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Re: re: xdcam pro res fun - 14 years agoOk, I understand your point about tape, but let's say I'm not going to tape but first playout to file to create a master. In those situations where I'm going to tape or 35mm film, the file master goes to a posthouse for playout and verification. More often than not these days as uncompressed image sequences. So creating a file master is usually where I need to get to at the end of the day.by ClayC - Café LA Re: re: xdcam pro res fun - 14 years agoJeff, What is the wisdom behind setting the sequence render settings for xdcam ex to pro res? Why not just do the cut natively, play out a reference movie, and drop that into a prores timeline for a final master? Thanx, Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: Not reading my P2 cards...?! - 14 years agoDo you have Noise Industries installed? There was a bug awhile back that somehow disabled FCP from being able to read P2 on Intel machines. Don't have the link at hand, but try and google for the bugfix, or ask over at Noise Industries support.by ClayC - Café LA Title Crawl Help - 14 years agoI've a fairly long right to left title crawl in a PAL Broadcast SD projekt. Delivery is for the web. I'm having real problems getting smooth movement. It's very stuttery. Client's not buying it. We tried playing out to ProRes, no help. Tried playing out to an uncompressed tiff sequence. Sam deal. Lossless doesn't work either. The font is simple Arial Regular at 30pt. with no effectsby ClayC - Motion Re: FCP 6.0.5 tries to reconnect to a drive, not a file - 15 years agoAre you sure that you're reconnecting to the media files (i.e. in the capture scratch folder or other designated folder where your QuickTime masters are located) and not the XDCam file folders? Otherwise, reconnecting should be a simple enough task. Sounds like maybe your predecessor renamed a folder or files, which FCP can now no longer locate. Does the file(s) you want to connect to from tby ClayC - Café LA Re: jpg codec question - 15 years agoSeems to be some confusion here regarding video codecs vs. image sequences. What is it that you want to do? Export a movie? Export an Image Sequence?by ClayC - Café LA Re: Video Capture from HTML - 15 years agoThanks for the tip. Went with SnapzPro. Works great, and for $69, very cool. Clayby ClayC - Café LA Video Capture from HTML - 15 years agoWhat is the best software solution for capturing video off my monitor (a 24" Eizo)? The deal is: I have a software client who has posted me a link to a demo that has some of the software features of a new product active. I can mouse over various items, see some animation, click a few commands, etc. and need to capture that activity off my monitor. The captured video then goes into Motby ClayC - Café LA Re: XDCam Logging Tool? - 15 years agoThanks for the replies. We installed a free app yesterday evening from the Sony website called Clip Browser. It falls a bit short of the ideal in that you can't export to .mov, but at least clips can be reorganized and copied to new folders prior to ingest. Might be of help. Seems the best/only way is to use Log and Transfer, sort into appropriate bins, and then Batch Export the "good&by ClayC - Café LA XDCam Logging Tool? - 15 years agoWe've got 10 shooting days worth of XDCam Quicktimes that need to be sorted and annotated and then handed over to the director who is doing the 1st rough in PPro on a Windows machine. Currently, the footage is only organized by camera (A and B) and by shooting day. Filenames are as generated by the camera(s). What is the most expedient way to view all those master clips and do a substantialby ClayC - Café LA Re: Slow motion and Speed changes - 15 years agoYou need to post some more info: What codec? (Sounds like maybe DVCProHD?) What camera? What timeline format? What machine are you working on?by ClayC - Café LA Re: RED into FCP - 15 years ago<<If my end user is SD DVD the proper proxy would be the H or half file, correct?>> Generally speaking, yes. Although, it's important to understand that the proxies have no fixed resolutions, but are relative to what the original resolution is. So, if the original footage is 2K, the Half proxy will give you half of that. Should be fine for SD. If it's 4K then half of that, whicby ClayC - Café LA Re: Bringing video from FCP to Motion - 15 years agoAnamorphic settings need to match your FCP sequence settings. Also check in the View menu to see if the Correct for Aspect Ratio setting is activated.by ClayC - Motion ATI HD 4870 Card - 15 years agoAnyone have any experience with the new ATI HD 4870 card? I'm running the previous HD 3870 card on a dual quad 3.0 machine with 12GB RAM. Wondering if an upgrade is worth it.by ClayC - Motion Re: RED into FCP - 15 years agoMaybe have the headache medicine standby, but since you're going to SD or Web, you mostly likely won't need it. Editing with proxies should be fine in your case. Definetly back up all the RED files (your masters) before doing anything. Just as you would with P2 or m2t or XDCam or any other filebased media. Read this: (it explains getting started with the proxy method pretty well) www.hby ClayC - Café LA Re: RED into FCP - 15 years agoAnd before diving in, determine what your deliverable format is, and focus on learning that. It can otherwise get very complex very quickly. On FCP 6.0.5 it can however actually be quite easy if all you need do is edit with the proxies. That of course is only good to do if you are finishing for broadcast or DVD distribution for example. If it's anything more ambitious than that, i.e. outpby ClayC - Café LA Re: Text Positioning Help - 15 