Bill Dewald
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Yep, the shows are basically cut by interns.
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I understand – but won’t the post house be solving that by performing the center cut?
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All good suggestions. Another –
Insert an empty title (no text) running the length of your program on a new track above your current tracks.
Add the TCG filter to the title.
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Can you give the post house an output of your current DVCProHD sequence, and have them do the downconvert?
Crunching it in FCP will cause a quality hit.
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I’ve got a friend making $450 a week in LA, cutting first run syndie stuff.
A week.
They’ve got lots of editors.
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Can you drag the self-contained QT from the Browser to the ETT window, w/o putting it in a sequence first?
I’ve encountered your problem, and I think that’s how I’ve worked around it.
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Final Cut does a bad job at scaling. This quality loss is compounded by your H.264 format.
Also, what is the timebase of your footage? Since your source was 1280×720, was it 720p? If so, using a FCP sequence to change the timebase will be a hot mess.
The best way to maintain quality would be to deliver the correct format from After Effects.
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So you were editing 640×480 clips in a HD sized 1280×720 H.264 timeline, and now you’ve changed your sequence settings and things are blurry in the canvas.
How could they not be blurry?
#1 – The canvas is for preview only – it is not representative of your video.
#2 – H.264 is not an editing format.
#3 – the DV framesize is 720×480.
#4 – moving clips from an HD sequence to a SD sequence can cause all sorts of scaling and aspect problems.
etc, etc, etc
Keep it simple – Use the DV easy setup, acquire your footage with that easy setup, edit in that easy setup, and finish in that easy setup.
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Don’t forget the little things like mileage, dubs, render time for DVD authors and web posts, etc.
And weather-proofing for that inevitable rain/snow game.
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[Stephen Smith] “The person doing the job for free or nearly free can’t continue to do the job at that price forever.”
Maybe not, but when he quits, there’s another one ready to take over.