Alexander Serpico
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no problem, happy to help!
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Its called the widescreen matte, fcp has had it since its inception….
you can either apply it globally to your cut by applying it to a nested sequence (if your cut is done and you need to output),
or add it to every clip prior to edit (i personally dont like this option, since i cant remove only that effect globally if necessary).just select type: “2.35:1” in the filters tab.
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How did you make the two files you are joining?
Ill make a bet that they are not self-contained quicktime files.
Am i correct?
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yes it is a simple solution…. you make them mpeg-1 muxed (for web setting)
i believe the reason compressor doesnt have this as a possible setting is because they dont feel its needed (why would you use mpeg-2 for the internet, unless you had a telestream box but thats what it does). yes this should completely be possible, but thats just apple for you.if you really need it done, any other compression program (cleaner, squeeze, compression master, ffmpegx, etc.) can do it.
FFMpegX is free, and you can use it to mux your video and audio files created in compressor. -
Are you really saying that a disk must be ejected before shutdown?
I was positive this was a huge misconception among novices, since the OS unmounts all drives on shutdown anyway.
Or is this just best practice?
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why cant you load the footage directly over firewire.
remember however that there is no way to monitor the video though the aja,
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my thoughts exactly… apple video support claims that “well fcp is not meant to do this, but uh cinema tools can” … “but sorry i cant give you support for cinema tools,” that is a separate support purchase…
i get a feeling that he simply had no answer and to do anything in cinema tools you need to start with an edl generated in FCP…
i don’t appreciate being lied to by them.as ive said here before sadly, apple’s video support is simply useless and their help offering is that of reading the manual to you…
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One of the editors i work with is a organizational mess. He loads at varying resolutions and frame sizes, and doesn’t check to see that indeed nothing matches until i do when his project is exploding and his is output is hours late. Frequently the renders of these 10 minute+ sequences render as if it was corrupt, and footage jumps around or the sequence drops frames as it goes out to tape. My last minute repair is to export the sequence as it renders to a separate drive, and then in a new project/sequence edit to tape.
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other than an IO, you can use any deck that has Analog to Digital conversion (like a Digibeta Deck).
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Kona is SDI only. If your deck doesnt have an SDI board, you would need an IO if you want to load at anything other than DV compression. Otherwise, you should just capture over firewire.