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Re: Exporting at the wrong frame rate - 10 years ago> The sample rate for the sequence is 48K, but as I went back and reviewed a lot of the clips I'm noticing a lot of variations with the sample rate too. Those are Hail Marys. While you should render before exporting and convert all audio to the same sample rate as the sequence, these rarely affect the final exported movie file, which would conform to the Sequence Settings. The more likelyby derekmok - Café LA Re: Exporting at the wrong frame rate - 10 years agoWhat are your Sequence Settings? What sample rate are you using for the audio? Did you render everything (including Audio Mixdown) before exporting?by derekmok - Café LA Re: Exporting at the wrong frame rate - 10 years ago> I realized the frame rate (which was suppose to be 23.98) came out at a bizarre rate of 22.18. That's pretty unlikely. Are you checking the frame rate in QuickTime Player? QuickTime Player plays movie files at various frame rates, depending on its ability to keep up. It is not an accurate reflection of what your file's frame rate actually is. To check the file properly, import into Fiby derekmok - Café LA Re: Changing Sequence from 1440x1080 23.98 to 1920x1080 29.97 - 10 years agoFrame-rate conversion is something you don't want to do in FCP. Edit in 23.98fps and then convert the final product to 29.97fps later, or conform all master footage to one frame rate before editing. At the times when I had to switch frame rates after starting editing, I've usually used hardware (eg. a capture card). In the cases where I have mixed frame rates in the master footage, I'd convertby derekmok - Café LA Re: Saving BPAV files? - 10 years ago> I have a load of BPAV files sitting on my hard drive and was wondering if I really need to keep these? Every file generated in the camera has to be preserved. Even files that have no obvious function.by derekmok - Café LA - X Re: Problem w/Rendered Effects: Green Vertical Stripes on Video - WHY? - 10 years agoTry going into Sequence Settings - Video Processing and select "Render in 8-bit YUV".by derekmok - Café LA Re: re: OT - Illustrator swatches stuck in CMYK - 10 years agoUgh. Finally got around it. Apparently not only do I need to create a new document in RGB mode, but it needs to revert to "Basic RGB" template and then I need to change the pixel dimensions back to what I need. What a dumbass behaviour.by derekmok - Café LA re: OT - Illustrator swatches stuck in CMYK - 10 years agoFeeling like breaking something right now, so I just had to ask... I've been using Illustrator to design titles and it works great except for some behavioral quirks that are driving me crazy. Chief among these is the inability to just load a Swatch group and let it be my working palette. For some reason, today when working with Illustrator, every default swatch group that opens is now givingby derekmok - Café LA Re: Animated map in FCP? - 10 years ago> Why 72 dpi? I thought I just learned that there is no dpi in video. Is that for faster drawing on screen? I explained it in a post above.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Animated map in FCP? - 10 years ago> So do the scan with a dpi setting which matches your zoom factor. I disagree with Andreas on this one. In my opinion, when you scan images, you should do it as large as possible -- as large as your equipment and storage space allow. Because when you scan images, you are not just prepping them for video -- you will often be using the same images for print (eg. the artwork, the poster) anby derekmok - Café LA Re: Animated map in FCP? - 10 years ago> Scaling down means I can zoom in without sacrificing image quality until the image size becomes 100%. > Assuming the above is correct, is there a formula to find out the ideal image size? Trial and error? Educated guess? No...how much are you zooming in? Two hundred per cent? Three hundred? If your Sequence frame size is 1920x1080 and you're zooming into an image by 200 per cent,by derekmok - Café LA Re: Animated map in FCP? - 10 years ago> I thought of trimming my map to 1920x1080, but if I then zoom in using the motion tab, I'll likely end up with a jaggy map. Is there any penalty of just > using my original image resolution of 300 dpi. A higher dpi means absolutely nothing in video land. Ppi (pixels per inch) only matters when you are scanning and dpi (dots per inch) only matters when you're printing. When scanniby derekmok - Café LA Re: Another media manager question - 10 years ago> You can use a program such as "R-Name". You can't anymore if you're running an OS higher than 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. Lion and Mountain Lion got rid of Rosetta, which allows the Intel-based Macs to run R-Name. There are alternate ways to rename large numbers of files, however. > What I would do, being a bit less set in my ways now, is to batch rename the clips in the Finderby derekmok - Café LA Re: Another media manager question - 10 years ago> On top, a Clip#1 is renamed to Clip#189 or whatever if some other reel already used up the name Clip#1. This is an incredibly bad system. You've never logged a narrative film? Don't you have proper scene/shot/take numbers as on the slate? This is why in an earlier post, I suggested that if you have no system in place and the shots can't be identified, use "Reel 001 Clip 001"by derekmok - Café LA Re: multiple sources input to fcp - 10 years agoIf I were you, I'd test them first. In my own experience those Canon AVCHD cameras