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Re: What does it cost to do this calibre of work? - 17 years agothis is a pretty simple one and has pretty much the same quality as femme fatale but is a lot better designed. here is another slick one: click enter maximum vegas to begin the you can navigate with the little round map WAYNE!!!!!!!!! these 2 was so darn hot. the mgm is the #1 for me.by J.Corbett - Show and Tell Transitional Philosophies in FCP minnor - 17 years agowe usually do trouble shooting in here so i would like to trouble shoot transition philosophy. a lot of new fcp users have a hard-time with usage of transitions. some people including me when i first started thought that every cut needed a transition. as i grew in knowledge thru this very forum i learned that every cut doesn't need a traditional transition. because i am a studier i read quite a fby J.Corbett - Show and Tell Re: Up-Rez Question: miniDV to DigiBeta... - 17 years agonow i am really confused i shoot with a dvx100b which i think is 4:1:1 by what i have read i thing that i can not get 4:2:2. i think i am rite there. i have heard so much on 4:2:2 being better that i am now trying to figure out how to get it. considering the cam i am using, is there no way of improving its quality? if each number represents an amount of sampling why cant a capturby J.Corbett - Café LA Re: Up-Rez Question: miniDV to DigiBeta... - 17 years agoi am just following this thread to know more on color correction. i just have a simple inquiry about somthing that mike said. is 4:2:2 hd quality or is it just under hd. i am thinking it goes: best - hd better - 4:2:2 good - dv / sd poor - ? i know i am probably wrongby J.Corbett - Café LA Re: A Good Reason to Be Thankful - 17 years agoyep i did it for free. i wanted to put mor cycler sfx in there but the on-board mic at times was switched to line and i missed the ambient noise. i have always had the feeling that i need to lower the music. i have a habit of thinging the music needs to be strong and at times i am above -12db. i am getting better at these non profit thingys and i feel that once some money comes in i can getby J.Corbett - Show and Tell Re: Up-Rez Question: miniDV to DigiBeta... - 17 years agoyep, i dont even have to ask or surf to find out what it cost. i am sure that system is more than the cost of a hvx200. dont even need a price to know that:-)by J.Corbett - Café LA Re: Up-Rez Question: miniDV to DigiBeta... - 17 years agoQuoteJudeLike Nick says, the most professional result will happen by going to digibeta as cleanly as possible from your source and then doing colour work in a dedicated colour correction suite. is this to say that a dedicated color correction suite can some what up rez dv footage to look better? if so what are some color correction suitesby J.Corbett - Café LA softer graphics to match footage in fcp - 17 years agoi have a motn file in my time line within a composite ( if that made sense). i created this file when i was monitoring my edit differently. the main portions of this this composite is the motn file and some progressive scan footage. the motn file comes as an opening (10secs) then it moves into the video by way of a wipe trans. the motn file really looks rudely interlace-ish while the footage lookby J.Corbett - Café LA Speed changes in STP - 17 years agocan you place a track of fully composed music in STP and then speed is up or slow it down? i can speed it up in protools but what it does is look for breaks in the music and tryies to cut them out which throws the timming out of wack and creates points where the beat is off. i want to use stp like a turn table and slow or speed up the music without effecting its timing. sorta like the speedby J.Corbett - Soundtrack Pro Re: Unsatisfying results on final DVD output - 17 years agohey i am always using compressor to convert to m2v and aiff 48/16 then i burn the separate file as audio track and video track with dvdsp4. am i missing/add something here that could make the quality better? i have never gotten a good burn without the conversion.by J.Corbett - Café LA Re: Up-Rez Question: miniDV to DigiBeta... - 17 years agoQuotenickyour best bet is to offlay your DV with as few fx as possible to digibeta. then do the CC in a decent suite. wow, i could have swore that most networks are converting to fcp. i even remember a story about the bbc is now all apple. sundance channel uses apple fcp and if i am not mistaken so does fox news. so what do you mean by a decent suite?by J.Corbett - Café LA Re: General sound effects - 17 years agoQuoteMokThis can be under a variety of terms: Stinger, whoosh, hit, noise, clang. The sky's the limit -- you can use anything from the sound of a metal door slamming to a Noh flute for this kind of thing. i have found a few things under whoosh and hit that are very usefull. sound track is kinda limitted on these sounds but i can probly put the ones i found in PT and engineer them to be closer tby J.Corbett - Café LA General sound effects - 17 years agoi am working on several projects in fcp and i had a general question on sfx. i figure since all of us use several different means to generate sfx there may be several ways of answering this. i have protools / reason / sampletank / soundtrack / live on my cpu. Q1. when i see those tittle graphics on say fox news where the tittle graphic slides in then a light streaks across it, what is tby J.Corbett - Café LA Re: which hard drive is best OS X - 17 years agohold on esata is a connection?? so i guess i do need additional hardware. i use fw800 now. i am guessing that esata is faster or cleaner than fw8. i am still unclear on rpms.by J.Corbett - Café LA Re: which hard drive is best OS X - 17 years agooops is there any extra hardware to get for these systems. also i have all smartdisk in a daisy chain of 4. 2 of them i need to stay attached and on of them curently holding 214gigs of data needs to be transfered to new. do they work well with other brands in a daisy chain.by J.Corbett - Café LA Re: which hard drive is best OS X - 17 years agocaldigit vs gtech seems to be the consensusby J.Corbett - Café LA which hard drive is best OS X - 17 years agoi need larger storage units (350-500gig unit). i had been in the habit of buying 250gig drives filling all but 20gigs up then disconnecting the drive when i was done. i would then label and store. not that i have 14 250gig units stored and i would anticipate that it will begin to get pretty cluttered if i continue my habit. so i ask the good home town folks of LAFCPUP which of these harddrivesby J.Corbett - Café LA Re: Blend Fields in fcp ??? - 17 years agook, the only place i have found any reference to blend fields is in motion, i.e. stencil alpha is a type of blend field. it can be found by right clicking any object in motion. the way i was seeing it used was this: say you have a 15sec clip of someone running from rite to left pass a camera. pretty simple footage. what i am trying to achieve is while that person is running across that screby J.Corbett - Café LA Re: The Sensitivity in Us - 17 years agoyeah i just dont want my forum stuff to come up in google where customers can see what video problems i am having. but anyway the new post is up with something i personally done.by J.Corbett - Show and Tell A Good Reason to Be Thankful - 17 years agohere something i did back in the summer. i think it was the most eye opening thing i covered in 2006. Ride 4 Kidsby J.Corbett - Show and Tell Re: The Sensitivity in Us - 17 years agohey mike is there a way of aliasing the link such as have the text say one thing like " the speech " but have it link to www.blah.com i have some vids to post but i dont like giving my url in a forum.by J.Corbett - Show and Tell Re: Contact On2 Technologies Support - 17 years agowell my product is a dvd not a website and when the dvd comes out it may be slightly different than the examples i have there. that site is simply a brochure of the area. p.s. wait til you see the cooking show the footage was great as soon as i get another hard drive it "in the cut".by J.Corbett - Café LA Re: Contact On2 Technologies Support - 17 years agoso its ok to use someones music to sweeten and environment in order to better sell steaks and coffee. i get your point and out of duckin hassle i will eventualy change that file i mean if california people dont know what you can get sued for then all lawyers are honest. but i still dont think that i wouldnt have the same rights unless i had 10k to throw at a lawyer. that one is plain fact theby J.Corbett - Café LA Re: The Sensitivity in Us - 17 years agothis post wasn't about copywrite law it was more about perspectives and though the copywrite issue made me think of it i was more into the realm of, how we look at things differently and sometimes never give creed to the other side. sorta like the reason we have such a hard time in iraq is because we dont understand the culture but we are expecting them to abandon 1000s of years of a way of thinkby J.Corbett - Show and Tell Re: Contact On2 Technologies Support - 17 years agoby law you are right. the copywrite law does come in conflick with how i used it. but really do you think that jack Johnson is gonna waste his time persue some guy whos yearly is equvelent to 2 weekends of his clubin???? really? i wouldn't think so i am sure that there has to be some type of value in cash in it to be worth the time.by J.Corbett - Café LA The Sensitivity in Us - 17 years agoi dont like eggplant. eggplant just taste horrible to me. i dont like the way it looks on a plate nor do i like the way it seems to look wilted and slimy. it smells weird too. from what they tell me eggplant is good for you and it could even possibly help to fight diabetes. and even thought i dont eat it i am sure it helps someone. when we live our life and grow from experiences, we tend to haby J.Corbett - Show and Tell Re: Contact On2 Technologies Support - 17 years agoQuoteJudeMate, you're bonkers. that would be correct my friend. it is the truest statement i have ever had leveled against me.by J.Corbett - Café LA Blend Fields in fcp - 17 years agoi am trying to create a color wipe across a stylized clip. i saw this technic used on an xgames promo. what happens is as the clip show a biker racing from left to right the color blue wipes and the the color red. i thought the effect was simply a blue 30% opacity rectangle that motions across the screenbut it is not. a friend who was seeing it with me said it was a keyed blend field. i cant fiby J.Corbett - Café LA Re: Contact On2 Technologies Support - 17 years agoQuotemokSo, if the legal system favors a rich murderer over a poor murderer yes the do favor rich killers over poor killers. QuotemokThe publishers don't sue because they don't want to stop people from performing the songs and generating revenue for them. But they will sue if the songwriters' property is being used and no compensation is given. what i am doing is equivalent to putting mby J.Corbett - Café LA Re: Contact On2 Technologies Support - 17 years agolook you guys can believe what you want about copywrite. i have no legal means of stopping some one from using my idea even thought its format is completely original. a company like cbs could look at what i am doing and then copy that on a larger scale. i wouldn't be able to do anything about it cause i dont have enough money to fight them. i dont believe in the standard that the rich can push ovby J.Corbett - Café LA |
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