m going to say no to this as it sound like what happened when I tried to remove the pulldown from some material and picked the wrong spot. It will look correct some of the time, but will look interlaced at others.When I do this my lab gives me a circle burn to mark the A frame from. So, when I use Cinema Tools all I have to do is capture each reel from there then edit from a 24p timeline. But if you capture looking to edit from a 29.97 timeline and remove the pulldown later then I think that is a more difficult and error prone way to go. At least that is what I believe a DVD tutorial I watched said.
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Are you sure they don’t already support multiple cores? MitchJi wrote in a thread just below this:
“Most of the applications that are important to us (FCP for example) already support multiple processors. Unless the programmers intentionly cripled their code programs that support dual processors will also support 4.”
This was kind of the question I had asked about a couple days ago whether FCP takes full advantage of the quad. The scores on the Apple site seem to show that it does. But I’m a newbie, so I could be confused.
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Well no, there’s no real reason for you to upgrade. I sure wouldn’t if I were you. But for people with G4s, this might be a good time. For example, I bought a Mini 8 months ago or so to try out FCP. It did the job after making offline versions of my media, but I’m ready for something that doesn’t need this extra step.
You’re right though, we do get spoiled. Anything after linear is a huge step forward.