Zack Hill
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can you bypass 5.1.3 all together and go straight to 5.1.4?
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Wayne Carey says
“HDV is not an editable format. Sony engineers will tell you this BUT it seems that Sony marketing has left this out of their ad campaigns. Well…. if you are only planning to edit one stream of video with no effects and simple titles… HDV will do just fine. BUT just wait until you have to conform your sequence when you want to send your timeline to tape… ”
Wayne, can you expand on this? Do you mean “uneditable” because it would be very difficult to stack clips upon on another and the render time would be out of control, or do you mean uneditable because it is impossible to log and capture the HDV footage like you would with regular say SD footage? I was just checking out my cart at B&H for the sony HVR V1U and the sony HVRM15U deck, and you got me all freaked out.
Please explain more!jesus
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G5 guad 2gigs FCP5.1.2 -
thank you!
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I found this online and thought it might be helpful:
24p workflow on the mac
I just shot and cut a little two minute piece so that I could shakedown the camera and the workflow with Final Cut Pro.
Worked pretty nicely.
Shoot 24p Scan A mode. Capture in Final Cut as Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60. Open your capture scratch folder and, one clip at a time, right click the clip and open with cinema tools. Do not move the playhead!! choose reverse telecine, be sure conform to says 23.98 and near the bottom of the screen choose _CD_. After the footage has been pulled down you should see no interlaced frames of any kind. Create a new AIC 1080i60 sequence in FCP, but change its frame rate to 23.98 in sequence settings (you’ll see the field dominance switch to none).
Note it only works this easily if you shoot 24p scan A mode so that the cadence resets every time you pause the camera. if you shoot in regular 24p, you’ll have to find the A frame for each clip you pull down, and that is a pain with AIC.
You can’t use HDV native because cinema tools needs all I frames. AIC looks exactly like the HDV, it just takes up several times the disc space and you’ll lose the timecode. I did this with the current versions of FCP & CT. I’m not sure that it would work in older versions.
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any ideas of when FCP will support this camera?
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sorry jim, I meant Jim not Jeff..
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Jeff, I have been following your threads about the V1U camera as I am about to purchase one, and had a couple of questions. Wondering if I can pick your brain in an email? A simple question that might be answered here in the forum is, how are you capturing your media with this camera? Are you running your camera via firewire into your machine, or did you buy a deck to capture with?
I am really curious to how this camera functions in FCP, as that is what I will be editing the footage with, so any hints, tips, revelations, etc. would be greatly appreciated!
jesus
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bogiesan, I wondered about the idea of working with a reference movie in DVDSP, as I had read about this, but also read that compressor is a better tool than using DVDSP to compress Mpeg2. Have you tested out the two different methods? I would be really interested to know which is a more powerful and accurate tool. Thanks,
jesus
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it works that way when the photoshop document is in layers. If you flatten the image, it will act like a clip. When you double click on the PSD, and it has layers, you will notice that it comes up as a sequence with the individual layers on separate tracks. The image will do this even if it is only one layer, but will act like a clip if you FLATTEN IT IN PHOTOSHOP. I had the same experience, and finally figured it out. If you import the images as Jpegs or tiffs, they will work like a clip and open in the browser rather than making a new sequence.
good luck
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Thanks very much bruce and everyone for your helpfull comments. I think that the calibrating tool is a great idea, and a bit les expensive than a 1500 monitor. I am going to do some research on the information you guys have provided me. Thank you very much again!
jesus
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