Bret Williams
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True, I don’t do OMF stuff. That seems pretty low tech and restrictive. So exactly what do you do with sample rates you can’t do anything about? DV itself has 2 native sample rates. 48 and 32. As well, FCP determines the sample rate due to camera differences and locked and unlocked audio. If you check your bins you’ll find that the sample rates differ at times from shot to shot, especially if you’re using older Canon cameras of course. You might find the actual sample rate for a clip is 47.955 or 48.122, etc. If those are used at 48, they’d slowly drift off sync.
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Years ago this is how the manual stated how to do it. Version 4.x. Not sure if it still does, but the software is even more powerful.
And if you are going to use more tracks, it won’t be a problem. But you can highlight the 44.1 track in your sequence and do an “item level” render which will simply up rez the file to 48 right there in the timeline. It won’t come unrendered or unrezzed even if you add audio tracks or move it around.
I really can’t understand why people are using quicktime and itunes any more up rez their audio files. It is an extra step.
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In the old days of Hi8, it was accepted that ME was a better quality image/signal, but that the tapes were not as durable. MP tapes were very durable but not quite as high a quality image.
So in the digital world where the isssue is whether the tape captured the data or not, I would think that whichever is cheaper would be the way to go, unless you’re planning on using them multiple times or using them in a linear editng type environment where you might ff/scan them hundreds of times. In the latter case MP would be the better choice.
Myself, I’ve bought whatever is the best deal and have hardly seen a dropout and never had a tape fail whether it be Sony, Maxell, Panasonic, Fuji, whatever. My guess is that the top of the line tapes are microscopically better than the low end tapes, but cost 10 times as much. Such is the way of the world.
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Stuttering and artifacts are quite different. Blur won’t really help artifacts, and it sure won’t help stuttering. Blur is more for the interlacing on slow moving stills or for the flickering you get with fine details and thin lines. If it’s flickering you’re getting, use the flicker filter which blurs, but only in the vertical direction, which will fix the problem without significantly defocusing your images.
If it’s stuttering, the you may be rendering the fields in reverse somehow. There was also a bug with early versions of 5 and DV, whereas if you chose to render motion at the highest quality, it created a stutterlike or non-field rendered kind of look.
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If you have QT pro you can tell it to play back DV clips at “high quality.” QT adjusts the quality of DV on the fly to play back without hiccups on the computer screen. If the PC is slower, then it’s possibly degrading the image more than the mac.
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He’d get all the manuals just like when you upgraded to FCP 5.x. He’s upgrading from version 3.x. He’d be purchasing a full brand new upgrade in the box with discs, manuals, etc. However, whether the boxed versions are up to 5.1 yet who knows. They most likely are since it’s an intel version and they sell them in the stores.
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Is part of your canvas widow obscured in any way? For example are you slighly zoomed in where just even a pixel of the image isn’t visible?
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Gawd I knew you were gonna say that! But it’s true…
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0db in FCP meter would only be +20 in analog if you were crazy enough to make your tone -20 (that’s pretty daring) and then peak your levels near zero! Big recipe for disaster.
A better plan is to keep tone at about -14, then peak around -4. Giving you a maximum of +10 for peaks in analog, which good equipment should be able to handle.
The basic bottom line is over 0 is clipped. Not just distored. Clipped. Gone. Nasty sounding! So no matter what you set your tone at in FCPs digital realm, the lower you set it, the more headroom your analog equipment has to handle (if you use all your digital headroom).
Confusing (at first) I know. But it’s been this way for 10 years or so.
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Apple R is for renderng either in to out, or selection. Whichever is applicable, with selection taking precedence.
Option+R renders everything.
It’ll all there in the sequence menu.