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Re: OT: Youtube in 3D - 14 years agoOh, thanks for pointing that out, Noah. That makes sense. I thought perhaps they could place both frames side by side or one above the other one, but that won't work either because the polarized images need space between them to simulate the human stereoscopic vision. But what are these 3D TVs being advertised? Do people have to wear green and red glasses to see the 3D programming? 3D didn't cby filmman - Café LA Re: OT: Youtube in 3D - 14 years agohey, strypes, did you get my email? anyway, the 3D is great. are they going to stick with the red and green technology or the polarizer glasses? i think the polarizer is much better. wonder why they didn't go with that. i think it works on the same principle: two images per movie frame combined to give the 3D effect.by filmman - Café LA Re: OT: Ironman 2 Trailer out now... - 14 years agoThat's a great trailer, Ben. It's funny how the fundamentals of what makes a great trailer don't change.by filmman - Café LA Re: O.T The future of editing - 14 years agoBut, Adage, if editing becomes this easy, they won't let me ask any questions here. They'll say, "Just grab it and put it there!" Of course, they won't be able to say, "Read the manual!" either.LOL Good set of articles. Thanks for posting them.by filmman - Café LA Re: OT: Safari FTP - 14 years agoThanks, Ben. I was beginning to suspect that was the case. In fact, there is a pretty nice File Manager on my hosting company website. I will look it over tonight, and if it looks like I will mess up my settings, I'll send Support an email to help me with the set up. I think it's a really elegant and an efficient way of doing ftp between my computer and remote hosting server to just be able toby filmman - Café LA Re: OT: Safari FTP - 14 years agoThat worked, Ben! Ok, I was able to drag files from my website server to my desktop. But I can't drag files from my desktop into my website server. The message: "Cannot modify file" in the remote site public_html folder prevents me from dragging files to my remote web server. How do I configure my remote server to allow me to drag files from my website to display on my website?by filmman - Café LA Re: OT: Safari FTP - 14 years agoThanks Jude. I went to the next step (share) and did it. But I still can't just drag and drop a file from one window into the next. it says error 36 it's not working the tutorial is long and too complicated. what do i have to do now? firewall settings?by filmman - Café LA Re: OT: Safari FTP - 14 years agoThanks for the reply, Ben. The window had some folders in it, but they were like mail folders and cgi folders; however, the public_html folder appeared only as a document!? I was hoping to open it like a folder containing my html and jpeg files and folders at my remote server, but it didn't. When I clicked on it, it said something about error 36.... Do I have to configure my remote site to beby filmman - Café LA Re: OT: Safari FTP - 14 years agoi was able to log on to my ftp server by following your instructions, ben, but how do i transfer files from my desktop to the outside server now? there is no command to click on or a folder where I can send the files to, like other ftp clients?by filmman - Café LA Re: OT: Safari FTP - 14 years agothank you Adage 12 for asking it's been four years that i didn't know how to ftp from my mac g5 until ben king wrote that it's always been on the os i've had to transfer files to my memory stick and carry them to my pc for ftp i'll try it tomorrowby filmman - Café LA Re: Creating a still image from video in FCP - 14 years agoThanks, Loren. That is a beautiful plugin ... $249!!!!by filmman - Café LA Re: Creating a still image from video in FCP - 14 years agoOh, I didn't know that too, strypes! So I should just de-interlace and adjust the frame to flat and then take the image to the printers? What's an ideal size to end up with a 40x27 inch poster? And if you're going to use the images for printing -- any size -- what should the resolution and dimensions be?by filmman - Café LA Re: Creating a still image from video in FCP - 14 years agoI didn't realize tiff was the best format, strypes! Thanks. Leslie, that's how you create a still from your FCP timeline. As Andrew also suggested, if it's an HDV image, for example, you need to stretch it. I do it in Photoshop. First de-interlace (if it's interlaced). The Photoshop "de-interlace" filter is excellent. It's under filters > video > de-interlace. To stretby filmman - Café LA Re: Importing HDV from Sony Z1e - 14 years agoHey, Chris -- what Jude said ... plus this (I have the Z1U): Set the camera to Automatic transfer. Look into the VCR menu of the camera and instead of HDV, select Auto. Then try and capture. Also, make sure you do the disconnect and reconnect of the firewire cable every time you make a change in the camera transfer settings, while the camera is disconnected from the computer. Follow the cameraby filmman - Café LA Re: Problems outputting hdv to dvcam on sony Z-7. - 14 years agoI have to concede the point with respect to advising Robert here. I have never run across so many experienced online editors as I have on this site. I thought perhaps my experience with iMovie and .dv files when trying to wriggle out of a time crunch situation could be useful to share. I was once in a situation that Robert is in here; I had to output from FCP to tape, to take and send the MiniDVby filmman - Café LA Re: 720x405 or 853x480(Detailed explanation in the post) - 14 years agoYou're right, strypes. I have seen more and more enlarged and pixelated images on news channels where the footage was shot with consumer cameras but was shown on account of interest. Personally I prefer to leave the sides of a 4:3 image black and preserve the 4:3 image quality inside a 16:9 frame -- if the enlargement was going to make the image look really bad. So if Doginthefog was goingby filmman - Café LA Re: Problems outputting hdv to dvcam on sony Z-7. - 14 years agoI don't quite agree. I suspect that the HDV conversion (via Compressor ok) to .dv and subsequent output via iMovie HD to the Sony Z1 would result