Simon Webb
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Thanks Rafael! I shall order one immediately (AND make a habit of checking the archives in the future.. haha)
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Eeek! I hate when that happens.
I would suggest a narrative approach that would lead the audience to know what the interviewee is talking about (either a VO or something more clever that I’m just not clever enough to come up with).
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Assuming the effect you’re looking for is that of a ‘film camera being turned on and off’ (the flash to flash look, as it were) rather than the ‘film can containing the negative was inadvertently opened before development and the person responsible is about to get fired look,’ then there is one missing element from the look you’re trying to create.
Whenever I’ve used this effect, I always do a time remap of about 5 to 8 frames before and after the cut to mimic the film slowing and speeding up through the gate. The time remap before the cut ramps the speed up, the one after the cut ramps it down to 100%. Think “Man on Fire” and that’s the basic look.
As far as adding other elements (film grain, dust, etc), I’ve always been a fan of the Magic Bullet Misfire effects. They’re render whores, but they’re the executive call girls of the plug-in market.
Not that I’ve ever payed for sex… but… that’s WAY OT.
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I use a plug-in called Pan Zoom Pro.
https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/panzoompro/pzp.htm
It’s a bit of a pain to work with but the results are worth it.
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[walter biscardi] “No testing has been done on the PPC machines as of today and we will not know if those will be qualified until more testing is done. When the Io HD is released in July, AJA will release a full list of qualified machines that will work with the Io HD.”
Many thanks! I certainly do hope that it will work with the PPC Mac, I only just bought mine a little over two years ago… sigh
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Have I been reading wrong, or is the Io HD only available for Intel Macs?
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I’ve just had a great experience using Red Giant’s Instant HD in After Effects. I upconverted some NTSC DVCam footage to HDCam (1920 x 1080) 25p and the results have passed the network’s QC people! Granted, the footage that was upconverted was meant to look “dirty”, and we messed around with it a lot in colour correction, but for my money, I couldn’t have asked for anything more.
I should also point out that the footage was first deinterlaced using the REVision Effects deinterlacer plugin and then the deinterlaced footage was interpreted as 25fps rather than 29.97.
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I have no explanation for you (basically because I’m lazy and haven’t read up on why mpeg audio doesn’t import with the video), but I DO have a remedy for you!
Download a program called MPEG Streamclip at https://www.squared5.com/
It’s easy to use and it works for me. Oh, and it’s free!
Cheers.
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Check your FCP settings to see which drive you’re rendering to. That might be the problem.
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Of course, if it’s a copy protected DVD, you’ll have to use Mac The Ripper before you use the above mentioned apps.