Bret Williams
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I actually was hoping that the results would’ve been better than that, but I guess it’s a laptop and the true tower G5 vs. tower Intel will be better. The tower intels should have the next processor, not the core duos, and will have a better graphics card.
But yeah, the new core duos should definitely beat the G5. The G5 is 3 year old technology and the Cores are 3 month old tech.
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Did you ever have dish or directv? It’s a pretty low CBR. In fact, I think they might give bigger networks bigger bandwidth. OLN used to look particularly poor, but then the shows I watched were full of handheld shots with moving action and trees. The artifacts on detail, movement and just plain dissolves was horrible. But in the end its more enjoyable than a degraded cable image.
When I first saw HD on dish I was amazed at how poor it actually was as well.
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Yet you’re still using windows media as the video encoder? I wouldn’t expect too many rave reviews here for that. Personally I don’t even have windows player installed right now.
The cars have gotten old, eh?
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Don’t know. Just check it. Easiest way with beta is to capture a clip with bitc on. If you can’t do that, digitize a clip and check the timecode on an obvious frame like a cut point.
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Don’t forget to set a frame offset of -1 in the capture settings. There is a 1 frame delay on the video coming in through the converter, but no delay on the TC coming in through RS-422, so it’s actually 1 frame ahead.
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Generally you’d use the roll tool. Press R. Then option click the audio edit point. Then option click and hold and move it forward or backward depending on where you want the edit to go.
You could also option click to highlight the edit, move the playhead to where you want it, then press E for extend and it will roll it for you.
Pretty 101 stuff that should be basic tutorial reading. Although I haven’t touched the tutorials since 1.2.
Remember, option clicking actually does the reverse of a regular click. If you have linked selection turned ON, then option click will act normally, and ignore the linked selection. But if you have linked selection turned off, option clicking will select as if it’s ON, selecting both audio and video.
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There is a way. It’s called iMovie and it’s a scary nasty ugly beast. How does anyone use that thing?
Look at it this way, obviously the clips have to “overlap” to get a dissolve. If you drop them in the timeline with no “overlap” (a cut) then add a dissolve, FCP has to create the overlap for you. FCP has two choices, overlap your clips for you (which you think you’d like FCP to do), or grab extra material (handles) and create the dissolve. Well, if FCP creates the overlap for you, it’s going to have to move the clip forward or backward in your timeline. You’ve probably taken a lot of time in editing your graphics, audio and video right into specific places. You might even have designed your show to be an exact length. Well the hell with all that then! Let’s let FCP decide which track to shorten or lengthen and bump all that work out of alignment. Maybe it should knock out the 2 hours of rendering while it’s at it.
The bottom line is FCP (and any professional editing system) values YOUR judgement on your entire program waaay more than one particular edit. You have to understand editing and that when you mark in, that that is where the dissolve will start, or end, or be in the middle.
That’s the art. Have fun!
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Yep. Some dub house is going to distort the living heck out of your tapes if you use all your headroom. Analog takes don’t have 20db of headroom.
If you’re so gung ho on the avid scopes, notice that the default is either -14db or -16db I think. They keep changing it.
But contrary to common thinking, the higher you make your tone, the quieter your copies will be (all other levels the same of course).
-16 is a pretty good spot in my book. Then keep the average level peaks to -10, with highs at -6, and still have room for the occasional cough or point blank gunshot just under zero just in case.
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All the issues are pretty much equal on both sides. I would say it’s DV that started the confusion, with early FCP setups being DV only. DV has TC problems over firewire on playback to tape. It’s not a frame acurrate deck control. The correct timecode is captured, but you can’t do any frame accurate inserts or assembles or anything. But that’s a fw vs. RS422 thing. Same problem exists on any system. Apple didn’t use to deal with wav, but that was like 10 years ago. Who uses wav anyway? Isn’t aiff the CD standard and mp3 pretty much the compressed standard? Can a PC not open an aiff? Since Avid switched hardware a few years ago to the adrenaline, etc. I’ve heard nothing but compatibility complaints and output problems. I’ve experienced them myself. And Apple’s fibre channel sharing is pretty optimal, with it being much more of a turnkey system than Avid. How many editing systems make the OS, the computer, the software, the sharing software, and the server/storage?
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48% probably isn’t a good number. Use 50% and see if it looks better. There wouldn’t be any field interpolation. Just field subtraction, which should eliminate any noticeable interlacing.