years agoMark, <<turn it off to test, turn it back on>> Turns out that the culprit is the Grow/Shrink behavior. One of two things seem to happen: if I just turn the behavior off and then back on again everything is fine, or same thing plus making the very slightest of tweaks to the percentage of growth parameter (reducing or increasing). It seems that if you inadvertently hit just thby ClayC - Motion Re: Text Positioning Help - 15 years agoHi Mark, Yes, I am at best quality, full res. There are two behaviors applied: grow/shrink and a blur fadeout. And one camera. I notice the problem in this and other projects only when a camera is inolved in the mix. It doesn't seem to matter which font is used. The project settings are custom, Broadcast 1280x720 PAL. Bit depth is 8. The projects are contained as .motn projects in anby ClayC - Motion Text Positioning Help - 15 years agoSince Motion3, I've been having problems with animated text not holding positioning properly. Individual characters jump/bump slightly on the y axis, sometimes randomly, sometimes in the same location each playout. This is especially evident when using a camera together with text scaling or the grow/shrink behavior. Very tough to deal with because it isn't apparent when working in the project,by ClayC - Motion Re: Title safe for letterboxed clips - 15 years ago>>my (Standard Def PAL) dimensions seem to be: 720 x 416.<< Nope. 720:416=1,73 Try 720:390=1.85 (well, close enough) 90% of that would be something like 648x351. Make a photoshop doc that size and import it dead center. That will show you where the boundaries are. But like he said, what exactly are you trying to do? Some custom size thing for the web? Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: Title safe for letterboxed clips - 15 years agoNick, 1:1.85. Are we talking cinema trailer or advertising? Are your titles going be scanned i.e. exported as an Image Sequence? We do this for cinema fairly regularly. The good people at Arri Digital always ask for 1828 x 988 sq. pixels. To make sure your titles and/or graphics are as crisp as they can be and not distorted (via the anamorphic and scaling process), set up a custom sized 1by ClayC - Café LA Re: Slightly OT Font Glitch Emergency - 15 years agoGuys, thanks muchly for the first aid. Got it working again by having them post the fonts to my server (instead of email, lots of problems with fonts via email in the past) and re-installing. Then using the plaintext method as suggested and copy/paste. If the render now goes off without a hitch....,we got a master. In total there's 15 cards, but containing both English and Chinese, aboutby ClayC - Café LA Re: Light Rays - 15 years agoThere's also a CoreMelt plug called guess what: God Rays. Does exactly what you're saying.by ClayC - Café LA Slightly OT Font Glitch Emergency - 15 years agoTried to post this earlier, for some reason it didn't stick. Sorry if it turns up twice. The problem at hand is: a client sent me two Chinese fonts; DFPHeiStd-W5.otf and DFPHeiStd-W9.otf. They also sent a word.doc with all the characters set. I was able to copy and paste into a Motion project aok. Today they sent a few changes, and I used copy/paste again to make the alterations. After thby ClayC - Café LA Re: So there's this rumor... - 15 years agoThe promise, the turn, the prestige. Nobody loses their job after the merger. Your check is in the mail. The bigger the lie... Nothing like a hot rumor, especially one everybody would love to believe in. I'll give 16 to 9 betting odds that it's true.by ClayC - Café LA Re: most efficient way to covert 1080i m2t files to quicktime? - 15 years agoMpeg Streamclip converts m2t into Apple HDV. Hit Apple+B in Streamclip to open a Batch Windwow, bring your m2t clips in and go. It's a slow process though, on an octo intel machine it seems to run at approximately real time (i.e. a 10 minute clip takes about 10 mins to convert).by ClayC - Café LA Re: FCP "ejecting" my external hardive - 15 years agoIf the drive keeps ejecting, that could be either bad connections (get a new FW cable) or the power brick is defective. Happens pretty often, especially with older drives. Get a new power brick. Definetly backup first though, when drives start acting buggy, it's a sign that the unit itself is defective and that rather soon, things are going to go seriously wrong.by ClayC - Café LA Re: HD Log & Capture Questions - 15 years agoSounds like the original post is referring to HDV (no such animal btw as MiniDV HD). HDV is a totally different flavor of HD running at very low data rates and with storage requirements bascially the same as MiniDV. FW400 is sufficient for this. Head over to digitalheaven.co.uk for the free VideoSpace dashboard widget. Puts it all into perspective as far as storage is concerned. All the otby ClayC - Café LA Re: OT: New Nehalem Mac Pros Released!!! - 15 years agoIts kind of, so what? As long as we're still running at 32 bits in Studio and can only access 4GB of ram, there's really no big gain here (talking editors, Motion users, DVDSP users here). The hardware's getting too far ahead of the software. Isn't it the app that needs a kick, not the machine?by ClayC - Café LA Re: Best way to learn? - 15 years agoDon't know how far along you are or what your skill set is, but here's how I did it starting about 2 years ago. Hopefully some realworld experience that will help you along: 1. Read the entire manual. Not while sitting at the computer and trying stuff out as you go, but just read it once through as if it were a book to get a solid grasp of the the scope of the app. 2. Get a book with lby ClayC - Motion |
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