Bill Kelly
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I’ve used Nattress at work on some projects and it’s pretty good. The one thing I don’t like is the conversion to a 24p film look makes fast motion look a little “choppy”.
Also, if you want a “free” way to get a film look out of your video, check out this article. I’ve experimented with this technique and got a pretty good looking result.
https://www.lafcpug.org/film_look.html
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Thank you! Can’t wait to try it out.
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Make sure your DV camera output is set for 16 bit sound, not 12 bit. I had this same problem and it worked for me.
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Never mind. Figured it out.
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We’ve had that same problem at work. The conclusion (right or wrong) came to be that the drives were too full. Some editors hadn’t been paying attention and filled the drive to 90% capacity.
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Yes. It happened to me twice last night. I’m offlining an HD project in DV/DVC Pro at work, using an AJA standard def card. Both times it ocurred by just hitting the spacebar to play the timeline. The ‘ol spinning color wheel of death appeared and I had to reboot the Mac both times. This is a G5 our company purchased less than a month ago, with Tiger and FCP 5.02 running on it. I run 10.39 and 4.5 at home and have never had that problem. I’m going to wait on the upgrade for a while until some of the bugginess seems to go away. I don’t really have any need for it on my system at home yet anyway.
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This might help. Down near the bottom of the thread they have the sequence settings. You’ll need to bring in the footage through IMovie HD unless you have Final Cut 5.
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Like Rainer said, just make all your media offline (or just delete the media from your drives, whichever you prefer to do). Duplicate your offline sequence and change to the settings you’ll be using to online. Select all the clips you’re going to batch capture in the Browser, select Batch Capture (or Control + C) and FCP will show you a window with all your tape numbers and the amount of clips on each tape it needs to capture. Select the first one and let ‘er rip.
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You can get free public domain footage from the Prelinger Archives.
For example I just did a search on Japan and clicked on one of the results.
https://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=37331
Just make sure you see this on the page…..
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
Most of the stuff is older, but it’s a good place to start.
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As long as you’re bringing the clip into the preview window from the browser, then no worries. If you’re double clicking it from the timeline and resetting ins and outs, that’s when it will get messed up. I wouldn’t re-import a clip every time I was going to use it.