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Re: QT to WMV - 15 years agoThe only reasonable conversion from QT to WMV is Flip4mac plugin to Quicktime pro. WMV's always look worse than QT anyhow.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Could running DISK WARRIOR, SEPARATELY, on stripped drives be causing dropped frames? - 15 years agoHow were the 2 drives RAIDed? was it using the Disk utilities >RAID 0? BTW- Diskwarrior does not defrag anything. It's sole purpose is to rebuild-repair disk directories.by John Foley - Café LA Re: How to stop disc from spinning after motion menu - 15 years agoWhenever the DVD content is playing, the disc will be spinning. I would imagine that since it will be in a Kiosk, it will be playing continually.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Problems with DISC End ACTION when Chapter SKIPPING !! - 15 years agoStories is a simple, kind way to deal with Chapters other than using Scripting to do so. If the end user chooses to skip a Chapter during viewing, there's not much you can do as it will jump right past an End Jump Chapter marker. Perhaps there is some scripting that you can learn to only allow a chapter skip to the end of that chapter and then end jump back to the menu. I can't tell you whatby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Kona 3 -- too much card for this boy? - 15 years agoMaterial is coming in at all shapes and sizes: DV, HDV, BetaSP, DigiBeta, HDCam, up- or cross-converted to 1080i 60. You really listed most every type of video format that existed until today, there. Except for the HDCam (?) digital capture and the DigiBeta and BetaSP (which need a capture card to digitize), you have to rent, etc a comparable deck to capture the tapes, the rest is captured oveby John Foley - Café LA Re: Audio & Video length have to match? - 15 years agoWell, it's a good idea for a professionally authored DVD. If you export a Quicktime file from FCP and use Compressor to output MPEG-2 and .ac3 Dolby, the files always come out the same length for perfect sync.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: USB editing ...still a no-no? - 15 years agowayne granzin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ok, then get you an esata EXPRESS CARD... I heartily second this solution. Sata is much more Robust that Firewire for capturing and editing. I use a 2 port eSATA card from Firmtek and two 500 GB drives on my MacBook Pro for remote editing.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Pro Applications update out via SW Control panel - 15 years agoSTILL! No movement on DVD Studio Pro. though!!by John Foley - Café LA Re: Purchasing a new Mac Pro for FCP - 15 years agoAccording to , the ATI 8800GT is a real looser compared to a stock 2600XT.by John Foley - Café LA Re: expanding hard drives - 15 years agoI have the 2.5 Ghz Quad G5 tower and I have 5 internal drives. It will safely take a second SATA drive as the power and connectors are already there. You can put any SATA I or II 7200 RPM 3.5" disk drive in the second slot. The G5 has only SATA I 1.5Mbps controller so it will not take full usage of the SATA II speeds. I am using 500 GB drives but it should take all the way up to 1.0 TBby John Foley - Café LA Re: HD DVD authoring - 15 years agoWhat do you plan to do with that footage after you get this problem fixed? First of all, MPEG-2 does not go into HD-DVD. Secondly, HD-DVD doesn't exist any longer. There is now only BluRay and Apple has not supported it , Yet!by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Newbie question- How do you add images to a podcast track in SP ? - 15 years agoIf I am not mistaken, I think you are asking the wrong question. It should be, How can I use Soundtrack Pro audio in a video Podcast? Simply put, make the audio in STP and add it back into FCP. Then export as a PodCast?by John Foley - Soundtrack Pro Re: Is motion the right tool? Formats for webstreaming. Realistic approach? (newbie questions) - 15 years agomichellepace Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > WHAT I NEED TO DO > > I need to create a clip which will be viewed of > the web streaming either in .mov format - and if I > can find how to convert it - into flash format. > > In this clip I will make use of very simple > animated vector graphics (ie a couple of lines > connectedby John Foley - Motion Re: weird reconnecting media issue - 15 years agoWhat is the drive formatted as? If it is FAT 32 as in Windows, it will kill the ability for identifying an icon with a program. You won't be able to reconnect the clips because they have no "forks". If possible, reinitialize the disks as HFS+ for use with a MAC.