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Re: Mastering issues. - 14 years ago
totally understand. a couple of quick thoughts: 1. when testing the different compression settings, you can go into the preview window and set in and out points so you are running a test on a very small piece of your master (like a minute or so). That way you spend only a few minutes to output a sample to see if it meets your needs. 2. This past year I did quite a bit of HDV-60i stuffby boydmcc - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Mastering issues. - 14 years ago
Carpboy, are you in CA? My suggestion would be to talk with the authoring agent, write down exactly what he needs, then for you to find a professional compressionist in your area (hopefully on a Saturday there should be some post houses open) and have them to the compression for you. Pay what ever $$ you need. If necessary, bite the bullet and push back your delivery a day or two to get it doby boydmcc - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Deauthorizing Final Cut Pro - 16 years ago
this is actually pretty funny from a karmic standpoint. As bad as it is to pirate software, it's even worse to give your software out to be pirated! If he can afford a new computer, he should be able to afford a new license. And hopefully learn a valuable (and expensive) lesson at the same time.by boydmcc - Café LA
Re: FCP Universal Q... - 17 years ago
If you're going from 5.0.4 to 5.1, it's actually considered a "crossgrade" and the $49 really covers cost for S&H. You should do it quickly, I believe the special pricing ends 12/20. Here's the link:by boydmcc - Café LA
Re: HD Post - 17 years ago
How much footage to you have? Instead of renting a deck, it might be cheaper to go to a post house and have them down convert your footage to SD; you might even be able to bring in a firewire drive and have the footage captured directly to your hard drive. Beyond just the deck, DVCProHD will eat up a lot of disk space. Of course the nonprofit may feel entitled to HD at no cost and think their viby boydmcc - Café LA
Re: Sony A1U/A1P/A1E - 17 years ago
I haven't really used it yet (only a couple hours), but we picked up the A1-U earlier this year. My wife took it to China and shot some stuff. The footage looks pretty good - the biggest caveat is the low light performance is not very good. Also be careful with fast pans. My wife loves the camera because it's small and easy to handle. A couple years back we were shooting a doc with a Sony PD-by boydmcc - Café LA
Re: Jagged Edges - 17 years ago
you need to check it out on an external monitor to see if it's really a problem - burn a dvd if you need to.by boydmcc - Café LA
Re: HDV and My Mac - 17 years ago
Hushhush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Unfortunately i gotta use the XL-H1 as the video > is for Canon and they're supplying the cameras! I wouldn't say or think "unfortunately" at all! You have a gig and Canon is supplying the cameras. That's cool, plus you'll learn more about the H1 (and HD) to boot. And the technical hurdles using theby boydmcc - Café LA
Re: How to save a turkey and still enjoy Thanksgiving - 17 years ago
Filmman, using a turkey analogy before Thanksgiving is humorous, but ultimately it doesn't give any real clues to what is wrong with your film, so it's difficult to suggest anything. Can you be more specific? Is it bad acting, bad camera work, bad script, incomplete footage? I don't even know if your film is a comedy or drama or thriller or horror flick. "Cut it in half? Arbitrarilby boydmcc - Café LA
Re: Audio nightmare - 17 years ago
In addition to what Loren recommended: 2. you've answered your own question - cut the audio on the folks not talking. Whenever you use the statement "it sounds better when...", then there's your answer. That's pretty much what the professionals do. There are numerous ways to control the levels of individual tracks. 3. Mixing audio is similar to cooking food. When you cook, you doby boydmcc - Café LA
Re: FCP & iMovie - 17 years ago
A couple of suggestions from area 52 (we're across the street): Restart the G4 then try to install. Restart in "safe mode" to see if that works. Copy the iMovie 6 you have installed on the other computer you mentioned to a CD/DVD, then copy and paste that onto your G4. It might be a conflict issue with FCP, but it's just as likely to be a conflict issue with some other app oby boydmcc - Café LA
Re: ripple delete won't work - 18 years ago
There's nothing wrong with your system or FCP. The Ripple tool does not work on just one track (except the very end clip). You need to have both the video and audio track(s) selected at the same edit point for this to work. If you want to use the Ripple tool, lock any track that has audio on it. Sounds like you are only using audio track 1. So lock A1 (and A2 if you v.o. is in stereo) FCP defaby boydmcc - Café LA
Re: OT - New Intel/Mac commercial - 18 years ago
Looks good full screen on my 30" cinema displayby boydmcc - Café LA
Re: another..log & capture problem - 18 years ago
A couple other suggestions would be: 1. try capturing with another camera or deck to eliminate that as a possible problem. 2. Disconnect any other FW devices so only the one coming in from your camera is active, and turn that on first, then launch FCP. 3. Swap your FW cable with another one. I definitely feel you pain.by boydmcc - Café LA
Re: another..log & capture problem - 18 years ago
did you reinstall QT 7 and restart your computer? I'm not saying this will solve your problem, but it eliminates possible solutions.by boydmcc - Café LA
Re: another..log & capture problem - 18 years ago
try trashing the QT receipts per the article.by boydmcc - Café LA
Re: another..log & capture problem - 18 years ago
not sure what software versions of FCP/QT you are using, but check out this article on the Apple site:by boydmcc - Café LA
Re: CatDV vs. iDive vs. Movie Logger - 18 years ago
Tony, I use CatDV Pro and can't recommend it highly enough. I'm currently working with over 50 hours of source material for 3 documentaries (the source material was caught on 2 cameras during 10 days of shooting on location) and CatDV is a great help. I have more experience with v3, but 4.0 looks similar and improved. Here are some of the key features (#5 is great for docs footage and is theby boydmcc - Café LA
Re: Documentary organization - 18 years ago
Don't forget CatDV Pro. It's a great logging tool and will catalog most of the media you use as well, including audio files, pdfs, graphics, etc. This program is a godsend for documentary filmmakers.by boydmcc - Café LA
Re: Logging a Documentary/Storage - 18 years ago
Tony, go to the llink below. Chicago Media Works has some of the best online resources for documentary postproduction and best practices I have seen (with downloadable templates and files):by boydmcc - Café LA
Re: Logging documentary - 18 years ago
I make documentary films and follow a slightly different workflow for logging and capturing then the suggestions above: 1. I capture whole tapes using Capture Now in FCP for a variety of reasons. One is to handle my camera originals the least amount of time as possible, I treat them the same way I would film negative. Also, capturing whole lets me watch the footage from a broader perspective (seby boydmcc - Café LA
