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Re: How did the LAFCPUG "Final Cut Pro X Update Night" meeting go? - 11 years agoSadly, it might be time.... *LAFCPUG* LosAngeles Avid Final Cut, and Premiere User Groupby Travis - Café LA - X Re: OT- Best way to tell a story in a documentary - 12 years agoWe've all seen documentaries that have used each of these techniques succeed and fail. #1 (having the interviewer do the narration) can work well if your interviewer is a good narrator. Some excellent interviewers are excellent narrators and others are decidedly not. Many docs try to tell the story without a narrator, and get into big trouble trying to find ways to make the story clear. Butby Travis - Café LA Re: OT: An Editor's Lament - 12 years agoWOMAN AT BAR: So, what do you do? ME: Uh, I work in film and TV. WOMAN AT BAR: Oh, cool! So what specifically? ME: Well, it's kinda' complicated, but the studios pay me to make the actors look attractive and talented. I'm the guy that puts the program together for the director and the studio... What do you do? (a beat) WOMAN AT BAR: I'm studying to be an actress. ME: Excuse me, I don't mby Travis - Café LA Re: it's time for 1080p50 and 1080p60 - 13 years agoWhat?s really needed is a method so that a producer/director can choose any frame-rate ? somewhere between 18fps and 200fps. None of the current frame-rate standards were chosen for aesthetic effect. They were chosen for purely technical reasons ? primarily power-line frequency. 24fps in the US to provide sufficient audio quality and to allow a projector to be driven properly by an 1800rpm syby Travis - Café LA Re: How do I get rid of that "Digital" look? - 13 years agoTo simplify: "Video" is about motion and fluidity, "Film" is about individual images. One can capture beautiful audience experiences in either medium, but in video (what you refer to as the "digital" look) what we respond to is what moves in the shot - in fact, in video we get bored really fast with a static image - if there's no motion, we need to pan, zoom, quiby Travis - Café LA Re: OT: March 24 lafcpug meeting maybe the last one - 14 years agoIt might also be worth contacting some of the larger studio screening rooms. Last year, I heard that several were having problems keeping them busy due to the recession, lowered production, and reduced convention business. For the studio, the opportunity to get a guaranteed one-night-per-month booking, to be filled by industry professionals who would be likely to promote the facilities to thby Travis - Café LA Re: Production Music - 14 years agoMost studios charge for music licensing, but, of course, it's up to you. Music libraries charge, generally, by three different methods (1) "Needle drop" where there is a charge for each cut of music, and/or the length of music in the production. (2) Annual "Blanket License". The studio or production company pays an annual fee which allows any amount of use of any cby Travis - Café LA Re: Camera w/line Input or better - 14 years agowww.SamAsh.com (Oops - thought you were looking for an audio solution, re-read your post and saw you were looking for a video device.) You could use this: www.elgato.comby Travis - Café LA Re: Happy New Year! - 14 years ago2009 is finished (Yaaay!) Wishing everyone at FCPUG a great 2010!by Travis - Café LA Re: quicktime 7.6.4 in windows bug - 14 years agoQuicktime on Windows PCs has always been a problem for those who want to show video to PC users. Many Windows users have simply stopped downloading the Quicktime updates, due to the 80-or-so MB downloads, which seem to happen weekly. And, with each new version, there seems to be a new bug, replacing the previous bug which was presumably "fixed" with the latest update. The solution:by Travis - Café LA Re: is 42 Gb too big for 1 hour movie? - 14 years agoFor reference, I have semi-hd (960 x 540) samples posted at various streaming rates to demonstrate what kind of performance you might expect: www.hd-vo.comby Travis - Café LA Re: inexpensive tapeless cameras for students - 14 years agoHi Mitchell, Many years ago, I was a student at Long Beach State University. The Film and Video department there (At the time, the Radio/TV department) had a complete studio, which was quite sophisticated for its time, except everything was, by the time I came there, rather antiquated. The cameras were black-and-white, and equipped with turret lenses, instead of the fancy new "zoom&by Travis - Café LA Re: exporting qt file readable by pc qt - 14 years agoHi Chris, OK... now you're talking about something completely different. The h.264 format is intended primarily as a "playback" medium. If you're intending to make a DVD - suitable for playing from a DVD player, the DVD creation software will need to re-encode your file to .mp2, which means it will need to recompress your video file, and your quality will degrade substantially. Alby Travis - Café LA Re: exporting qt file readable by pc qt - 14 years agoHi Chris, I've found the most reliable format for PC Quicktime playback is h.264. If your file on the PC for viewing only (No editing, etc.), the h.264 format also provides the advantages of superior quality, while not requiring a great deal of disc activity. Make sure the PC has a recent version of Quicktime. You'll need to make a decision as to data rate vs. quality, which can be determinby Travis - Café LA Re: Windows MPEG QT files will not transfer - 14 years agoFirst thing to determine is: Will the .mov file play in Quicktime on the Windows machine? If they play in Quicktime, it's entirely possible that the file uses a codec which is installed on the Windows machine, but not the Mac. In Quicktime, on the Windows machine, go to "Window/Show Movie Inspector" to determine file format information. Make sure the Codec is also available on yoby Travis - Café LA Re: OT: macbook pro's and kids inquiry? - 14 years agoGet your 10-year-old his own computer, along with FCP and a Flip camera. In two years you'll be able to ask him for advice on the computer and the finer points of FCP.by