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Re: power point into FCP or DVD Studio Pro?? - 18 years agoAh sorry I got carried away and thought it was a big conference! Doh! Yes you could easily play the DVD and PPT from the same laptop. I would hook up a projector though and beam the presentation for 25 people if possible - you may need some good Amplifed (powered) speakers as well. Also - there are issues with PowerDVD which comes free with many PCs - it is a an awful software DVD pby Ben King - Café LA Re: power point into FCP or DVD Studio Pro?? - 18 years agoOn live events we always use a laptop its just not feasible to run a demo from DVD and hope the timings work. Try to pursuade them to do the mix of DVD Video and Laptop on a Sound & Vision mixer to the Projector. Otherwise it's gonna get messy. Yes I love the Twain Quote too - its very true. One Twain comes to mind for you to tell your clients: "The calamity that comes is never theby Ben King - Café LA Re: power point into FCP or DVD Studio Pro?? - 18 years agoD1 is a pixel resolution of Standard Definition Video defined as: NTSC 720 x 480 pixels (Called Full-D1) NTSC 352 x 480 pixels (Called Half-D1) PAL 720 x 576 pixels (Called Full-D1) PAL 352 x 576 pixels (Called Half-D1) It's also a Digital Mastering tape format from SONY but I mean't the former... ;-P Jack's idea is a very good one especially if you can resolve the font size issue before yoby Ben King - Café LA Re: power point into FCP or DVD Studio Pro?? - 18 years agoIts always been a pain to export MS PPTs to movies or stills especially as most of them contain animation or reveals which sometimes don't show up. For animations you can try cut & pasting those sections into a new blank PPT and trying exporting a movie of the smaller PPTs this sometimes works. A real problem is resolution - if the PPTs are on a 1024x768 PPT then it is quite possible that sby Ben King - Café LA Re: Roto scopeing in After Effects? GFX Joe - 18 years agoOk so maybe I played down how "excrutiatingly tedious" is actually is - you do need the patience of a Saint to do lots of it! But as for easy - it is ridiculously easy - in fact it was one of the first things I learned to do when I got into animation. Seriously it will take a long time to do a rotoscoped sequence well - not to learn how to do it. I do agree with Joe on the vector paiby Ben King - Café LA Re: Roto scopeing in After Effects? GFX Joe - 18 years ago"Rotroscoping" or "Rotoscoping" (as it has become for some weird reason) is quite easy but laborious... I usually do it as Joe mentioned with several vector masks but is as easy to do with Vector paint. Have a look at Creative Cow article on rotoscoping with Vector Paint Benby Ben King - Café LA Re: FCP 6 Wish List to take to NAB & BEYOND... - 18 years agoJoe I am fully with you on your list 1 through 8 plus I agree whole heartedly with Dereks suggestions and most of the rest I would however add: A Color Corrector & Secondary Color Corrector on par with Avid Symphony Nitris - I like the FCP one but when you've used Avids you'll know what I mean... Benby Ben King - Café LA Re: Firewire drive maintenance? - 18 years agoI know some "people" who know "people" in NYC that can find the "Editor" and "help him" see the "hard drive error" of his ways ;-) Of course you didn't hear this from me... *wink, wink*by Ben King - Café LA Re: crossfades - 18 years agoI've just tried to replicate the with stills in PSD, TARGA, PNG, JPEG, PICT... The only time it comes close to your dscription is when it is not rendered (The bar above should be blue if it is rendered) - I know you said this is post-render but could you please try exporting a movie of the dissolve between clips and see if the result is on the Quicktime Movie? Benby Ben King - Café LA Re: Graeme Natress is Canadian?? - 18 years agoWay-ai man - so you did the simple longitude shift?... I have friends in Durham one of whom works at Gateshead College - I will check out the Grog Shop in the "Meht-roo" when I go up in the summer. Ben PS I don't imagine your an MS man but if you are then I believe you can still get copies of this:by Ben King - Café LA Re: Graeme Natress is Canadian?? - 18 years agoWhere in the UK did you hail from G? I have been meaning to visit Canada so if I make it over what wee dram will ya be havin? Famous Grouse, Glenmorangie, Glenfiddich? or are you a man of expensive tastes? Johnnie Walker - Blue Label (blended 25-67yr old) at £180 per bottle? or The Classic Cask - Rare Scotch Whisky (35 year old Single Malt) at £250 per bottle? Me I'm a Rum man so if anby Ben King - Café LA Re: Firewire drive maintenance? - 18 years agoI have a few lacie drives and as Michael says - leave 20% free or you may run into problems. This is true of most HDDs so keep a good eye on the % used on each drive. The main thing I suggest is to make sure you backup your FCP project files and any media that you cannot redigitise to another separate storage space such as another HDD or DVD-ROM. This way if one of your Firewire drives goes kapuby Ben King - Café LA Re: Pushing the limits... - 18 years agolol - sometimes running several things at once IS mission critical - thats why I wanted to see how much I can theoretically do without errors in cases where I don't have the time to wait.by Ben King - Café LA Re: Pushing the limits... - 18 years agoGood point - some things will indeed finish early - but most if not all of them were running simultaneously at the start. It is not the norm for me - usually I use maybe 3 to 5 applications at one time and when things are a rendering in one program i switch over and continue to work in the other(s). I just wanted to see how many I could get going all at once without errors. The test