Recent content by Michael Edward Surcombe

I disagree. For mapping this is actually a step forward in several areas. The ability to fly the aircraft to establish waypoints is very valuable when there's no good imagery for the site. The handling of non-standard lenses and cameras is extremely useful too. Of course there are some...

A bit more news on this.... The problems seem to occur when the footage is downconverted to SD, either a preview window on NLE or (as in the post-production for online publication here) after mastering. It looks like something just can't cope with high level of detail as encoded by the X3 with...

I don't know that, but I'll certainly try to find out. The lingering mystery is why on my FCPX I can't replicate the problem, whereas on my editor's FCP7 there are artefacts as soon as it's on the timeline. Both are playing native H264 with no settings changes from the master. As a matter of...

That's reassuring! Thanks, I'll try that now. In general, do you think reducing sharpness would help?

1920/1080 MOV The post people are mystified too unfortunately, so I'm trying to get to the bottom of it. My involvement ends when I deliver a file for ingest but, as I say, simply putting the file on a timeline set to the media's settings starts throwing up the artefacts. My only thought at...

p.s. it may well be nothing to do with interlacing. It was just my first reaction that it looked like some kind of field issue

re acquisition, I'm shooting with ND at roughly 1/60 shutter. 25p. It's notable that both the worst instances of these issues have been shooting normal colour rather than the log colour I prefer to shoot in. Another mystery - when I view that exact shot as a source file I'm seeing none of the...

I'm shooting on the X3 and experiencing some bad issues when submitting for broadcast. This video is typical: Check out the shocking strobing on the sharp lines (and there's also some really bad moire on the rooftop) Original is shot 25p with 0 sharpening. I'm not certain of the workflow in...