Ben Holmes
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Chris
They sound like images of a high speed camera. Just guessing.
To import the targa sequences, open Quick Time Player, not FCP and select Open Image Sequence under the file menu. Select the first still frame, and QTP will do the rest – it will ask you for a frame rate (select your project frame rate)
Save as a quicktime (it will have the frame size and frame rate of the original) and import this file into FCP. Drop the clip into the timeline, and it will automatically resize to fit the sequence frame rate. Double click on it in the timeline, open the Motion tab in the Viewer window, and adjust the scale and position as required.
Best of luck
Ben
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But Mr T’s in Europe, and we are all forward looking widescreen types who have been using 16:9 for ten years.
I guess it comes down to how much footage is in 16:9. Hopefully the majority. It’s far more likely over this side of the pond that they will want a 16:9 DVD, and if you reduce everything to 4:3 letterbox, EVERYTHING will look horrible on a widescreen TV. Yes, some of the 4:3 footage will look soft zoomed to fit. But on DVD it will not show half as much as you think. Alternatives (and this is really an editorial/artistic decision) include:
a) using a zoomed, blurred version of the 4:3 original as ‘curtains’ either side of the 4:3 frame in the 16:9 frame. This is sometimes used over here for old sports footage in 16:9 shows.
b) making the 4:3 footage SMALLER and using the ‘camcorder’ / ‘webcam’ look – so it obviously doesn’t fill the frame, but it looks ‘creative’. No good obviously if the footage has to be matched to 16:9 shots.
c) being creative about how you resize and reframe the footage – some shots can be part zoomed, part moved. Somtimes a combination of mild stretching and zooming can work on arty tight shots.
d) Having cameraman strung up as a warning to others.
At least HD has dragged the US kicking and screaming to widescreen formats. Welcome to the growing pains we had in the 90’s!
Ben
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For DV? Oh. Definitely go with the MBP and portable bits and bobs. I wish we only had to work in this format – would have gone portable several years ago.
Ben
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Sure – I had suggested making copies of the clip before trimming. Didn’t say it was a neat solution! Personally I’d just make subclips in FCP, or capture it properly in the first place…
Ben
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Sort of – in a high-speed shared storage way.
The system uses Ethernet for comms to shared storage, so can be used with laptops. Never used it, although know some people speak highly of it.
Keep the dream alive!
Ben
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Scott
We’ve been pondering this a lot recently, and certainly the new AJA HD IO looks a pretty powerful solution tied to a MBP. The trouble is, if you need to hear and see your project properly, you are still going to have to lug a monitor and speakers around. Anthing for broadcast will require external drives, possibly scopes and so on – so it’s debatable if you really save much space overall, and at quite a performance hit.
Personally, we prefer to mount our systems in a 7.5 Tonne truck and drive it to the job! Still, doesn’t stop me dreaming of taking all of the above to an engineer friend and having the whole thing transplanted into a single box – A broadcast monitor with flip out 23″ screen and Mac Pro innards, Kona 3 backplane, integral speakers and drinks cabinet. OK, no drink cabinet. I think something like that could actually sell in a properly flight-cased solution.
Ben
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[NickM] “i’m pretty sure that if you do it from QT, then you will be re-compressing the shots,
losing quality”Only if you export from QT, not if you trim a clip
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Just a thought, but why not trim them in Quick Time player? You could make as many trimmed versions as you want, lose no quality and save an export path/time.
Off the top of my head – anyone see a problem with this?
Ben
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[Stillmoving] “Has anyone seen this before?”
Actually – yes. just had this exact behaviour in a recent project. Assumed it was a bug in the current version of FCP and didn’t investigate further. I don’t really find the thumbnails useful, so I turned it off (inherited the project settings).
Sorry not to be any further help. Just thought you should know you are not alone..
Ben
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Harrumph.
I’d try a clean install. Never heard of a problem with Compressor like this.
Sorry…
Ben
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