Bret Williams
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Yep. I even read it in the manual somewhere that DPI is not acknowledged by FCP. Might have been AE manual. But same concept. It’s meaningless.
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I don’t know all the details, but when you drop a DV seq into SD seq, you SHOULD have 6 blank lines in your video signal. Do not scale up the image to fill these lines. Result will be blurry and field mush. In fact, you’ll need to move the image up or down one pixel so that the upper and lower fields still remain on upper and lower fields and aren’t reversed. In other words, 2 blank lines at top, 4 at bottom, or vice versa. Or all six at the top or bottom if you want.
So that’d be step one.
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Puma was 10.0 or 10.1
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Doesn’t anybody get it? Windows machines DO run OSX. Only one company makes these windowsxp machines. Apple Computer Corp. I may be making a little bit of a joke here, but all new machines running Leopard will have this ability built in. Apple even provides the hardware drivers. How long until vendors will sell you a mac with Windows XP preinstalled?
I beg to differ Walter. Apple is a software company masquerading as a hardware company until it loses the hardware war. They’re losing it bit by bit as they become the same hardware. ADB, SCSI, Serial, PowerPC, even the memory, has all become standardized to USB, ATA, Intel, etc.
Apple could sell it’s software to the other 95% if it simply let it’s OS run on all intel boxes. And if that doesn’t work they can sell their software to run on Windows like iTunes does now. Why not sell DVDSP or FCExpress or iLife or Aperture to the masses like Adobe?
If this move doesn’t create enough hardware switchers you’ve got to believe the above is a backup plan. Hell, if they really are just a hardware company, they’d sell more hardware by making the best PC machines out there and compete with the high end PC machines like Sony.
Oh, wait. They just did that!
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Was a 10 percent bump in less than a day enough for you? Buy your stock now people. Day trading with Apple announcements is fun!
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An interesting note here. Kind of a feature request. When I worked avid they had something called sync locks. Turn them on for all tracks you want to stay in sync. They don’t lock the tracks in position, just in sync. So if you did an insert edit that would ripple one of the tracks, it would ripple all the sync locked tracks.
FCP works very similar, but in reverse. In a sense, all tracks in FCP are sync locked by default until you lock one in place. But you also can’t edit to that track when it’s locked either, so the purpose is slightly different. And if I do an insert edit on FCP, it only ripples all the clips AFTER the insert point. If the audio track happens to be one long song that starts BEFORE the insert point, it doesn’t get moved.
With sync locks on in Avid, it definitely one ups FCP in this regard. Avid literally splits all the clips right at the insert point, and ripples them down. Yes there would then be a gap in the long music track mentioned above. However, everything would be perfectly in sync. As it stands now, when I perform a similar edit in FCP I have to be aware that I’m moving clips that are edited to audio, and split them my self at the sync point so that they all do truly ripple and stay in sync.
So, in this regard Avid doesn’t do what Erik is asking either, but it does provide a few more options. With less freakin icons in the timeline too!
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It comes with FCP studio, it’s practically built in, and does a lot more than animatte for a lot less money.
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I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing! Erik, sounds like you just need a few basic principles in use here. Drop down your audio first (which it sounds like you already do) and toss in the bits you know will go where you want. Then anytime you add a clip, make sure you use an overwrite edit so as not to knock anything out of sync. If you need to edit the audio, use insert and ripple delete edits to ensure that the video and audio stay in sync. If you have to move things around by hand to make space, etc., use the TTT tool to move stuff on all tracks at once. DO NOT lock any tracks to ensure things to stay in sync. If you lock tracks, everything thing above is out the window.
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Wha? Just highlight the sequence in a bin and do a “find” (cmd+f) and choose “used clips.” Then you’ll have a bin of the used clips. A quick trick is to select all and label them a particular color. The labeled color will be repeated on all your clips in project bins.
Be careful if you’re using this trick to delete unused media however. It won’t acknowledge clips within nested sequences as “used.”
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I think you can look forward to tower announcements at WWDC in August. Also when Intel announces the next chip. The towers have to be a bigger bump than this.