Bill Dewald
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Transcode using the freeware “MPEG Streamclip” software.
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Check the format of your drive – it should be OSX Extended.
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Nuh uh. See above. The real question is – ‘why would he want to?’
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Just export a DVCPROHD QT file. The file will be 1280×1080, like your source footage.
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If you use the media manager in a certain way, you can chose to only recapture the footage used in your timeline, rather than having to recapture the full duration of each tape.
So, it could drasticly shorten your re-ingest time. The trade-off is that you won’t have access to the full camera tapes in FCP.
I guess the deciding factor here is how close you are to finishing your edit. If you’re almost done, and just tweaking, then the media manage makes sense. If you’re still putting the show together, then this technique probably won’t be as useful.
If its just a handful of stubborn tapes, you could always bite the bullet, reingest them in chunks, and recut their scenes in your show by hand.
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Fcp 5.1 is no longer for sale.
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Its best to make a widescreen matte in photoshop to place over your footage – that way you can scale youe images without affecting the the matte.
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I’m not quite understanding the scenario here – did the image fill the frame before you streched it?
Regardless, use the crop tool in the motion tab to crop the image after resizing. You can also use the crop tool from the tool palette.
Use the copy/paste attributes function to keep the resize/crop uniform across shots.
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You’re on the right track, you’re probably either dealing with a corrupt sequence, or some corrupt media.
A third possibility is a oversized still image on the sequence. That would be an easy one. Is that the problem?
When you said “copying the sequence to various codecs”, did you mean changing the codec in the sequence settings? Or changing the output settings?
When you said – “creating new projects”, did you copy the sequence from your old project to a new project? Or copy/past the contents of your sequence into a new sequence?
Do you have enough free space for the export on your target drive?
Is the sequence rendered? If so can you trash the render files and re-render? If not, can you render it first?
If it is un-rendered, and the render fails, try rendering small chunks at a time. This will isolate the corrupt section of the timeline.
If/once you isolate the corrupt part, try:
1. making the footage offline, and then re-ingesting
2. deleting the section from the timeline, and recreating it by hand
3. deleting and re-ingesting the offending media.
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.[Terence Curren] “You can’t write off your donation of time in the United States.”
And I’ll third this. You can’t.
There’s no way to put a legitimate monatary value on that time. Otherwise, people could say things like, “I volunteer to sweep your floors for $10,000 per hour.” And then wipe out their tax obligation in, say, two hours!
If you’re trying to go into business, find an accountant. They’ll help you deal with the income from those invoices, and answer your questions like this one.