Bill Dewald
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Generally, when you’re providing post production services, your client will give you the footage (be it tape, card, whatever), and it’s your responsibility to deliver them a final project in the format that they specify.
The technical side of post production is constantly evolving, and difficult to learn without hands-on experience. The COW forums are your next best bet – read them daily to get a snapshot as to the problems that working professionals are running into with their gear.
However, I wouldn’t recommend jumping into paying work cold, without the required technical knowhow (although that seems to be a popular choice with some folks who post here). The time you spend chasing down tech issues will seriously eat into your bottom line, if you don’t know what you’re doing.
I’d suggest partnering with a larger post house or a rental house in your area. If you’ve got the work coming in, they could help guide you through the technical – either by renting you decks, or handling your ingests and outputs, while you do the editing work.
Or, look to hire an Assistant Editor, who can come in at the beginning and end of your jobs and guide you through the technical process.
Regarding your second question, please describe your system, location, and what type of work that you do (event, commercial, broadcast, etc.). Also, I’d recommend reading the _entirety_ of the Business/Marking forum here on the COW. It’s amusing, and you’ll learn a lot.
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Use Media Manager to recompress your project to DV. This will take your Imac a very long time. But, you won’t be fighting the performance issues caused by HDV.
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FCP requires standard video frame sizes and frame rates in order to function properly. Your Flip captures 640×480 MPEG-4 video at 30fps, which is not a standard video format.
You will have to transcode your video using Compressor before you can edit it in FCP. I’d recommend the using the SD ProRes preset.
By the way, how do you like the Flip? It seems pretty neat (I’d never heard of it before.)
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What format are you converting to? And what type of device are you storing your media on?
My guess is that you don’t have enough bandwidth to play all the streams in real-time, hence the need for the render.
Try collapsing the multiclip – see if that makes the render go away.
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Hooray! Happy Holidays, everyone!
Try not to think about work too much – it’ll be there when you get back..
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Almost any microphone recording is inherently mono. You can pan it as needed in your mix.
Be sure that the .wav did not come in as a stereo pair (check under Modify>Stereo Pair in the menu). That will save you some headache when panning.
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[Lawrence Kim] “Looking at my sound guy’s notes, In the Track 1 column he’s written “+/- 0 dB”, and in the Track 2 column he’s written “+5 dB”. He’s also written “long shotgun on boom” under Track 1, with an arrow from it extending into the Track 2 column.”
This is a common technique – he’s recorded the same source (the “long shotgun boom”) on two separate channels, with extra gain on one of the channels. This is done so that if the louder channel should clip, you can use the softer channel.
Since you mentioned that your audio was low, use channel 2 (the one with the gain). If there’s a peak on channel 2, you can switch to channel 1 for a softer version of the same source.
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That’s the way to import them. They’re probably that soft. A good location recordist will leave plenty of room for headroom, just in case it gets loud all of a sudden.
Use the “Peak Limiter” filter, and boost the pre-gain. That’ll louden them up.
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FWIW, I’ve run 5.1.4 with 7.5 with no trouble.
But, I don’t think its a QT issue. Check the health of that system drive.
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just spitballing here –
Is your system drive full? Otherwise healthy? Have you repaired permissions lately?
Also – QT 7.2.1 seems kinda old to work with Lep. Just an observation – there’s no science behind it.
What do you use for media storage?