Steven Gladney
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Hi Jeremy,
I was following the thread in which you were helping Jaenet and was hoping you might be able to assist me with something.
Please see the link to my original post below for full details:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/193/872737
Now, while I’m waiting on a response, I’m trying to do a little troubleshooting on my own to see if I can figure this thing out. I’m trying to go through compressor to see if I can reverse telecine my clips that way and I was looking at your thread that you referred to Jaenet.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/995940
My question was, when I’m creating the preset in Compressor (I usally never use custom sets, always the presets) do I need to:
1. Change my “Scan Mode:” to progressive or leave it at “Interlaced” (I’m thinking the latter).
2. Do I need to move my “Quality” Scale up to best or leave it at it’s default “Medium” (This time I’m thinking the former, but I’ve also heard stories of how not to touch certain things in compressor because you may think you’re doing some good, but only making it worse).
Any feedback you can provide would be appreciated.
Steven Gladney
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BRILLIANT!!! Awesome idea! Thanks so much for sharing that, Mark!
Steven Gladney
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Hi Mark,
Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. Unfortunately, no, I was never able to resolve the issue with the footage. Ended up clearing and formatting the HD and haven’t had any problems since. I just make sure I check as I’m shooting now just to be sure. Wish I could offer some additional advice. I did keep the files that were not playing on my computer, though, to maybe play with again later. Good luck.
Steven Gladney
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Thanks for the input guys.
Kevin, the samples that we shot are lit correctly (background is definitely lighter the lightest hi-light in subject) but I’m not very familiar with the luma key effect and not sure how to make the controls work. Suggestions?
I did try Darby’s suggestion and it looks like it will work well, but I’m rendering out a sample now to try. My only concern with the Extract filter is it doesn’t give any kind of edge feather controls, but being it will be on a white background anyway, I think it will still work fine.
Consequently, I would like to hear any additional feedback regarding shooting on a green screen and replacing the background with white. I’ve done a little research online and a few things I was reading was suggesting that if you are going for an infinite white look, its better to shoot on a white screen (which I had already). If you think I’ll pretty much get the same effect keying off of a green screen (which I’m much more familiar with) then please let me know.
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Hi Jeff,
If I’m not mistaken, if you recorded 24PN, then you didn’t record over 60 (or 59.94). The N in PN means “Native” so the camera doesn’t record the extra frames that would need to be removed as pull-down in post production (which is why you get more recording time on the P2 card). I believe if you want to output to HD tape, then you have to record 24P (which IS over 60) because DVCPro HD tape only records “over 60” (this is assuming I recall my HVX200 Bootcamp training correctly). Barry Green or Shane Ross maybe able to offer some more input for your situation specifically.
Steven Gladney
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Hey Thomas,
I’ve looked at your picture and, I’m sorry, but I don’t see what you’re talking about. Your still doesn’t look very “noisy” at all. A little pixelated maybe, but don’t see any “real” noise. I’ve used the HVX200 for several months now and as long as I’ve had sufficient lighting, I’ve never had a problem with noise. My suggestion would be to check your gain settings first. Make sure you’re gain toggle switch hasn’t been toggled down accidently or something. Also, check your gain settings in your menu. Are you working with any unusual scene files or user files? Make sure your gain isn’t set to like -12 db by default or something like that. But again, I really can’t see anything that you’re talking about from the still.
Steven Gladney
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Rumpy, you keep saying that Discovery won’t let you use the HVX200 as your “Primary” camera for acquisition. Shane, correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t you guys use a Varicam as your “Primary” and the HVX’s as secondary units? If so, then does that answers your question, Rumpy.
Steven Gladney
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Hey Anthony,
I have a small bus powered g-drive that I use with my 17″ Powerbook G4 and I absolutely love it! Mine isnt’ even a RAID and I can do VERY limited editing on it. My recommendation would really be based on what you see yourself doing the most. If you see yourself using the drive as an almost always dump drive and don’t plan on editing anything more than simple cuts, I would suggest going with the larger 5200 rpm drive. If you think you would be doing any significant editing (even once), keep in mind that you really won’t be able to even fill the drive to near capacity because 1. you’ll have to “convert” all of your .mxf files to quicktime files (which will take up even more space) and 2. you still need to have a minimum amount of space remaining on your drive if you want FCP to act right. Plan to use your external as a dump only, and if you do that, I suggest going with more space.
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Thanks Barry,
That’s what I pretty much figured. And thanks for the heads-up on DVCPro50 as well.
Steven Gladney
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Hey Lars,
Very good. I really liked it. You shot, edited and produced?
Steven
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