Tom Bridges
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[gary adcock] “Even when the film is shot at 25 fps, film playback is still universally 24 around the world.”
Thanks Gary. You’re right, of course. I shot the film at 25 originally because I never originally envisaged a film out, and it made life easier to edit in PAL. I’ll conform it to 24.
All the best,
Tom
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Smoothcam is great and highly recommended. If you need even more control, then we’ve used PFTrack with PFStable and got wonderful results, particularly on aerial HD. It’s a true 3D solution.
Tom
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Thanks for your input Mark. Unfortunately the offline process is out of our hands: clients come to us with EDLs for onlining. But you’ve raised some very valid points that will be well worth investigating.
What still stumps me, though, is the fact that the slippage isn’t constant. We’ve observed the same thing coming in from everything from Digi masters over RS422 to HDV dupes (ugh). Our tech guy maintains that it’s a known bug with Avid EDLs
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Excellent. Just what we’re after. Thanks Walter.
Have you come across glitches with EDLs before?
Tom
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[Dean Sensui] “This could be done with After Effects or Commotion.”
Depending on the kind of camera movement you need matchmoved. For anything much more complicated than a track or pan, you need 3D matchmoving software such as Boujou, Matchmover, or the tools found in Inferno and Flame. We use PFTrack, which works well, and I’ve heard good things about SynthEyes at the lower end of the market. You’ll need a 3D app or compositor (ie. Nuke) to integrate all of the various elements.
Practical tip: use blue tracking markers: you can then get rid of these with a second key. Beats roto …
Good luck!
Tom
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Wouldn’t it be lovely to have some basic paint tools?
Sadly not. Photoshop’s probably your best bet for dust-busting on a budget. The Heal tool works really well, but it’s generally very time consuming. I believe AE and Combustion are pretty good, too, but I’ve been lazy and haven’t investigated properly. Higher-end, there are dedicated programs like Mokey, PFClean, Shake and so on.
Hope that helps,
Tom
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Actually, I think it might be the monitors. We’ve just ordered a whole load of G5s; most have the 30″ display, which is fine, but we’ve got a couple of machines with dual 23″ displays, and they’re showing the same kind of burn in. I’ll try one on one of our PCs and report back.
Thanks,
Tom
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[Scott Shucher] “I’m going to want to re-render to an
8-bit uncompressed sequence and output via the Kona 2 to beta sp and maintain a letterboxed 16×9.”What exactly do you mean by maintain a letterboxed 16:9? You’re working in anamorphic already, right? If your sequence is set up correctly, as it sounds it is, Final Cut will preview at the correct aspect ratio, but it’s still anamorphic.
If you want a true letterboxed version for SP, the simplest way is to nest your edit into a 4:3 timeline, open up the Motion Tab and change the aspect ratio (under the Distort tab) to -33.333. (for PAL at least, pretty sure the same for NTSC. Anyone?) I also like to open up Sequence Settings, and ensure that Motion Filtering Quality in the Video Processing tab is set to best.
Hope that helped,
Tom
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Slightly better way is to Mark Clip (X), then use Select In to Out (Option-A) to select it.
Any better ideas, anyone?
Thanks,
Tom
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