Uli Plank
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These are times when I’m very glad not to have the most recent equipment
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We have such a little marvel and I may be able to help.
Of course you can shoot in 24p with the hack, just do what cine folks have done for more than fifty years: separate audio recording and a clap.
If the recording was done in 24p, the camera will have added fill frames in case you were not shooting in native mode. Then use the FRC (Frame Rate Converter) in FCP. If you don’t have it: there’s a free download from Panasonic.
If it was shot in 50p, there are too possibilities:
A) Drop every second frame withFCP and slow the resulting 25p version down to 24p (or 23.98) with the help of Cinema Tools. Voices and music will sound (close to) a semi-tone deeper. If you don’t want that, any good sound editing program can change speed without pich shift. This version can look jumpy if you didn’t use the camera like film folks would: very controlled movements, 1/50 th of a second shutter speed.
B) Use it like video an do the conversion with Graeme Nattress’ G Converter.
Hope this helps,
Uli
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Is it from film or video? If it’s video, do what Rafalaos suggested.
If it’s film, extract it like he said, slow the resulting QuickTime down to 24p with Cinema Tools, scale it down to NTSC in FCP (or Motion or AE) and encode it as 24p and it’ll look gorgeous.
Regards,
Uli
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Check http://www.aulich-adamski.de ,they’ve found a workaround for 50p until the next release of FCP is out (site is in German, but the PDFs are in English). Attention: no CC in Color with that!
Hope this helps,
Uli
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While I’ve always been recommending FieldsKit as well, recently I had some very critical footage (small lettering and over-sharpening from the camera) where Graeme Nattress’ de-interlacer plug-in for Color did a better job. These things depend very much on image content.
Regards,
Uli
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My short answer: Don’t waist your money on capture cards, get a better camera. DV ist 4:1:1 (in NTSC) and you can do nothing about it.
DVCPro50 for example is doing 4:2:2 and you can see that. If you want to stay in SD, there are good second-hand offers around these days.Regrads,
Uli
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I’m not surprised you have stutters with H.264. That’s not an editing format.
Stick with ProRes, get at least 4 GB RAM and set up a RAID0 of two SATA disks (minimum) and it should be smooth in that resolution.
Regards,
Uli
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When you’re saying “downrezed” are you talking about the ProRes codec only or about image size too? If the are truly gigantic, FCP won’t handle them. It’s limited to 2K, AFAIK, and you’ll need ore RAM even for that.
Regards,
Uli
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Yes, just like ” A Scanner Darkly”
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Thank you, Walter,
actually I’ve seen your comments over there already. I’ve had a look at TV Logic before (quite impressive), but never with interlaced input. It’s good to know that they can match interlaced display now.
Regards,
Uli