Bret Williams
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Runs nothing but better on my trusty dual 1ghz g4. I’m not running tiger yet though. Are these systems running tiger?
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In iDVD click the big button for burn and your DVD drive will open and ask you for a disc. When it’s done it’ll pop out. Now, if you’re asking how to operate iDVD that’s different. Open iDVD, drag the quicktime into the iDVD window. Click on the customize button and pick a theme. THEN click burn, etc. That really is all there is to it. Does that help?
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Double check just in case. But in previous versions of express that’s the case. I remember a few producers buying it for their laptop as a logging too and weren’t very happy. For that, there’s an amazing app called CatDV that logs and loads little qt movie thumbnails. If you get the more expensive version it will export FCP shot lists and Avid shot lists. The producer can look at shots on her laptop as little quarter sized thumbnail movies while you’re editing. The one time I worked with a producer that had this is was very productive. She’d log tapes while I edit. She’d also preview shot takes while I edit too, so when I reached a certain point she could say try shot 3 or shot 4 here, etc.
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If you are going to end up in the DV codec, an intermediate codec would only degrade the picuture more.
I think what you’re seeing by enlarging a picture 133% is simply the original problem with the DV codec when the footage was shot. If anything, enlarging the picture would soften it and create less detail, both of which would lessen the overhead on any codec. You’re just seeing the inherent deficiencies in the DV codec, enlarged 33%. But I wouldn’t expect uncompressed to look very good at 133%.
Your best bet is to use the footage letterboxed. That way you’re using it natively, pixel for pixel. Unless the camera you shot with uses a wide ccd for 16:9, to squish the image horizontally, instead of the standard method of using a portion of the ccd and stretching vertically. It sounds like you have the latter.
Can you letterbox the rest of your project to match?
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Why aren’t you batch capturing or rendering too? Such wasted computer cycles.
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No TC support on Express. So, no, you can’t use it as a logging or offline edit machine. Apple is a little bit ahead of you.
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If you have an IO set to strip out blacks from analog sources (as you should) to make them 0, and you have multiple sources feeding it from a router you’ll get get super blacks someday. I see it all the time at this one facility where they refuse to set their DVCam decks analog output to “add” setup. They do this because they have their DVCam cameras set to “add” setup. So, all is fine until you bring in miniDV footage or freelancer footage where the blacks are done correctly at 0. When you mix in that footage, the analog blacks stay 0, and then the IO strips them down to -7ire. Superblack.
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If you computer speakers are separate from your FCP speakers you can press play in itunes, then switch over to FCP and hit play. Not perfect, but it’s a great way to quickly test out music. iTunes will happily play along while FCP plays.
Waaaay OT – I remember having a video cube setup where we didn’t have a CD player in the room. There wasn’t any way to convert cd tracks back then or import aiffs, so we would run the speaker out from the mac into the audio in port on the video cube card. We’d hit play in the mac CD player, then switch over to the digitize tool in the cube and hit capture.
So that was 1993! Yikes!
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VTR style is nothing but showing one field at a time, right? That’s what VTRs do when I slow mo them. Usually looks fine with sports because the camera or shot is moving every frame. Have you tested on sports? Have you turned off the frame interpolation in FCP to see what that looks like? Big checkbox in speed settings box for that. Renders faster too.
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Yeah, the updated ones are a lot better than the original couple. Motion also has a number of templates. Use ’em before the feel like a video toaster effect.