[W. Lawrence stevens]

Thank you for this helpful advice. Unfortunately, the Canon footage is merely B cam so we can’t work on it first. The main timeline needs to be from the XD Cam footage.

I have not had any crashing problems but then again, I have been unable to drag anything into the 60i timline without having to re render everything. Maybe the solution is to shoot the Canon 60i and convert to 24p/film look when we are posting?

Can I convert the 24p footage to 60i? I thought this would be easy. Silly me!

[W. Lawrence stevens]

Thanks Todd. Good advice. We have not tried to post anything yet but that is coming very soon. I am assuming there are alot of software/post options to achive the look I am after as well.

Re: Glamour, that’s what I call it most often. I’m published in Penthouse every month (for my still photography work) and I often say I’m a “nature” photographer 🙂

[W. Lawrence stevens]

John: thank you so much for our quick reply. I have tried a SoftFX1 recently and its pretty decent but not quite right. When using that filter, I increased the detail by 3 clicks out of 100 (very minor) because I was doing a similar thing on the Betacam. I am thinking this is going to be a long process of trial and error 🙂

Thank you again.

[W. Lawrence stevens]

Thanks John: that’s probably where I’m headed. Any suggestions in LA for someone who can get me set up with what I need? So far, I’m not thrilled with anyone.

[W. Lawrence stevens]

Todd: Thanks so much for your very helpful input. I was pretty much thinking the same thing; namely, proceed with a process of elimination starting with the ballast. It also makes more sense that the problem is a light output intensity issue rather than colorshift. I will do the troubleshoot and report back on my results and conclusions. Many thanks!

Cheers!

WLS