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Show all posts by userYour basic troubleshooting forum for all things FCP Legacy (FCP 7 and below.) And general discussion on topics that do not fit in the other forums.
Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Documentary Workflow - 17 years agoWell then, some free but less valuable advice. If it were me... and if I really cared about this project and thought it had a future... I would go to some lengths to avoid the DV codec. Especially for the sake of the bulk of your material, which is on a very noisy format. That noise is likely to turn into things you don't recognize after DV compression. I would say you need DVCPro50by braker - Café LA Re: Can you edit or add anything to a movie in DVDSP? - 17 years agoIt's my understanding (though I haven't tried it) that you can put whatever you want in the DVDSP tracks - such as multiple pieces - and still have it play through as one movie. I also believe you can trim the bits right in the DVDSP track. Assuming this actually works you will be limited to editing at the GOP points of the individual files.by braker - Café LA Can I send FCP > STP Project and keep levels and fades? - 17 years agoI think I've made some bad assumptions about STP. I have used it many times to work on individual clips, mostly for noise reduction 'cause almost everything else I need can stay in FCP. Now I have a completed and complex project, with a complex soundtrack which could use a little brushing up here and there. I had assumed that an STP project would give me an exact duplicate of the FCP projeby braker - Soundtrack Pro Re: Burning sensation around my Deck - 17 years agoJ., assuming we're still talking about capturing DV tapes there is NO loss of quality from using a different deck such as the Cheap One. It's a digital transfer of digital data. The only potential loss of quality is from tape damage or momentary dropouts, which could happen in either machine but may be somewhat more likely in a Cheap One. If you're talking about capture from analog sourcesby braker - Café LA Re: Burning sensation around my Deck - 17 years agoIf you're sticking your DV tapes into it then the cheap camera isn't going to be analog. It'll be DV. Koz was referring to analog conversion as it happens when you use the camcorder to feed a CRT monitor. If it isn't sending setup (7.5IRE blacks) and you're using North American NTSC then that signal is basically useless for recording. And the device may be mostly useless for capture from anby braker - Café LA Re: 10-15% image loss on TVs - 17 years agoLook up these phrases in any video reference or even in the FCP manual: "title safe", "action safe", "overscan", "underscan". This is basic video knowledge. It's an integral part of how NTSC and PAL (even SECAM!) video are produced, starting at the camera. If you don't like it you can shrink your picture into a box in the middle. Then it will appear iby braker - Café LA Re: key command - 17 years agoIf you have something like a ShuttlePro, you can assign buttons to run strings of keystrokes. Some keyboards (my Logitech does) also let you assign strings to various extra keys.by braker - Café LA Re: damn the scrolling text flickers - 17 years agoThe trickiest trick I can think of is: DON'T use FCP's scrolling text. I don't even understand why they include it. It uses bitmap fonts, which means that unless the pixels land on convenient spots on the display lines, they're always going to look weird oin one way or another. Fortunately you also have a Boris scroll generator, which works with vector fonts. If you give it the same fontby braker - Café LA Re: Cleanest Font for Credit Roll ? - 17 years agoScott, once you're in the ballpark you'd adjust either the length of the clip or the contents (adding/removing short empty lines or tweaking font size) until it comes out to one scanline per field or frame. You can do a little math to get in the ballpark. But I'm not here to hold your hand through that, which is incredibly drudgeful and can really dampen the creative spirit. I'm here to teby braker - Café LA Re: OT - lighting brands for green screen, etc... - 17 years agoWell, I guess I should be impressed. I've used colored lighting on chroma paint or fabric (the way Kino Flo pushes it), but never heard of using it on a white wall. Perhaps another case of Old Guy thinking he's seen it all.by braker - Café LA Re: OT - lighting brands for green screen, etc... - 17 years agoTimJBD Wrote: > You can also get a set of green (or blue) > screen bulbs: > > > 0Effects%20and%20Designer%20Colors/Visual%20Effect > s%20and%20Designer%20Colors.htm#Bluegreen > > and then any white wall is a chromakey screen. You'll drive yourself crazy trying to do that - imagine the spill issues.by braker - Café LA Re: Best way to have client choose the clips - 17 years agoI can't remember, but it's clear that Dotman has to do what both of us say.by braker - Café LA Re: Best way to have client choose the clips - 17 years agoNick, we're like, in tune here.by braker - Café LA Re: Best way to have client choose the clips - 17 years agoWell then it isn't really timecode but it should do the job. There must be a "display" button on the camcorder or in a menu. Just make the time readout show up on the video output. Or it may be an option to have the viewfinder display show up on the video output. Don't try to use a FireWire transfer for this - use composite or Y/C (S-video). If that doesn't work and they're makby braker - Café LA Re: Best way to have client choose the clips - 17 years agoIt would absolutely be silly to burn that stuff in the Mac, I assumed he'd use a recorder. Record to external DVD, even VHS. The numbers will be right as long as it's