Bill Kelly
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A quick fix would be to enlarge the entire clip so that the boom pole isn’t visible (including before and after it appears in frame), and then put a widescreen mask on it to match your other letterboxed footage. You lose a slight bit of resolution by enlarging, obviously, but if it’s quality footage no one should really notice.
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To avoid that human error, I usually park my timeline cursor on my In point, move the mouse cursor up to the timecode display in the upper left corner of the timeline, click once to highlight it, copy, and then paste into the In point box in the ETT window. Takes my bad typing skills right out of the mix.
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Actually in my above post, I was referring to the post two posts above. Sorry for the confusion.
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I’d have to disagree somewhat with the above post. I just completed a show where we used captures of the interviewees web sites at the end of their segment to promote their businesses. The web sites look great in HD and SD. The pictures on it are clear and sharp, and the text is very readable and not pixelated. Put your monitor on its maximum available viewing resolution so you capture as much of the page as possible.
Try doing a screen capture of the web site, take it into Photoshop and enlarge it 200-300% using bicubic. When you bring it into your timeline, put a deinterlace filter on it. By having enlarged it, you can set keyframes to tilt up or down and pan left or right on it, as well as do a slow zoom in or push back.
We took screen caps of a number of pages on the different web sites, used keyframing, and dissolved between them. The results came out looking very, very good.
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I actually DO use mine as a TIVO sort of thing. Since I don’t have TIVO I just set it to Capture Now on my way out the door with a maximum of X minutes (depending on when my show starts and ends), come home, watch the show and delete. Works quite nicely, but you can’t schedule in advance. Maybe I’ll get TIVO at some point but this works for me right now.
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Well, you don’t have any deck to control when you’re capturing straight from cable, so you may as well set your device control to “Noncontrollable Device”. The capture settings are probably okay with DV NTSC 48khz. I have a similar analog to digital capture device for capturing from my DirecTV service, and the only setting that really works is DV NTSC 48khz, because that’s what the converter converts the signal to. My captured video from this process always looks really good, so it may indeed be your signal that has noise in it.
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Try exporting Using Quicktime Conversion, then click Options, then Size, then Custom Size. Enter your 16:9 numbers. I think that should work.
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Great! Thanks, that’s what I needed to know!
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There’s a really good noise reduction feature in Soundtrack Pro. If you need to do it in FCP, there’s an equalizer in the Audio Filters you can play around with.
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Thanks for responding glenn. So if one of my delivery specs is “SMPTE Color Bars at 75% saturation”, the FCP bars are a perfect fit? I think that’s what you’re saying.