Adam Taylor
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same is true over this side of the pond also.
The broadcasters still want people with crt’s in 4:3 and 16:9 as well as those with newer technology to be able to receive the signal, so all my text has to fit within 4:3 safe areas, even though they are all transmitted in 16:9 only.
adam
Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
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As i understand it, when you digitize a digital source with a digital codec you do not tweak the signal until after its digitized.
Analogue and digital signals are by their very nature, completely different. Digital is a stream of digits (no? really?) as opposed to a constantly varying electrical signal and so making changes during the data transfer, which is really what digitizing is, is not good idea.
You are gong to have to load the footage before making any corrections. The upside of this is that you will be working with the unaltered image, and you have the option to undo any changes you make. If you made corrections prior to input, then you could be working with an already compromised source.
Don’t forget its rare for even broadcast cameras to give you the finished image. Most video will go through a correction/grading stage prior to tx. I get material shot on high end HD cameras, and even though its really good quality, i still grade every shot.
If you are used to the analogue way of tweaking levels on input, you will just have to get used to a new workflow for digital. it may feel restrictive at first, but it actually gives you more flexibility throughout your edit.
adam
Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
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no- its not a background process, but that does give you a good excuse to get away from the screen for a break.
yes – it does have batch encode for multiple sequences. Also not a background process.
adam
Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
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Doh !!
Of course…it all makes sense now.
It used to bug me that fcp would render away anytime i left the machine for awhile, so i switched it off wondering what the point of it was…now i understand.
thanks the info – extremely useful!
adam
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you cannot rely on the camera and a laptop to tell you the pictures are correctly exposed. You need to use a decent broadcast monitor.
Also, what format did you shoot?
Analogue or digital?
What video input method are you using(Kona? Firewire?)it all makes a difference to what you can do during the input process.
Don’t forget you can always do a colour grade after the edit to really help improve the shots…just make sure you digitize to a format that will give you best quality with least compression such as 10 bit uncompressed – you want to retain as much info as possible without degrading the signal.
adam
Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK -
i seem to remember one of the new features included with FCP2 was the ability to create your graphic tags in Motion and have them drop into fcp projects really easy, and there was mention of a method of doing exactly what you asked for.
Its something i also need to look into but as i have been so busy dropping tags on commercials i haven’t had time to check it out. So i might also have just imagined it!
adam
Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK -
Thanks Matt – i did say that i had tried rebooting, and i forgot to mention that trashing prefs had made no difference.
The problem this time was that the original project came from an editor who had disabled the render filters option (everything else he has sent me has always been fine!).
adam
Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK -
I’m seeing a different problem but its showing up (or not showing !!) in both Colorista and 3way Colour Corrector.
Basically – the plugins look as if they are behaving, yet it makes absolutely no difference to the shot they are applied to, nor do the changes show up in the scopes either.
And i know it worked last week because i used it on a different commercial.
adam
Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK -
having just seen the previous post, i thought i’d try Colorista and thats doing exactly the same – Nothing!!
the plug-in behaves as it should, it just has no effect on the video clip.
adam
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certainly is…its the first time i have tried it and it definitely won’t be the last !
adam