Scott Stolzar
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Unfortunately our internet was down for the day so I was unable to view your helpful comments. We ended up being able to reshoot with a green screen taped onto the iPad and used small blue squares for tracking points, which I was able to key out with a second key. Once it was reshot it was pretty simple to achieve, taking probably a quarter of the time it would have taken me to manually paint out the original tracking points, especially with the hand sliding over them (and blocking them as a result). The producers seemed pretty happy with the result, although now they are asking to see if I can make the surface reflective like the iPad screen.
Do you know how I would do that? Would I need to have the reverse angle in 3D space reflecting on the keyed-in graphic? That’s the only way I can conceive of it but then again I have almost no experience in graphic work (yay for baptism by fire). I’m going to look around as well (something I haven’t been able to do with the lack of internet), but if anyone can point me in the right direction I’ll be even more grateful than I already am.
Thank you
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I had noticed that happening one time too. It turned out that my playback settings were on a lower quality. Once I switched it to unlimited it played correctly and it exported correctly.
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I need the admin password to update/install anything on the machines. I will get on them about it though.
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Thanks for the thoughts. That was my other thought for the video, although it’s weird to me that it would show up as offline for those frames as opposed to merely unrendered. I’ve cleaned out render files before with no problems, I just have to render it again.
One important piece about the audio, which was really the most confusing aspect, is that all of the audio showed up as online. The waveforms were all there, as were the levels. They just wouldn’t play from the timeline. I’m just thankful that I was able to rebuild it easily, just a very confusing error.
I’ll have to talk to IT about upgrading, although they’re hesitant enough to upgrade in general, but we’re a small FCP ghetto in an otherwise Avid world, and get treated as such.
Again thanks for the help. I think my main task now is to try to convince the the producers/DP to shoot in the correct frame rate for these projects.
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As for the actually having the DP’s shoot at 29.97, I’ve made the request before and I’ll keep pressing it, although the producers/DPs love their 24p. Also, for this project I assumed that since they were shooting so much that that would be the only footage that we used. Guess I was a victim of the classic saying.
Is it the mixed codecs/framerate that caused the weird issues that seemed to have no set pattern as I suspect or could there be some larger issue?
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Sorry I was not clear about the drive. I captured the DVCPro footage to the Mac internal drive and then moved that with the media manager via firewire 800 onto an external 2 TB drive. No USB was involved in this process because I had learned from my last time.
As to the the web footage, this is purely for internal presentation purposes only. Nothing is being broadcast or distributed in any way, nor will it be used for profit. Again strictly internal. I was not clear in that regard.
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Hi
You can try Pro Res LT. It’s generally a smaller file size and will work well with Final Cut. The export will still take a long time though i imagine.
Out of curiosity, what are you using to convert the footage from the WMV to DVCPro HD? Flip4Mac?
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Huh. Is that an issue with Avid as well?
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“You tried to capture one big tape without logging and capturing separate clips and in that process captured some of the bars from the beginning of the tape, which will throw off FCP.”
I think that is the one. All of the initial capturing was one in one setting with no restarts and no quitting FCP so the set-up shouldn’t have changed. I had done a capture test for the first tape which captured with all of the right settings. I skipped all of the color bars for that tape and captured it as a whole and it was 23.98. When I look at the ones that are 23.98, none have color bars, while the ones that do have color bars are all 59.94. Can you explain why that is?
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Can you point me in the right direction as to what might have been set wrong the first time that it didn’t do the pull down?
The deck was set to 720p and the frame rate was 59.94. The easy set-up was set to DVCPro HD 720p24. What else needs to be set? And as I said before, when I did the initial capture some were captured at 720p24 and some at 720p60, with no discernible pattern. I don’t want to make whatever mistake I made again in the future.
Thank you