Andy Mees
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Thanks for posting your findings Michael
Andy -
sure … my email address is in my profile
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you can try my Elastic Aspect plug too … same same but different (and far from perfect)
https://web.me.com/andymees/Free_and_Easy/main/Entries/2008/3/3_Andy’s_Elastic_Aspect.html -
Heee … yup, thats the fella. And he’s a pretty knowledgeable dude.
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Hey Grant
Am not exactly sure which tool it is you need as your description could mean either of them … but I’m pretty darn sure you are looking for the SLIP or SLIDE tool … just press “S” to change to the slip tool and then click and drag on the clip you want to change, as you drag the clips in and Out point change accordingly whilst the duration and placement in the sequence remain unchanged; or press “SS” to change to the slide tool and then click and drag on the clip to change its location in the timeline whilst changing the preceding clip’s out and the succeeding clip’s in point accordingly. That’s the general idea anyway, quite quick and easy to learn and use … please check your Manual for explicit details.
Best
Andy -
>Can there possibly be any quality advantage to make a Pro Res file from an XDCam file?
No, not if you are talking about a straight transcode from your XDCAM HD delivery master to a ProRes delivery master … the filesize will increase for sure but not the quality. But if you are going to export a new ProRes HQ version directly from the XDCAM HD native timeline then yes, there can be some benefit derived from rendering out to effects, treatments, graphics etc to the better target format.
All that aside tho’, if the station has specified ProRes HQ for delivery, well then thats what you need to give them.
Hope it helps
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especially to a Cow leader
Why especially to a Cow leader DRW?
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Mike
FCP’s sequence size has a max limit but I am not aware of any such max limit on stills size. I’ve never heard of these stills size rules of thumb that you’ve noted … fwiw, the only rule that I’ve heard repeated often (and its a golden one) is NEVER to use stills sizes larger than absolutely necessary.
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Andy -
weddings are not for the faint of heart … i’ve done one or two for friends and they were always bloody hard work
coincidentally tho, six degrees of linkage took me to the following site the other day, and I think anyone in your current unenviable position might be able to glean a few good tips and tricks from this fella who seems to live and breathe the wedding videography business
https://ron.digitalcreationssite.com/2006/10/11/wedding-day-video-tips.aspx
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One more for luck, Wayne. Just tested with a simple Batch List export and import … it also worked a treat for stripping out that pesky metadata that makes FCP do its Log an Transfer thing.
Best
Andy