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|  | PAL Speedupby Michael Nichols 3 years agoIs this REALLY acceptable when delivering PAL masters An instant cinema tools conform to 25FPS looks SO much better than the 60hr Compressor render that is giving me motion artifacts on pans and camer | Re: PAL Speedup
by Michael Nichols 3 years ago
Thanks guys! Believe it or not, I think the speed up actually HELPS the pacing of my film. Huh, don't let the editor know I said that...Wait, I am the editor!! Abel Cine Tech - Rental Coordinator Phan
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| | Outputting 25fps to 50i through Konaby Michael Nichols 3 years agoAnything special I need to know with regards to sending footage that was run through compressor originating in 23.98 to 25fps, then out to 625 PAL digibeta @50i I assume the Kona will interlace for me | |
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| | Real Time playback and Kona NDD 8.0by Michael Nichols 3 years agoAm I supposed to have real time playback out SDI through my Kona with NDD driver installed for Kona 3 It appears that I do now! I switched over from the standard driver to the NDD, and lo and behold: | Re: al Time playback and Kona NDD 8.0
by Michael Nichols 3 years ago
It flutters between 22-23.98 on 23.98fps DPX files. It only works if "update UI while playing" is disabled. I am playing the DPX files off a Promise at academy 2K resolution. Abel Cine Tech - Rental C
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|  | Tangent Wave iPad Interfaceby walter biscardi 3 years agoWell in addition to the Nuke demo down below and the other product I'm testing, add Tangent to the "Wave" of iPad controls. Somebody shot this demo of their prototype software at IBC. http: www.youtub | Re: Tangent Wave iPad Interface
by Michael Nichols 3 years ago
This sort of bridges the gap for people wanting dual mouse input but doesn't replace the need for a surface control. Abel Cine Tech - Rental Coordinator Phantom HD Gold Arri Alexa Red MX 212.462.0163
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| | Deliverablesby Michael Nichols 3 years agoI am scared, because what I am doing seems to be working, but I guess I refuse to believe that Final Cut Pro is this powerful! I am have to deliver 5.1 Printmaster and M&E tracks with a stereo mix in | Re: Deliverables
by Michael Nichols 3 years ago
Wait...is that because I am looking at the 23.98 HD master file in a project set up for PAL As a test, I did a .1% speed change to the HD 23.98 master file in my PAL 25fps project and it snapped exact
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| | Frame Rates and Audioby Michael Nichols 3 years agoI have a project that I am exporting a few different tapes as masters for: HDCAM-SR @1080 23.976psf D-Beta 525 @ 29.97NDF D-Beta PAL @ 25fps I am using my SRW-5800 to crossplay the HDCAM-SR master to | Re: Frame Rates and Audio
by Michael Nichols 3 years ago
I used compressor and set it to maintain the speed at 100% of the original and maxed out all the settings. I have an 8 core with a virtual cluster set up and it took about 13hrs to transcode. The resu
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| | Quicktime reading timecodeby Michael Nichols 3 years agoI am doing the closed captioning on my film in movcaptioner and my sequence has a picture start time at the 1HR mark on the timecode, but when I export out of the quicktime, my start time is zeroed. I | |
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|  | Best Captioning Software?by Kellie Michell 3 years agoWhich software is best recommended for creating closed captions for web encoded video like those on YouTube Thanks. Mitch | Re: Best Captioning Software?
by Michael Nichols 3 years ago
My issue is that I need to delivery sync'd .SCC and .CAP files. CPC is great in that they offer file conversions, but my question now is if I am delivering Digibeta @ 29.97 and HDCAM-SR at 23.98, do I
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| | Deliverablesby Michael Nichols 3 years agoI have to digitally delivery my CC for a feature that just landed distribution. I am working on the transcription now (paragraph form in textedit). I have to deliver an .SCC file and .CAP file. I have | Re: Deliverables
by Michael Nichols 3 years ago
Thanks guys. Jason, what version of MacCaption would be best for me, as I am a broke filmmaker only needing to output a sync'd .CAP file and .SCC file. I could send it out to be done, but I'd rather d
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| | Don't shoot (gamma shift)by Michael Nichols 3 years agoBefore I get lambasted let me say that I am monitoring out of Color and FCP properly through a Kona 3 over HD-SDI to JVC 24HD monitor. I am sending DPX files to color that are 10bit RGB LOG. (1828x780 | |
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| | Ooops?by Michael Nichols 3 years agoI was messing around with LUTs, Gluetools and AJA Control Panel. I returned to a my Color Project and Everything is out of whack. I did un-click "Force RGB" but everything is out of whack. I am workin | Re: Ooops?
