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Re: Set in-out duration through keyboard.... - 16 years ago
ohh, i always ignored the plus feature because i thought it would only move clips, not just the playhead. See i was overlooking something... Shift arrow is a good way to go derek, thanks, i did know that but didnt think about... thanks guys...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Set in-out duration through keyboard.... - 16 years ago
OK, this is one thing i miss from my Discreet Logic days, the abilitie to set an In point, hit a keyboard command, type in a duration, and then have a Out point created to match my input, allowing me to delete a specified section of time with out moving my mouse. The work im doing now requires a lot of removing of short intervals and i'd rather do it from the keyboard rather than moving my mouby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Motion Blur...doesn't. - 16 years ago
Motion has the trails effect which might be more what you're looking for, maybe wide time as well. They might work better the what final cut can offer. Maybe put a directional blur on them as well... Good luck with the 1080 render times...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: FCP and Apple "Inc"'s new wireless transferr - 16 years ago
relating to Apple TV, this is what Apple says: Video formats supported: H.264 and protected H.264 (from iTunes Store): 640 by 480, 30 fps, LC version of Baseline Profile; 320 by 240, 30 fps, Baseline profile up to Level 1.3; 1280 by 720, 24 fps, Progressive Main Profile. MPEG-4: 640 by 480, 30 fps, H.264 which looks pretty damn amazing and is very compact, it just takes ages to encode. I plby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Flashframe Transition - 16 years ago
The nice thing about laying over a color matte is you can adjust the blend mode, i.e. screen or add to really blow out the image. Keyframe a blur effect on the video beneath and it it looks rather nice...just more workby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Random Start Frame in Replicator.... - 16 years ago
OK, trying to get a video wall playing lots of different video frames with all different content, etc etc that can be moved around nicely Im trying to do this using replicator so they can start as a jumble and pull themselves together with as little keyframes as possible but im having trouble with the random start frame option. Basically, its not so random as i'd like it to be. While it is a dby Scott Erickson - Motion
Re: Couldnt Find My Question... maybe you guys can help - 16 years ago
The DVX is a fantastic camera but there is nothing really special about its capturing footage shot at 24p. 24pA is different, only use 24pA if you want to edit in 24(23.98 really) and use normal 24p if you want the film look. When capturing, look under Capture Presets as there is a setting for this called Advanced 2:3:3:2 Pulldown. When you look at the clip it will say 23.98 as opposed to 29.97.by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: O.T. DVDSP4 No slideshow icon - 16 years ago
I dont think you're doing anything wrong. If it's appearing in the list, it should appear in the graphical. If it doesn't, its a glitch of some sort. Move things around in the graphical viewer to make sure its not covered, zoom way out to see if it got lost. Or just link a button to it and see if it works in the simulation. As long as it works, you should be fine. you could always trash prefeby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Keyboard command for switching tabs??? - 16 years ago
fantastic...Everyday, im happier and happier i upgraded to Universalsby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Keyboard command for switching tabs??? - 16 years ago
Does anyone know if its possible to switch tabs in the sequence window through a keyboard command? I hate having to scroll over to the corner and click a small tab when im frequently switching between two different sequences....by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: HDV/DV Still grabs? - 16 years ago
That is fantastic. Don't worry tho, your secret is safe with me. well, all of us really...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Color Shift?? - 16 years ago
wow, thanks for doing that shane. I'll check on a friends 17" MacBook Pro to see if theres any difference...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Color Shift?? - 16 years ago
its a powerbook G4 1.67 1.5GB RAM on a FW 800 drive viewing DVCProHD 720p24 compliments of an HVX. I've been doing to digital desktop playback so i can get a larger view for checking shots, etc. Thats when i notice it the most... Like i said, this is just the rough cut, getting the best shots from the shoot laid out, the final edit will be on our G5 and will def be checked on a broadcast monitby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Color Shift?? - 16 years ago
Working with some DVCProHd footage and doing some rough layouts on my powerbook. When ever i do the digital desktop display, there seems to be a big difference of color when the image is stopped or playing back. I know DV will clip the highlights on playback and am wondering if this is the same thing except with chroma? Also, which image is showing the correct color? i.e. which will be more accurby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Smart De-interlacing??? - 16 years ago
I know a lot of people who do their deinterlacing in AE instead of in FCP because it doesnt just toss the extra fields and replicate up but my question is does Motions Deinterlacing interpolate do the same thing? or should i still find a better way to deinterlace video, ala AE, plug-ins, Shake, etc??by Scott Erickson - Motion
Re: Sony A1U/A1P/A1E - 16 years ago
exactly, it handles low light very poorly but can easily intercut with a z-1 in good conditions, the zoom and iris controls are straight out of the consumer world so they leave much to be desired but it's size and audio capabilitys make it worthwhile. I slap a nice fat wideangle lens on it and its a great small HD-capable camera...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Anamorphic problems....HELP!!!! - 16 years ago
