Annaël Beauchemin
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[GaryAlan] “A shame the scroll wheel is just sitting there to unly scroll tracks vertically.”
shift+scroll wheel will scroll horizontally. This is a system wide shortcut.
You can also try option and control + scroll. Maybe i’m dreaming, but I have a feeling that it will zoom the timeline.
And btw, to zoom in the timeline, I prefer to use option + and option – since this shortcut only zoom the timeline and not the viewers by accident.
One thing I wished is that FCP would always zoom around the timeline cursor, not around the selected clips. I don’t know a single person who prefer to zoom around clips…
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are you working in a 10bit sequence? If so, that’s the problem. FCP has a few rendering bugs when working at more than 8bits.
To fix it, go in your sequence settings and switch the rendering to 8 bits.
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A while ago ,when I was investigating the possibility of buying an HD card, I read that the Decklink’s software downconversion is also of much worst quality than the Kona. This is a very big downside for the Decklink. One day or another, when always need to downconvert…
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I also use the JVC at my job. It’s prety decent for the price, except that the SDI/HD-SDI card is very expensive. The picture is actually pretty good and gives a very, very fine HD picture. In SD, the JVC lack a bit of “contrast” and you can feel the horizontal lines. It’s still a good picture, but not exactly as great as Sony’s.
I’m also not sure about the reliability of those monitors… mine had to be repaired, and it was a pretty expensive repair. I’ve not seen a PVM20L5 in HD so I can’t tell if it’s as great as the JVC in HD, but if you are choosing between the JVC and the Sony, I would take the Sony.
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Which comptuer are you using? If you are on a hp XW8000 or compaq W8000, Avid has made a guide with recommendations on which PCI slot to use which not to use. That’s because some PCI slots share the bandwidth with some others and you don’t want this to happen, or at least not with the video card or the meridian board for example.
XW8000
https://www.avid.com/products/dna/adrenaline/pcConfigGuidelines.shtmlW8000
https://www.avid.com/content/5452/Setup_guide_Compaq_W8000.pdfor a more general docment:
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Go to File -> Easy Setup
Are you using a DV PAL setup?
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I experience those bugs on my dual 2ghz G5 so it’s probably not specific to intel processor macs.
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[AK-Jake] “and less horsepower for driving your effects/composites, etc”
Does the software limit the realtime possibilities (e.g. gives a blue dot) with the mojo or is it going to skip frames more frequently when there’s too much effects?
After working on a few different MCs (Adrenaline to software only), I have the feeling that everything RT is handled by the computer CPU. There doesn’t seem to be strict rules about realtime possibilities. It just seems that the more the CPU is, the smoother is the ride, be it Adrenaline or Mojo.
The Avid website isn’t clear about the differences either. It just seems like they put marketing hype to give some “realtime glory” to the Adrenaline.
Can anyone enlighten?
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[walter biscardi] “I have never heard it explained that way in all my years of using AE, nor do I see the results you mention. If Interpret Fields is left of “Off” whether you do any sort of movement to the video or not, the resulting render from After Effects is degraded. The only time you leave Interpret Fields set to Off is when you are working with progressive footage.”
Here’s two screenshots:
the first is rendered with Separate Fields set to OFF: (you see interlacing lines)
The second is rendered with Separate Fields set to Lower: (you don’t see interlacing lines, but it’s a bit more blurry and lores)
Of course, once you move/scale/rotate interlaced footage, you NEED so deinterlace it since the field order will be screwed if you don’t do so. If you don’t move it, you can put the Separate Fields to OFF and the fields will stay as-is, be it interlaced or not.
Try it, you will see. If still unsure, go ask in the AE forum.
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[Darren5102] “Should I still render with ‘lower field first’ selected in the render settings, or should I leave that off as well?”
In most situations you want to render with interlacing (e.g. “lower field first”). If you don’t do so, any added effect (like animated backgrounds) will be progressive while your interlaced footage will be rendered as-is, e.g. interlaced. So unless your background is totaly static, you want to render with fields so that it matches your foregound.