Bret Williams
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Use the label trick to test. Do a find unused media search. Then highlight and label the clips the same color. You should see them change color in the bin AND the timeline(s). If none of them are used in the timeline(s) then you shouldn’t have any clips labeled that color in the timeline.
To test the test, do a search for used media and label those. All the clips in your timelines should have that label color.
And on deletion, I wouldn’t touch ANYTHING that can’t be redigitized. If it doesn’t have legit timecode, it stays until the project is approved, mastered and PAID for.
But there’s not much harm in accidentally deleting a clip that can be batch captured again. Leave the photoshops, the aiffs, the jpegs alone! They don’t take up significant space anyway.
HTH
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Cool trick, now you can highlight them all in the find results and change their label color by right clicking. The label will change on all instances in the bins.
BTW – before you delete any “unused” clips, beware that the find unused funciton ignores nested sequences. If you have any nested sequences make sure you drag them to a bin and include them in your find selection.
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Hmm… except film dirt doesn’t stay in the same place like that. But that is one cool plugin. I’ve never heard of dead pixels on a camera. That’s pretty much the end of a camera.
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And not recording in your den!
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For just a frame or two, why not duplicate the layer above itself, and on the upper layer crop in on a small area that is similar to the area that needs fixing, then move that area over the white spec. Usually the area would be immediately adjacent to the spec if possible. Just like the clone tool in photoshop.
But if you have tons of little specs everywhere this probably isn’t a great solution.
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Are you videotaping the guy? You’d have much better results simply plugging the mic into your camera, getting it somewhere more like 10 inches from his mouth, and just pressing record on the camera with it set to auto.
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Yes. You are wasting enormous amounts of time and drive space by using animation codec if you shot in DV.
Animation codec only exists on the computer. Are you going to put this project back onto a DV tape at some point? If so, you’ll have to convert that animation codec to DV to do so. And run it through yet a third compression process and wasting more time and drive space. In fact, you’re actually making the image worse, although imperceptibly.
Animation codec is a good way to put things like a 3D animation on a CDRom with an alpha channel to then be composited in FCP. It’s not really used for video. If you need to do uncompressed video get a uncompressed card and the drives to match, then load the footage in via that card instead of DV.
You’re doing a martial arts video shot on DV. Use the DV preset and have fun. You’re making it all too complex because of some misinformation.
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I hope you were joking. I think you were, right?
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[Nick Ryan] “the editor across the hall leaves them up and doesn’t seem to be having any problems.”
I think you answered your own question. Why don’t you open iTunes and go nuts.
Many a time I’ve surfed the web and checked email while digitizing. Occasionally you’ll get a hiccup. I’ve also had FCP and AE rendering while surfing or checking email, listening to iTunes, etc.
While outputting to tape it’s a whole differnet matter. Other apps can be open, but I wouldn’t touch anything.
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I would be too. That’s some bizarre advice.
I would duplicate your sequence for the heck of it.
But switch it to uncompressed and you should be good to go. The DV will have to be rendered of course, but there shouldn’t be any quality loss or gain. But since it is going through SOME sort of processing there’s always some incredibly miniscule loss. Maybe. Ditto with the jpegs.
Any graphics you add will be benefitted by the uncompressed settings as well.
Now, how do you get this uncompressed sequence out of your computer? Do you have an uncompressed SDI out, etc?