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Go to the “Easy Setup” in the Final Cut Pro menu.
Make sure you’re capture settings are DV NTSC.
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[Sebastian] “I guess what I am asking is if you open edit, several times using new render files each time you make changes with this compromise the quality of the final video?”
No.
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The pics are much too small to tell, but I’ll stick with my first response about the “pick-up grill” being on the “side/front” of the mic (as with Tram).
If that’s the case, the “front” (pick-up) of the mic is facing the camera, as it should be with those types of lavs.
The cord angle is irrelevant as it does NOT go in the “opposite direction” of the pick-up.
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You don’t need to go all the way thru a “Print to Video” to view what your quality is like.
But you DO need to fully render at the highest quality and then only judge the quality on an EXTERNAL VIDEO MONITOR (never on the computer screen).
The Canvas on the computer screen is designed to be low resolution. It will not be accurate for quality assessment.
Images that are reduced in size can show artifacts.
If that is the case, you can add a small amount of the Gaussian Blur Filter (say, 0.25 to 1.25) to the reduced clip. Then render and judge on an external video monitor. -
What filter(s) did you add to this clip in the final Timeline?
1. Make SURE you have rendered this clip (at highest quality).
2. You might want to FORCE a RE-RENDER of this clip by making a “do-nothing” change in a filter setting (a red line should appear above it) and then render it again.
3. If its still a problem:
THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”Click the following link for instructions.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCP (Pro) & FCE (Express) and a new one for FCP 5.Download these free Apple Scripts at
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
This is one FCP tip that has helped in solving hundreds of “odd” problems.
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Try looking here:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
This seems to be the answer to many of these kind of problems.
Worth a shot.
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I’m also reminded of the countless times I’ve seen a “classic” scene or photograph (shot TODAY, not back-in-the-day)
of singers or announcers who are seen in “staged” situations using a ribbon-type studio microphone (RCA 77DX or 44BK, or a look-alike… think of David Letterman’s or Larry King’s desk “prop” microphones) with the TOP (!) of the sausage-shaped mic pointed at the talent’s mouth.Anyone who knows microphones can tell you that it is the SIDE GRILL (front and/or back) of the mic that is the “sweet spot”.
The top of these mics is virtually at the “null” of the directional pick-up pattern.Talk about “upside down”…
It looks ridiculous to have a performer addressing the “dull-spot” of a great microphone. -
What kind of mic is it?
If its a Tram (for instance) it doesn’t have a “up and down” so much as a “front and back” (the grill is on the “side” not the “top” of the mic.)
And/or certain mics are susceptible to “plosives” (“P” sounds and “B” sounds when spoken). If the grills are turned away from the direction of the mouth of the talent, the plosives won’t “pop”.
OR… the stagehand who’s job it is to place the mic, doesn’t know “up from down.”
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Then quit FCP.
Leave the camcorder connected to the computer via FW and turned on, set to VCR mode.
Open FCP again.
Check settings then.