[Bill Dewald]

Actually, this feature was new to 6.0.

You’ll need Automatic Duck to have the info carry over in 5.1.

[Bill Dewald]

[David Roth Weiss] “I wanna know, what qualifies as “a huge difference” your opinion?”

Take a look at these (the 1st is DV, 2nd is component in):

https://picasaweb.google.com/bill.dewald/UntitledAlbum

The first was ingested via firewire from a DSR-40. The second was captured thru a AJA-IO via component ins.

Note the pixelation in the DV image (esp. around the man’s nose and forehead), and the difference in saturation.

I’ve been reading up on this issue because of the problems that I had with the pixelation that you can see. Its not so apparent on a CRT monitor, but we took the image thru a Teranex to HDCAM-SR, and the upres made the problem much worse.

I tried to use the component in footage to fix the problem, but the difference in colors gave me pause.

I ended up using the 4:1:1 chroma smoother filter on the ‘DV-firewire’ footage, and that got rid of the jaggies.

Hope this helps… – Bill

ps – what’s the best way to embed images in posts? I tried for about 5 mins before I gave up….

[Bill Dewald]

[David Roth Weiss] “The answer is, not really. You’d do best editing DV captured via firewire, and once you’re finished with the edit, simply change the QT video compressor in the Sequence Settings to ProRes and re-render.”

I’m glad this came up again – I’ve found conflicting information on the COW regarding the DV firewire vs. SDI issue. Here’s what Gary Adcock had to say about it last time – he insists that if you’re going to a non-camera codec, that you should let the hardware in your deck do the work, rather than the FCP software:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/994808

I’ve tested reingesting DV with my AJA-IO and my SONY DSR-40, and there was a huge difference in the image between the firewire signal and the compotent signal into the AJA.

I’m not trying to discredit David Roth Weiss’ advice – I was trained to treat DV footage in the way he suggested, and I’ve gotten great results doing it that way. Just wanted to put a different point of view out here…

[Bill Dewald]

I used to run prompter at a local news station, and I found that each anchor had a different way that they liked the prompter run.

Most wanted the current line to hit the top 1/3 of the screen as they were about to say it, scrolling up at a continuous rate. Some liked a page at a time, so it was scroll fast – pause – scroll fast. One guy ran his own prompter – he was never happy with any operator.

The prompter displayed large, allcaps block text. I’d guess there weren’t more than 20-40 characters per line.

I think that reading the prompter on-screen is a special skill, and that having talent that’s well practiced with the prompter and familiar with the script will lead to the biggest improvements.

[Bill Dewald]

Perhaps you could market yourself to networks, government agencies, and other organizations with large video archives, and specialize in digital archival transfers.

I think that volume would be the only way to make this pay. Most post facilities have the tools for compression bundled with their edit software, and it doesn’t make sense to send small jobs out for compression.

Good Luck!

[Bill Dewald]

have you trashed your prefs?

[Bill Dewald]

I love the actors in these viral marketing videos.

Its like “act like you’re doing this for real”… And it never quite hits the mark.

“.. we were all just having some orange juice, and then we decided to try the cell phone popcorn trick… and gosh, our video was a hit…”

“… hay, how’d that annotation get on there…”

[Bill Dewald]

Shift – L toggles the linking of audio and video tracks. Unlink, and then delete as you wish

BTW, this:

https://forums.creativecow.net/forum/applefinalcutbasics

[Bill Dewald]

specifically, things to watch for are speed changes, freeze frames, and nested clips… am I forgetting anything?

[Bill Dewald]

[gary adcock] “The Component or SDI out from any source would be at a higher quality than a compressed original”

Really? I had always operated under the assumption that the “compressed original” from a DV tape was the best that you’ve got.

Are you suggesting that digitizing DV through a IO box results in a higher quality image than ingesting the DV “original” via firewire?