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#126
Hardware and Accessories / Re: No sound, no video
October 10, 2012, 01:33:31 PM
Maybe it's something similar to what I experience with my 60D and ML2.3?

Having Headphone mon. switched on and the dslr cord attached to a pair of headphones and rebooting the camera the screen is black and no audio is heard.

However if I keep the dslr cable in the camera and remove the headphone cord and reboot the camera and then attach the headphone cord to the dslr cord both the screen and the audio works.

So maybe there is some sort of bug when rebooting the camera with the headphones attached? 
#127
Hardware and Accessories / Re: Tripod suggestions?
October 10, 2012, 07:39:50 AM
It's bit hard to tell who is rebranding what. The only place I've see a mentioning af a 1.8m version of the 270a is on the Fancier China site, but I haven't found any resellers of that version yet.
#128
Thank you. One more item on the shopping list. 8)

If anyone choke on the unusual ui of Lightworks, then check out the fine video tutorials in the bottom of the main lwks page.
#129
Hardware and Accessories / Re: Tripod suggestions?
October 08, 2012, 10:29:48 PM
Yes, I know about that video and I whish I've bought that tripod when I watched it the first time when the prices where much lower. Whats the height of your tripod and where did you buy it?

I know that the 717 coemes in a 1,8 version, but does the 270a come in that height too?
#130
Thanks.  :D

Totally off topic, but how is your MIR lens? And where did you buy it? On a vacation I came by one in Bulgaria, but didn't buy it and now I feel a bit stupid that I didn't buy it.
#131
Added some more features:
1.4.5 Added Double-left-click to view media in ffplay. Added Right-click to get media info.
1.4.4 Added import of folders and folders within folders.
1.4.3 Change audio bitrate when source is mono, check for 0k exported files, option to open log in Notepad.

Download link in first post.
#132
A really simple idea, if the beep is precise enough, could be to place it on the very first frame of the video rrcording, but the duration would have to be 1 frame.
#133
Hardware and Accessories / Tripod suggestions?
October 03, 2012, 03:39:55 PM
I've been looking around for a good tripod for shooting video. I have a feeling that the Fancier 270a will be too low for me. What tripods would you guys recommend for 400,- euro or less?
#134
@1% - Thank you for giving this stuff a shot.

I had not idea at ML could record audio separately with the video being recorded too - if I understand you correctly? What's the advantage of this?
#135
Feature Requests / Re: [brainstorm] Digital clapper board
September 30, 2012, 10:21:51 PM
The idea was that the camera beeps could do the morse code, not stored wavs.
#136
Feature Requests / Re: [brainstorm] Digital clapper board
September 30, 2012, 09:58:02 PM
Been googeling a bit on morse to text and there are several tools out there which can convert audio with morse to text - so I guess it could be possible to extract the "announcement" letter(or letters) out of an audio recording and add it to the audio-filename. If ML could add the same letter(or letters) to the video filename it could be a bit easier so pair video and audio. And with the "announcement" in both audio and video it would be easy to check if the two of them would fit.

I'm not that good a coder, so I do not dare to tinker with the ML code myself. I'm sorry for rambling about this, it will properly be quite time consuming to implement it.

@1% I Recorded some very long takes with a low bitrate. Properly around 30 minutes and when syncing I realised that the speed of my Tascam DR-40 wasn't correct - so the audio had to be speed up with 1.08 - which I could easily do in Audacity. So it is not necessarily the camera making things out of sync.
#137
Updated: Now can EyeFrame Converter not only be used for converting Canon files to a Lightworks friendly format and creating proxy-files for editing on low-end computers, but also convert the huge exported files from Lightworks into a Vimeo or YouTube friendly format.  ;D

I hope you guys will find it useful. Lightworks is a pro nle and with EyeFrame you can get your feet wet editing your Canon files in the free version of Lightworks.

