Adam Taylor
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…and just to be fair to Autodesk…I have now got the update, and the program seems to be doing exactly what its supposed to. Its in the middle of a batch of compressions, and not crashed yet. Thanks again for telling me about the upgrade.
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great news – thanks rich.
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you also could try Popwire as a way to import/export .wmv from within Quicktime. Works great, cost about me less than
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Panic over – i have discovered the output channel shortcut which is where channel assignments is made.
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i thought i was trying to find out what it can do!
And as for complaining about what it can’t do…well, it could hardly be described as a complaint, more an observation, and its only because I was trying to discover what can and cannot be done that i found this omission. It happens to be a function i have gotten used to using on a different system and one that saves a lot of time and keystrokes, thus helps prevent RSI.
Surely, if a product is being sensibly upgraded and maintained by the programmers (as FCP is), they would rather editors asked them for new and useful tools and help make an excellent package ever more user friendly, than for us all to sit and grumble quietly to ourselves about wishlists and how nothing is ever changed.
I’ve been editing 20 yrs, Walter, on a huge range of kit going all the way back to umatic three machine suites. I read the manuals and then experiment. I have a pretty good idea what can be done with FCP. When i ask for a little help from the more experienced FCP user I try to explain concisely what i need to know. That way, if you want to offer advice, it can be directed to the problem. To say things like “There are ways to make the app do just about anything you need it to do.”… is pretty pointless – it gives no information and is no help at all.
I appreciate all the advice i get, and i don’t want to waste busy peoples time asking inane rubbish. Like many – i work in a vacuum, surrounded by others who have no knowledge or insight into my own work, and i no longer have the pool of experience to call on that used to exist at large broadcast organisations. Forums such as CreativeCow are an invaluable resource that i don’t want to see squandered. Its the only place i could hope to get friendly advice from like minded pro’s, so please Walter, don’t take offense at my reply (as i appear to have at yours!). I just feel that as an experienced pro, i don’t need the babyish RTFM lecture. However, i also realise there are a lot of people who do need that lecture. Perhaps I should make my level of experience more obvious in future .
regards
AdamEditor/Mixer
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thats a shame – it would be a much more useful feature than some of the included ones!
thanks for the quick reply. I’m busying downloading the update right now soif it has been added (doubtful) i shall report back.
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once again, i bow to your knowledge and gracious manner with which you share it.
Many thanks Peter – just what i wanted.
adam
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thats the problem – we are the client, the facility and the producer all rolled into one!
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A good point David and one i tend to agree with, but….and here’s the point of the whole thread… do you have or know of an acceptable compromise or even a solution ?- other than shooting the material twice.
adam
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interesting replies, thanks.
its a difficult one to judge for us. Being based in the UK, where the broadcasters all use the 16:9 spec it would be great to be able to work solely in that format. I think that 4:3 tv’s are becoming quite rare over here. However, as our products do sell elsewhere we have to be aware of other markets needs as well.
I know many UK viewers are reported as finding letterbox on 4:3 screens as unacceptable. Its something i could never understand – the attitude that a black bar top and bottom could actually distract from the content!
Is this a problem in your own areas?
On a technical point – if we did shoot 16:9 maintaining a 4:3 action safe area, is it a simple matter of cropping the sides of the 16:9 full height anamorphic image to leave a standard 4:3 frame? It sounds easy, but its best checking there are no hidden problems with doing that!!
Adam
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Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK