Bret Williams
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FCP scales up really well. Scaling back it kinda sucks. Try the filters. Also try making sure the Y coordinate is on a whole, even number like 2, 4, 6, 8.
If your images are high in detail it doesn’t do too well.
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FCP is pretty good at pan and scan and resizing if the image isn’t too huge or too small. If you scale an image way back, it’ll flicker like crazy. So don’t scan them at too high of rez. 1000×1000 is usually pretty good. And then throw the flicker filter on there. Sometimes at full strength a couple times.
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You can also just highlight the clip in FCP and render it. It will upgrade the audio file to your sequence settings, and utilize the new file (which it keeps track of) for all future renders and mixdowns with the file. This is not the same thing as a mixdown or a render. This was introduced with version 4.0.
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Only thing with that script is it’s banned by web hosting everywhere. It’s got many spamming holes in it. There are newer versions (made in php) that are safe, but good hosting companies search for scripts with formmail in the title or in the body of the script.
I use php formmail and had to delete references to it in the notes of the script, and change the name of the script itself. I even had to delete the authors name becuase they were searching for that too. In fact, my hosting looked at it and said it’s fine because it’s the php version, but said their searching script didn’t differentiate. So they helped me keep it from being found. Crazy.
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The only writing I’ve ever taken was the required courses in college. What I remember seems to apply to all writing. Opening paragraph outlining what you’re going to discuss, supporting paragraphs for each item, and a closing paragraph reviewing what you’ve discussed. Obviously simplified for some things, but I’ve found that even creative wrting follows the basic outline.
And web sites are pretty similar. Any good communication is. I think a home page should have a brief overview of the company or the topic or the story, or whatever the site is, etc. If it says we sell cars, it should mention vaired models, and there should be a models link, and if you can customize a car online it should mention that and have a link.
Linked pages should be written to stand alone since they’ll be printed out and may have been arrived at via a search engine. So, althogh the visitor may have clicked a link stating “we have 30 cars” the linked page still needs to begin with “we have 30 cars.” It sholdn’t begin with “and they are…”
Other links are more “administrative” to me and need not be discussed in the home page and should be desinged to look administrative. Search, contact us, etc.
There’s really no need for a “summary” review type page on a web site since it’s not linear like writing. Maybe the review is more like the spam you get later.
I’m not a writer by any means. But a fan of good communication design.
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The tapes can be drop frame or NON drop frame. One will read with colons in the TC, the other will read with semi-colons or commas. Has nothing to do with NTSC or not NTSC, just the way the TC is labeled. One, drop – frame, skips a couple numbers every minute to make the timecode more accuarate for broadcast purposes. The other, is less accurate, but doesn’t skip any numbers.
Are you not “stateside?” We even have calculators designed for non-drop TC math.
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Wow. I’m finally old. I don’t know what podcasting is. And worse yet, I don’t seem to care. I’m only 35, what happened?
“And I’d have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling kids!” 🙂
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You probably named some clips the same, but captured them to differnet partitions. Now you’re asking FCP to recapture all at once, and it’s seeing that ON your capture scratch disk there is already a file by a particular name. If I remember right, it should be offering to let you change the file name. Maybe part of the full error isn’t being shown on screen for some reason.
Try capturing one individual clip, and make sure your capture scratch disk is set only to the new disk, and not to the one you previously captured to, or attempted to capture to.
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Do you have imovie? Export a quicktime movie (reference movie) and open idvd. Drag and drop the reference movie into the iDVD window, choose a template, etc. Click the burn button and put in a disc.
DVD SP will be a bit more intensive, but you can still do the reference movie.
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Actually the canvas shows you full uncompressed rgb rendered quality. If you’re working with DV, the broadcast monitor is going to show 5:1 compression.
If you don’t have your sequence set to full quality that’d be a different story.