Bill Kelly
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Try putting your tone in the timeline. Double click on it and it will show up in the Viewer. At the top of the Viewer window, move the slider to -20. Voila!
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Not 100% sure if this will work, but try going to Sequence Settings>>Timeline Options and set your Still Duration to 10 seconds.
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All the above are good suggestions. Another thing to check is to make sure “Display Audio Waveforms” in your Sequence Settings >> Timeline Options is turned off. Turning waveforms on dramatically slows down FCP.
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When outputting 4 channels to digi, I duplicate my 3rd & 4th channel audio (my M&E) and assign it to channel 1 & 2 as well, in order to get a full mix on 1 & 2 and M&E on 3 & 4.
Otherwise, you’ll end up with only your voice over on channel 1 & 2 on your digi, not a full mix with the voice over and music (which I assume is what you want). With M&E on 3 & 4, broadcasters will have the opportunity to dub in their own voice over (which I also assume is what you want).
So try duplicating your 3 & 4 and assigning it to 1 & 2 and listen to how it sounds. Not sure about the decklink question, we have AJA IO LA cards at work so I’m not that familiar with decklink cards.
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Double click on your file in the timeline so that it loads into the viewer. Click the Motion tab and then click the Distort section. You may have to reset the aspect ratio to 0, or if it’s on 0 you’ll have to adjust the slider so that it appears correct. Don’t know why FCP does this when importing files, but it’s happened to me too.
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https://www.lafcpug.org/film_look.html
Go to the bottom of the page.
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Highlight a clip, duplicate it and place it directly above itself in the same way your technique is set up. Set the V2 opacity at 50%. Now place the “de-interlace” filter (with the “LOWER” setting selected) on the V1 clip. Next, place “de-interlace” (with the “UPPER” setting selected) on the V2 clip. Thats it!!! No interlaced-induced flicker. Full resolution, No strobing, No jaggies, just a subtle, classy, non-video look.
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In your HDV timeline, select all and copy. Put the footage in a newly created DV sequence. Change the pixel aspect ratio to square and checkmark the anamorphic 16:9 box in the sequence settings. Down the bottom of the sequence settings, click Advanced under the compressor settings and change it from 4:3 to 16:9. Close out the sequence settings.
You’ll see the red line in the timeline indicating you have to render, and the footage in your canvas will look scrunched. Don’t worry about that, you won’t actually be using this timeline for anything.
Set an In point at the beginning of your footage and an Out point at the end. Go to File>>Export>>Quicktime Movie. Make sure Current Settings and Make Movie Self-Contained are selected. Export the movie to a selected spot on your hard drive. This is the file you’ll bring into DVD Studio Pro.
Take a deep breath.
Open DVD Studio Pro and import the footage. After you create your menu and associate your Track to it, click on the Graphical tab (in the window where it has Menu, Slideshow, Viewer, and Graphical tabs). Click on the Track icon. Now, in the Inspector window, set the Display Mode to 16:9 letterbox. Go back to the Viewer tab, click the Settings drop down menu and select Rectangular pixels. When you view the footage by playing the track or using Simulate, the footage will appear to be streched vertically a little bit (people will appear a little taller and skinnier than normal). Don’t panic. Go to your DVD Studio Pro>>Preferences>>Encoding>>MPEG-2 SD window and setting your encoding preferences to 4:3 aspect ratio, Field Order: Auto, Mode: One Pass (if your project is less than an hour) Two Pass VBR (if your project is more than an hour)and Bit Rate and Max Bit Rate around 6.8. Motion Estimation: Best. Burn your DVD (or Build/Build and Format, whatever your choice)
When you play it back on a standard DVD player and regular TV the aspect ratio of the footage will be correct and letterboxed. On an HDTV it should fill the entire space with no letterboxing. If the aspect ratio looks correct when you Simulate, it will looked slightly scrunched vertically on a regular TV (people will look a little shorter and stockier. Not really sure why, but it does that.)
Good luck.
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Have you tried the HDV 1080i Easy Setup? I’ve brought in material from a Sony FX1 HDV camera and the easy setup has worked perfectly for both the capture and timeline. I had previously tried to do my own sequence & capture settings and didn’t have the greatest luck.
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I’ve done this technique also, and have been very pleased with the results.
On the lower layer, set the deinterlace filter to “lower” and on the upper layer set it to upper. Reduce the upper layer to 50% opacity and then render.