The latest change log:
29/9 - v. 1.4.2 Swap proxy files to project folder when adding more proxy files to project.
28/9 - New button: "Convert for upload"
27/9 - Thanks to Khaver new command lines solves the problems of missing audio in longer clips.
#138
Feature Requests / Re: [brainstorm] Digital clapper board
September 29, 2012, 06:08:59 PM
One more illustration attempt:  :)
#139
Feature Requests / Re: [brainstorm] Digital clapper board
September 29, 2012, 04:17:58 PM
The letters in morse code consists of dots and dashes(.&-). In audio a dot is one frame and a dash is 3 frames long. There is 1 blank frame between each sign. Visually the dots would be visible for one frame and the dashes visible visible for 3 frames with one frame between. The red circle is the clap. If the volume of the camera beep is controlable then the beep for the clap should the higest volume, so the difference between anoucement and clap beep would be visible in the audio waveform.

To record beeps from a camera with the seperate audio equiptment would be possible in most cases, but not in all of course.

But is it at all possible to write graphics into the recorded images an can the duration and volume of the camera beeps be controlled?
#140
Feature Requests / Re: [brainstorm] Digital clapper board
September 29, 2012, 02:15:22 PM
What do you guys think about the morse code idea? Is it a bad idea or not possible to implement?

Anyway a camera beep and a dot in the frame would be very useful.
#141
Feature Requests / Re: [brainstorm] Digital clapper board
September 27, 2012, 08:33:15 AM
Here's an example of how it could look:

Done with an Avisynth script:
clip=BlankClip(20,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("dot.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 0.5)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+BlankClip(1,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("dash.png",0,2).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 0.5)).trim(0,2)
clip=clip+BlankClip(3,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("sync1.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 0, 48000, 2, "sine", 1.0)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+ImageReader("sync2.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 0, 48000, 2, "sine", 1.0)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+ImageReader("sync3.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 1.0)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+BlankClip(20,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip1=clip.subtitle("Sync leader for the letter 'A'",size=30,text_color=$FFFFFF,align=7)

clip=BlankClip(20,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("dash.png",0,2).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 0.5)).trim(0,2)
clip=clip+BlankClip(1,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("dash.png",0,2).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 0.5)).trim(0,2)
clip=clip+BlankClip(1,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("dot.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 0.5)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+BlankClip(1,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("dash.png",0,2).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 0.5)).trim(0,2)
clip=clip+BlankClip(3,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("sync1.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 0, 48000, 2, "sine", 1.0)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+ImageReader("sync2.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 0, 48000, 2, "sine", 1.0)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+ImageReader("sync3.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 1.0)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+BlankClip(20,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip3=clip.subtitle("Sync leader for the letter 'Q'",size=30,text_color=$FFFFFF,align=7)

clip=BlankClip(20,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("dash.png",0,2).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 0.5)).trim(0,2)
clip=clip+BlankClip(1,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("dot.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 0.5)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+BlankClip(1,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("dash.png",0,2).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 0.5)).trim(0,2)
clip=clip+BlankClip(1,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("dot.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 0.5)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+BlankClip(3,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip=clip+ImageReader("sync1.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 0, 48000, 2, "sine", 1.0)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+ImageReader("sync2.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 0, 48000, 2, "sine", 1.0)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+ImageReader("sync3.png",0,0).audiodub(Tone(10.0, 440, 48000, 2, "sine", 1.0)).trim(0,-1)
clip=clip+BlankClip(20,800,600,pixel_type="rgb24",stereo=true,audio_rate=48000)
clip2=clip.subtitle("Sync leader for the letter 'C'",size=30,text_color=$FFFFFF,align=7)

clip1++clip2++clip3
#142
Feature Requests / Re: [brainstorm] Digital clapper board
September 27, 2012, 07:10:57 AM
Quote from: 1% on September 27, 2012, 02:43:08 AM
Or beep and burn red dot or frame onto video at the same time?
I think that this is an excellent idea. Maybe a big circle, so it later on also can be used for checking if the aspect ratio is correct during editing.

