THE MOIRÈ EFFECT - a new short film by Ted Arabian

Ted Arabian

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New film to be shot by Ted Arabian for Time Fest
 
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Casting Announcement....

Auditions are still underway but there has been one definite casting decision made.

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Farruh as ALEX MONREAU

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Richard DeAgazio as THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
 
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You guys are too funny!

Banner will come soon.

More importantly, I need opinions on the image of this 35mm adapter that I have.

I purchased this during Horrorfest but never used it. I didn't have the monitor to accurately shoot with it. I now do.

It is a homemade job by dvxuser member Edweirdo. Seems to work well but I don't know if the image quality/Bokeh is up to standard. And I don't want to shoot my film with this only to find out that the adapter brought down the quality of my film.

Whereas I really do want to shoot with an adapter, I don't think it is worth it if the image is going to suck.

So.... I am uploading a link to a 35 second clip. I would love it if anyone interested would take the time to download, watch and let me know about the image quality and Bokeh.

One thing is for sure... there is an AWFUL moire effect in FCP and in QT. However, this is not present on my actual TV set. It must be a computer thing. And if I can't shake this moire, than I will have to forego the adapter.

And yes... the incident of this moire IS what prompted the title! It is so perfect for my story! Gotta love when things like that happen!

Thanks guys. Here is the link....

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There's definitely something funky going on there, Ted. Was that some fairly bad interlacing I was seeing, too?
 
Here are some still if you don't want to download but want to offer opinion. Also, I am exporting a smaller file size of the test.

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Just seeing your comments above.

You know, I am about to throw this computer on the floor.

The footage is not interlaced. At least, when I stop and go frame by frame, there is not a single frame that has upper or lower fields at all.

Now... I continue to follow the comment on Post #1 under FCP sticky by Noah stating that I must capture at 29.97

And every time that I do, I get a message stating that the imported footage does not match the sequence settings. Do I want to change the settings?

I have tried many combinations of importing and sequence settings. I continue to get that message.

This is what happened to my film "Love." I got that message over and over. I finally had to edit it as is and look what happened!

At least, I have time to figure this out this time.

Thanks for taking a look.

I will go back to FCP and see wtf is going on!
 
Okay, I just re-imported that footage and THIS time when FCP asked me if I wanted it to change the settings to make the footage and the sequence settings match, I said NO. And it looks 100 times better!

I will take down that other piece of crap and ask you guys to look at this new import.

Give me a few....
 
Ted, it looks to me like it's a field order problem. Maybe you have even first when it should be odd first or vice-versa. I don't know...

EDIT: Ok, nevermind... :laugh:
 
You know what.... This sucks. I am really starting to hate FCP. I never had problems before I switched to 6.0

However, one thing that I am noticing.... when I go to flip the image, THAT'S when all of the artifacts show up!!!!

Does this make any sense? I have been using Video Effects, Perspective, Rotate, Rotate.

I do this, I get artifacts. I undo this and I DON'T.

Any ideas or suggestions? Is there another way to flip the image?

(totally glad that I am doing these 35mm adapter tests NOW!)
 
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