Recording color bars to a CF card

want to record color bars from Premier to a CF card to play back from Canon 5d iii. i choose Export and then H.264 format, but it won't play back from the card,on the camera.

haven't tried anything like that...but if I did try it , for my nikon d800 ( uses mov h264 for video , same as your canon I think ), I would export as mov and use codec of h264. should be able to play the mov file in your camera.
if not, can you just use a still image for your purpose ? you trying to compare color bars with some kinda color patches or something when shooting ? or trying to somehow deal with white balance ??? who knows.. anyway, you can save a frame of the color bars as a jpg or tiff or whatever your camera can see...

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Help! need info re. digital color bar invasion!

Hi all, I hope this is the correct forum for this problem. If not tell me where I need to be to get info re. not being able to get rid of a rash of color bars that are appearing on my video camera monitor when I play back the footage I shot today. It wasn't there during the recording or the earlier playback.Now tho when I'm trying to import it for editing, they have appeared.
I turned the camera off and turned it back on hoping it would stop,but no luck. It was originally one set of pixalated colors and now it's black bars with colored sparkles.ooops! back to colored bars covered with little squares.You can see the footage playing behind the bars,but the sound is also cutting in and out. Anybody ever have this experience?? Aaarrghhh! Thanks,Kate

Nope,didn't work. Camera is very sick..off to the Doc.Thanks tho,Kate
The tape may have been recorded with the dirty heads, so you may not be able to use that footage.
What happens if you record on a new tape after running the cleaning tape?

Color bars in capture window?

I'm currently trying to log and capture from a Cannon miniDV ZR700 via fire wire400. Although I can control the camera, all I see in the capture window is color bars? Am I missing something. I've done this before, I've also seen this before but for the life of me I can't remember what the problem was.

jgoodwin66 wrote:
Well, I'm not sure what happened. . . I disconnected my external drive. Thanks for your help!
You have a Canon product, that is what happened; Canon products don't play well in the digital sandbox with other devices. When you disconnected your external drive, the Canon felt like playing along. You should probably add another firewire bus through your express card slot, if your MacBook Pro has it.

Color Bars and Monitor Calibration

Hy,
Trying to calibrate my monitors using the FCP internal color bars is completely different from using the camera's color bars...!
What is your experience in that?
I absolutely dislike the image I get on my monitors when I try to calibrate it with the internal Bars. Actually I almost can't get the lower right, light gray stripe come visible. I have to push the brightness to the maximum and the image is terrible.
On the other hand, using a recorded camera's bars, it looks nice.
What's up?
I'm using a PAL sequence by the way.

Luis
Are you saying you are using PAL clour bars to adjust your Mac computer displays?
If you are, then that is wrong
You can only calibrate computer monitors using a computer display profiling system using a probe.
such as:
http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/index/products/productscolor-mgmt-spec/products_cm-for-creatives/productseye-one-display.htm
If you are adjusting a PAL monitor, you should use, preferably a test signal generator, or the bars connected direct from the camera to the monitor
Dont use Final Cut Pro or bars recorded to tape as the test signal, you must iliminate any interference to the signal caused by misaligned electronics.
G

I am seeing funny color bars and messed up displays on my Mac

I have an iMac intel duo core desktop with OS 10.6.3 updted to 10.6.8. My colr and screen is messed up with wierd patches of color bars, jagged and distorted images. What is the problem?

Sounds like a hardware fault. Most likely the integrated video card. Take it in to an Apple Store if there's one near you and have a Genius look it over.

Sending color bars with tone but no tone in STP

Sending a test sequence from FCP to STP that has a few seconds of color bars with tone. When viewed in STP I see the bars but no tone shows in the timeline. All other audio from video or music is fine. Practicing before I conform a major edit and wondering why tone isn't there. Afraid something else could show up missing when I work on my main sequence. No tone audio also in STP when I send a FCP sequence with bars and tone only in timeline. All maintenance (repair permissions, zap PRAM, safe boot) have been done. Suggestions? Thanks!

Because tone on bars provides a reference level for the audio in your movie.
Making line-up audio tone inaccessible in Soundtrack prevents the levels from being changed or inadvertently having a filter added which would invalidate that reference.
Let's say you mistakenly raised the tone level by 3dB and didn't notice. When you deliver the master to a broadcaster or other facility, they correct the level based on what it says on the recording report. The audio in your movie is now too low. Even worse, they might just reject your submission outright.
It's quite clever when you think about it...

