Scott Sheriff
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“Won’t it play normal NTSC though without interlacing?”
No. NTSC is always interlaced.
I have read quite a few of your posts in the last month. I can appreciate that you are a student, but I don’t understand why your teacher hasn’t covered these basics?
I know every one that gets on a NLE system just wants to jump right in and start cutting, but you would be in a much better place if you can find the time to do some reading on frame rates, video and film standards, etc. I know this is all very dry and technical stuff, but once you learn it, you will have more time to spend on the creative.
Try this wikipedia link, its a decent place to start. Be sure to follow the links to older analog, and foreign standards. Knowing how this all evolved adds perspective. The Final Cut manual has some pretty solid info in it as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video
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Hi,
This sounds like drop-out caused TC breaks. No uncommon in long GOP HDV. You could try cleaning the heads. That won’t help if dirty heads compromised the recording, or surface defects in the tape, but it is worth a try.Scott Sheriff
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“…besides he never mentioned about needing to ad graphics land the such.”
Your right.
I guess when someone says they want to “cover” a live sport, it could have different meanings to different people. To me it means something other than a 2 cam dry cut.Scott Sheriff
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Devin,
Hey, I’m not hatin’ on your Pipeline idea. I think the Pipeline server/recorder box has merit for some uses.
But there is a big difference between cutting live sports and a concert. Concerts follow a script, and are rehearsed. And usually when you cut a play or concert live to tape, you iso all the cameras for use in touching up your live cut in post. In sports you have one chance to get your shot on the air, there is usually more camera’s then iso sources, bigger emphasis on graphics, and the switcher live cut isn’t often recorded. Typically you would have 6-7 (or more)cams, and a 4 channel EVS playback, multi-channel ESS, DVE and Chyron, and a handfull of utility sources. The whole thing has a completely different dynamic, with the live action mixed with lots of fonts and graphs, iso sources being used in replays, and to grab interviews for quick playback in the show.
So even for something small like roller derby, if you could record just 3 camera’s, and manage to get it lined up in FCP, it would be impossible for you to replicate the typical live sports look. There is a lot more going on then just the camera cut.
Even in a regional level sports remote, it’s pretty easy to completely use up a 4 bank, 32 input switcher like a Sony DVS 7350, and a 24 channel audio board. So in Final Cut, that would translate to 32 layers of video, and 24 audio. Cut that in half, and its still a lot of sources.Scott Sheriff
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“Yes, you can capture live and edit in mulitcam live via Telestream’s Pipeline Encoder.”
I think this would be a great box to take a feed of something, and use it to cut highlights for quick turnaround. Kinda like what Peter Wiggins does on the TDF
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10 grand to capture two HD channels at once. Whats the point of trying to switch a two camera show live? I doubt it would be possible to watch the footage come in, do replays, graphs, and mix on the fly with this box and FCP even if you could kludge it together, in a way that it resembled ‘live’, or ‘live to tape’.
You could do a lot more show with a 10 grand budget and a truck. Even 5G’s would get you an ok show, with a small truck or a flypack switcher.Scott Sheriff
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“Hey, go for it. I’m sure he could put a clutch in my car for a lot less than the transmission shop would charge me too.”
Shop charges:
$40 per hour
$50 per hour if you watch
$75 per hour if you help
$100 per hour if you started the jobScott Sheriff
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Mark,
What are your thoughts on the editor doing some initial 3WCC work just to get things in the ballpark?Scott Sheriff
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You mean switch between multiple cams live to create a timeline?
No.
The capture process is always behind the ‘real world’ due to processing, even if you could. How would you do replays? Stats?
There are portable hardware, and software switcher set-ups, but a small remote truck would really be the way to go if you have the budget. If you want to know more about this get a hold of me, I’ve done a ton of sports remotes.Scott Sheriff
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“…so I was wondering if it was a faster way, or maybe some plugin or software that would do automatic color correction to several clips…”
How would a piece of software know what you want your shots to look like?
There are ‘automated’ level controls like the ‘Broadcast Safe’, but that isn’t really color correction.it is pretty straight forward to match shots from multiple cameras quickly in the 3 way color corrector in FCP. Once you get the first shots (under the same lighting/scene) of each camera matched to your liking, you can drag those settings to all the following shots using that camera. Then most of the time you just need a little fine tuning here and there.
Since you are involved in the entire process, you might want to look at having the camera ops using preset White Balance , instead of a bunch of different ‘Auto White Balances’. In my experience, treating the cameras more like film and fixing them at either 3200, or 5600 depending on the scene lighting, will make CC work a lot easier, especially between cameras. Nothing is a bigger buzzkill then getting a really good match, just to have the op re-white after a break, and changing the balance.
Scott Sheriff
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Rafael,
Thanks for clearing that up, good info to have.
SScott Sheriff
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