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Re: Export High Quality Stills - 14 years ago
Yep, not only that but how many cameras actually shoot 10 bit?? Changes are your footage was shot with at least some compression and up-converted later to 10 bit.by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Constantly Crashing Upon Render Attempt* - 15 years ago
No news there. Magic bullet is very crash-prone. - Make sure all your fonts are OK (use software to do this) - Check your scratch-disk settings (default= system HD)... Your renders go there, not to G-raid. It might be full - Do first round of effects without MB, export to QT, import back in reasonable chunks (no more than 3-5 min). Apply MB as the only effect once you've locked down everythiby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: RAID deleted by accident - 15 years ago
How do you back up your capture scratch and projects? Best approach? I use program called Chronosync. I set it up to do daily incremental backups from scratch/media/project folders when working on something important. When I am done with the project, I just disable the automatic backups, make a well organized BU from the entire project and delete all those incremental backups from my externalby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: P2 Problem - 15 years ago
Few things to check before you jump: - Has your machine created a NEW Final Cut Pro Documents folder to a new location (system disk/documents)? Check your scratch disk settings! - Did you "Save As" at some point and accidentally continued to work with your old project file. This could explain why the vault is empty.by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: compressing HD footage - 15 years ago
hmm... you should have a number of default video settings to choose from. so, you can't see any of this: Have you deleted your default settings for some reason?by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Anyone else in Boston preparing for the Apple Certification FCP exam? - 15 years ago
The test will ask questions with no relevance to actual editing. It does not matter how well you edit, you're still going to have troubles without reading the book. - Max number of video tracks? - max number of audio tracks? - etc...by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Can I import movies from Itunes into FCP? - 15 years ago
To practice editing on copyrighted material is not copyright infringement. One can train, do mash-ups, directors cuts and remixes for personal use (and break Itunes encryption scheme while doing it). DMCAby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Captures are wildly out of synch - 15 years ago
Go to the Capture Scratch folder on your media drive and open those captured files with quicktime. Still drifting?by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Clicks and Pops in FCP only - 15 years ago
Not sure if your problem is solved? It would really help if you'd enlarge your audio tracks to show full waveforms. It's relatively easy to see if the "spikes" are hitting the roof. If so, there's a problem with your recorded audio (or capturing issue), if not it is related to problems with your audio setupby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Motion corrupting my 1080i60 clips - 15 years ago
How many times are you planning to post this thread?by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Ghost image - 15 years ago
You really don't see field order problems unless you have some sort of motion on the footage. You check for this under the sequence settings.by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Slow motion with 720 50p footage beeing used in 720 25p timeline - 15 years ago
wow... I am editing 720 footage all the time and never had a problem with that. Slo-mo footage is slo-mo on my sequences without any gimmicks. No AE required! Maybe you want to double check your sequence settings?by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Image cropped when burning to DVD ... HELP! - 15 years ago
OMG... Give the poor man his borders! SpaceCravler.. I totally hear your problem and it's very easy to solve: - Once you are happy with you edit, create a new sequence and bring your edited sequence in as nest ( you can just drag sequence 1 from the bin to the timeline) - Scale to your liking (so that all the footage is inside the outermost blue box) - Export as QT - Burn DVDby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Importing AVCHD vie Log & Transfer - 15 years ago
Ben, I am helping my friend who is an amateur videographer. It would make a world of difference for him to show his projects; professionally edited and in their full HD glory. This Sony camera he's using is just amazing: Pocket size and with HDMI out. Picture quality isn't that bad either for $400. Memory cards are expensive when compared to HD space. It would make a lot of sense for my friby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Importing AVCHD vie Log & Transfer - 15 years ago
Apparently our friends on the PC land have found a way to "push" something back to the camera. Unfortunately, 2 GB max filesize and no hope trying the same stunt with Macby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Importing AVCHD vie Log & Transfer - 15 years ago
Got it to work. It just took REALLY long time for FCP to recognize the folder. Which leads to question 2: Is it possible to export the finished edit back to the camera (Sony HDR) and use the camera as HD media player? How does that work? I suppose copying a finished QT to the memory card isn't going to workby nicknasty - Café LA
Importing AVCHD vie Log & Transfer - 15 years ago