Random Flashing Color Bars within Quicktime Files during RAM Preview Only

I have been getting random color bar flashes within quicktime files in AE CC during RAM previews using Multi Processor rendering. Files other than .mov seem to not have this issue (although I have seen it twice...though it may be due to quicktimes in the comp). The rendered output using MP rendering is completely fine. If I turn off MP rendering the ram preview is fine. The source material is coming off a RAID 5 at 600-800MBs, I have moved the footage to a local SSD and a standard spindle drive with the same results. I have tried everything.....disabling GPUS in preview, disabling Fast Adaptive Preview, Disabling Disk Cache, Adjusting MP settings and RAM usage per core, disabling hardware accelleration of interface, adjusting gpu memory useage, every codec under the quicktime wrapper including uncompressed codecs, updating Blackmagic drivers, updating quicktime, limiting how many processors Windows 7 64bit can see, resetting AE preferences. I even installed After Effects clean on my second boot drive for gaming with no plugins or other apps, same issues. Have discussed this heavily with tech support at Adobe and they are working on it for a few days before getting back to me. When I got off the phone the tech was of the mind that I have too many cores for the Quicktime codec to handle.
My system :
Windows 7 64bit
Dual Xeon E5-2687W: 16 Physical cores and 32 cores with Hyperthreading
32GB 1866 DDR3
3xNvidia GTX 680 4GB cards
SSD boot and seperate SSD media cache drives
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Any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated as this is a huge boon to my workflow. Having purchased a $12K system for grading and rendering....not being able to use the ram preview in AE with multiple cores is a huge inconvenience.

Here is the requested taskmanager screenshot. As my test comp only has a single duplicated quicktime in it, it renders too fast to really catch the AE instances doing anything. So this is from a heavier comp. Settings are as pictured above with 3GB per core using 8 total cores of the 32. It did flash the bars.
Here is what I tried tonight:
- Followed the link on Quicktime having trouble with too many processors. Using MSCONFIG I dropped the recognized Processors to 21, 16, and 8 and tested all three settings. Each had the flashing bars issue. Again as usual, at random, sometimes 3 previews before showing up, sometimes the first preview run. I have noticed that the ram previews that take a little longer seem to be clean. Then sometimes it seems to fly through the preview, grabbing large chunks on the green progres bar above the timeline, or many little chunks very quickly....these are usually the preview runs that will show the flashing bars. I make a point of purging the cach between each one so it doesn't remember, plus I have disk media cache off, but sometimes I get the feeling it's remembering bits.
- I removed all the Quicktime Components from the QTComponents folder and tested it. Flashed the very first run without any quicktime components.
- Followed the Firewall or TCP instructions and made sure everything was allowed through ZoneAlarm. However I could not find the QT32 Server listed anywhere or figure out how to add it. No matter because I closed and force quit all of the firewall processes as well to make sure. Still flashed.
- I followed all the advice on the landing page for Quicktime-related problems
- I also tested out ram previews again thourougly with the same clip but converted to a Tiff sequence. No matter what I tried there was never any flashing in the ram preview with tiffs.
- I also re-tested the clean render output. Made a ram preview with the flashing bars, then without purging rendered it out to a quicktime file and there were no bars at all in the rendered output. I even tried duplicating this render output 6 times in the render queue and rendered them all at once. Not a single one had a flashing bar frame. I even played all 6 1080P uncompressed 4.2.2 YUV 10bit pieces off the RAID with no dropped frames or hichups.
- Killed every process in the taskmanager but for essential windows processes and the flashing bars were still present
- Set the priority to Real-time for every AE process including Adobe QT32 Server, Dynamiclinkmanager, and all the AE processes. Still flashed.
I am now considering disabling two of my GPUs in the device manager. However I'm a bit worried about disabling the wrong one and being locked out. Any thoughts? Is the computer to powerful for some process somewhere? Why only in RAM preview? Thanks again.

Calibrate color bar for SDI input?

To my understanding, you must calibrate your color bar for analog input but what about SDI (digibeta) input to fcp? since it's SDI I don't think we need to do it b/c when I open the vector scope & waveform up they all line up correctly.
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JP
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Your post gets my vote for the most confusing post of the year.
For the record: if you can monitor digital, phase(hue) is irrelevant but chroma level is important, as well as your white/black points. Therefore, yes, you must calibrate you monitor for white/black/chroma levels.