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoPoint one - do NOT load your OS onto the RAID set. Keep the applications on a different drive than the captures, etc. The Mac Pro has at least a 320 GB factory loaded HD, so just use it for all the applications. You can even choose to load the content for Motion, Soundtrack Pro and DVD Studio onto the RAID, if you wish. Point two - While it is sweet to have 4 TB of RAID disks, using them aby John Foley - Café LA Re: Can Final Cut Studio 2 run on a G4? - 15 years agoThere is NO video card that will run Color on a G4! The ATI Rage Pro 9800 - 128 Mb card I have in my dual 1 Ghz system is the only card left for PCI-33 Mhz slots. I have not tried to run FCS2 on the G4, It stopped at 5.1.4,by John Foley - Café LA Re: problem with FCP6 - 15 years agoWell, then try trashing the .plist file in preferences for Final Cut Pro.by John Foley - Café LA Re: problem with FCP6 - 15 years agoDid you go to Utilities>Disk Utility and execute Repair Disk permissions after installing software?by John Foley - Café LA Re: Combining footage with different pixel aspect ratios - 15 years agoI'm not saying to jump on FCP 6 but sorting out the aspect ratio problems first would be the best way to start out. Are some of the Square Pixel graphics from After Effects or some other application that outputs as Animation codec? What frame size are the graphics? If you set your edit codec to NTSC-DV then it will only get you 720x480. Any bigger formatted graphic will be squeezed into thatby John Foley - Café LA Re: sound breaking up - 15 years agoIs the sound captured at 16 bit-48Khz? or some other format?by John Foley - Café LA Re: O.T. Camera Considerations - 15 years agoYes, but does the 200A have a DV tape drive in camera? I thought not?by John Foley - Café LA Re: Memory: Hurts, Helps, Doesn't Matter? - 15 years agoVaricam HDV HuH? Varicam is a Panasonic trademarked name and it does not do HDV????? SonyXDcamEX Now that IS HDV at a higher data rate but no less HDV is only 4:2:0 color space. Either way you don't really need a capture card. Even utilizing the Varicam SD camera??? requires a tape deck that is Firewire connected. A RAID is a good thing to have when you are doing several tracks ofby John Foley - Café LA Re: Combining footage with different pixel aspect ratios - 15 years agoWhat version of FCP are you using. Starting in FCP 6 you can mix different formats on the same timeline. Mixing of codecs is possible. On an FCP 5 or older system it is going to be happy render time when one of those formats doesn't match the codec you setup. In FCP 6 you could also export the mixed footages to ProRez and fix the differences. Not a simple fix, but doable.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Memory: Hurts, Helps, Doesn't Matter? - 15 years agoIt really doesn't matter to a G5 what types of RAM sticks are used as long as they match pair in certain slots. That's a lot of used RAM slots for 2.5 GB RAM, though. RAM prices today are such that you could easily afford 4 or 6 GB of RAM and FCP 5 and 6 can use up to 4 GB with lots of long timeline contents. As for HD I/O cards. what formats are you going to be using? Generally I/O cardsby John Foley - Café LA Re: O.T. Camera Considerations - 15 years agoThanks, Shane! I still have my old reliable PD-150 for when I need 2 cameras shooting DV. Johnby John Foley - Café LA Re: Music Video Organization - 15 years agoThe old way (before multi-cam in FCP 5) was to lay each camera's clips on one track and the next one the next track below the first, etc. If all the camera videos have audio on them then use the audio to sync the three tracks together before cutting. After syncing, turn off the camera audio and sync in the master audio track. At this point you can use a blade cut at the intended edit pointsby John Foley - Café LA Re: O.T. Camera Considerations - 15 years agoIf you want a DV tape based camcorder and loads of other features as well, then get an HVX-200 not 200A. The HVX shoots DVCPRO 25 = DV, DVCRO 50 = DigiBeta and DVCPRO 100 = 720p or 1080 true 4:2:2 High Definition. The cost should be right at $5000 or less since the HVX-200A is now shipping.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Still no full screen playback... time to trash the preferences? - 15 years agoAre you sure you have the setting correct under View-External view in the menu's? That is the most common mistake. You could try trashing prefs but that might not be the problem here.by John Foley - Café LA Re: COLOR CORRECTION - 15 years agoI don't have monitors to see my color correction You could use any CRT television for an average look at the content. what are some of the concerns turning footage balck and white? Just go into the 3 way color corrector and remove chrominance from the picture. The luminance is what controls the contrast of the picture.by John Foley - Café LA |
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