zak forsman d90 workflow

can't wait to hear about the new workflow

I promised to upload some test footy yesterday but I'm still getting my head around fcp6. I haven't cut anything since fcp1......back to the manual
 
Kholi said:
I had some test footage on my SD card and forgot that the PS3 could play that, AVC-HD and just about anything back so I plugged it in and was really VERY impressed with the footage quality on a large HD Panel of lower quality. The Samsung 42" LCD was even better. And this was all stuff that hadn't been corrected with the plugins and noise etc.
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Holy Cow! I just put my SD card into my ps3 and I have a 32 inch HD tv and it looked unbelievably good. My jaw hit the floor. And like you said, it was before I even corrected ANYTHING. straight out of camera. Thanks Kholi...this is the best tip ever. I still can't believe it...
 
Jim Klatt said:
Holy Cow! I just put my SD card into my ps3 and I have a 32 inch HD tv and it looked unbelievably good. My jaw hit the floor. And like you said, it was before I even corrected ANYTHING. straight out of camera. Thanks Kholi...this is the best tip ever. I still can't believe it...
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So the upscaler in the PS3 is doing the stuff that we need to do in post (and better than we are)? We need their algorithms!
 
scaling from 720p to 1080 is trivial, they probably do it with a very simple algorithm. what you're seeing is the difference between a computer monitor and a video monitor. you should always have the latter when working with video.

/matt
 
Jim Klatt said:
Holy Cow! I just put my SD card into my ps3 and I have a 32 inch HD tv and it looked unbelievably good. My jaw hit the floor. And like you said, it was before I even corrected ANYTHING. straight out of camera. Thanks Kholi...this is the best tip ever. I still can't believe it...
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How many hours did you spend watching the same clips over and over? LOL.

I still can't believe how celluloid like it looks. It doesn't have CMOS flavor and that baffles the he'll out of me. It's more like ccd.

But yeah, everyone should experience this!!! I can't wait to check the stuff I'm shooting right now. And the gh1 footage when it arrives.

The ps3 can play avchd back in it's raw form. Kick ass.
 
Jim Klatt said:
Holy Cow! I just put my SD card into my ps3 and I have a 32 inch HD tv and it looked unbelievably good. My jaw hit the floor. And like you said, it was before I even corrected ANYTHING. straight out of camera. Thanks Kholi...this is the best tip ever. I still can't believe it...
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This is the best tip ever to play back stuff you've shot? But has anyone managed to be able to achieve this quality with outputed video?
 
Matt made a good point about viewing footage on a video monitor rather than a computer. I won't have one for another 3 weeks and it's killing me.

I noticed my shots looked really good in fcp but when I rendered them to prores and viewed them in quicktime player they looked like ****. Am I doing something wrong other than not having a monitor?
 
fcp is quicktime based and prores near lossless, so it should look exactly the same. are you sure you got the scaling and frame rate right? otherwise fcp will try to be clever, and that's never a good idea for a piece of software. ;-)

/matt
 
btw i saw my trailer in 35mm on a huge theater screen yesterday. after that i will never make any claims about a ps3 being the best way to view your d90 footage. ;-) did it hold up? hell yeah. i'm hard to impress but i was.

/matt
 
mattsand said:
fcp is quicktime based and prores near lossless, so it should look exactly the same. are you sure you got the scaling and frame rate right? otherwise fcp will try to be clever, and that's never a good idea for a piece of software. ;-)

/matt
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yep scaling and frame rate are all good. I dunno what happened I'll figure it out later, I've had enough of rendering and compressing for one day. Vimeo only displays a crappy 7mb compressed version of my 30mb H.264 file, but the source file is there for download. I found I had to re-tweak the render because H.264 really made a mess of the prores edit.
 
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