Flip image with lossless quality or rendering

[Dillon Novak]

Hey,
I am about to get my first 35mm adapter, (Thanks Wayne!:)) but I'm buying a focusing monitor that i can flip upside down instead of a flip module (for economic reasons) and i need to flip the image once i have it all ready to import and i have no clue how you guys do it. Looking through these forums i have heard about raylight and in dvinfo there was this link:

http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/rotateClips/index.html

Will that work?

Is there a way that doesn't cost more money?

I primarily use FCP so it would be amazing if there was a way to do this in it or before FCP without losing quality. I also have Premiere, but i literally just got that yesterday, so i have no idea how to use it yet.

I'm sorry if this should be in more of the FCP or Premiere part of the forum, but i thought this is kinda your guys' corner on this problem.


Thanks so much.

[William_Robinette]

I'm not a FCP editor, but the one time I worked with flipped footage in FCP we applied the Flop filter to a clip to turn it around, then copy and pasted it to every clip in our bins.

[jenningsp]

http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/rotateClips/index.html

on a G4 or better, SD will work in FCP without rendering.

on a new intel mac, HDV will work without rendering.

you get the option of rotating or flip/flopping the image. i believe flip/flopping is the better one.

[mvb]

Hey,
I am about to get my first 35mm adapter, (Thanks Wayne!:)) but I'm buying a focusing monitor that i can flip upside down instead of a flip module (for economic reasons) and i need to flip the image once i have it all ready to import and i have no clue how you guys do it. Looking through these forums i have heard about raylight and in dvinfo there was this link:

http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/rotateClips/index.html

Will that work?

Is there a way that doesn't cost more money?

I primarily use FCP so it would be amazing if there was a way to do this in it or before FCP without losing quality. I also have Premiere, but i literally just got that yesterday, so i have no idea how to use it yet.

I'm sorry if this should be in more of the FCP or Premiere part of the forum, but i thought this is kinda your guys' corner on this problem.


Thanks so much.

Raylight MXFX does cost money ($146 right now) but it will flip the shots with no loss of quality before you import the clips and will process them all in one batch. The advantage over a filter is you can then use any import method (in either FCP or Premiere) while looking at clips that are right-side up. With a filter, if I understand it correctly, the clips are right-side up only after they are placed in the timeline and you have applied the filter.

http://dvfilm.com/MXFX

[Dillon Novak]

Oh wow, sorry i forgot to say my footage is HDV off of a XH-A1


I'm not a FCP editor, but the one time I worked with flipped footage in FCP we applied the Flop filter to a clip to turn it around, then copy and pasted it to every clip in our bins.

Do you have to render these clips once you put them in the time line?



http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/rotateClips/index.html

on a G4 or better, SD will work in FCP without rendering.

you get the option of rotating or flip/flopping the image. i believe flip/flopping is the better one.



I think i might try the trial version of this, it seems promising.




Raylight MXFX does cost money ($146 right now) but it will flip the shots with no loss of quality before you import the clips and will process them all in one batch. The advantage over a filter is you can then use any import method (in either FCP or Premiere) while looking at clips that are right-side up. With a filter, if I understand it correctly, the clips are right-side up only after they are placed in the timeline and you have applied the filter.

http://dvfilm.com/MXFX


I'll have to save up for this, if nothing else works. Thank you
on a new intel mac, HDV will work without rendering.