Alex Elkins
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At the top left of the timeline there is a button with ‘RT’ on it. Click that and make sure that it’s all set to Best. Having it set to dynamic can sometimes cause you to see low res images.
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For the sake of argument, let’s say you want your boom coming out of your left speaker. Double click the boom audio and in the viewer you’ll see the clip’s waveform. Above the waveform set the Pan slider to -1.
Do the same with the lav audio, but set to +1.This will give you each separate audio coming out of different speakers. However, this isn’t generally done unless it’s purely for preview purposes as you can imagine people watching on TV are thinking that one of their speakers is broken when you’re just using sound from the boom.
If this is for broadcast or for a client of some kind your best bet is to just mix the audio as you see fit, so fade the different mics up and down according to what actually sounds best to you. -
Rather that Dual Mono, if you set your output to Stereo you’ll hear both channels. Your two tracks are still independent of each other, and you just need to mix the audio accordingly (i.e. fade up the lav mic when the presenter is talking, and bring the boom back in for general sound effects.
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This might be far too simple a solution to your problem but when that sort of thing happens for me the first thing I do is quit and re-open FCP. It seems to fix a lot of unexplainable playback issues.
Quite probably not an answer to your question but worth suggesting just in case! -
Neither iDVD nor DVD Studio use DV files anyway. You need to compress it as an MPEG2 file, which you can’t to my knowledge do using FCP. It has to go into Compressor. Then all you do is select one of the ‘DVD: Best Quality’ presets. You’ll need to export the audio separately, and the best way to do that is again by using Compressor. Just select the ‘Dolby Digital Professional’ setting.
Once that’s done, import both those files into iDVD.
That said, I expect that if you import your original DV file straight into iDVD, iDVD will compress it to an MPEG 2 file anyway. That’s what DVD Studio does, although I’ve never used iDVD to do this so I could be mistaken. The difference between the two is that you have more control over your settings when using Compressor, so you generally get better quality video.
Don’t worry about the interlacing issue. DV always looks that way when viewing it on a computer monitor. It won’t look that way on the DVD.
Hope that helps,
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I have a similar situation with the machine I work on but I’ve always put it down to the video not being rendered; the pictures slow down as the frame rate drops to supposedly keep it playing in real-time, but the audio stays in what would be in sync if the pictures weren’t lagging behind.
Could this be what’s happening to you, Dan? And more importantly, could what David suggests solve it? I’ve until now assumed it was something I just had to put up with until we got a faster machine. -
The answer above mine is a really good one.
Also, if you’re still having no luck doing it straight out of Final Cut the dimensions you need to give your video are 1024 x 576.
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‘Apple F’ if you need to search within FCP. Highlight the timeline to search within the timeline, and highlight the browser to search within that.
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What I like about FCS2 is that it has lots of small differences that improve upon FCS1. In particular, things like being able to rename files through Final Cut, rather than having to go into Finder, rename them, then reconnect the clips. It’s little things like that which take a lot of stress out!
However that would be a very silly reason for upgrading an application. The bigger picture is that FCS2 includes an excellent colour correction application, supports the fantastic Pro Res codec and various other things which I’m sure are listed on the Apple website.Looking at what you use Final Cut for, you probably don’t NEED the upgrade. Nobody did, people were still editing feature films and television programmes with the old version. But the upgrade IS better and you’ll notice the difference, so if you’ve got some spare cash you want to spend then go for it.
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– Stand far away from the subject and zoom in. The further away the softer the background.
– Open the iris as wide as possible. Use ND filters if it gets too bright.I often use diffusing filters as well (only very subtly though, too much can ruin the shot) and it gives the whole image a slightly softer look which is nice if that’s what you want.