Shahriar Rahman
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Ugh… I found the solution.
I called up Maltaannon (maltaannon.com) and I explained the problem to him … as it turns out, it was very minor: in the Keyframe Interpolation setting window (when right-clicking 2 adjacent position keyframes for the null object) my Spatial Interpolation setting was set to Bezier. As it turns out, any setting other than Linear will create the wobble effect (irrespective of whether the Temporal Interpolation is set to Linear, Bezier, or Auto Bezier). The perplexing thing is, in those segments where the camera did track correctly, the Spatial Interpolation was set to Bezier — it was this reason why I did not think this was the issue. In those cases, it was just a quirk.
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Noah, I see that you are also the moderator of the jobs section at Cinematography.com, where I had posted a job!
About the DVD you suggested, I looked into it. Does it cover AVC Intra? The last film I did with this director was P2 so we understand that workflow — he just wanted to know more about the AVC intra 100.
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Matthew, thanks for sharing your experience! We have been busy preparing for the feature I mentioned in the original post, so I was not able to reply to you earlier. To answer your question, the director will probably resort to Shake for any retiming effects as we are definitely set on the HPX3000 for the feature we are shooting next month.
We would like to talk to you further about your experience with the camera! Please email me directly at editor4yourfilm@yahoo.com
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Paul, sorry for the late reply! I did not know you had asked a question until now.
We are shooting in the New York City area. The film will be shot using the HPX3000 and I will be editing it on FCP6.
We are looking for an advisor — someone who has used this camera with FCP6 (preferably on a narrative) who could give us a few hours of his time to show us the entire workflow with the camera all the way to editing. If he has demo footage from the camera, we would love to see it!
We will compensate him for his time, albeit meagerly, as this is an independently-financed film.
Any reference will be greatly appreciated!
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Thanx Paul! The mirrored-drive back-up solution sounds like a good idea, but if I may ask, how was this done on the shoot? Did you have a laptop on set (with P2 slot) and unloaded the footage onto an external? Or did you bring it into the studio at the end of the day and backed up using a desktop? We will appreciate it if you are specific.
Our grievance with the 3000 is the lack of variable frame-rates aka Varicam. However, does anyone know if Shake can slow the clips down convincingly with it’s time-remapping tools?
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Noah, I outputted the greenscreened clip from Motion using the ProRes422 codec and reimported, but the alpha background was lost! So I did lossless movie + alpha codec output and reimported that. This time, the alpha was perserved, but again the exact same problem occurs when I apply stylize filters!
I have stills of my Motion project settings and examples so you can know what I am talking about exactly. If you feel you need to know better what is happening, I can email you the pics. Just provide your address!
Thank you. By the way, I went to the HD survival Guide website. I assume you are involved with that — good stuff!
-SHAH
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I am not offering a solution — just wanted to know if you found a solution to your problem as I have been having the same problems (I miss the command + and – shortcuts from FCP, which in motion only changes the size of the view).
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I just downloaded the Noise Industries FXFactory 2.0.1 demo for Motion and FCP which includes the reflection plug-in — truly great!
Try it for 15 days:
The effect will show up under NI Distort/Perspective Reflection
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Thanks, Shane. We did not shoot 24n with the HVX — perhaps that is the reason for the stuttering motion.
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I am not talking about differences in picture quality between the cameras — that is a given. The MOTION is noticeably choppier, and I believe this is a settings issue (either with the HVX200 or FCP 5.0). I needed someone to tell me what settings they have everything on — I checked all my resources and still the motion is apparent.
I have seen smooth motion on the HVX200 – so this choppiness in the 24p timeline (next to Varicam clips) is perpelexing.
any thoughts?