Bret Williams
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In what way would shutter speed and aperture have anything to do with grain? Or “weird” little dots.
If you have low lighting and have to push the film, that’s going to give you grain. If you have low light and have to crank the gain in camera, or crank the vid level in post, that will give you grain. But aperture and shutter speed? Unrelated imho.
A wide aperture will give you more exposure and lose depth of field an sharpness. A fast shutter speed will give you less exposure time, but a sharper image with less motion blur.
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Geez you can buy a DV camera for $250. Especially used. Do that before ya waste money on a converter box and shoot Hi8.
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Use them as is for the best quality. Converting them to something else just adds another step of processing. You can’t improve the quality of something by converting to something else.
If you’re using FCP 5 make sure the motion settings in prefs are set to the best so that you get less flicker, etc.
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Plus there’s no way that I know of to get it into his laptop anyway, being that Hi8 is an analog format. I have to wonder if he means digital8, which is really DV25 on a Hi8 tape, with a firewire output.
But with all that in mind, to answer his question, the best method would be to never put the video on the PC laptop. Just load it into FCP. Why the PC laptop?
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No it does not matter. And no it shouldn’t ever change the length to convert them. If your computer can’t handle on the fly conversion of 44.1 to 48, then you need to bump it up and get a G4. 🙂
I’ve been using 44.1 as is since version 4 when they implemented conversion directly in FCP. Just drop it in the timeline, highlight it, and and do a “render – item level.” What that does is render only that audio clip, essentially upconverting it to whatever your sequence settings are, and then using that file instead of the audio file. You can move it around, change the volume, add filters, etc. It will never come unrendered (upconverted). It will be treated just like any audio file you bring in that is 48 when you bring it in.
And truthfully, since version 4.5 I don’t even do an item level render. If you’ve got a G4 it can convert it on the fly just fine. It may skip a frame once in awhile if there’s alot going on, but who cares. It’s going to get upconverted when you render before output in any case.
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They are possibly rendered with a straight alpha matte instead of premultiplied. The straight is better than premultiplied for almost every situation, but FCP may be interpreting it as premultiplied or as no alpha at all. QT is probably interpreting it correctly. In FCP, make sure that it’s being interpreted as straight. And even then, it may only look correct once composited in the timeline.
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Use quicktime and you won’t have that problem. At least on a mac. I’m not sure about the redraw capabilities of XP.
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So I’ve got the class id right. How do I make browsers download QT 7 when the person doesn’t have it? If they don’t have QT 7, they get audio, no video. I thought that’s what all this activex stuff was about.
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Hmmm… I remember this was broken awhile back. Worked in 4.x. Apparently it’s still broken. All the settings go through, but when I map the tracks it still just outputs stereo.
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For the iris, just press the little reverse effect button in the transition window. Double click trans to bring that up. But if you want to keyframe it you’ll have to do a matte effect instead. But if you just need a linear reverse iris effect, then just click the reverse button.