I got into an interesting discussion with several people yesterday about what unique dishes they always have at their Thanksgiving table. My family always had the usual fare of mashed potatoes, gravy, bread stuffing and the seemingly ubiquitous “yam bake” made with sweet potatoes and marshmallows. I remember there also being celery, sweet pickles, dinner […]
I found this awesome little 16-frame-per-second film countdown leader on an old tape, and reconstructed it, bringing it back to 16fps from a wrong-speed transfer, and removing the timecode burn-in. If anyone wants the full-rez version of this let me know, and we can work something out. Enjoy!
[The original is in the SheerVideo codec, but I’m looking for a way to convert it and post it here. Might not happen, since I don’t own a machine that can actually read the old codec, though —Ed. 2015-08-15]
Referencing my original post on the subject, I finally found a solution to removing a 4:2 pulldown from a 30i clip, to get back to a 25p clip. It’s not pretty, but if you’re interested in the tech stuff, read on…
The solution did, indeed, involve Windows (in my case, running on Virtual PC […]
Found today on The Nation:
“A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. But If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.”
—Thomas Jefferson, June 4, 1798, in a letter to John Taylor after passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Jeez— how late am I gonna have to stay up to see if I can sleep well tonight?
Calling all video gurus: Help!
I have a few clips that I’ve got from a stock tape that exhibit a weird pulldown pattern. The footage looks looks to be originally shot in 25p (such as european film might be), and then converted to NTSC 30i in a 4:2 pattern, so the frame progression goes like this:
AA BB CC CD DE EE
Has anyone seen this pattern before? Does anyone know how to remove it? Conversion to “PAL proper” is not required— all I need to do is extract and reconstruct that D frame, and get the clips back to a 25p frame rate.
I have After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion and have access to Combustion. I would also be willing to pay for a moderately priced plugin or helper application if it’ll do the deed.
I found this solution to the problem I was having trying to use .htaccess files in my web server (Apache under Mac OS X Server) to block access to certain spam-dumping IP addresses. I was formatting the .htaccess files properly, and putting them in the right places in my server folder hierarchy. I had even […]