Bob Roberts
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I usually do one of three things (…all involve creating a shape and using it as a matte):
a) create a rectangle and play with the width of the outline to round the edges
b) use one of the rounded shapes from the library
c) create a shape in Illustrator and import that for more finely detailed work
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OMFG…I HATE HOW FCP HANDLES FONTS!!!!!
Philip, I agree with you completely. I edit XXX# of programs with XXX# of fonts with XXX# of clients at XXX# of facilities.
Simply “having” the right fonts isn’t always an option. At the very least, if I don’t change the font, don’t substitute in the default.
ARGH!!!
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Excellent! Thx.
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whoa! i’ll definitely look closer before i purchase. thanks for the heads up.
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Back in the olden days, “Cleaner” used to do it…you could set all kinds of Quicktime-level options upon encoding. I’m not sure if the “Discreet/Autodesk” incarnation still is capable.
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Hi,
I’ve worked on a similar project and three things I would recommend: 1) I would trade your Apple 23″ for two Dell 24″ monitors. These provide more screen real estate for a better value. 2) Add two internal SATA drives and RAID mirror them for constant backup. I generally put all non-video assets from my projects on these. Also, make sure your drive array is fast enough for multiple streams of HD, and configured with some sort of data protection. 3) Get an uninterruptable power supply (UPS). If there is a power surge or blackout, it gives you a chance to save and shut down before your information gets corrupt or your machines get fried.
By the end of our project we had nearly 200 hours of footage and thousands of stills, titles, etc. If it weren’t always backed up, we would have had to hold our breath every day.
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I was just looking up DVCAM on Wikipedia and all this time I thought its data rate was 50 Mbit/s. Oh wow! It’s only 25 Mbit/s.
Nevermind.
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I have a DVCAM tape playing from a DSR-45 out via firewire 400. FCP 6.0.2, OS 10.4.11, QT 7.3.1, G-RAID (FW800).
I should have been more specific, what I’m trying to do is capture the above as DV50 using the DV50 capture/input. I’ve never been able to do this by going straight into the firewire 400 in my MacBook Pro. It works fine if I do standard DV, but not DV50.
Is there something that captures in a native-DVCAM codec that I don’t know about?
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Here’s an article about the other direction, but maybe it can provide some useful information:
https://www.buttonpusher.tv/how-to-get-final-cut-pro-clips-bins-to-avid-mc/
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Interesting…
I went into the AUDIO/VIDEO SETTINGS>A/V DEVICES and reset all the settings and everything turned good again. For some reason, even though it was set to 2 channels, the deck was definitely getting four channels (…hence the timecode sound).
Bizarre.