Shiloh Heyman
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Hi Greg,
I am a noob myself, and I get allot of help here at the cow. I like to return the favor when I can. I hope I was able to help on your last post. If you hate the way the FCP manual was written as I do, I would recommend watching some video tutorials. Lynda.com has a wonderful online subscription training program and it is cheap. Total training is another great resource.
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It should sound very familiar, I based allot of my preliminary opinions and assumptions on information you have so generously made available. I haven’t had the opportunity too see any of these expensive tools in action. So I must put my faith in the opinions of those of you who have experience with them. I am very grateful for the resources you provide.
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If you know your going to go in for a zoom don’t set your iris any lower than f2.6 or f2.8 to start. I believe you can zoom all the way without going any higher than f2.8. If you need to open wider do a dolly, not a zoom. Yes all HDV cameras exhibit this behavior.
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I beat my head against the wall for 2 days over a brand new belkin cable. Don’t Use Belkin Cables!!!
I have also had intermittent problems when other firewire devices were connected to the mac while trying to capture. I would have to disconnect my audio interface and reboot before capturing HDV, Sony or Canon. Try disconnecting all other firewire devices while capturing.
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The canon f modes are not Psf. Try Easy Setup “HDV 1080p 25” for capture. Should work perfect. I use HDV 1080p 24 for 24f footage and it works perfect. I haven’t tried using 1080 24p in a 720 30p timeline. If you get frame rate funkiness you could try Nattress conversions filters.
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Not sure exactly the result your looking for, but try the mirror effect in the perspective category of the effects menu.
Once you have applied the effect double click the clip to load it to the viewer window and click the effects tab to access the settings. Click the “+ within a circle” button for reflective center. this will activate the cross hair on the canvas window. Now click and drag in the canvas window left or right to change the reflective center until you achieve the desired effect. If it seems like the reflective center is going the wrong way, rotate the clock dial for reflective angle to 180 and then play with reflective center again.
The are other more complicated ways of achieving a similar effect by using a duplicate of your clip on the video track above in conjunction with motion tab settings and masks, but I don’t have time to write a book.
Have fun.
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Thank You for taking the time and resources to make this footage available.
My opinion is that the long shot intros wold be the most useful clips for judging overall image quality, but they appear to be compressed (macro blocks). Is it possible to get them uncompressed?
I enjoyed comparing the footage from both cameras. EX1 is very impressive but noisy at 60i. It raises the question for a newbie like me, what is better the interlaced CCD (like my canon with your choice of interlace artifacts or compromised resolution in progressive mode) or the progressive CMOS which appears to have some issues with video noise?
Should the HPX3000 footage have interlacing artifacts like that when shot 24p with pulldown?
Thanks again for taking the time and giving us the opportunity to see footage from both of these amazingly cool cameras.
Shiloh
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Parallels uses a lot of memory, gives you no access to firewire and doesn’t seem to make use of multi processors properly. I always shut parallels down when doing anything of importance. As zrb123 says, I would use BootCamp or go CS3 for mac.
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Try changing the sequence setting to lower field first or even (for DV), then render. Your setup is making a progressive output which is not suitable for interlaced monitoring or delivery. So you must interlace your output if it is finally to be viewed on interlaced monitors (CRT TVs) or SD DVD.
You may also try rendering out from your 3D app with fields but make sure that you use the proper field order for your delivery format or the video footage you may be mixing it with.
If your delivery format is internet/computer video, 720p, 1080p or film out, you will want to stay progressive with you graphics and de-interlace any interlaced footage you have at some point in your work flow.
If going to SD DVD, your sequence can be progressive and compressor will interlace when re-compressing to mpeg2.
Good luck.
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Try rendering the clip. FCP may be playing back at lower quality to show you the effect without having to render.
Shiloh