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Forum: Canon XH Series HDV Camcorders July 27th, 2007, 02:33 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 4,002
Posted By Paul Joy
Yes it's a bee, not even 1/3200 will freeze that...

Yes it's a bee, not even 1/3200 will freeze that flying past though :)

I'd be interested to try the experiment again but with a less drastic shutter speed that's aimed at smooth motion. This time...
Forum: Canon XH Series HDV Camcorders July 27th, 2007, 01:54 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 4,002
Posted By Paul Joy
I've just re-encoded and uploaded a new file, I...

I've just re-encoded and uploaded a new file, I cut back a little on the complexity of the compression settings - that's the only thing I can think that I've changed recently.

Let me know if it...
Forum: Canon XH Series HDV Camcorders July 27th, 2007, 01:44 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 4,002
Posted By Paul Joy
Weird - works fine for me. I'll look into it and...

Weird - works fine for me. I'll look into it and upload another file.

Thanks

Paul.
Forum: Canon XH Series HDV Camcorders July 27th, 2007, 01:43 PM
Replies: 858
Views: 258,210
Posted By Paul Joy
Very brave taking your shiny new XH out with so...

Very brave taking your shiny new XH out with so much water flying around! Some nice shots there though, I really like the one around 30 sec in where the sun's glare is reflecting in the water with...
Forum: Canon XH Series HDV Camcorders July 27th, 2007, 01:35 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 4,002
Posted By Paul Joy
Hmm, hard to say as I'm on a mac. I'm using...

Hmm, hard to say as I'm on a mac. I'm using quicktime 7.2, although I'm not sure if that makes any difference.

The clip is encoded as H264 video and Apple AAC audio.

Paul.
Forum: Canon XH Series HDV Camcorders July 27th, 2007, 01:22 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 4,002
Posted By Paul Joy
Slow motion tests

I was messing around with some slow motion stuff today, I shot some footage using 50i with a high shutter speed (1/3200) and then messed around with it in FCP. The clip below shows each clip as...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 24th, 2007, 03:32 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,120
Posted By Paul Joy
Hi there, firstly let me say that I am by no...

Hi there, firstly let me say that I am by no means an expert on this yet so please don't take my advise as the correct way to produce DVD content, pretty much everything I do is for the web so I...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 23rd, 2007, 05:14 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,120
Posted By Paul Joy
Try changing the field order of the timeline and...

Try changing the field order of the timeline and any clips on it to 'none' and see if that makes any difference. In terms of setting up, if you choose 1080p 25 in the 'Easy Setup' options you should...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 23rd, 2007, 10:05 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,967
Posted By Paul Joy
Good find Robert, it's certainly nice to see the...

Good find Robert, it's certainly nice to see the video looking like it does in the canvas viewer.

It still seems weird to me though, FCP adjusts gamma to match PC & TV gamma of 2.2 and quicktime...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 23rd, 2007, 09:58 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,120
Posted By Paul Joy
Could you be more descriptive about what's wrong...

Could you be more descriptive about what's wrong with the output? You shouldn't be having interlacing issues when shooting in 25f. I'm using an XHA1, I capture my 25f footage with field order set to...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 18th, 2007, 03:55 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,680
Posted By Paul Joy
Bit of a one way conversation this but I'll keep...

Bit of a one way conversation this but I'll keep going anyway :)

Another thing I've noticed on my machine is that even though quicktime movs exported from FCP look lighter when played in quicktime...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 17th, 2007, 01:03 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,819
Posted By Paul Joy
Hi James, choosing the active display should be...

Hi James, choosing the active display should be straightforward, just go to display prefs, choose the arrangement tab and then you can drag the screens into the desired order and drag the menu bar to...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 16th, 2007, 11:01 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,680
Posted By Paul Joy
I've been looking into this some more and think...

I've been looking into this some more and think I'm starting to understand what's happening.

A good explanation is here... http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93794 although it's aimed...
Forum: Canon XH Series HDV Camcorders July 14th, 2007, 11:29 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 3,682
Posted By Paul Joy
You can get okay results in progressive too, it...

You can get okay results in progressive too, it just depends how smooth you want it. Instead of using 'A' mode try using 'TV' and setting the shutter speed to 60 (for NTSC locations). A high shutter...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 13th, 2007, 11:48 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,680
Posted By Paul Joy
That's interesting, I'm not sure if its just...

That's interesting, I'm not sure if its just paranoia but I'm sure my quicktime exports used to be really fast for me too, now they seem to take as long as a quicktime conversion export.

Maybe I...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 13th, 2007, 09:39 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,680
Posted By Paul Joy
Colour change on quicktime export

I wondered if anyone else see's a colour change when exporting to a quicktime file from FCP? I'm not talking about quicktime conversion, just a standard export using a sequences current settings.
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Forum: Canon XH Series HDV Camcorders July 11th, 2007, 06:45 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,379
Posted By Paul Joy
Okay, there's some real weirdness going on here....

Okay, there's some real weirdness going on here. I've been doing various experiments trying to figure out whats going on and have made an interesting discovery.

I have an HDV25p sequence with a...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 11th, 2007, 04:58 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,788
Posted By Paul Joy
Thanks Jim, that's really useful. I played...

Thanks Jim, that's really useful. I played around with qmaster recently and found that it's fairly straightforward to set up for a single machine, although I'm not really sure how it works with...
Forum: Canon XH Series HDV Camcorders July 11th, 2007, 01:42 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,379
Posted By Paul Joy
Luis, could you explain why you think you might...

Luis, could you explain why you think you might be wrong about point 3? I can capture with field dominance set to none, and have my sequence set to none and my video content works just fine. The...
Forum: Canon XH Series HDV Camcorders July 8th, 2007, 05:32 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,236
Posted By Paul Joy
Not sure if this is any help, but I was playing...

Not sure if this is any help, but I was playing around with my camera recently and connected up one of my kids widescreen in-car DVD players as a monitor, it worked just fine as a bigger monitor than...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 8th, 2007, 03:19 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,841
Posted By Paul Joy
Hi, I think the processor usage option is for...

Hi, I think the processor usage option is for laptops only, there isn't such an option on my Mac pro.

After digging into this a bit further I've managed to make compressor use more power by...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 7th, 2007, 03:20 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,841
Posted By Paul Joy
Thanks, I've tried that and it doesn't seem to...

Thanks, I've tried that and it doesn't seem to make any difference isn't qmaster for controlling shared CPU's anyway?

It's quite frustrating, iStat says my CPU's are 60% Idle when compressor is...
Forum: Final Cut Suite July 6th, 2007, 05:10 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,841
Posted By Paul Joy
Using my Mac Pro's power

Hi all.

I'm not sure if I'm missing an option or not but it always seems a little strange that whenever I'm exporting using compressor each of my Mac Pro's four cores are giving around 50% of...
Forum: Canon XH Series HDV Camcorders July 5th, 2007, 09:38 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,379
Posted By Paul Joy
Regarding the aspect ratio thing, I'm assuming...

Regarding the aspect ratio thing, I'm assuming that anamorphic 16:9 video is stretched by the TV so that it looks correct when played back. I can select the show as square pixels option in FCP which...
Forum: Canon XH Series HDV Camcorders July 5th, 2007, 08:47 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,379
Posted By Paul Joy
That makes sense - so if the final delivery is SD...

That makes sense - so if the final delivery is SD or for web use that would be a positive reason to shoot in that format, although I guess there are so many positives for shooting HD and down...
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