offset text in production

[Tom Wolsky]

Not enough information. What’s the GUI? A computer screen? How did you shoot? Camera? Screen capture? Scan converter? There may be nothing you can do at this stage.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Lawrence Eaton]

Tom,

Many thanks for the reply. Here’s some additional info.

What’s the GUI? The GUI is of their product range a CAD product.
Video source is AVI – lossless compression
Res: 1024×768
Captured from a computer screen using screen capture software – I believe it was Camtasia Studio.

Is there anything else I can give you? Please don’t say the winning lottery numbers!

Thanks

Lawrence Eaton

[Tom Wolsky]

Try converting the AVI in Compressor or the QT pro player to he format and size you’re working on in FCP. You’re obviously having to scale the media in FCP, which should be avoided if possible. What format are you working in?

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Lawrence Eaton]

Tom,

The final output must be WMV – for some asinine reason. however, the customer is willing to look at using either Flash or QT.

Regards,

Lawrence Eaton

[Tom Wolsky]

But what format are you working in? What’s your production format? Sequence settings?

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Lawrence Eaton]

Tom,

This is where I was lost, I believe.

Settings as current are:
Frame size: 1920×1080 HDTV 1080i (16:9)
Field dominance: Lower (even)
Video processing: Render in 8-bitYUV
Quicktime video settings:
Compressor: HDV 1080i60
Quality @ 100%
Audio: 48kHz
Depth: 16-bit
Config: Channel Grouped

Anything else?

Regards

Lawrence Eaton

[Tom Wolsky]

This is an HDV preset, sort of. The frame size is supposed to be 1440×1080 with HD pixel aspect ration and the field order is supposed to be upper first.

Your material is smaller than that frame size. Are you scaling it up? That’s not going to work well.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Lawrence Eaton]

Tom,
HELP, please. What would be the best setting for production to media streaming from the web?
Every aspect of FCP is proving to be invaluable for my company’s needs – now that I’ve smacked a few ppl around the head – but it’s become apparent to me that I could do with some sort of assistance/ help in my settings.

Any direction would be valuable!

Lawrence Eaton

[Tom Wolsky]

I don’t know what you’re entire production workflow is so it’s hard to advise you. You have should some video material in some format that I don’t understand with some camera and you used Camtasia to do screen captures. I don’t know Camtasia so I don’t know what options you have to save your material. You need to bring the media into FCP in a ormat that’s as close to your production format as possible, and then work from there.

You really should get someone who knows FCP to come in set this up for you if you are inexperienced with the application.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Lawrence Eaton]

I don’t know what you’re entire production workflow is so it’s hard to advise you. You have should some video material in some format that I don’t understand with some camera and you used Camtasia to do screen captures. I don’t know Camtasia so I don’t know what options you have to save your material. You need to bring the media into FCP in a ormat that’s as close to your production format as possible, and then work from there.

You really should get someone who knows FCP to come in set this up for you if you are inexperienced with the application.

Tom,
My apologies. Our workflow goes something like this.
Demonstrations of a software product are captured via Camtasia that natively outputs to AVI format.
Camtasia can produce WMV, AVI, MOV, RM, M4v, FLV, SWF – but to a limited ability.
There is no camera involved.
At this time, I am exporting out of Camtasia at 1024×768 in QuickTime using H264 codec.
I then import into FCP and render both the audio and video.
We’d like to output at either: 1024×768 or we have just had permission to output at Highdef 1080i60.
Is there any other information that might be helpful?

Lawrence Eaton