Uli Plank
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Sorry, the product to use Mac drives on a PC is called Mac drive (of course) and is from Media Four.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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Don’t!
I’m a die-hard Mac user, switched years ago to FCP for editing and never regretted it.
BUT a PC laptop is more reliable and faster in PCMCIA transfer. Until Apple has solved the issue with PCMCIA transfer I would go for a PC.
There’s one more advantage: You can use HDV-Rack on it for quality monitoring on set, which doesn’t run on a PowerBook (check the reviews here at the Cow).
You can always use PC drive to copy your cards content directly to a Mac formatted disk and use it right away on a Mac.
We bought an Acer Aspire 5652, which has a bright screen to display 1280×720 pixel by pixel
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That’s pretty strange, since both encoders are licensed by Dolby labs and they are very tight on their specs. Are you sure they have the same number of channels?
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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CHV Electronics makes a set of plug-ins for FCP, including some better looking 3D-effects.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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Have a look at the new fxFactory: https://www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory/index.html
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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Well, shooting in 24p would normally mean shooting with 1/48th of a second exposure to have a good amount of motion blur. Otherwise you’ll get jerky motion when something (or somebody) is moving fast.
But for chroma keying you’ll want clean edges: use the shortest time you can afford in your lighting situation. Also turn down sharpness until you don’t see any double edges on a good monitor any more, they can also spoil your key. After compositing you may need to introduce some motion blur again, I’d recommend RSMB from RE:VisionFX.Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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It all depends on your format for delivery. There is no advantage in 60p regarding chroma keying. Maybe your DOP is referring to motion blur, but he can always reduce exposure time for 24p as well.
Sometimes it makes sense to reduce blur for keying and add some to the composite with vectorized filters like RSMB.Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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AFAIK CitiDisk does not yet support DVCProHD, only HDV. They have been talking about ‘soon’ for a while, though.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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Which format (codec) do you use?
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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The FRC won’t help, since it will not find any flagged frames.
If you have more stuff from the Varicam, try Twixtor from http://www.revisonfx.com to generate the extra frames for 24 > 60. Depending on your footage, it can synthetize pretty convincing intermediate frames, but it’s slow.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.