Even if the DVD is just for client check, i'd still go through Studio Pro with all the 16x9 settings. Do a constant bit-rate single pass encode and it doesnt take very long and will mux and burn to disc with out seriously slowing your editing performance. Theres no reason to go to an analoge signal with crappy built in menus when Studio Pro is so easy. Although, if you need to, im sure there is sby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Unsatisfying results on final DVD output - 16 years ago
studio pro will take a non-converted file if you throw it at it but will simply do the conversion there as specified by the preferences pane, compressor allows you much more detailed controls, presets, and the ability to do batch conversions....by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Unsatisfying results on final DVD output - 16 years ago
"FasterOutput/3.7Mbps/1-pass/filter-contrast+5> for DVD viewing copy. " That's not a particularly high bitrate and one pass is not the way to get a quality encode. How much source material do you have? If its under an hour, go ahead and crank your bitrate up to 6 or 7mbps and do dual pass cbr encode. It'll take longer but it will get you quality. Also, do the audio mixdown andby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: DVCPRO-HD Workflow Questions - Record to MacBook Pro - realtime? - 16 years ago
This is a perfectly viable method although the downside is that you are capturing using Capture Now and hence no timecode. The way to make it work while the laptop is closed is to hook up an external monitor and mouse, close the laptop and let is go to sleep, than wake it up with the mouse, that way you can work with the lid closed. Not sure why you want it closed but thats the way to do it.by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: DV Expo LA 2006 What fascinated you? - 16 years ago
Im pretty sure FlipforMac does not do Flash 8 files...at least it doesnt say so on their site although i didn;t talk to anyone at their booth. Its primarily for making WMV files right?? Thats the only export codecs they listed. Maybe they can import a FLV file for conversion to WMV but i dunno It was def interesting to see Sorenson being run, although i couldn;t see any real need for it, mostlby Scott Erickson - Café LA
More Jerkyness... - 16 years ago
This time im getting jerkyness without the bloom filter, but with the gloom filter! Problem is, this time the gloom filter makes the entire piece and can't be turned off. I turned on Fixed Resolution(which is an awesome trick btw) and nothing helps. There has to be away to animate text smoothly with these filters on. Im running 2.1 on a 17" MacBook 2.13 2gig ram, it should be able to handby Scott Erickson - Motion
Re: HDV vs. Apple Intermediate - 16 years ago
So the color space is the same and the data rates are high but the codec is less processor intensive...hmmm, so its the poor mans version of DVCProHD, albiet super poor mans. Storage isn't much of an issue but i do a fair amount of graphics and layovers, plus i dont want to have to wait for GOP restructuring to go to tape or anything. Everything is pretty much Sony's 1080i HDV so i'll have toby Scott Erickson - Café LA
HDV vs. Apple Intermediate - 16 years ago
OK, other than removing the GOP structure, what else is different between these two codecs? Is AI still the 4:2:0 color space or something different? Will motion graphics work better in this over normal HDV? Could someone help explain the difference between these? thanks...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: exporting an anamorphic quicktime - 16 years ago
OK, ive been working alot in anamorphic because it just looks better than DV and alot of my stuff is for web. Here's my settings. First of all, make sure everythings edited properly as Anamorphic in FCP, i run into this all the time with people unsure and are dropping Ani-clips into 4x3 timelines. Although this is easy to fix, just click the anamorphic button in timeline settings and select alby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Jerky Render on Text - 16 years ago
Nope, just tried that and no major change, still jerky and popping back and forth. I thought it could be the font since its one i just downloaded but that doesn;t effect it, i even took off the grow/shrink effect and keyframed it and the motion is totally crappy. So then i narrowed it down to the effects. Turns out the bloom filter was causing it. Apparantly, even with an amount level set to zby Scott Erickson - Motion
Jerky Render on Text - 16 years ago
OK, trying to make a text element grow out at the viewer but it looks super jerky compared to other non-text elements, not sure what is going on. I tried applying the effect to a container layer and not directly but that didn't help. I could make the text in photoshop and import as rasterized but then the drop shadow effect look bad, any ideas? Mark? Someone? here's a grab of my project fileby Scott Erickson - Motion
Re: Motion Bugs??? - 16 years ago
Try clearing your RAM Preview, this often gets rid of that as well...Motion draws from that sometimes during the render so its best to clear it before a final renderby Scott Erickson - Motion
Re: HELP! HDV capture problems... - 16 years ago
OK well that worked, although not quite sure how, fcp was giving me messages that to capture HDV it must be in HDV Firewire device control and that was giving me 20clips for 20 mins of footage with all the drop frames. anyway, i guess sometimes going back to basics and letting FCP take over works...thanks...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
HELP! HDV capture problems... - 16 years ago
OK, rented an JVD HD-100 for the weekend to test it out as a possible future camera, problem is that is giving me serious capture problems... I used a brand new Panasonic MQ tapes to avoid this issue but im still getting dropped frames which is killing my interviews as its cutting out parts i need. Problem is that my usual route for getting around bad parts on a tape is going to uncontrollableby Scott Erickson - Café LA