I am trying to import AVCHD footage using log&transfer The footage is copied from the memory card to a folder on my HD. Right now I am seeing this kind of structure Which folder am I supposed to drag to the media bin / select as source?? FCP doesn't seem to recognize anything on that folder? I don't need the actual camera to do this... right? FCP 6.0.5by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Any software recommendation? Want to create storyboards from stills with large image previews, a la "Light Table" feature in Aperture? - 15 years ago
Iphoto gets really close except that last part (freeform placement). This might work for you I am sure you want to do your storyboards "Minority Report" -style but as you said, most of that stuff lacks adequate text formatting/export toolsby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: S16 Grain - 15 years ago
Your shots look totally destroyed. Maybe they were compensating for miscalculated exposure settings?? You really need to get back to the post house and re-examine what was captured on film.by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: OT: DVD audio loses sync during film festival - 15 years ago
Mac DVD burners are really bad. I've had four and none of those was able to make a decent DVD. Got this confirmed by replication house: they were totally unable to use my DVDs as masters because of data corruption. Your Mac can probably handle a self-burned DVD with it's advanced error correction but older set-top players can't. Cascading errors on the disc overwhelm the circuits and you're outby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: Separating 720 from 480 - 15 years ago
As far as I know there are no vertical "lines" in video frame. To create one you should make a mask in photoshop. Still, I think 1 px wide "stripes" aren't going to look that hot. It will probably make your footage look darker at best. Here's an example (down 50%) Original: With vertical "scan-lines" BTW Corbett, you are posting a lot of stuffby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: FCP & original timecode - 15 years ago
DougB, Can't you just ask them to email their FCP project file? This would solve your TC problem and it sounds counter-intuitive for you to wait for the DVD. After all, you are the guy with the original footage. And yes, replacing valid TC with home-made fairytale TC is retarded. Not useful at all... They should be spanked ...by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: tips for Flash Audio encoding - 15 years ago
No, your download speed does not affect QT quality. It just takes longer for it to download/buffer. You really can't compare QT and Flash. They are two entirely different beasts: QT is a one trick pony designed to carry audio/video extremely well whereas Flash can do computational tasks, database querys, vector animation and stream A/V content (but not too well). It will take way too muchby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: tips for Flash Audio encoding - 15 years ago
Hi Dan, Are you an experienced flash programmer or just learning how to use it? Need to know if you are familiar how Flash works and what the limitations are? Are you planning to run Flash in some kind of kiosk -mode locally? As said, I've never heard anyone using Flash as a high-quality media player and what you are writing is pointing to that direction. Almost everything in Flash revolveby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: tips for Flash Audio encoding - 15 years ago
This going a bit OT since I am positive there is nothing wrong with your FLV. The problem is within the publish settings. Ask him to use MP3 audio with bitrate around 32-64. Using Flash as a media player for super audio CD -quality isn't such a good idea. Your system can't handle it.by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: TRAILING PROBLEM WITH AG HMC 152 Camera- URGENT - 15 years ago
First check the raw footage from your capture bin. If the motion trails are there you're out of luck. Like Noah said, its probably shutter speed. Many cameras compensate the lack of proper lighting by slowing down the shutter on their (auto) mode. Second possibility is interlacing. If you are shooting interlaced stuff and watch it from your computer screen it will have "motion trails"by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: MP4 (320x240) to FCP (1440x1080) timeline?? - 15 years ago
Sorry about the bad choice of words... Intermediate might not be the correct term to use, it might throw some people off.. let's talk about a "compromise" between HD and 320. Not sure if you really need to step away from 422 at all? Maybe you could just adjust your sequence settings and downconvert your HDV foorage to SD that way? Anyway, my point is to minimize quality hit for youby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: MP4 (320x240) to FCP (1440x1080) timeline?? - 15 years ago
If you deliver to web I see no reason for you to first blow the clip up to 1080 only to reduce it later. This yields the worst possible results. Maybe you could settle for an intermediate format, say 8 bit uncompressed SD NTSC for your overall sequence preset. Your HDV clips will still look great on the web and if needed, you can output to DVD. Blowup to SD will be slightly less obvious and inby nicknasty - Café LA
Re: tips for Flash Audio encoding - 15 years ago
Flash projects use similar export dialogue to QTs. Before final export (make movie) from Flash, your web guru has a final say on jpg compression, physical dimensions, sound compression etc. Just ask him to crank up the bitrate and you're all set.by nicknasty - Café LA
Re: OT - Places to Buy Sound Equipment - 15 years ago
Sweetwater is cool. Their CRM is second to none.by nicknasty - Café LA