Just having an idea: To mark the the takes differently morse code could be used, that is if the beep duration can be changed too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

So to mimic the traditional way of announcing the shot first and then clap with the clapper-board, first there could be a letter in morse code(a dot=1 frame, a dash=3 frames and 1 frame black between) at 50% volume and ยท and - visual markings. Then 3 frames black and then 1 frame sync beep at 100% volume with a big circle.  Letters a-z could be looped.   

Maybe to complicated, but it would be very useful if run audio separately and have no sync sound recording on camera(ex. recording 720p 25fps).
#143
Update:
24/9 - New and improved interface, save working paths etc.
Download link at the first post.
#144
Hardware and Accessories / Re: TSCAM DR-40 Noise
September 23, 2012, 07:04:57 AM
The Audio-Technica AT875R gives a more powerful output than NTG2 and works very well with the DR-40. I bought it after reading a recommendation on dvxuser.
#145
Just added a video tutorial - view it in the first post. :)
#146
Updated:
- Added: drag and drop files on the desktop icon for fast import.
- More error checking ex. project must be closed in LW for successful file swapping.
- Higher quality intermediates thanks to Khaver. ;)

Download from the first post in this thread.
#147
Here's yet another update. Download it from the first post.

Now a file called "EyeFrame_cmd.ini" is containing the command lines used.

Thanks to Khaver this is the way the command lines look now(the proxys are scaled and with a lower bitrate(1/6 of the original file size):
intermediate
ffmbc.exe -i "<SourceFileName>" -vf yadif -vcodec mpeg2video -intra -sameq -vtag M701 -acodec pcm_s16le -threads 8 -y "<OutputPath><OutputFileName>.avi"
proxy
ffmbc.exe -i "<SourceFileName>" -vf scale=iw/2:-1 -vcodec mpeg2video -intra -vtag M701 -acodec pcm_s16le -threads 8 -qscale 5 -qmin 1 -y "<OutputPath><OutputFileName>.avi"

This means ex. if sennahojx needs to use EyeFrame Converter for h.264 conversion the command lines can easily be changed in ex. Notepad.
#148
Updated: (download link in first post)
16/9 2012 Night:
- Added ffprobe for checking import files.
- Bugfix: swap wasn't working correctly after restart of app. 
#149
Update:
As of 16/9 2012 the I-Frame Converter can also create proxy files and swap between uncompressed intermediate and compressed proxy files by the click of a button. If the playback of Mpeg2 I-Frame HD files lags you can use this new function to create low bitrate proxys and by the click of a button swap low and high bitrate files when you want to export your project from Lightworks. If you got a very low end computer this is the way to edit without playback lag in Lightworks.

Download links in the first post.

If you get an ffmbc error try the 32-bit version.
(EDIT: removed the 64-bit version because ffmbc seemed unstable)
#150
EyeFrame Converter
Convert videos for hassle free import in Lightworks and lag-free playback on low-end computers with proxies. And convert exported files from Lightworks to a upload friendly format.
Lightworks is very picky on what video formats to import. EyeFrame Converter can convert most video files to the Lightworks friendly Matrox Mpeg2 I-Frame HD format. If this format is too heavy for your computer, use the convert to proxies option, which will produce low quality clips for a smooth editing process, which later can be swapped with high quality intermediate files for high quality export.

Import:
EyeFrame Converter will import and convert any file ffmbc/ffmpeg will open including mts, mov, avi, avs... and ML RAW.

Download:
EyeFrame Converter here.

RAW tutorial:

  • Drag and drop RAW files into the gui.
  • The conversion to dng and tiff will start automatically.
  • Preview by double left click thumbnail.
  • Hit convert.
  • Select the video format (+ proxies if needed).
  • Okay and the batch conversion will start.
- Btw. Time code and reel name can be edited by right click in coloum.
- The dcraw settings can be found and edited in "Documents/EyeFrame Data/dcraw.ini"


Lightworks:
Lightworks: here.
Lightworks thread: here.


