Walter Biscardi
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We have this plug-in as part of a suite we purchased and the video always looks very soft and muddy to me when using it. Not really sure what you’re doing wrong, as it’s pretty straightforward here. Just drop the filter on and go.
But for all our up-conversion we use the AJA Kona boards since they look incredible and it’s all realtime. If you have a lot of up converting to do, it’s really the only way to accomplish this and have superior quality.
FYI, After Effects has a much more intelligent rendering process hence the same filter will look much better in AE than it does in FCP.
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What you’re doing is probably how I would approach it. Although what I would do is set the various versions of the video on multiple video tracks so you can easily drag and drop the filters to the various versions.
Say you’ve got a whole bunch of these little clips that went yellow. Put them all on Video Track 2. Grade the first one. Then drag that filter to all the rest of them.
You’ve got a bunch of similar blue clips, put them all on Video Track 3. Repeat the process from above.
And so on……
At the very end, put them all onto a single video, highlight them all and place a 1 second dissolve on all the cuts to smooth the transitions.
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For a play only BluRay disc we use Adobe Encore to author. It works very well for this task.
For video compression, we make MPEG-2 and AC-3 files in Compressor, similar to what you would do for a DVD, only at a much higher resolution on the video side.
This is what we do for all our festival BluRay discs and BluRay disc sales.
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Ripple tool as others have said will do you good.
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[Jeff Greenberg] “Well, the MPEG-2 method isnt’ as good as an h.264 (for bluray.)”
It isn’t? We’ve been making BluRays for four years now, all MPEG-2. Most of the BluRays I have purchased commercially have been MPEG-2. H264 really hasn’t taken as much of a hold of BluRay until recently and still isn’t all that widely used.
We still use MPEG-2 for all our BluRays here as the quality is near identical to the HD originals. We’ve done something like 200+ BluRay discs now over the past two years alone.
Just go with MPEG-2 for the video, AC-3 for the audio and use Adobe’s Encore if you only want to have a “Play Only” disc. Toast can do the same. We use Compressor to compress our files.
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You also use a KVM Switch with long cables if they’re not too long. Or you could bring the HDMI monitor into your room…. 🙂
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So how does eyetv record the signal? Is it true HD, is it letterboxed SD?
Sounds like you’re getting a letterbox or anamorphic signal from the recording that FCP will compensate for but when you put that file out for viewing, the anamorphic comes back into play so it gets letterboxed.
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Nothing in this list will work with 2k to my knowledge.
This will:
https://www.maxxdigital.com/evo-2k-expando.htmlThis will:
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiond800raid.htmlIn other words, cheap arrays will not work for the data throughput for 2k as explained in my first post.
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I can only tell you that when folks use Apple Color with projects edited in Avid, the general workflow is to send a self contained Quicktime Movie of the entire movie to the colorist. The colorist then slices up the entire film and sends that into Color for grading. The colorist then either sends back a new self contained quicktime movie or the entire film in its sliced up form back to the Avid editor.
I would suspect you would want to follow the same general idea for this. I honestly didn’t know Vegas had a good color correction tool, that’s good to know.
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You recorded a commercial program off your TV and you’re trying to edit this in FCP? Is this correct?
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