don't mix particularly well with DSLR footage -- many if not all of the Vixias don't shoot actual 23.98fps, for example (it's simulated 24p).by derekmok - Café LA Re: two conform questions, and a followup about QT Edit - 10 years ago> QT Edit can do what CT promises (but can't deliver?). It's not that Cinema Tools doesn't deliver what it promises. Its promised functions have always been pretty modest. It's an old piece of software, probably never intended for the myriad of frame rates available to tapeless media. Cinema Tools was more a tool for the broadcast/film/video age, using only those standards.by derekmok - Café LA Re: FREELANCING & BIDDING ON WORK @ $20??! - 10 years ago> well pardon me all over the place for damaging any fragile egos. Ex-cuse me? You're asking for free help from us, and this is what you give in return? You're way out of line.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Zooming and borders + different formats on YouTube - 10 years agoThe border is probably a symptom of something else anyway. My advice is the same as Nick's. Start from scratch and get a knowledgeable editor to show you how to check settings and set things up properly. Your bad compression may well be caused by your improper settings.by derekmok - Café LA Re: FREELANCING & BIDDING ON WORK @ $20??! - 10 years agoPlease stop calling me Mok. Where I'm from, calling a stranger by his last name is very disrespectful.by derekmok - Café LA Re: FREELANCING & BIDDING ON WORK @ $20??! - 10 years agoThere are so many crap personnel out there that the entire field is contaminated. I directed and shot a low-budget music video in 2012 and the artist was going to have a friend edit it, a guy who was supposedly editing reels for theatre groups. When I met with him to check to make sure his system had the specs to handle the footage, it turns out: 1. He had no idea what frame size was. 2.by derekmok - Café LA Re: FREELANCING & BIDDING ON WORK @ $20??! - 10 years agoNot only do they want an editing job on a six-minute music video for $25, but they also want free stock footage, and they want it fast? What kind of fantasy world are they living in?by derekmok - Café LA Re: FREELANCING & BIDDING ON WORK @ $20??! - 10 years ago> In my part of the world (Central Europe / Germany) scale is now the equivalent of approx. $35 an hour. Clay, I think he actually wrote a total budget of $20...maybe he didn't mean it.by derekmok - Café LA Re: FREELANCING & BIDDING ON WORK @ $20??! - 10 years agoOf course it's not normal. People earn more serving coffee. Anybody who offers $20 doesn't deserve to have a professional working for him. People can be insanely arrogant -- I've seen ads that require a mile-long list of qualifications from applicants, yet offer less than what a waitress makes.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Zooming into titles - 10 years ago> My problem right now is that in the controls tab of the title clip I can only increase the font size to 200 which isn't anywhere > near enough. The title tools in FCP will only get you so far. Make the card in Photoshop or Illustrator and make its image size as large as you need, at 72ppi.by derekmok - Café LA Re: How to put a widescreen with expanded image? - 10 years agoA single black colour matte with Mask Shape (inverted) would have worked.by derekmok - Café LA Re: How to put a widescreen with expanded image? - 10 years ago> As some of my clips in the sequence had to be expanded or twisted I cannot use widescreen or create black stripes as a mask Not true. If you put the mask on as an overlay, then the mask is independent and will not be affected by any scaling or distortion to the clip underneath. The only technique you can't use would be a filter, because a filter is applied to the clip itself and becomesby derekmok - Café LA Re: Final Cut Pro 6 now quits on me everytime I try to open it! - 10 years agoWhy, oh why did you install MacKeeper? Did you research it before installing it? If you had, articles like these would have come up very quickly on Google: I would try to uninstall it. Some sites claim that MacKeeper installs malware onto your computer and others say that such claims are exaggerated or bogus. You may also need to reinstall FCP.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Problem installing FCP7 on Mountain Lion - 10 years agoFCP7 only works on Intel Macs. I think both FCP5 and FCP6 had "Universal Binary" versions. Not FCP7. I think Rosetta went out the window starting with Lion. Not sure it will work anymore.by derekmok - Café LA Re: workflow for feature using multiple cameras (C300 and DSLR) and sync sound - 10 years ago> but how did you deal with the external sound and syncing? With only two angles, I'd skip the multiclip and just put the two angles on separate tracks. Watch out for file management -- you need to devise a system where clip names are identical but related (some way to distinguish but connect two clips that belong together, for example). And always remember to organize the dual-system souby derekmok - Café LA Re: Need help cleaning up drive before delivering project created in FCP 7 - 10 years agoThat's why I never obey when a producer tells me to label something "final". It's never final. And the word is useless anyway, and creates great confusion when "final" becomes "de-finalized" and now you have "final1", "final2", "really final" and "absolutely really final" flying around. Just use version numbers -- the lateby derekmok - Café LA |
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