Tom Wolsky
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I take it all back. I was wrong about my first comments. I’m sure I saw that in an earlier version, but I’m not getting that in 5.0.2.
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It’s a kludge that Panasonic built into their cameras to reduce the bandwidth. It’s not anamorphic in the strict sense because the material is not being squeezed. Panasonic has some euphemism for it, but basically it doesn’t effect the output in anyway. When you record back to DVCPRO HD the material is processed down to this size for recording.
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That seems to be the case for anything it sees as variable speed change. It shouldn’t do it for a constant speed change, but if a clip uses time remapping just to make a freeze frame or a constant slomo, it’ll be treated the same way.
Material brought from sequences created in earlier versions may not MM properly. I never had a chance to try that enough. The wrong section of material for speed changes is a common problem with material that’s captured in lengths of more than 10-15 minutes. It still may be a problem with some material in v5.
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Time remapping requires you to capture all the material for that piece of media. The way time remapping works is you select a frame number and position it at different frame number in the clip. Because this is based on the whole piece of media you can’t change the number of frames in the media or the time remap will kludge. That’s why you’re getting so little file size reduction when you MM. This was changed in v5 because speed was such a mess in media manager in earlier versions. It’s not a great solution, but it’s the only one they’ve come up with.
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Can’t help you I’m afraid. Can’t see why it doesn’t work on your machine and does work on mine. Maybe something about the way the material’s captured, but I can’t think what. Mine’s captured in long blocks and it works as it should, at least as far as consolidating and deleting unused goes.
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Just tested it again. Didn’t need to make clips independent. This may have changed in 5 or 5.0.2. Thirty second commercial with a copy function cut down to 3.5G from 12.6G.
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Did you use “Make sequence clips independent”? Uncheck other affiliate clips or whatever it says down there?
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Did you scale, rotate, reposition the image in any way? It’s always best to do garbage mattes to image at full size and resolution before applying motion effects. The garbage point mattes are based on the image in relation to the canvas and have no bearing on its current position, size or orientation.
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That’s more helpful. There have been issues with media manager and multiclips. Did you collapse the multiclip? I think 5.0.2 addressed some of that.
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I can’t help. I’ve not seen that.