in better quality video than down converting to DV and then going back to the camera. Ive done it and I seem to remember it looks much better than the SD output to tape. But I could be wrong.by filmman - Café LA Re: 720x405 or 853x480(Detailed explanation in the post) - 14 years agooh, I see ... there is a camera setting that will actually do that? How crazy! Unbelievable. Yes, then the "letterboxed 4:3" is a kind of mickey mouse format.... make it look like it was 16:9 but in fact it's 4:3 wow, ok. I don't know how the Camera Operator did that (by putting a mask in front of the lens?) ... or there is a camera that shoots that way. This I had never heard about.by filmman - Café LA Re: 720x405 or 853x480(Detailed explanation in the post) - 14 years agoOk, strypes, but in example 4, why did you use the cropped image of the gorgeous lady, why not use the original 4:3 full sized image?by filmman - Café LA Re: Problems outputting hdv to dvcam on sony Z-7. - 14 years agoWell, alright, then. But what I think he was trying to do was output his HDV trailer back to the Sony Z7 in the DVCAM format, in which case the camera wasn't doing it right. What I have succeeded in doing was output an 83 minute movie that was edited in a native HDV timeline (FCP 5.04), with titles and effects by converting the whole movie to a .dv movie, bringing it into iMovie and then outpuby filmman - Café LA Re: 720x405 or 853x480(Detailed explanation in the post) - 14 years agoBut, Tom, if you put black bars on top and bottom of a 4:3 image, you're going to end up with black bars at the sides as well. So the image is not going to be 720x480. It's going to be something smaller. Let's say there is such a camera that shoots an 80% smaller image (I've never heard of one, but please indulge me), so the resulting image is going to be 576x384 inside a 720x480 frame. (?)by filmman - Café LA Re: Problems outputting hdv to dvcam on sony Z-7. - 14 years agoQuoteJude wrote: HDV isn't anamorphic. It's native 16:9. What do you mean? For example, my Sony Z1U shoots 1440x1080. This is an HDV format. It is 4:3 anamorphic. The Sony Z7 is the same HDV 4:3 format and is therefore anamorphic 4:3. The question in this thread is how can Robert output a DVCAM tape for display. He has not reported that the advice he received here has enabled him to do thatby filmman - Café LA Re: 720x405 or 853x480(Detailed explanation in the post) - 14 years agoQuoteIf you shot it as 4:3 letterboxed, then it is smaller than 4:3. What do you mean by that, Jude? What's 4:3 letterboxed? What are the pixel width and height of 4:3 letterboxed? If this is not explained, how can you even talk about 720x480 or anamorphic? No advice can be given unless you know what the pixel dimensions of the original footage are. In fact, there are a lot of errors oby filmman - Café LA Re: Problems outputting hdv to dvcam on sony Z-7. - 14 years agoLoren is right about the correct procedure. You should have down converted to SD when you captured in FCP. Then you wouldn't have this problem. But it's only a trailer, so try this (I've done this through trial and error, so it's not the best way of preserving quality): do a "conversion" export to Quick Time DV movie and bring it into iMovie. Then export to camera. The camera will seby filmman - Café LA Re: how do you recover the best version of a project? - 14 years agoDerek: Media Manager is difficult to manage; it's easy to make mistakes and really damage a project, so I tread gently. In fact there are people who have advised, "never use Media Manager." I know it's not meant to be taken like that, but you know what I mean. ... Althought I have used it a few times and ended up saving some time, but I don't know it well. Jeff: You're very teby filmman - Café LA Re: how do you recover the best version of a project? - 14 years agoIt's amazing how my words are taken out of context I have learned many things here - plenty. That's why I come back No, Derek, I don't do the same mistakes with respect to deleting sound. I was just saying, I don't like clutter; but I've learned to manage sound clips. It's true that I ask a lot of question, but that's my nature, and of course you shouldn't feel obligated to answer thosby filmman - Café LA Re: how do you recover the best version of a project? - 14 years agoaha, so I should have simply opened only new sequences for each of those separate projects. I tended to open up projects when I should have opened new sequences, with simply different settings. I gather, it's best to open up multiple sequences even for the uncompressed versions. Thanks, Derek, for responding in a constructive way. The thing is that I don't like too much clutter, and havingby filmman - Café LA Re: how do you recover the best version of a project? - 14 years agoThank you, Noah, for making that point. I often wondered when working in FCP about this aspect of the program. Here are my reasons for getting into this bad habit: 1) Sometimes I end up taking a project in a new direction for the sake of experimentation or creating a shorter version for a special market. 2) I like to export an 8-bit uncompressed version for DVD SP and I might add an uncoby filmman - Café LA how do you recover the best version of a project? - 14 years agoAfter two years of working of on a feature length project, I have various project files spread over three hard drives. I have dated the project files but when I open them one after another, I can't find one complete version of the whole project and I can't tell which is the best one. What's the best way of consolidating about 20 versions of the same project? Thanks for the help. Vicby filmman - Café LA Re: Bad Editing / Bad Pacing - 14 years agostrypes, it's obvious to me that you're very technically proficient. You have helped so many times. But I didn't realize you had so much insight in the philosophy and art of editing. You have made so many excellent points in response to my comments that I will grant you that I haven't made the transition to NLE editing very well. I guess it's too late for me.LOL I'm going to stick with the concepby filmman - Show and Tell |
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