[Andrew Gregg]

Yeah, unfortunately the manual doesn’t get into the nitty gritty aspects of things! I’m looking for shortcuts. I know I’m lazy.

Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan

[Andrew Gregg]

Another thing I’m looking to do is to be able to time warp clips as if they had the start and ending points I cut them down to in the time line.

I’m running a multiclip and then I cut between the two cameras. After these cuts are done, I want to ramp the speed from one shot to another, so the transition is seamless.

I need the final frame of where I made the cut, not where the original media ends. It’s much nicer to work with a short clip in the time remap. Working with a long one is difficult because it’s x/y axis is so long that if you make a minor adjustment, you speed up your clip by 5000%, or have it turn in to a still.

I know I can export the individual clip and work like this for every cut, but surely there’s a better way to do this.

Any ideas?

Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan

[Andrew Gregg]

The quality is fine now. I recorded in a 24fps base at 60 fps, so the footage looks fine in the 24fps time line.

What I need to do is make all of the footage normal speed, and slow it down just at certain points for impact. I’m looking for a fast way to do this.

Thanks for your suggestion though.

Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan

[Andrew Gregg]

Thanks! I’ll look for these kinds of plugins.

Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan

[Andrew Gregg]

I’ll look into that. Thanks very much.

Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan

[Andrew Gregg]

You’re right. It took quicktime files without any problem. I don’t know where I got it into my head that it couldn’t take quicktime files. Thanks for your help.

One thing that has always bugged me though is that when I export a file at 720*480, when I open it in quicktime it’s stretched all out of proportion. It’s fine when I put it back onto Final Cut though. It seems I have to export at 640*480 to get a normal picture for quicktime. Why is this? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for any help.

Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan

[Andrew Gregg]

If it’s as simple as this I’m going to be kicking myself for a while. Last time I remembered, Premiere couldn’t really handle quicktime files. But that was 1.0. I’ll ask around on their forum, and try it out tomorrow at work.

Thanks.

Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan

[Andrew Gregg]

The problem is that I have some telephone conversations shot at DV 720×480 that need to be inter cut with this EX 1 footage. It needs to be at the same aspect ratio in order to cut together.

Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan

[Andrew Gregg]

When I import back into final cut pro, it says the settings are 640*480. The image is stretched wide in my timeline, which is set to 720*480. In the premiere timeline (which is also set to 720*480), it’s also listed as 640*480, but the image is squeezed in. This is confusing.

I am using

export > using quicktime conversion…
w/ format >avi >> options >> video settings >> compression type > DV/DVCPRO – NTSC

In the final box, I’m selecting 4:3 for the aspect ratio. I suppose that this is the problem, since 640*480 is 4:3. Is there any way to export to 720×480? Or, is there any way to export MPEG-2 at 720*480?

Thanks again.

Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan

[Andrew Gregg]

The downconvert. The project’s for a company that makes training video software, but it’s all in 4:3. I shot in 16:9. They also want consistent titles, so they want those done in premiere. What’s weird is that the footage is in 720*480 format, but it’s squeezed and changes to 640*480 when it goes into premiere. Is this a premiere issue?

Thanks.

Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan