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Re: Apple Certification - 16 years ago
80 questions? Do they sit you in front of the final cut, or is it run on paper? (i can't imagine a paper test on editing)by strypes - Café LA
Re: Shifting Fields hmmmmmm - 16 years ago
derekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > as a fail safe is there anyway to ask fcp to > adjust/check fields? > Generally we call that "eyes".by strypes - Café LA
Re: The mighty mouse... - 16 years ago
grafixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Who the #@$! needs side scrolling?? GET BIGGER > MONITORS I onced dragged my timeline across both monitors. but i that's an over exaggeration... Yea, i got a fancy looking mouse with blings... which is damned cool for first impressions. here's some more mice with good crystals. When i'm done with thiby strypes - Café LA
Re: Shifting Fields hmmmmmm - 16 years ago
nice answer, andy. Progressive mediums (eg, film) captures full frames, interlaced mediums (eg, tv) replaces the frames with fields, which playback twice per "frame count". PAL is 25 fps, resulting in 50 interlaced fields a second. A simple way to look at it is to divide your tv into horizontal lines, and number them 1 to 10. The odd ones being "odd/upper", since it stby strypes - Café LA
Re: The mighty mouse... - 16 years ago
There was this Mickey Mouse from Disney that I saw today- would be funky to pull up at work whipping out a mickey mouse! But sadly, it wasn't very friendly- it wasn't specified as mac compatible... Sideways scrolling? It doesn't matter when the scroll ball fails on me every couple of weeks- yea, i can scroll sideways, but i can't go up or down.. Moreover, I've lazy hands on the mouse, and so my lby strypes - Café LA
Re: The mighty mouse... - 16 years ago
haha... i'm currently on a fancy mouse with a bling bling! not incredible, it's a wired thing, but looks damned spunky!by strypes - Café LA
The mighty mouse... - 16 years ago
Say... was thinking of getting a new mouse... But my previous experiences with the mac mighty mouse wasn't as mighty as the name was- the roller busted out on me every couple of weeks, on some programmes, i could scroll up, but not down, sometimes, down but not up, sometimes not at all... I like the slim features of it, and the 4way scrolling feature, but i honestly hate the durability.. Any recoby strypes - Café LA
Re: question on codecs - 16 years ago
Thanks... i already tried wikipedia and it did little to explain why a dvcpro50 footage would look different when i exported it as animation or when i exported it as dvcpro50 or current settings. Basically, I tried exporting a short video clip in various codecs just to see which would look the best. I figure that 400x300 is a new way of saying "4:3" and exporting dvcpro50 via final cby strypes - Café LA
question on codecs - 16 years ago
hi guys, Some questions... What are the differences between animation, uncompressed, dv and "final cut movie file/current settings"? And why do the pictures look different between exporting "current settings" and animation? Also, when i exported a clip as uncompressed, it turned out my settings are at 400x300 (i'm in pal, so technically it should be 720x576, right?).by strypes - Café LA
Re: Prevalance of dropped frames issue via firewire capture? - 16 years ago
Ben King Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh dear thats an article from May 14, 2001... > my sentiments exactly when someone brought up that article. I never had a problem going via firewire when i was working commercials. > Now that sounds like someone who uses Avid telling > you porky-pies! > > Haha, you bet, or rather, technicaby strypes - Café LA
Prevalance of dropped frames issue via firewire capture? - 16 years ago
Hi guys, was just wondering if the issue of dropped frames has been addressed, as I'm considering capturing clips via firewire. My recorded medium is on dvcam, and the final output is onto a digital beta deck, via SDI, aja kona board. I was contemplating capturing the footage via firewire into the mac and outputting it in an uncompressed sequence to the digital beta deck via sdi. I'm on final cby strypes - Café LA
Re: Audio Levels for DVCAM v. Beta - 16 years ago
Lol. You're usually not allowed to peak at 0 for broadcast. Stations usually have their own standards for submission- white, black levels AND audio levels. Some would want max peak levels at -12, some at -10. It Why do you not peak at 0? because anything a fart above it is toast. That includes +0.01dBs about 0. Digital, i mean the digital medium- a sampling rate, bits and measured on the decibelby strypes - Café LA
Re: Audio Levels for DVCAM v. Beta - 16 years ago
It really depends on what/who you mix down for. I make sure that my final master is limited at 0, then i'll calibrate it to however loud whoever wants it. Bouncing between softwares, i peak around -6 to -12, never above 0, so I pretty much have around 12 dBs of dynamic range. 0dB is the absolute killer- nothing a fart higher than 0, or it clips. But why not -12? because volume levels are renderedby strypes - Café LA
Re: Audio Mixdown - 16 years ago
> > > Second, in my sequence I have got WAV, AIFF and > MP3 files, some bounced from ProTools at > > 44.1 and others at 48. If I understand Koz > correctly, I may have problems with the 44.1 > > files. Should I rebounce all files to AIFF 48, > or will an audio mixdown be enough? > It does cause some occasional problems- I had my files playing from wby strypes - Café LA
Re: When Editing a Nested Sequence, the Changed Audio Does Not Make It to the Master - 16 years ago
> > if you BLADE the nest at the head of the credit > sequence, > and make your changes in the now separate > section, > it may work. > Yup, figured that out... Was irritating. Though, I suspect it has something to do with available memory than anything else, as it happens mostly towards the end of a project- file sizes get larger and they're harder to keep trackby strypes - The Bug Report
Re: When Editing a Nested Sequence, the Changed Audio Does Not Make It to the Master - 16 years ago
did you click on the audio file or the video file (supposing stereo link is off). But yea, I get a strange similar problem- I change something in the credits and it doesn't show up in the master unless i rerender the entire sequence. Which is quite crummy when i'm in a rush. I'm on 5.1by strypes - The Bug Report
Re: Boom Mic in shot - 16 years ago
lol. Would be funky if you mosaic the damned thing! then it'd look like porn! Juz kiddin'. Dark grey... That's sweet- you could blur it then, do a power window on it to bring down the blacks together with the background to musk it properly.by strypes - Café LA
