Uli Plank
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Animation is a pretty outdated codec and was never very useful for real life footage. I’d rather use something more contemporary.
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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The initial H.264 compression is so destructive, you won’t see any difference. Just wasting space!
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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Give MPEG Streamclip a try! It’s free, reliable and about twice as fast. BTW, the problem with clips not flagged correctly as progressive can be corrected easily in FCP’s browser. Just switch to “none”.
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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CS5 or not?
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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Yes, I’d always dial sharpening down to zero, it doesn’t do any good. You can always add some sharpening after grading, noise reduction etc. and use more sophisticated and fine-tuneable methods for that.
There’s good reason for RED not to have any in camera sharpening. It’s not bad per se, but you’ll want full control. The only place where it would make sense is video to be used without much post-processing at all. But that’s not what you’d get a DSLR for, that’s the domain of a video camcorder.
All other settings are highly dependent on your set, lighting and desired look. You need to get as close to desired look in camera as possible, since the massive compression together with 8 bit doesn’t leave too much room for grading – you images can fall apart quite easily. For example, I don’t subscribe to the idea of always shooting flat as sometimes suggested. If you need some punch later, you’ll have to stretch those few bits too much. Of course it makes sense with very high-contrast scenes, since the sensor can do much more than 8 bit.
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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Moiré is unavoidable in DSLRs. You can’t optimize the anti-aliasing filter for photography and video at the same time if the camera can’t shoot 24 fps full-frame and downscale after that.
But due to the narrow DOF, you can keep repetitive patterns out of focus most of the time…
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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It’s an average. There are huge differences depending on the filters and functions you use, it can range from a tad slower all the way to nearly 50% faster. You’ll need to fine-tune the use of your cores and RAM too, Todd Kopriva is giving some very good info about that. So, it’s hard to give a straight number – too many variables.
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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Yes, in particular with CS5. It’s very stable now with large images.
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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Don’t expect massive speed gains, this is not Premiere Pro. You may get some 30% on average if you have plenty of RAM (minimum 2 GB per core). Stability got much better when working with large images, though (we use 4K).
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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And IMHO the best software out there (if needed) is Neatvideo.
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts