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Your basic troubleshooting and discussion forum for all things about Avid Media Composer
Re: itunes downloads - 19 years ago
OK...assume the best in people I guess. I myself would ask. Personal projects I have no problem with. Projects they earn a buck for...problem.by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: itunes downloads - 19 years ago
Are we now telling people how to break the law?by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: Linking Digi deck to FCP - 19 years ago
What capture card are you using? What format is your timeline?by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: DVCPRO-HD & G4 capture - 19 years ago
Absolutely FW 800 is fast enough for DVCPRO HD. It is fast enough for 8-bit and beleive it or not, 10-BIT uncompressed. As for the machine specs for DVCPRO HD, look here: Your 1Ghz G4 is the bare minimum for this...by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: compatability versions 4 & 5 - 19 years ago
Native HDV footage will not play on any other version of FCP other than FCP 5.by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: Digitizing on AVID/cutting on FCP - 19 years ago
Keep in mind that the Qt export you lose all timecode information...that you lose if you play it thru a converter box without RS-422 control. Just so you kow...by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: Digitizing on AVID/cutting on FCP - 19 years ago
Footage captured on an Avid will not work on FCP, unless you get Sebsky's Tools which I hear converts the OMFI files to QT files...but I don't have personal experience with it. If you are going to DVD, then you can route the signal thru a Camera, deck, or converter box like the ADVC-110...sure it will compress it 5:1, but as you said this is a DVD, you aren't going up against broadcast specs...by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: resolution/aspect ratio? - 19 years ago
Hey, we all started somewhere...by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: resolution/aspect ratio? - 19 years ago
That camera obviously records in a non-4:3 format. The primary use of the footage from that camera isn't broadcast, but scientific review, so it doesn't record a standard 4:3 or 16:9 format. What you need to do is import it, resize it and adjust the DISTORTION until it looks right...by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: resolution/aspect ratio? - 19 years ago
Which camera? what HD format? What kind of tape are we talking about here?by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: Laptop hard drive speed - 19 years ago
and never use your main hard drive to capture video...unless it's offline RT.by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: editor's tool kits - 19 years ago
What? Digital Juice offers many things like moving backgrounds and keyable items and graphic solutions (as far as I can tell). What do you mean by a "template where you can drop all kinds of video to create a program?" Something you throw footage at and come up with a final product? What are you trying to do?by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: FCP HD/G5/ output to Beta SP - 19 years ago
1. A Black Burst Generator is what makes a high-end analogue deck keep sync. Without it you cannot output to tape. 2. No no no no...DV is DV...5:1 compression. 8-bit is by far higher...more the resolution of Beta SP or DVCPRO 50. 10-Bit is like Digibeta. The best way that is truely the most cost effective is to either have a post facility with FCP and beta decks to output it, or to output toby Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: FCP HD/G5/ output to Beta SP - 19 years ago
The cheapest? ADVC-100 converter box. Converts DV to analogue. Just output your timeline like normal. A better way? Decklink SP. For this you will have to make an 8-bit timeline using the decklink 8-bit settings, drop your DV footage into it and render. Then output. Make DARN SURE you get a Black Burst Generator for the deck to plug into the REF IN...expecially if you go the ADVC route.by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: 24P HD Compositing - 19 years ago
I do most of my compositing in After Effects. What I tend to do is when I lock )finalize) the cut and know what footage I need for the compositing, I output an EDL of the footage I use in the temp composite and capture that footage at full rez and re-do or adjust the project to fit the footage, then tweak it where needed. Painful process that I have only done twice. But I get good results.by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: Print to tape - 19 years ago
Where do you buy tapes? You can get tapes of various durations ranging from 12 min to 184 minutes. Edgewise Media in Hollywood on Highland (near Santa Monica) has great prices. And the cost of the tape is nothing compared to having to recapture everything from source tapes or store it on hard drives.by Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: FLEXIES? - 19 years ago
yeah...FCP 4.0 had huge issues. Upgrade (for free) to FCP HD by using the System Preferences SOFTWARE UPDATE option. FCP HD is the most stable and most reliable version of FCP to date. BUT, this is an issue with Cinema Tools, for it is the one trying to import the files. Ask the post facility if they can convert the files to .ale and resend them. Occasionally I had issues with .flx files thaby Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: Finishing on Film - 19 years ago
Brooms hit the nail on the head. DO NOT EDIT 29.97 IF YOU ARE FINISHING ON FILM. It will only complicate things. Edit straight 24fps, or even 23.98 (so that you can output VHS screener dubs). -shamanby Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: Print to tape - 19 years ago
John, now you see why many places hire ASSISTANT editors for less money than Editors. The assistants do all the logging and capturing and sometimes monitor the outputs. But really, the editor should monitor the final output and this should in NOW WAY be considered a waste of time. What if you were able to check e-mail or work in After Effects while the output was happening, and a title didn'tby Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: render audio -- why? - 19 years ago
Just to add my Stock Answer, most of which was covered in previous posts...but might offer more insight... #20 Using iMovie to Capture for FCP edit Shane's Stock Answer #20: iMovie handles the media differently from FCP, specifically where audio is concerned. So it is not a recommended workflow. Here's why... iMovie captures using DV Stream (.dv) standard which does not use timecode. That iby Shane Ross - Café LA
Re: AJ-HD1200A questions - 19 years ago
The firewire cable has the ability of pretty high data transfers. Use the AJA I/O you can capture UNCOMPRESSED 10-BIT thru the firewire connection, and that has a much higher data rate than DVCPRO HD. -shamanby Shane Ross - Café LA
