DVL-Digest 1153 - Postings: Index 16:9 mode or not 16:9 mode? I look for advices. - (2) 16x9 - (2) Compositing Question dv-l digest: May 15, 2002 Safe framing and cut-off. switch back to NOT seeing FX? VO vs. ADR, veering OT (continuing to veer) 16:9 mode or not 16:9 mode? I look for advices. - "Perry Mitchell" From: Giorgio Tell me please. What is the difference of image quality if I shot 4:3 mode and 16:9 mode without anamorph lens? By Sony VX2000 shooting in 16:9 mode without anamorphic lens will I obtain a worse image quality? 16:9 mode or not 16:9 mode? I look for advices. - Adam Wilt > What is the difference of image quality if I shot 4:3 mode and 16:9 mode > without anamorph lens? The 16:9 is noticeably worse in quality because of the way the camera resamples the image vertically. The VX200 softens the image quite a bit in the 16:9 mode and "compensates" with added vertical "detail" enhancement that adds a visible black edge to any details in the image. > By Sony VX2000 shooting in 16:9 mode without anamorphic lens will I > obtain a worse image quality? Yes. It's much better to use an anamorphic lens. Cheers, Adam Wilt [Any bizarre line breaks courtesy of OS X's Mail.app. Think Different!] 16x9 - "Perry Mitchell" From: Jacques Mersereau Hey DV-L, Is anyone out there shooting, editing, and outputting in TRUE 16x9? A buddy from the school of social work has a DSR500WS he just bought, and he needs some practical knowledge of what NLE and delivery systems (deck and monitor) to purchase. He wants to burn DVDs that will have the proper letter box on both regular TV sets and sets that feature a 16x9 screen. (Ok, do they even make a set (besides HDTV) that do this?) Does any HD set have the ability to "sense" a 16x9 flag and go there? Does the DSR-30 have Y/C output? j"16x9 challenged"merser 16x9 - "Perry Mitchell" From: jacmer@j.imap.itd.umich.edu I guess 16X9 has a way to go before all the phases of production thru delivery settle out. Sure, we can all do 16X9 by dropping a mask on 4X3, but does using a camera like a 500WS and a DSR 30 offer up significantly better resolution in that "unmasked" image area than a DSR500WS with the 4X3 switch on and a mask added later in post? (In other words, are true 16X9 CCDs worth it?) Has anyone (or will anyone) do such test? Compositing Question - Jon Burkhart Kevin, you need an image of "fat" horizontal lines which you could superimpose in After Effects. The lines should be several pixels wide to "suggest" the scan lines on a TV set. I've thought about the effect but never tried to do it. The easiest way for me to do the image would be in Lightwave. Email me off list and I'll send it to you, if you would like. Aloha, Jon Burkhart Kevin O'Hanlon wrote: > > Hi list, > > I am trying to achieve an effect I have seen on a few TV channels, usually > for promos, where talking heads (usually news anchormen) move through the > frame behind a gauzelike, semi-opaque, "curtain" of white horizontal lines. > I think I've also seen it used for for news programs where they are > promoting a news program and are parading their roster of reporters. > > dv-l digest: May 15, 2002 - "Perry Mitchell" From: John Jackman >You are definitely "eligible" if: > - you are Jim Feeley, John Jackman, Steve Mullen, Jon Burkhart, Perry >Mitchell, Adam Wilt or otherwise a known DV-L contributor and luminary. Most of the time I'm glad I'm not in LA -- but wish I was there for this! I'll look forward to a full report and a hands-on session at a later date -- Safe framing and cut-off. - Adam Wilt > I will be using an LCD monitor to help with framing. My question is: can > I be sure that the monitor will tell me 100% reliably what is and is not > in the frame? Most LCD monitors I've seen approximate the overscan of most TVs. They lose, on average, around 5%-10% of the picture's edges, like a TV will. But totally WYSIWYG? It's only WYG if YS it only on the same monitor all the tiem! TVs vary in their overscan; that's why you shoot for "safe action" areas (10% missing 'round the edges) but need to be mindful of the full-frame image, just in case. Oh, and "safe title" typically assumes a 20% lossage around the edge, too. Cheers, AJW [Any bizarre line breaks courtesy of OS X's Mail.app. Think Different!] switch back to NOT seeing FX? - "Valerie Shoaps" >And, XDV has a "Render-on-the Fly" >mode I need to investigate. And a dual G4 does pretty well too. Render-on-the-fly probably isn't what you're thinking of. What it does, is allow you to park on the timeline during an effect or transition, and let you see the frame with the effect applied. It's not a form or background rendering, but it's pretty good for having an idea of what's going on. Expert Render is pretty cool. When you have multi layers with effects, it only renders the effects it needs for real playback. Overlapping effects are done as one. FWIW, the machine with XDV is an AMD 1800 XP with 1 gig or ram, and effects render pretty fast. In a NLE, I'm mainly cuts and dissloves, but it hasn't messed with my workflow from going from a Storm to XDV. So Steve, who wrote the Express Xpress DV you're marketing? "Despite drag-and-drop, a new Avid user will quickly discover he or she can not simply click-select a clip in a timeline =96 and then delete, cut, copy, move, or edge-trim it.". Sure you can. Click on Segment/Lift mode on the bottom of the timeline to move clips around or paste, delete or move. You may need to set the destination by parking the timeline marker (blue line) or have it snap to edit points. Then you can nudge frame by frame with the , and . keys. You can also remap these to any other keys that you want. Edge Trim is just going into Trim Mode. I haven't found out how to cut and paste clips yet. When I need to, I will. I just move them. I'm supposed to be a Premiere user (don't "MOO" too loud). Valerie VO vs. ADR, veering OT (continuing to veer) - "Valerie Shoaps" >>I'd sure like to see someone write a hack for Avid XDV to use the >>Storm hardware...now THAT would be a deal. >> >That would be interesting. Does anyone know what programming language >Avid XDV is written in? Or any of the other programs like Premiere and >FCP? Is there enough information out there available to even begin to >try to accomplish this? ftp://ftp.canopus.co.jp/pub/jp/drivers/win9x/dvstorm_sdk.exe That's the link for the finally released SDK for the DVStorm. I know it's inder the Win9x directory, but I don't know exactly what that means. It's amazing that after all of this time, Canopus has finally released this. I think the developer of Scenalyzer has been the first to jump on this. There's a beta out for using SCLive with Storm hardware. It's out there. Hopefully someone will develop a plugin for XDV 3 to work with Strom hardware. Valerie (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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