Andrew Rendell
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Nattress.
There’s a review of it here: https://library.creativecow.net/articles/solorio_marco/std_converter_rev.php
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Flash video is a container, so they’re probably an older codec than the more recent stuff and that’s why you’re having problems. Not that that’s particularly helpful, but if you have the ability to check which codec(s) they’re in you might be able to download a more appropriate version for your computer to work with…
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Yeah, I’ve seen it happen too, don’t know why it happened, but what I did was to make a copy of the sequence that I sent to Color, deleted the pics and copied the pics that came back from Color onto it.
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Thanks for all that. I reckon that I’ll install in OSX but also make a windows section on my mac with Parallels (just because there’s a couple of little things it’ll be useful for) and format my external drive(s) in ExFat.
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Have you tried creating a new project and copying your sequence into it and trying the same thing there. It’s a bit of a long shot, but it might work if there’s some kind of corruption in your existing project (rare but it does happen very occasionally).
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I regard Avid as the natural competition for FCP in the professional editing world, but whether another package is appropriate for you depends upon what precisely you’re intending to use it for.
If you’re not at what might be termed the top end of the editing market it might be worth considering alternatives, not just Premiere but also Grass Valley’s Edius and Sony’s Vegas.
How long a computer will last is hard to say. Disk drives have physical movements with contact between components, so there’s a chance for wear to shorten their lifetime, but for components that have no moving parts the sensitivity is to physical shock/vibration and excessive temperature variations. So if a computer (or other electronic device) never gets too hot for you to put your hand on it and is kept in a nice cool and stationary place it’s likely to last a lot longer than one that is moved about and never has the cooling fans cleaned. I have seen computers last for more than 10 years (with the occasional hard drive/power supply replacement), it’s often the desire to have the latest software and/or higher processing speed that drives their replacement rather than having them fail.
So I can’t say whether it’s best to keep your G5s going or not, but if they’re doing the job you require them to do efficiently at the moment the question arises of what is the risk of them failing to you? If the inconvenience of having one go down when you’re working would be serious it might be wise to replace them while you have the opportunity.
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[Philip Harrison] “In the past, working on an AVID, when you imported stills it created video media of the stills…
An offline is for editing…”I regard choosing the framing and moves of stills as very much part of the editing. With Avid, yes it imports a version of the stills as a media clip but I always end up using the Pan&Zoom effect anyway as the framing is never quite right, so I don’t find using Motion to do the equivalent job in FCP much of a hardship.
Habit, I suppose, but it’s so much better being able to import the stills electronically than having to get a camera out and film the stills (which is what we used to do) that I’ve never really thought that much about it.
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Although 422 is capable of better quality than DV, it won’t make any difference to your DV footage because the extra information that it would have isn’t there on the DV to start with. It’s good to have your sequence in 422 when you render it out as any text or effects that you add in the editing will be better quality than if you have the sequence at DV though.
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The only easily answered question is what codec and it’s uncompressed 48kHz (16 or 24 bit is up to you – delivery is going to be 16 bit and the internal processing is at 32bit so that doesn’t make much difference. I’m sure there are some who would say that 24 bit is better and they’d be right IF you’re delivering at 24 bit and your sources are 24 bit.)
When it comes to track layout, I’d use more tracks, say 1/2, 3/4 and 5/6 as effects tracks and 7/8 and 9/10 as music tracks, to allow for overlaps.
Panning is a matter of taste. Stereo music and effects tracks already have those decisions made, so the left side goes entirely to the left and right entirely to the right. With stereo effects you can manipulate things by flipping the sides (so that what was on the left is now on the right), or bringing the sides in towards the middle to narrow the stereo spread, or bringing one side to the middle to bias the sound off to the other side. Although it’s useful to have overall ambience type sounds in stereo, you have a lot more freedom if you have the individual effects as mono elements and build up the mix with those elements panned to wherever works best in the overall idea.
I hope that helps. I can’t really go beyond those generalisations without more information.
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If it reckons 30 hours then I’d assume that either you haven’t rendered your effects, which you should, or you’re changing to different settings (size, codec) which you shouldn’t.
If your picture cut is complete and you’re just waiting for music, why not export the vision as a series of same settings quicktimes a few minutes long each, make a copy of your final sequence and replace the vision with those exports, then when you marry up the music and make your big export it’ll be quicker.