Travis - Café LA Re: Final Cut Studio (2009): Frakking Documentation... - 14 years agoBelieve it or not, the reason Apple is making it harder to get the documentation you need is for your benefit. Now that there is an established user base of Final Cut Pro, they are attempting to keep novices from learning it - so that you, the experienced users are more valuable. Large-scale system purchasers don't ask novices which editing system to buy, they ask experienced editors and consulby Travis - Café LA Re: Matching audio taped on a speaker phone (UGH) and live - 14 years agoWhen it comes to audio, Steve knows what he's talking about. He used to operate one of the best recording studios in Southern California. One way to simplify this process is to place an audio recorder/microphone at the remote location. Relatively high quality digital recorders are really cheap now, and someone can email you the additional audio. After synchronizing the two tracks, you simpyby Travis - Café LA Re: BROADCAST QUALITY? - 14 years agoHi again, Robert. If you require that your program plays on standard DVD players, you have only one option - make an Standard Definition DVD, set up for widescreen. I've seen several programs shot on HDV and distributed on SD=DVD, and the results have been excellent. Though, of course, not true HD, the "look" of the material was better than a great deal of supposedly "HD"by Travis - Café LA Re: BROADCAST QUALITY? - 14 years agoHi Zuill, From what I understand from your question: (1) You want to play back your video, in high definition on a computer. You want to the video to appear to be at least as good as "broadcast quality" - what you see on your high definition home television. (2) You don't actually need to send your video to a TV station or network for broadcast. (3) When you output your vidby Travis - Café LA Re: OT- Voice Over Artists - 14 years agoHi Noah, It all depends on your project and your budget. There's a general rule the we voice-over artists follow with these "Pay-to-Play" sites: "There's something wrong with every job posted - it's up to you as the voice-over artist to figure out the problem and determine if you're willing to deal with whatever problems the job has." An experienced producer will alreaby Travis - Café LA Re: Speakers for Video & Sound Editing- Need Suggestions - 14 years agoHi Skiley, Dan is 100% correct in everything he says. However, you need to get by with something far less expensive.. - And you say you want it for "Video Editing" -You're not asking for something to give you audio for a final, "professional" quality mix. You just want something that will give you a better reference point than what you've got. Of all the elements in thby Travis - Café LA Re: Converting QT to Flash video - 14 years agoHi Sheryl, Adobe Flash Encoder only produces .flv files. Flash itself, makes the .swf file. Previously, (Presuming you have Flash 8/CS3/CS4) you were probably working in Flash and used the "Import Video" menu, which calls Media Encoder. Flash also creates one or two additional SWF files (The player) and a template html file, which need to be uploaded to your final site. If yoby Travis - Café LA Re: Edit System Buzz Hum Problem - 14 years agoHi Frank, I've used the device you found, also available here:Markertek.com. Don't know exactly why your system changed, but your cable TV connection also has a "Reference Ground", which, not only may be thousands of feet from you, but also runs very close to a lot of 60Hz power lines. A cable technician may have simply hooked up or removed a customer, or a neighbor could have pby Travis - Café LA Re: Edit System Buzz Hum Problem - 14 years agoThis sort of problem is amost always caused by something called a "ground loop". It sounds like you're aware of the need to use shielded cables. What happens in a ground loop is that there is a path for 60Hz power to flow along the sheilds on your cables - the shields on the cable actually create the problem they're designed to solve. The concept is relatively simple, but a bit comby Travis - Café LA Re: FCP to flash - 14 years ago...and if you want to know what streaming rate to use, I have samples of different rates at: www.hd-vo.comby Travis - Café LA Re: Best choice for export? - 14 years agoBetter still: Use Joe's recommended settings, only change them to match what your Flash developer will use on the web. Current versions of Flash can use H.264 directly - There's no need to re-compress or convert, so long as you provide files with the data rate, size, etc suitable for the web. Samples of h.264 HD material, output from FCP6 at various data rates can be viewed at: www.hd-vby Travis - Café LA Re: Recommendations for Mic Preamp - 15 years agoHi Bob, There are about a million directions you can take here - The primary differences in mic preamps are subtle. If set up and used properly, all of the major brand mic preamps will give you a signal/noise ratio with a noise floor below what can be detected by human beings. If you are getting hum, static, and thin voices from mics that work well when hooked directly to a camera you prby Travis - Café LA Re: OT: Web hosting - 15 years agoI'm on Macs and PCs... Love/Hate them both. Here's what I've learned over the years. For those who are exclusively on Macs, who intend to play to a general audience (88-90 Percent PCs) you should have this info: (1) A good portion of the PC audience already has Quicktime. (2) When you install Quicktime on a PC, it takes over your default program settings in Internet Explorer, even whby Travis - Café LA Re: OT: Web hosting - 15 years agoSamples of h.264/Flash encodes I've done recently: Medium Def 1-M bps: www.VOTalent.tv High Def 2Mbps: www.HD-VO.com Both of these were encoded in FCP6, and loaded into Flash CS4 (Takes about a minute), with no re-encode by Flash. If you have Flash CS4, it takes about an hour to learn enough to accomplish this. More and more of my video clients are learning some flash so they can havby Travis - Café LA |
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