[Bryce Whiteside]

The key to this process is the Mackie mixer and for arguments purposes when I say mixer I mean a Mackie 1402-VLZ Pro.

This in “Old Fart Broadcast Engineer” parlance is called “Unity”. And now let us discover the Zen of this lost art.

1. With a tone generator produce a tone at 1 Khz and 0dBu through the Mackie mixer from an external source or from a FCP tone and bar sequence. Pot-up (oops old school term) the source–NOT THE MASTER OUTPUT!–so the master output from the Mackie is 0dBu.

As a sidebar the two sliders on the Main Mix should be set to “U”–oops, what’s that? Unity.

2. Now record the 1 Khz tone and bars to tape on the Beta.

3. Now playback the recorded bars and tone. Set the playback output on the Beta deck with the two pots available on the VTR, if it is a BVW or PVW, for 0dBu on the Beta slider assigned on the Mackie either LINE IN 7-8, LINE IN 9-10, LINE IN 11-12 or LINE IN 13-14. If not it may a menu item for UVW Beta’s–I can’t remember. You have now calibrated your Beta source deck to the Mackie.

4. Now your video/audio board will affect the this–adjust a bars/tone coming out of your FCP for “U-Unity” ie. 0dBu in the Mackie. If you board doesn’t have this ability you may well have to adjust your individual clip settings. For layoff to tape I use to have to set the tones for -16 because my old AJA Kona SD (1st generation board) with a Promax DA-MAX+ would never retain its DA adjustments (Distribution Amplifier).

5. When I then mastered to tape, I would nest my finished projects sequence inside my Tone/Bars/Countdown sequence. I would mix my main sequence project using FCP’s audio meters. If I needed to do an overall project tweak for master, it would be in my Tone/Bars/Countdown Master sequence–usually it meant adjusting the nest Main Project Sequence -4 DB to -16 DB from the standard -12 DB like my Tone/Bar/Countdown.

In the old school of engineering the output of your FCP video/audio board, the audio would go through a DA (Distribution Amplifier) and adjusted for “U-Unity” on your Mackie mixer which would be -12 DB in FCP if I remember correctly.

I am doing this from memory–the equipment is not around me–so your mileage may vary.

Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
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[Bryce Whiteside]

If I am not mistaken the Sony DSR-11 plays both NTSC and PAL.

Since you already claim that you have VTR that has a setting for PAL, simply capture PAL into FCP and get Nattress’s Standards Converter for $100.
https://www.nattress.com/standardsConversion.htm

There is realtime standard converter boxes, but they are very expensive–it would be like swatting a fly with a sledge hammer.

No brainer solutions…
KISS…
Bryce

PS This is a simple solution if all you want to do is use PAL in a NSTC project.

[Bryce Whiteside]

If you are using the AJA IO LA via component Beta-8-bit easy set-up, ITU-601 NTSC 4:3, that would be 720 x 486 so according to Apple’s knowledge base– https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=36836 –you want to start with 720 x 547 in Photoshop.

If your footage was DV 720 x 480–which your ARE NOT using–you would start with 720 x 540 in your square pixel paint application like Photoshop.

Further reading:
KenStone.net
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_homepage_index.html
>Graphics – Photoshop
NEWER REVISED: The Basics – Preparing Photoshop files for FCP – Ken Stone
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_ps.html

OLDER: Photoshop Titles – Tom Wolsky
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_photoshop_files.html

LarryJordan.biz
Technique: Prepping Still Images for Video – Larry Jordan
https://larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_image_prep.html

Getting Photoshop Images to Look Good in Final Cut – Carl Jacobs
https://larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_pixels.html

HTH,
Bryce

[Bryce Whiteside]

You need to upgrade to Final Cut Studio with FCP 5 or pay/throw away $29.95 for QT7 Pro. Search this forum on how to reinstall QT 6.5.2 Pro if you are not going to upgrade to Final Cut Studio from your current FCP 4.5 bundle.

HTH,
Bryce

[Bryce Whiteside]

I think no one has responsed because they would have thought that you would check here first:
https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/specs.html

Inquiring minds…
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

… that’s challenged with a “d”.

Typo challenged,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

Hey Ron,

True, but what is the Holy Grail of gamers? Graphics performance! I will agree that they are socially and fashion challenge.

What is the Holy Grail of video content creation? Graphics performance (RT, realtime effects and layering)!

Cheers,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

If you want a performance boost, I would look for a 60 GB 7200 RPM drive–I don’t think 100 GB 7200 RPM are just yet avaiable. I have a 100 GB 5400 RPM drive in my 1.67 Ghz PowerBook.

HTH,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=106291334061903&forumid=8&archive=_2003|3|2
OR
https://tinyurl.com/8f65m

Inquiring minds…
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

This should put all the wild-eyed speculation of a G5 PowerBook to bed.

Now I am thinking a dual core Pentium CPU with hyperthreading PowerBook–yea!!!

Luke, I am your father…
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion