Alex Elkins
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Oh OK, I’m afraid I’ve been subjected to the Apple Mind Control Program. Thanks for the de-programming!
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While we’re on the subject of hard drives…
Having read this thread I’m getting the impression that you’re much better off buying a hard drive separately, rather than from an Apple dealer. I’m assuming that not all hard drives work on Macs, so how can one tell which ones do (aside from when it’s made clear on the box etc)?
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Have you tried de-interlacing just the text layers within FCP rather than Compressor?
You may have also tried this, but in your sequence settings you could try changing your Field Dominance to ‘None’.
You could also try doing the text in Photoshop, then save as a progressive PNG. -
It sounds to me like it could be an aspect ratio issue – do the pictures look stretched in FCP? Preview displays the pixels at a 1:1 ratio whereas FCP will be displaying them at 4:3 / 16:9. You can combat this by distorting (or un-distorting in this case) the image. Have a look at the images distort setting in the motion tab. If it’s not set to 0 then doing so should solve the problem.
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Wow, that IS fast!
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Press alt+H in FCP to bring up a window with all the keyboard shortcuts. You can also change them to suit you better, and search for ones you’re looking for.
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Isn’t the video on that site just stock green screen footage? If that’s the case, then all you will need to do (I say ALL, it isn’t simple) is key out the green and remove the strings. There’s not much you can do about the angle you see it from, what you see in the stock footage is what you get.
Anyway, you can key out the green using Final Cut – look under filters for Color Key I believe it’s called. Then just use the eyedropper thing to select the green as the colour you wish to remove. Then you can play around with the feather and edge thin settings until you get a decent result.If you can though, use After Effects. The keying tools are WAY better.
You could always buy a model plane, stuff it with fireworks and film it yourself if you wanted it from a different angle, but make sure you fill out a health and safety report first. (I’m joking, please don’t play with fireworks.)
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I always compress my files for web using Quicktime’s H.264 codec. That’s fine as long as you’re then using a Quicktime player on your website to play them, but on a lot of sites like YouTube they play videos using Flash, thus re-encoding everything anyway, so maybe compressing using Flash would work better. It depends where the videos will be viewed. I don’t think you can do that using FCP or After Effects though.
Saying that, I’ve uploaded videos to YouTube that have been compressed using H.264 and they still look pretty good, but to get the absolute best you could out of web videos you just need to encode to the format relative to what it will be playing in.
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That sounds good. How much difference will that make? I mean, presumably a faster processor = faster rendering, so to use render times as an example, can someone give a rough idea of how much quicker 6 cores would be to 4 cores?
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Does the Nattress one allow you to actually capture as a timelapse?