Tom Brooks
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I’m exploring the same topic. Personally, I find the motion keyframing in FCP quirky. Maybe I just haven’t learned it properly.
Motion’s keyframe editor is less than stellar. But so far, for me, Motion is still better at doing moves, especially slightly more complex moves on photos. In my initial forays into it, I start by setting the main keyframes in a completely visual way. Turn on the record button, move to a place on the timeline and move the picture to where it needs to be, move to a new place, bring the photo to where it needs to be, and so on. Turn off the record button when you have all the basic positions set. Then go into the keyframe editor and adjust the keyframe interpolation. If you can deal with the round-tripping and rendering, it can work OK.
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Tried Cinema. No difference. Have been using Normal color temp. I’ll look into it a bit more and then it’s off for warranty repair if it looks bad. Thanks.
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That sounds like a drive formatted FAT32. Are you sure the FW drive is formatted Mac HFS+?
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We have the pany plasma (TH37PH9UK) and it’s useful, especially for the 720 60P projects for which it hits a real sweet spot. It does what I consider a decent job with SD interlaced material–in other words, it does a pretty good job of deinterlacing and scaling.
One thing I have recently found strange about the plasma is that a large white background displays as a definite gray. Smaller white areas are fully white, but when you try to display a whole screen full of white, it’s about 80% gray. Is that normal, or are we missing something in the setup? It’s calibrated to bars and we use the Standard setting with all the dynamic stuff turned off.
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Ed,
Yep, I have used that function with good results. I’ll have to weigh the advantages of a batch conversion of clips as opposed to a plug-in approach. I guess it comes down to which one saves the most time and quality and if it’s a tossup, the free one wins. Thanks.
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Thanks very much!
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Jeremy,
I deserve a good-natured ribbing I’m sure. Come one, come all!I have come a long way with this 30P thing. Your comments helped me to prove that you can indeed make a progressive 30P DVD. Apparently, others are skeptical of that. I figured if you were doing it on a regular basis it must work, but I had to take it all the way through the workflow to understand it myself. I regret putting people through any sort of tedium with me, but I thought my process, full of dead ends and red herrings, might be of interest in the greater scheme of things.
So, add to my findings: 30P DVD is as good as 24P DVD in terms of artifact-free progressive playback. Good stuff. After that, it’s a matter of preference and the various benefits of the timebase compatibility with 60P and 60i.
By the way, 30P should behave completely fine with 60P, no?
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My bad. It’s 3:3. Each 20P frame makes 3 fields.
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Right on. For an archive, you can’t do better than the original format. QuickTime Conversion always recompresses all frames, even if you stay in the same codec as the original. Export QuickTime Movie allows you to pass the DV through without recompressing.
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[Sean ONeil] “Keep in mind this was written in 2000. Nowadays, every single new TV or DVD player can deinterlace either film or video properly.”
The plasma I use certainly does deinterlace quite well. But even modern day tube TVs are still interlaced. Correct?