Andrew Rendell
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Nooooooooooo!
Quicktimes are always .mov, but they can be lots of different codecs (including H.264) – to edit properly your quicktime needs to be an editing codec (which H.264 isn’t). Also, the audio tracks ought to be uncompressed AIFFs at 48kHz. Beyond that, we’re into guesswork without a bunch more information…
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A slight variation on that EQ that has worked for me is rather than just losing the highs, set a mid reqency of about 4kHz and a fairly wide q and turn the gain right down. That way you get that distant/muffled quality with a bit of hf which keeps it reasonably intelligible.
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TV stations have pretty strict technical standards that have to be adhered to, which they’ll generally supply if you ask for them (some even put them on their web sites). If you don’t have any particular TV station in mind get hold of a couple and you’ll see that most of the requirements are pretty standard, but if you don’t understand them you really need to get someone to do it for you.
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I’d send it to Color and do the adjustment there (then render it and send it back to FCP) as Color has better tools than FCP and generally seems to be a little cleaner.
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It’s probably one of those menu settings, most likely one at the camera end if you’re seeing something when it’s spooling. -
Also, you should make the AIFF settings 48kHz and 16bit.
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I’d guess that the timeline settings aren’t the same as the footage. If you create a new sequence and edit a clip onto it you will probably get a message saying “Attention – This clip does not match this sequence’s settings… Change sequence settings to match the clip settings?” – click on Yes. You may well find that it works ok then…
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I don’t think there’s really a different school of editing, except that sport tends to use such appalling music and shouty presenters that I can’t watch it with any enjoyment any more! I was actually taught how to edit sport by a BBC Sports producer and the overwhelming thing was always tell the story of the match, flashy graphics are great but always secondary to the storytelling. I don’t suppose that’s a terribly fashionable attitude nowadays, but it does tend to go down well with the viewers and has stood me in great stead when editing in other genres.
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Another thought, MXF is a wrapper so just like quicktime or AVI you can have one of several different codecs within it – what settings are you using for that?
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Have you tried exporting a Quicktime in Current Settings and then running that through Compressor as a separate step?
It’s more reliable in my experience as Compressor can get hung up if there’s a clip on the timeline that’s a different codec to the rest of it, or a bit of 44.1 audio, stuff like that.