Recent content by Oedipax

Hey folks, So I shoot a lot of video every week that is generally done in a studio environment with talent presenting towards the camera. For the past couple years, we've standardized around GH2s shooting various hacks (ultimately I settled on Sanity, for reliability, small file sizes, and the...

Has anyone else had this problem? I created several events in FCPX, and edited those into a few different projects, then closed FCPX. The next time I start, I still have my projects, but the events they are taken from are nowhere to be found. Specifically, I can see everything while FCPX is...

If anyone else has folders upon folders of old GH1/GH2 MTS files that lack the rest of the directory structure needed for FCPX to import them, I'm pleased to report there is a workaround: multiAVCHD. Unfortunately, it's a Windows-based app so you will need either a spare PC or one of the...

I imported some 5D clips shot with the Technicolor profile and they are super contrasty/crushed when I look at them in FCPX. They look like an exaggerated version of what the S-curve LUT from Technicolor does. I've poked around in the Inspector and even if I disable all the effects, I can't...

Apologize in advance for this dumb thread, but uh... where do I actually go about downloading the latest PTool? The link in Tester's main development thread still points to 3.36. I see numerous references to 3.37D but no links other than the 'Wine' version in the PTool Manual thread. I'm sure...

12706805 Additional backyard test footage I shot today. Really starting to love this 'new' camera! Original file is up for download on Vimeo if you really want a good look at all the detail AVCHD is capturing now.

Okay, well as the thread title states, I've done something that's proven foolish: I bought a 5D Mark II from one of the shady Brooklyn camera places on eBay. In my case, it's IBuyPlasma.com, but it seems they're all pretty interchangeable. Why did I do it? Pretty simple, I wanted to use Bing's...

Is anyone else now seeing this warning for DVXuser in Firefox 3.5.1? It's incredibly annoying - pops up everytime I load a new page and if I try to make a post, it eats it and goes to the warning page instead. I've switched over to Chrome instead for the time being. Just a heads up though if you...

Great thread. Will take a while to digest it all, thanks!

I routinely will pass a shot through Final Cut, Shake, Motion and Color. Every app seems to do something different to the brightness/saturation/hue/color of a file when it exports. I'm not talking about gamma differences in terms of how apps display video - I mean if I just took a shot into...

I've seen several references to people having CC'ed their D90 footage in Color, but it's a no-go for me. Can anyone post their process for making it work? All I get are red X's in Color once I send my sequence to Color (I've tried manually exporting an XML file as well, same result). My guess...

Hey guys. I'm a bit stumped by a shot I'm trying to get for a product promo. Basically, the product is sitting in a bedroom with blowing curtains, and it is behind said curtains which are semi-transparent and white. The client wants to add a green glow around the outline of the object which...

I'm shooting on an HV20 some lately, always in the 24p mode. For a while I was doing the Apple-recommended workflow of capturing in FCP, then removing pulldown and transcoding to ProRes in Compressor. This seemed to work well enough, except I started to notice interlace artifacts remaining in my...

Has anyone else encountered this? I did some shooting today on a bright white backdrop and when you see it in the footage, up in the top left corner of the screen, there's a green pixel flickering on and off. Weirdly, it goes away when I pan down to something a bit darker, although sometimes it...

I'm trying to figure out a good tripod & sticks combo to use with my SGpro and DVX (I also recently got an HV20 but I know if a tripod can handle the DVX, the tiny HV20 won't be an issue). So far I'm looking at the Bogen 503 HDV and 745XB legs. I don't know much about tripods though and really...