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Brad Courtney
August 4, 2008 at 7:10 pm in reply to: FCP 6 Field Dominance “None” Issue

Yes I did. I think you might be right about the prefs I just started getting some “Codec not found” messages when I try a render all.

Thanks for confirming I’m not crazy!

Brad
Brad Courtney
March 6, 2008 at 10:42 am in reply to: 3D Warp

Ok, kind of figured it out by using the built in camera on one layer and lining it up with the AE camera looking at the same image on another 3d layer. Playing with it it looked like the lenses were different on the same “50mm” camera and sure enough they were. For an AE 50mm camera the built in value is around 41.5mm. Not sure if I can parent one to the other to animate but at least I have my plates lined up as a still.

I’m in AE CS3, anybody else seeing similar weirdness?

Thanks,

B
Brad Courtney
December 10, 2006 at 2:58 pm in reply to: Best MPEG-2/MPEG-1 encoder for high detail stills

Thanks for the tip, I’ll give that a try.
Brad Courtney
November 30, 2006 at 9:32 pm in reply to: Best MPEG-2/MPEG-1 encoder for high detail stills

Thanks for the reply. I realized I’ve been using the Lite version of Bitvice, so based on your comment I went ahead and bought the full version and gave it a whirl and so far so good. Leaving it to crunch on some difficult sources tonight so we’ll see in the morning.

Now if I could just get rid of the problem on my MPEG-1s in ProCoder I’d be golden!
Brad Courtney
April 13, 2006 at 7:34 pm in reply to: Adobe Premiere Clips in FCP

Do it all the time because our old system was Premiere Pro. If its just a DV AVI FCP will give you a warning on import but then it will behave just like a Quicktime. No rendering needed.
Brad Courtney
January 10, 2006 at 1:38 pm in reply to: Green artifacting around edges of text/gfx

Yeah this was brought up before and I’ve experienced the same problem. It goes away when you render in RGB instead of YUV, which isn’t the best solution, but a solution nonetheless.
Brad Courtney
April 18, 2005 at 11:28 am in reply to: Kona LS – Impressions + S-Video

So far so good on my KonaLS. Its basically the KonaSD I replaced it with but without the maze of adapters and 3rd party drivers. I haven’t really broken it in yet though. One thing that baffled me was the input gain on the audio inputs defaults to “no levels whatesoever” so that took a few minutes to figure out what was going on for my first capture.

Indeed you take the Y and Y-R bncs and use an adapter to make it an S-vid connector. I never use s-vid, but that appears to be how it works.

The control panel is pretty straightforward to use for selecting inputs and I like that it doesn’t dump 50 capture and sequence templates that don’t apply to my card into FCP.

Anyway just my 2 cents…I’ll report back if there are any issues that come up.