by Michael Nichols 3 years ago
The few clients I have brought over have really dug it! Abel Cine Tech - Rental Coordinator We now have Red and SI-2K in our Rental Fleet! 212.462.0163 mnichols at abelcine dot com
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|  | Good Pixel speeds for Scrolling creditsby Eugene Lehnert 3 years agoI finally figured out how to make scrolling credits in 59.94 HD look good when downconverted to NTSC. I new 120 pixels second was the way to go for NTSC but I never even though to increase that rate f | |
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| | Pass timecodes through in DPX rendersby Michael Nichols 3 years agoI have DPX files from an Arri Scanner that has timecode embedded in it. I am doing some work on the files in AE. When I render out to DPX, new timecode is written (starting at zero). It's making a con | |
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| | DPX managementby Michael Nichols 3 years agoI don't really use AE with DPX files much. Usually it's Shake. I am doing some de-noise filters in AE. How can I pass the DPX files through AE without affecting the colorspace My problem is something | Re: DPX management
by Michael Nichols 3 years ago
Strange...I just discovered a weird quirk in the FCP - Color - FCP roundtrip! If a DPX stack doesn't have a "REEL" name, but others in your sequence do, then XML transfer will fail. My issue wasn't re
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|  | Ki Pro Rental (x4)by Jason White 4 years agoI know these units are very new, but I was wondering if anyone on the forum had a lead on a company that is going to have these units available for rent in the next few weeks. I am working a festival | Re: Ki Pro Rental (x4)
by Michael Nichols 4 years ago
Hey Steve, sorry I didn't see this earlier. We have a few units at Abel Cine Tech in New York and Burbank for future reference. Abel Cine Tech - Rental Coordinator We now have Red and SI-2K in our Ren
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| | Rendering 10bit RGB DPX filesby Michael Nichols 4 years agoI am working with some 10bit RGB LOG files from an ARRI scanner. I am using Final Cut Pro and Gluetools to read the DPXs native in my FCP sequence. I am rendering out stacks from Shake. Do I need to d | |
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| | Ramping with Phantom Footageby Michael Nichols 4 years agoAnyone have any resources for tips I am working with footage at 500+ frames and going for that "Saw" type of scattered ramp for a reveal. What I have been doing is using Time Displacement, but I think | Re: amping with Phantom Footage
by Michael Nichols 4 years ago
Wow, kind of rude, but anyway... The Phantom is a high speed digital cinema camera and I am shooting at a frame rate of 500fps and above and I wanted to do a speed ramping effect similar to what you w
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| | Using Audio inputs for voiceworkby Michael Nichols 4 years agoJust curious. I have a 4 channel, powered mixer. Maybe with Logic or Soundtrack Pro (or even FCP), can I use the line outs from the mixer into the inputs on the breakout cable and capture live Audio t | |
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| | "remember last" setting for monitors?by Michael Nichols 4 years agoI seem to recall a way to set your output to "remember last" application so that you don't go to color bars everytime you click out of Final Cut Pro or AE etc. Is that an application specific setting, | |
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| | 10bit Rendering and Final Cut Proby Michael Nichols 4 years agoI have seen this asked and "answered" all over the cow and web, but have seen conflicting answers. Quite simply, if I render something (such as an opacity change) in a sequence in FCP that is set to 1 | |
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| | Files reading as 8bit?by Michael Nichols 4 years agoI have 10 bit RGB QT files (Kona RGB LOG) that are showing up in Shake as 8bit in the viewer window. I have 4.1.1, so 10bit rendering has been addressed. Is there some limitation with these files Also | Re: Files reading as 8bit?
by Michael Nichols 4 years ago
Nope! Shake reads the DPX files as 16bit! All is well regarding my second post. The original files, being DPX scans read at 16bit and then we resampled to 10bit on the Export. The files I am working o
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| | FileOut DPX frame settingsby Michael Nichols 5 years agoI am batch exporting FileOut nodes to DPX sequences. The problem I am having is that all the nodes are rendering out the global amount of frames per sequence. If stack 1 has 788 frames and stack 2 has | |
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| | Holy Crap I love Shake!by Michael Nichols 5 years agoThis app is incredible!! Maybe I am opening up a can of worms, but I wonder why it was EOL'd. | Re: Holy Crap I love Shake!
by Andrew Shanks 5 years ago
Yeah, Shake certainly is a sweet application, the rumor why Apple stopped developing it in its current form was that the code was getting too old and a rewrite was necessary (i.e. base it on a newer f
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