Soreyrith Um
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Thanks guys, for the quick replies. I’ll check them out.
To make life easier, I was thinking of even just doing a freeze frame of the hand holding the phone, while the video is playing. But if it’s fairly easy to do it with Motion or Mocha, then I’ll give it a try.
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I have not used it myself, but have seen very good results posted on other video boards. Seems like it is very easy to use, but may take a lot of rendering time.
Neat Video just released a version for FCP yesterday. They have a free demo version, which I will try out shortly.
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You can improve the intelligibility of human voice by boosting the area around 1.8KHz by +3dB, Q=1. You can also reduce interference from the music by cutting a hole in the music at 1.8KHz by -3dB, Q=1. You can do this in FCP or STP, but STP gives you more choices.
You can also use compression to make a voice appear stronger and reduce background noise. However, most recorded music is already compressed, so additional compression probably won’t help here. When voice and music compete, it’s better to use the equalization technique above.
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I often have problems editing to tape, but they always go away when I trash preferences. Not sure why it’s like that, but it works.
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If it’s a low frequency hum, you might be able to get away with just a high pass filter or parametric equalizer. If it’s in a building, it’s usually a multiple of 60Hz, so you can try putting notches at 60Hz, 120Hz, 180Hz and see it it helps.
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I hope the fields are NOT identical, because that would just be line doubling.
I only have experience with Panasonic, but the video is captured in progressive, but laid to tape as interlace. You still have the progressive look. Probably the same for Sony and Canon.
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I edit DVCProHD 1080p without RAID, and it works just fine. I used to have 2 disks RAIDed at RAID 0, but then one started to fail. Was able to restore all the data, but I decided to give non-RAID a try. Didn’t really notice much difference in speed.
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I think you’ve discovered that what’s considered “white” is very subjective. Your eyes are very adaptable.
D65 is the proper setting because that’s basically what all the TV’s and production monitors are balanced to. If your D65 setting looks too amber, I would suggest comparing the output to some regular TV’s or a CRT production monitor. If the colors are different, then the color balance on your monitors may be off. Then it’s time to get a colorimeter, like a Spyder or similar device, and color balance the monitors. Monitors have a tendency to drift, so it’s a good idea to color balance every 6 months or so.
I ended up buying a refurbished Sencore CP288 color analyzer on eBay. They were designed for CRT’s, but they work on LCD’s, too (though maybe not as well). Haven’t gotten it yet, so I can’t say how well it works. But I think some other people on this site also use the same product.
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8-bit uncompressed takes a lot more than 1GB per minute, so you definitely need more disk space. If your original footage was DV and you ingested through firewire, then there’s really no advantage to saving it as uncompressed.