[Tom Meegan]

This is easy in FCP 6

[Tom Meegan]

On the computer side, Dell 2407s are very good, and less expensive than the Apple Cinema displays.

Be well.

Tom

[Tom Meegan]

Here is the good inexpensive choice:

https://www.matrox.com/video/products/mxo/home.cfm

Use and Apple Cinema display with the MXO.

Here is a better (IMHO) but more expensive flat screen choice:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=details&kw=PABTLH2600W&is=REG&Q=&O=productlist&sku=435205

Panasonic BT-LH2600

[Tom Meegan]

Composite filtered video over itself without filters, ie:

Layer one, video unfiltered
Layer two, same video filtered.

Composite mode on layer two. Experiment with different composite modes to get an effect you like. Also, adjust the opacity on layer two to control the strength of the effect.

Another thought, apply smoothcam and then play with the Mix parameter.

Tom

[Tom Meegan]

https://www.dnfcontrols.com/product/detail.jsp?product=890&type=53&ref=1

This is one of the controllers we use in sports trucks to do slow motion replays from digital betadecks.

rs 422 on the back

[Tom Meegan]

DV NTSC is the easy set-up you should use.

DV footage requires approximately 228 Mbytes per minute or 14 Gbytes per hour.

This footage should reside on a drive other than your boot drive to increase system stability.

Best of luck.

Tom

[Tom Meegan]

FCS 2 is a wonderful, flexible system.

However, you should compare FCS 2 to Adobe CS3 Production Premium. It is very competitive and runs on both Mac and Windows.

https://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/features/

https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/

Good luck with your choice, and I’m sorry to hear about the demise of your Media 100.

Tom

[Tom Meegan]

Use the optical in if your dat player has an optical out. This will be the cleanest signal, however…

It may be smarter to dub to DV tape, then capture the DV tape with firewire so you have a time coded source if the project might need to be batch captured in the future.

Depends on the project.

iMic is a very low cost way to get an analog signal into your system if you don’t need time code, and don’t have an optical output from your DAT deck.

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_thread.cgi?forumid=30&postid=856843&univpostid=856843

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/review_imic.html

https://www.mac-pro.com/s.nl/it.A/id.3237/.f?sc=2category=41

[Tom Meegan]

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/deinterlace/deinterlace.html

That turorial, although it is in after effects give the jist of how a basic deinterlace filter works.

Deinterlacing is the process of making footage that was shot interlaced, more appropriate for viewing on a progressive scan monitor.

This is done by interpolating the data in the lines that were not recorded in each field, often sacrificing temporal resolutions and sharpness, to avoid flickering and stairstepping artifacts.

The best way depends very much on your footage, your deadline, and your delivery medium, and your and your client’s quality sensitivity.

Here is a technique lifted from:

https://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?11,153025,166899

From Joel Peregrine:
Highlight a clip, duplicate it and place it directly above itself in the same way your technique is set up. Set the V2 opacity at 50%. Now place the “de-interlace” filter (with the “LOWER” setting selected) on the V1 clip. Next, place “de-interlace” (with the “UPPER” setting selected) on the V2 clip. Thats it!!! No interlaced-induced flicker. Full resolution, No strobing, No jaggies, just a subtle, classy, non-video look.

Me again…

For my time and money Nattress Film Effects is a good choice for this kind of work…

https://www.nattress.com/Products/filmeffects/G_Smart_DeInterlace.htm

Good luck.

Tom

[Tom Meegan]

https://dvcreators.net/how-do-i-add-transitions-to-multiple-clips-all-at-once-in-final-cut/

Watch the movie… I hope that helps.

Tom