Any image modifications cause multi-colored bars to appear

This one is as strange as they come. . .
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I thought maybe it was just a video card/drawing problem, but it actually gets saved inside of the image.
It's kinda strange, because my MPEG playback has been doing something similar, but I can kill that by reducing video card acceleration. This doesn't go away though.
I've uninstalled, reinstalled -- even upgraded to CS2. Problem still exists. Could it actually be my video card drivers? (nvidia nforce from Oct 7th, 2007)

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Sure enough, I updated my Nvidia sound card driver and I've been running smooth now for a week without a hiccup from this problem.
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Can I show a color bar instead of a color bullet in iCal Monthly view for all my events in all calendars?

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Greetings Judith,
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Click on each calendar on the left hand side of iCal one at a time highlighting it's name and then going to File Export > Export and saving the resulting calendar file to a logical location for safekeeping.
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How can I add a color bar scale to a CW3DGraph

I am using the CW3Dgraph control (parametric surface plot) in a LabVIEW program I have written to graph the the strength of an electromagnetic field over a sphere. The plot color map style is set to use the "color spectrum". I would like to add a color bar scale to the graph so the user can determine the approximate field strength by the color of the plot. Is there an example that could help me with this, does anyone know how to add a color bar scale, or is there some other way to indicate to the user the color's level?

I think if you search this forum you will find more than one approach to this quest.In this thread you will find an earlier discusion of the same nature that has a couple of methods you can try out.
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Flashing Color Bars - major frustration

I'm a recent convert from Final Cut Express to Final Cut Pro. I've got a brand new setup using my 15" Powerbook, a Miglia Director's Cut SCART to convert my Firewire to analog video for use with an external video monitor. I'm currently working in PAL with a PAL monitor.
I just created my first project in FCP; it's set up as DV PAL and I've imported just one PAL DV clip into the timeline.
My problem: about every 57 seconds I get about a one second flash of colorbars on my external monitor. This is driving me bonkers. It doesn't matter if FCP is playing back the clip, or simply sitting idle.
I've discovered if I start another app and FCP is no longer the active app, these same bars come on the external monitor all the time. When FCP again becomes the active app, my external monitor again correctly shows video...but with that once a minute color bar flash.
These bars also don't look like what I'm familiar with in the past. They consist of a single row...there's no second or third row of patches. The first column is half-width and white, followed by the colors and last column is half-width black.
This flashing is driving me nuts. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?...and how to stop this?
Thanks
Doug
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Andy, your response is well thought out. Shortly after my last post, I discovered for myself these bars are indeed being output by the Miglia box. When I shut down the computer for the evening, only the Miglia box and monitor remained on...and you guessed it...I still had bars on the screen. So the bars themselves are coming from the Miglia box.
Also, as you deduced, this apparently occurs when the box receives no input. The next logical deduction is that Firewire communication is being interfered with. I was suspicious of that myself. At the moment, I have no anti-virus software installed. Furthermore, I was certain to have all programs shut down and used Activity Monitor to insure any unnecessary processes were shut down as well. (The only thing running was Snaps Pro, which I shut down; everything else appeared to be system stuff.)
I've used two different cables and two different Firewire inputs. One configuration had the Miglia box on its own bus with nothing else connected. None of this made any difference.
So at this point, I'm getting suspicious about the Miglia box itself. I'll give them a call today and see what they have to say.
Thanks,
Doug
1.67 GHz 15" Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2 GB RAM

Colored bars in BAR Chart

Hi all,
I want to display a bar chart which is having different colored bars. For example, i am now using equipment wise bar chart, if i am having 50 equipments, all 50 equipments should be displayed in different colors in bar chart. Now i am getting output for those 50 equipments having same color. I tried by giving that equipment column in DATA MAPPING -
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thanks in advance

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Color bars in FCP

I have made a DVD with the FCP NTSC color bars in order to calibrate my TV but no natter how high I turn up the brightness (black level) there is no way for me to see super black distinct from black. I also note that when I view the color bars on my Apple monitor the super black and black fields both have RGB values of (0.0, 0.0, 0.0). My observations suggest that the FCP color bars are not correct, since they can't show me whether I have set the black level too high. Is that right? If so, where can I get a correct file of color bars?
Thanks,
John Link

The same color bar files have been used in FCP for a number of years now. If this were the case, there would be a lot more noise about it.
I would think so, but with the FCP NTSC color bars I am not able to perform step 3d of the file for which you provided a link:
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Colored bars in clip after apply a little motion

I get these colored bars in my clip after applying some motion effects (kern). Rendering does not solve. Any idea?
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