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August 4th, 2010, 07:45 AM | #31 |
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Well, it's like the early days of HDV - I prefered AIC until the hardware caught up. And even then, all renders were in ProRes.
I'm treating GoPro footage like HD-DSLR footage by taking it through MPEGStreamClip to get ProRes LT footage from the get-go, with an occasional dip into Cinema Tools to get things from 50 or 60 fps down to 25. Ditto for timelapse sequences. Right now, I'd rather edit, process and transcode from ProRes LT fottage, and retain the flexibility of shooting slomo than to be forced into editing H.264. And of course your mileage may vary - not wishing to impose my workflow on anyone, just saying there's different strokes.
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I'm not sure I understand this statement. Does shooting H264 somehow prevent you from doing slomo?
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Nope - just my unclear prose style. It's QuickTime being so very helpful.
If I take 720p60 H.264 movies and put them into a 720p25 sequence, FCP will, because of its QuickTime roots (albeit hastily bolted on roots), drop frames from the 60fps movie to make it the same duration as it would be at 60fps so as to match the audio, and thus the sequence. Edit: That last sentence is even more unclear. So: 10 sec shot at 60fps - duration 10 secs, 600 frames. Put into FCP sequence that's 25fps, frames are dropped so the duration is still 10 secs, but there's only 250 frames in that shot, doing a fairly intelligent job of which frames to drop to retain smoothness, but not perfection by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not slomo. QuickTime movies contain a bit of metadata which lists the fps or frame duration. Therefore, whatever the FPS, QuickTime will always play it back at the correct speed (which is why it's QuickTIME - as in time based media - not QuickVIDEO). But I'm rambling. The point is, Cinema Tools can change that data so forcing the movie shot at 60fps to play back at 24fps or 23.97 or whatever. Once you've done your H.264 or transcoded movie to your desired frame rate, it will import into FCP as slomo. No dropped frames. I think I'm making matters worse....
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No...I have it now.
Isn't there something in FCP like "interpret footage" in PPro? I can right-click and tell the clip to change its framerate in the bin...so, if I have my 720p60 "overcrank" GoPro clip (did this just recently actually) and want to place it on a 24p timeline, I just tell the clip that it is now 24 fps...voila...overcrank. Can you access the clip parameters in the bin somewhere?
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Yes, you can get clip properties, but FPS is fixed. You can look but can't touch.
Unless, of course, I am missing something... And that's happened before.
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Actually I did a web search, and it appears that most tutorials on doing this involve Motion or Compressor, and are really slomo-interpolation kinds of operations, not setting framerate for the "overcrank" scenario we've been discussing.
I've only used FCP a couple times, so I'm interested in its capabilities...but every once in a while i get an FCP user who tells me about the "toy" editor I use... and yet, I keep running into scenarios like this. No perfect solution i guess.
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I don't see that GoPro has its own official forum, although by searching the net I found a privately owned GoPro Users forum, run by a guy who calls himself Rambo, that is allowed to use their logo. Is that what you are referring to, or does GoPro have a well-hidden forum of their own somewhere? Is the flat port an official product from GoPro, or a home-brew work around, as described in the privately owned user forum?
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GoPro...Amazing!
I have two GoPros...Amazing little cameras for the price. We just came back from Italy where we shot over 200M of driving shots (obviously as B-roll). Installed correctly, it will give you great smooth footage. We use it primarly in 720p 60fps. 172 angle of view, to me the overall picture quality is better than 1080p. Look at the example we shot in Italy of this cool BMW "fully enclosed" scooter! at The Santa Fe TV Show.
The video is in the front page and it is called: AN ITALIAN BUSINESS MAN IN A HURRY. WE used a commercial grade suction cup and we attached it to the HUGE windshield of this odd looking (but cool!) scooter... In a few days I will post some off-road footage shot here in New Mexico. Again, placed correctly, the video you can get out of it is simply amazing considering the price point! We even shot underwater footage. We, by our mistake, also got water in to the camera (salty Mediterranean water)...Let it dry for a few days, and, camera came back alive again! And by the way, the GoPro should get its own forum here, at DV Info. Carlo Zanella The Santa Fe TV Show |
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I would like to see a generic POV section
I am especially interested in the HXR-MC1 and Nanoflash combination
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If we had a specific GoPro section...
... then maybe we could convince the wonderful GoPro people, through sheer consumer-power, to
i) Supply the little chrome nuts (the domed ones) separately ii) Glue the bolts into the plastic knurled knobs, and probably ditto on the nuts above iii) Supply the tripod adaptor as standard in the bigger 'kits' But maybe that's a subsection of a PoV section.
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I glue all my little chrome nuts into the fittings, have lost some trying to change fittings while kayaking down a river or something similar..
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