above wby Ben King - Café LA Re: Network Danger! Still not convinced. - 18 years agoYou tell the world J!!! Viva La Multitasking Mac men (and women)!!! It is fundemental to my workflow to be able to do several overlapping or simultaneous things otherwise I'd need 30 hour days and 10 day weeks! Lovin the Yoda Quote Consider your Huevos honoured... heheby Ben King - Café LA Re: Pushing the limits... - 18 years agoIt sounds more like storage space issues to me rather than a new machine LOL - you are not nuts - its a dilema you will face - I opted for an external SATA II RAID for HD work - in fact its so fast that editing SD is a joy too so I use it for most of a project then back up to external FW HDD. The best thing to do is work out is: A. how much you NEED B. how much you can afford C. whby Ben King - Café LA Pushing the limits... - 18 years agoOk this a bit of a fun thread... On a few other posts I have made reference to multitasking FCP under Tiger whilst doing other things in other apps. How fast is your system? How much can it handle without errors? My set up is: Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.5 Running on 1st Generation Dual 2GHz G5 Apple PowerMac 4.5GB RAM Radeon X800 256MB 30" Apple Cinema Display running at 2560x16by Ben King - Café LA Re: Network Danger! Still not convinced. - 18 years agoLOL its true Koz I do push it - but until I get my lovely workhorse to collapse under the pressure then I recomend you guys testing the limits of your machines so you know where to stop and indeed what you can do if you REALLY need to. I come from the days of Linear suites through LightWorks on Intel 486 and Avid on Motorola 68020 with NuBus and then all the way up to Avid Symphony - have had aby Ben King - Café LA Re: after effects codecs - 18 years agoNo problem - bear in mind this is a Final Cut Pro forum!!! Creative Cow or Digital Media Net would better suit your AE needs. Benby Ben King - Café LA Re: Network Danger! Still not convinced. - 18 years agoNetwork or no network a file can corrupt for many reasons. Phil Save a back up to a removable drive or invest in an iPod or USB memory stick and save to that as well as to your desktop. I have NEVER had an FCP file corrupt because of virus or trojan or network problems. If the file is in your user documents or desktop then no-one should be able to get at it. On the email front - simply don'tby Ben King - Café LA Re: The dangers of NETWORKS?? - 18 years agoThat is a possibility Johan but - I would thoroughly test how much your system can cope with by running as many things at once whilst capturing to make sure. This is not a new thing - I could do multiple things plus capturing video with my Dual G4 450Mhz on Mac OS X Jaguar & Panther There was a bug where if I inserted a CD or DVD during the capture - it would abort due to dropped frames.by Ben King - Café LA Re: The dangers of NETWORKS?? - 18 years agoWe could make t-shirts for geeks saying that Mark - we would make a fortune! "FEAR NOT THE NETWORK"by Ben King - Café LA Re: dv cam setting on pd150 - 18 years agoIt may well have if you recorded both DV then DVCAM or visa versa To check - test the tape by starting it on a portion thats definately DV or DVCAM If the problem is still there then test the tape on another mech. I think its the latter and your tape is screwed or your heads are dirty/fecked as I've got several tapes from sources where there is SP, LP and DVCAM on a single tape (don't aks whyby Ben King - Café LA Re: dv cam setting on pd150 - 18 years agoBam There is no need to black the tape before you record just leave a few seconds after each shot so you can pick up the timecode to avoid TC breaks. In fact unless you are goin to do an insert edit to tape from your Edit suite then you don't even need to black the whole tape only enough for the start of the playout - an assemble edit will continue the timecode where it ends should the sequenceby Ben King - Café LA Re: dv cam setting on pd150 - 18 years ago(Maybe someone can confirm) but the PD150 doesn't have LP mode Record or Playback... So it must be a corrupt data/tape. Benby Ben King - Café LA Re: dv cam setting on pd150 - 18 years agoHey Bam The PD150 can switch playback from miniDV to miniDVCAM automatically and you should not need to change any settings to do so. It is only the record options that need to be set and this should not make any difference as long as the player can play back both formats. Word of warning: Although you CAN record DVCAM to miniDV tape you should never use normal miniDV tapes EVEN on DV camerasby Ben King - Café LA Re: after effects codecs - 18 years agoGood point - the best option for Windows users is still to use MPEG-1 but this will probably increase your output time as you will need to output a file then convert to MPEG-1. Go with the sorenson CODEC and give your clients the link to download quicktime if they haven't got it. Benby Ben King - Café LA Re: The dangers of NETWORKS?? - 18 years agoAdventurous? lil ole me? Hehe Just finished compressing an iPod version of a music video whilst encoding and muxing and Burning the DVD of it and uploading an MPEG-1 version to the web and transferring Transformers theme tune to my mobile phone via bluetooth my email was receiving loads of penis extension offers and I was listening to Def Leppard Animal on iTunes too! Nothiby Ben King - Café LA Re: after effects codecs - 18 years agoI thought he said he didn't have a problem with compression for email... Read into the post slightly wrong me thinks. Sorry for any confusion. Joe suggestion is a good one - the Sorenson 3 codec should be fine Although they will need Quicktime 4 or later to view it.by Ben King - Café LA |
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