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Not sure if it’s anything like what you’re looing for but have a look at the Highlighter effect I’ve just posted:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/344/7153
It might work …?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “And Alexa, and Phantom, and Sony….and the equivalent large sensor DSLRs”
For anybody interested in comparing rolling shutter artefacts among the various cameras out there, it’s well worth checking out Zacuto’s Great Camera Shoutout 2011:
https://www.zacuto.com/the-great-camera-shootout-2011/episode-three
Some pretty startling results (as in startlingly not good), even from some of the more expensive cameras.
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There’s a free online conversion utility here:
https://video.online-convert.com/convert-to-wmv
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[Jeremy Garchow] ” I think camera manufacturers need to step up and prevent rolling shutter altogether. :)”
Agreed!!!!! It’s a shocker, really. And just try doing any visual effects when you have to cope with rolling shutter – not a pretty picture! And as for 3D motion tracking – forget it. And let’s not forget that the RED uses CMOS as well …
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[Jeremy Garchow] ”
Even SmoothCam in FCP Legacy is just OK. It’s awesome when it works, but if fails spectacularly when it doesn’t.”I think what’s disappointing for me is not so much the stabilization aspect as how ineffective FCPX is in handling rolling shutter, which was supposed to be one of the selling points.
My experience has been that it’s mostly completely useless for rolling shutter (or rather every time I’ve tried it the results were such that it was better not to use it at all) but the stabilization is handy though not markedly better or worse than Smoothcam.
The warp stabilizer is an astonishing thing however – another bit of genuine class from Adobe.
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[Kati Haapamäki] “I have completely forgotten the existence of Compressor 4. I never liked Compressor, 3 but I really see hope in version 4.”
Gary Adcock has a great review of Compressor 4 here which is well worth reading to cut through the confusion:
https://www.macworld.com/article/161002/2011/07/compressor4.html
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[Kevin Matluk] “I’ve been scouring the web and forums trying to find the best solution”
I think you’ll find that the “best solution” is entirely a matter of taste rather than something you will be able to evaluate objectively.
Learning Media Composer will be the most clearly valuable skill you can acquire for a good time to come.
Premiere Pro is easy to pick up if you know FCP 7 or earlier. It’s worth making the effort to get to know it even if only superficially as its interchange with After Effects makes it very useful for graphics-intensive edit jobs and it’s sure to be gaining ground rght now, though not as much as Adobe are probably hoping.
Learning FCPX is really not as hard as people make out and is quite a lot of fun but has questionable value in terms of getting professional editing work in the immediate term.
But as I say, no-one knows anything, so don’t take my word for any of it …
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[Drea Solan] “In my current situation, I am limping along with FCP 6.06”
The ony thing I will say is whatever you do, don’t use FCP 7 or earlier as a downscaling tool – the results are really poor, whatever pre- or post-processing you might want to apply.
Compressor (while not anywhere near the quality of expensive hardware scaling solutions) will give you a far better result – Compressor 4 is insanely cheap/good value.
If you have Adobe Creative Suite, you will also have Adobe Media Ecnoder which can give good results but lacks the level of control that you get with Compressor.
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[Andy Neil] ” And with the 64 bit rewrite, it does a good job of using all cores.”
I thought there was some discussion as to whether or not Compressor 4 actually is a 64 bit application as such (e.g):
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3135546?start=0&tstart=0
“The CompressorJobController is 64 bit. The application itself (and its individual, processor core specific instances) are still 32 bit.”
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Have you tried using the Share/DVD option to make a DVD directly from inside FCPX? It might not help but it’s possibly worth a try.
Simon Ubsdell
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