Arnie Schlissel
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So, change that to “Give yourself some pre-roll, whenever possible” 😉
Arnie
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In your timeline, right click on a dissolve. Choose “Start on Edit”.
Or, better still, give yourself some pre-roll next time.
Arnie
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[Shane Ross] “Firewire doesn’t have the best deck control, so there will always be a little slippage one way or the next.”
So make sure that you recapture with handles to allow yourself enough footage at either end to slip shots back into place. Run some tests. Maybe break the show into 10 or 20 minute reels to make it less daunting. And leave yourself plenty of time to do your on-line!
Arnie
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[target-rich] “Should I simply export the show as a self-contained QT with current settings, then have this output to HDCam/Beta (as a post-production house suggested)?”
You do what the people who are actually laying it off to tape suggest you do. You need to discuss your options with the post-house that’s making the master tapes for you. They know their equipment, they know what looks best on it. If they recommend a file in a specific format, that’s what you give them.
You should probably sit down with someone from the post-house & discuss your various options & what they cost. See if they can run a test with (or at least take a look at) a short clip reel that has some representative shots, perhaps some shots that you’re especially concerned about. Then decide what you can afford, or what gives you the best bang for your buck.
Arnie
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How you connect the camera or P2 card to your computer has absolutely no effect on the quality of the picture. All you’re doing is copying a digital file & re-wrapping it from MXF to Quicktime. The actual data in the file remains the same regardless of what kind of wire it comes across on.
Arnie
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Sorry, but ya gotta compromise somewhere. You’ll have to figure out for yourself what the best pay off will be, but at some point you’re going to find out that you’re downloads take longer than you want, or that your files don’t look quite as good as you want, or probably both.
Try playing with different options for photo-JPEG and mp4 at 1/2 and 1/4 size for a start.
Arnie
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[djelder] “I wanted to know if anyone knew the best compressor setting to use to make a nice QT that isn’t over 200 MB large?”
for what purpose? Web? DVD? VFX? Pray tell…
Arnie
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Sorry, but Compressor only does full res DVD files. There are no options in Compressor to use any alternative resolutions with mpeg2.
Arnie
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[Danrnw] “I’m interested in trying boot camp for a PC only product that does
waveform monitoring. “That is an excellent excuse for a (wince) PeeCee. You can build one for this purpose for maybe $1k or less, plus the cost of a Xena card.
Or you could run Scopebox on a Mac. https://www.scopebox.com/
Arnie
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FCP always exports stills in whatever naitive size your sequence is. If you need to export in a specific size, then you need to either resize them afterwards, or work in a sequece that’s that size.
Arnie
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