TC Reader attached to each individual clip. Way way easier yet is to record from the tape deck, which hopefully has a TC burn feature. to the DVD recorder. No RT hassles, no rendering. It's old school but it works. Only goby braker - Café LA Re: Best way to have client choose the clips - 17 years agoYes, but you want timecode reader, not generator. It goes on each clip (copy attributes) and will display actual source time code. Timecode Generator can be used for a window burn of a sequence but not with source code.by braker - Café LA Re: Quicktime Conversion - 17 years agoYou're using them as data DVDs. You seem to want to save them in native format, which is a Good Idea. You can't reduce the size and kleep them native. You need 3 DVDs to hold the material you have. It simply won't fit on 2, and nothing you can do will make them fit and still be in native format. Unless perhaps you strip off the sound and store it on... a third disc. But then you still hby braker - Café LA Re: Sequence of Nested HDV sequences loses audio sync - 17 years agoNot sure I can help in the end, but 11 seconds in 52 minutes is just right for a 29.97/30 problem.by braker - Café LA Re: Need quick access to international symbol for NO graphic - 17 years agoOr try pasting this in as text: ∅by braker - Café LA Re: wmv export problem - 17 years agoWhether you know it or not, you're probably using Flip4Mac, which unless you pay for it will only encode short bits. I thought it was 2 minutes, but maybe there's a total data limit too. Quicktime has no native support for WMV. You might want to look at VisualHub as a very inexpensive and robust solution.by braker - Café LA Re: Is there loss of quality going from DVD to DVD? - 17 years agoThis is really a question for the dub house, as they won't all work the same. But in general, authoring refers to the design and implementation of the menus, navigation, extras on the disc... some may also take it to include encoding. So if you're looking to eliminate paying for "authoring", you give them a disc that is completely encoded, menuized, finished, ready for play. Anby braker - Café LA Re: Do I still need to settle for less with Compressor? - 17 years agojeffleiser Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I personally don't know much about analog tape > formats and should've mentioned that the festival > does accept Betacam SP. Is the quality of Betacam > SP significantly greater than DVD? I know Digibeta > is, but I don't think we can enter it as that. Absolutely absolutely take BetaSP. You sby braker - Café LA Re: Do I still need to settle for less with Compressor? - 17 years agoAlso if it's under an hour you will increase your quality greatly by doing CBR (constant bit rate) instead of VBR. I don't know why, but the sound of the phrase "2-pass VBR" seems to make people think it's better quality than CBR. It isn't. It's a way to shave corners and fit more on the disk, that's all. It should be better than 1-pass VBR, but never better than CBR. You obviousby braker - Café LA Re: audio sample rate correction - 17 years agoWell, assuming you have no way to go back and fix the problem wherever it started... And assuming the audio drift is constant... And assuming the audio is currently appearing as 48kHz... You can calculate, or better yet measure, the percentage by which the audio leads or lags video. To calculate start with 48/44.1 and see if that takes care of it. Or: - take your longest clip intoby braker - Café LA Re: audio sample rate correction - 17 years agoNo, don't ignore it. If the sync problem comes from the 44kHz then it will be WAY off - on the order of 10%. If it isn't that obvious then it probably isn't a direct result of the conversions. I don't understand how 44kHz audio could have been recorded on a DVCam tape. But if it was then you'll have to do something about it. Does FCP offer to fix this problem for you?by braker - Café LA Re: Do I still need to settle for less with Compressor? - 17 years agoAnd remind us why you're making a DVD again? Almost any tape format north of VHS will be better than the best DVD.by braker - Café LA Re: audio sample rate correction - 17 years agoIf it was recorded on DVCam, and that's what you're using, then it isn't 44.1 any more. It's already been converted, and hopefully to 48. There shouldn't be any possibility of drift if waudio was recorded with video. And if you're getting pops and clicks you can either fix them or go back to source footage. But on FCP side it's a straight shot DVCam import. You don't say you're actuallyby braker - Café LA Re: Problems with FCP 5.1 - 17 years agoSounds like you might be having trouble with the Kona... can you disable it for troubleshooting?by braker - Café LA Re: DPBuzz Tip: Quick and Dirty HD/HDV monitoring for $19! - 17 years agoI think it would cause trouble with people thinking they're actually getting an "external reference monitor" this way (see my post above). And see your own words, Jus: "t's really down and dirty and you won't see accurate colors or resolution at all; but if you just want an external reference monitor for HDV or DVCProHD footage and you can't afford an AJA, Blackmagic or Matrox sby braker - Café LA Re: DPBuzz Tip: Quick and Dirty HD/HDV monitoring for $19! - 17 years agoIt should be pointed out that this approach isn't actually displaying a production video signal. It's emulating a VGA computer monitor and sending that signal out to an NTSC monitor. Displaying a production video signal on that computer screen that happens to be displayed on an NTSC monitor... doesn't change that. There's nothing wrong with doing it, it's kind of cool. But for monitoring puby braker - Café LA |
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