Recent content by Ryan CBP

Hi guys Recently I've got a new macbook pro 17" top spec after my old intel model bit the dust. I've reinstalled FCS 3 and have also installed magic bullet (newest version). For the life of me I have no idea why but magic bullet seems to be making the footage LOWER QUALITY. Everything looks...

Hey guys im trying to export a file I shot on a canon XHA1 to an XD CAM file using sony's XDCAM exporter option which should do the track. The client has asked for it in XDCAM form, as many people are these days. This is my first export of this type. The channels required on the audio are: Ch...

Hey guys i wanna get an external monitor connected to my xha1 when im recording however im a bit clueless in doing this as ive never had the need to do it before. I'm probably just going to use a lightweight LCD monitor. Can this be done and if so how?

Does anyone know what the colour flare effet is when you can add it to footage to make it look like the film has been damaged. Often it can be like flares of red, yellow or greens? And also the plugin to make it look like the footage has been shot on real film where part of the reel has been...

Ok gents and ladies SO I've been sat here for like the last hour searching the web about how to get the best out of HDV in post production. A lot of my stuff is viral. I have no problem taking raw HDV off tape and storing it on a hard drive, it cuts out all the conversion crap. What I'm...

Hi guys This is a very very broad setting. I'm just intreguied to see what other people are shooting and export etc on their XH's. I want to get the absolute best out of my 2. Also I bumped into another XHA1 user the other week who was shooting without 24f on and saying that this 60i was...

Hey guys I want to output some HDV footage from Final Cut Pro but make it 16:9 so that people with a widescreen will effectively still get it full screen. Before I was exporting the HDV footage as a quicktime and then pulling that into a uncompressed 10bit time and exporting it again then as...

Hi guys Ok so I've put together a music video from tour footage shot recently. The whole thing was shot at 25fps on a canon xha1 however some of it was shot at 50i for slow motion purposes. On a computer or the web it's unnoticeable but this video is looking like its going to be aired on UK tv...

Hey guys my xha1 seems to be breaking up shots while im capturing when there is no break in the timecode. So a 30 minute shot of a live performance is getting broke into maybe 2 or 3 parts which is a nightmare. Could this be down to the heads needing to be cleaned? Advise oh wise people of...

Hey guys HELP! here's the story, was using 24fps and then switched back recently to 60i as I saw some footage online and it looked not much different?! So I thought what the hell and switched to 60i so I could capture slow mo's etc better. I've just put the footage onto a SD dvd and it just...

Ok so I've done a wedding, it's my first one. I shot it on my xha1's and all of it has been put together to look awesome. So here are the steps I took to get it onto a regular SD DVD, after I've explained this I'll tell you what the result was like. 1) Exported the video as a quicktime file...

I tried it a couple months back and had a nightmare. Am I being a complete idiot? A quick how to off anyone would be awesome. Thanks all!

Can this be done on a xha1? Can you achieve a super good slow motion? If you've been able to nail this then please can you post your responses. I think this topic has already been started so, if so I appologise. But some settings advice would be great!

Ok so I've already followed the tutorial on vimeo and it isn't really giving me enough. I'm not quite getting the HD. Can anyone who uses FCP and compressor give me a rough settings list. www.vimeo.com/ryancbp check out my vimeo there and see the most recent videos. Could it be a setting on...