Alex Elkins
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[Dominick Pietrzak] “Is there anything else that would be useful?”
A good sized desk, comfy chairs for your clients, tidy cabling… all the non-technical stuff is important too.
Also what about speakers and some decent headphones? Might you need a mic for recording voice-overs/guide tracks?
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[Gunleik Groven] “Is there a filenamereader, too (so I could burn in filename AND TC?”
That would be exceptionally useful given all these file formats many of us are working with these days. Unfortunately I don’t believe such a function exists in the FCP or Compressor filters. There may be a piece of third-party software that does this though.
Of course, all of the files will maintain their original names, so its not such a problem until you need to go to DVD or export a file of the offline, leaving only the TC burn as the reference to the original media.Alex Elkins
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You can batch add TC burns directly through Compressor (look under the Filters menu in the inspector window). You can also do a bit of colour correction under the same tab, although this isn’t something I’ve done so couldn’t tell you how well it works.
If you wanted to do the colour correction in FCP, drop all of the clips onto a timeline and add the correction, then drag them back into a new bin in the browser. This will create new reference clips which include the correction, and you can batch export to Compressor from there.
Hopefully one of those suggestions will help. The first would be my preferred method.
Best,
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USB3 is faster than e-SATA?? I didn’t realise. That sounds great!
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Wow, sounds like a really useful bit of software. It this it? https://www.toolsonair.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=71
It looks like a software/hardware combo.Salad Daze Films – Freshly Tossed
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Hi Jordan,
You misunderstand me – what I mean is I would only shoot 60p for clips that you intend to slow mo. For everything else shoot 30p.
Using CMD+J doesn’t make use of the fact that you have overcranked to 60p. The best way to convert those clips is with Compressor instead of running them through MPEG Streamclip (MPEG Streamclip is fine for your non-slow mo shots).In Compressor, create a custom ProRes 29.976 setting and be sure to imput the following information in the Frame Controls tab:
Notice that at the bottom I have selected “so source frames play at 29.97 fps” (what your camera calls 30p is in fact 29.976 fps)
If you want to give me your email address and are on FCP7 I can send you this setting as a preset so you don’t have to fiddle about with it.
By the way, converting to ProRes HQ is overkill. Standard ProRes is fine for stuff from the Canon cameras (and many others).
All the best,
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Hi Jordan,
Your workflow is fine. Maybe boost the YouTube h.264 to somewhere around 5000kb/s if there’s a lot of colour or movement in your video.
I think perhaps you’re expecting too much – it’s always going to look super crisp on the camera LCD as it’s such a small screen.One thing I would personally change would be to shoot 30p instead of 60p, unless you particularly want that 60p look (most avoid it for things like short films, music vids etc) or if you need to convert to slow-mo – you should find that the quality of each frame improves both for the in-camera files and the final h.264 for YouTube. (60fps means that less kb are applied to each frame per second compared to 30fps)
Hope that helps,
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Forgot to add that you also need to remember to set the audio to Linear PCM/48kHz…
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Hi Alex,
Compressor will do a good job of this for you. Create a ProRes422 25fps setting and then make sure under the Frame Controls tab in the Inspector window you have…
Frame Controls: On
Resize Filter: Best (or ‘Better’ – test first)
Rate Conversion: Best (test ‘Better’ first)
Set Duration to: 100% of sourceAnd of course set it to 1920×1080 in the Geometry tab.
As I mention above, test a short segment first as the ‘Best’ resize and rate conversion settings take a long time – you may find that ‘Better’ will suffice for one or both of them.
All the best,
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Hi Jeremy,
Firstly, what was the original shooting format?
In what format was the footage captured?
What are your sequence settings? (Press CMD+0 in your timeline)
What settings did you use to export?If the answer to the first question differs from any of the others then you will have identified where the problem arose. Let us know and we can suggest a solution because at the moment there isn’t enough detail to do more than make educated guesses.
Thanks,
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