Features:
 
  • Convert Magic Lantern RAW files to dng, tiff and ex. Prores, DNxHD, MPEG2 I Frame HD and MJPEG.
  • Convert almost anything to a Lightworks(free) import friendly format(Matrox I-Frame HD).
  • Create a folder structure for intermediate(high quality), proxy(low quality) and current project files.
  • Convert to both intermediate(high quality) and proxy files(low quality) in one go.
  • Convert to various Lightworks(pro) formats(ex. ProRes and DNxHD) in intermediate(high quality) and proxy files(low quality) in one go.
  • Swap between intermediate(high quality) and proxy files(low quality) in the current project folder.
  • Add, edit or reuse unique time code and reel name to selection and inject it in exported mov and mxf files(intermediate and proxy files converted from the same source file will get the same time code and reel name).
  • If source already have a time code or reel name then it will be used.
  • Convert Lightworks exported tif image sequences with similar named wav file.
  • Convert to an upload friendly mp4 format(for ex. YouTube or Vimeo).

Controls:
 
  • Double-click the EyeFrame Converter icon to open.
  • Or drag and drop files on the EyeFrame Converter icon.
  • Play media file with double-left-click on thumbnails.
  • Open export settings with right-click.
  • Edit time code settings for selection with left-double-click on time code item.
  • Edit reel name settings for selection with left-double-click on reel name item.
  • Get media info by hitting the 'i' key. 
  • Delete media from list by hitting 'x' or 'del'.
  • Select all media by hitting 'a'.
  • Press Ctrl or Shift when left-clicking to select more items in one go.
Controls for video player(ffplay):
 
  • q, ESC - Quit.
  • f - Toggle full screen.
  • p, SPC -Pause.
  • a - Cycle audio channel.
  • v - Cycle video channel.
  • t - Cycle subtitle channel.
  • w - Show audio waves.
  • left/right - Seek backward/forward 10 seconds.
  • down/up - Seek backward/forward 1 minute.
  • mouse click - Seek to percentage in file corresponding to fraction of width.

Tutorials:
The interface has changed, but the work flow remains the same.

How to use without proxies:
 
  • Double-click EyeFrame icon to open.
  • Drag and drop files to the GUI.
  • When you hit convert, say no to add proxies.
  • Import in Lightworks by "Create Link"
How to use with proxies:
 
  • When you hit convert, say yes to add proxies.
  • 3 folders will be created: Project, Intermediate and Proxy.
  • The Project will contain the proxy files as default.
  • The Intermediate will contain the Mpeg2 I-Frame HD files.
  • The Proxy folder will be empty.
  • In Lightworks import from the 'Project' folder and use 'Create Link' function.
  • Edit your video.
How to swap proxy and intermediate files:
 
  • When you're ready to export your edit in high quality, shut down the project in Lightworks.
  • Open EyeFrame Converter and select: 'Swap proxy and intermediate files'
  • Select the folder containing the Project, Intermediate and Proxy folders.
  • The Proxy files from the Project folder will now be moved to the Proxy folder and the Intermediate files will be moved to the Project folder.
  • Reopen your project in Lightworks. Now the high quality Intermediate files will be used. Export the project.
  • If you want to continue editing click 'Swap proxy and intermediate files' again and reopen your Lightworks project.
Motivation:
After spending days trying to figure out to get footage from my Canon 60D into Lightworks without having lagging playback(which all the LW included transcoding formats does and also the much talked about GoPro CineForm codecs on my ageing computer), I finally tried the Matrox Mpeg2 I-Frame HD Matrox codec, which Khaver has been mentioning for a long time, and I was really surprised not only did my files convert fast, but they also played without lagging in Lightworks in 1080P resolution. That made me so happy that I spend the night on coding a simple, no fuss(no settings) drag&drop batch converter GUI for ffmbc.exe to convert HD files to the Matrox Mpeg2 I-Frame HD format.