Andrew Rendell
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Those cameras have options that can change the look of the footage (e.g., “Cine Gamma curves”), so go through the menus very carefully to make sure that they’re both set up the same. Then put the cameras side by side and frame the same shot on both cameras (focus, white balance, etc, the same), in the same conditions that you usually shoot your interviews and compare the shots. If they’re significantly different you probably have a technical problem with one of them and you need to get it/them serviced. If they’re the same, check out the lighting – if you’re using them as one camera on an presenter and one on an interviewee (or something similar), it might be that a slight variation in the level and/or colour temperature of the lights that are illuminating your subjects could be making a difference to the way the pictures look even if the variation is very slight (or even not noticeable) to the human eye. Are you balancing on the target in one position and then reframing, or are you placing the target where the subject of each camera is going to be and balancing that camera at that position?
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I’d just like to pitch in with a comment regarding “quality isn’t the issue as much as the time spent to edit.”
The time taken to edit something, unless it has some specific and unusual technical requirements, is actually much more dependent upon the skill and experience of the operators and, even more importantly, both you and them having a clear understanding of whatever it is you’re attempting to achieve, than which software package (Sony, Apple, Adobe, Avid, Grass Valley, etc) you’ve decided to use.
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Just wondering: 720P is 1280 x 720, so if you upscaled the 4:3 to 1280 x 960 (converting the file to progressive scan at the same time), you’d have the long side right and when you cut it into a sequence you’d be able to scan up and down for framing (keeping the size to 100%, just changing the vertical position). I haven’t done this myself… can anyone think of a reason for it not to work?
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I actually use Compressor for converting audio into AIFFs – I made up a droplet and have that sitting on my desktop so it’s very quick and easy.
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Rec.709 is YUV
PAL and NTSC are, strictly speaking, terms that refer to how colour subcarrier is used, but it this context they probably refer to 25 and 29.94 fps variations of Rec.601, which would make them YUV as well. -
Yes, basically it’s a free utility that allows Macs to use MS Windows disks.
(I know of a utility that you can get to allow MS Windows to work with Mac disks but it’s not free.) -
It’s because the Fat 32 formatting cannot address bigger files than 4Gb. What you should do is get NTFS-3G on your mac ( https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/ntfs3g.html ) and reformat the external drive to NTFS, then you won’t have the problem.
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I regard my computers as tools and don’t care one way or another on the Mac versus PC debate, my choice is based entirely on what software I want them to run. There’s not much software that isn’t available for both Mac and PC, but there are a couple of things that I use which are Mac only, plus Macs can be set to dual boot to give you windows on the same machine. (It’s probably unnecessary to say that I use both Mac and PC).
PCs cheaper than Macs? It’s true that you can get PCs a lot cheaper than Macs, but are you really comparing like with like? If you want to do serious work, you’ll find that USB just doesn’t cut it, you need firewire (and preferably FW800), plus I use the ExpressCard slot all the time. Also check out the display adapters, processor speed and memory and you’ll probably find that the level of PC Laptop that gives you what you need isn’t so much cheaper than the equivalent Macbook after all.
I’d say, decide what software you want to use, look up the technical requirements on the manufacturers web site and check what people think in a couple of forums before you make your decision.
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Just by searching “typewriter” on my mac brought up a couple of loops, which are in one of the loops for Soundtrack Pro folders. They’re .caf files which will need to be rendered in FCP so it would be convenient to convert them to aiffs. Once you’ve found the folders and have a look in them, it might turn out that you have whatever you need on your mac already.
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Oh, and then convert to H.264 after editing and before posting.