Captain Mench
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Nesting the clip will let you do this.
I like to add any ws matte as last step – nest entire sequence and drop it on.
Good luck,
CaptM
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I actually just sold some technology to Apple for editing in a 3D environment similar to Minority Report. But Apple (although they gave me a LOT of money…) said they’d hold off until v7 because as of now, I could only get YouTube quality video to show up on the HUD of the Canvas and Viewer windows.
Although – because of the glove you are forced to wear, coffee is out of the question. Maybe they also know too many coffee drinking editors.
Oh well… we’ll see.
CaptM
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Whaaaa???
Who said anything about using the DVX to log and capture? (Tongue planted firmly in Cheek…) If you didn’t know, any deck will read the timecode off the tape regardless of what it was shot on.
Plus, YOU were the “Big Boy” who suggested logging and capturing every shot… not me.
CaptM
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[Dave LaRonde] “Because when you start & stop rolling the camera, it messes with the pulldown cadence. When using advanced pulldown capture, FCP defaults to capturing at 29.97 if it encounters any anomalies in the pulldown cadence — that way, you can still remove the pulldown in Cinema Tools.”
Not true. Indeed if you try and capture 24p and 24pA on the same tape it will mess with the cadence… but the DVX – unless you preview past shot stuff or turn it off before you stop recording will keep cadence true over multiple clips.
Will I agree that there still MIGHT be an odd chance cadence will bust? Yes – happens a very small percentage with me. Clean heads and a well dusted DVX will eliminate the problem.
[Dave LaRonde] ” And if you want to be extra-special careful, set your in point for capture on the 0 or the 5 in the timecode. That way you allow FCP to align up on the A frame, and you’re assured that FCP will remove pulldown as you capture, or Cinema tools will do a nice job of removing the pulldown.”
That’s just silly.
CaptM
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You know, Walter…
I’m in a big mood to complain today…
My Instructor at Officer Training always said you need to be 80% positive for each slam you give…
So
Yes, great show… love the editing… love the sound… AB’s a great personality… Very knowledgable… love how the cast (crew?) gets involved – especially the older lady.
BUT — can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add one extra second to those Spinny Things you do going to commercial… the text that comes up and kind of gives a Y-axis spin.
I NEVER can read those fast enough.
Rant off.
HAHA! Please?
Thanks
CaptM
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Yes — that’s the problem. Whew!
There are ways around this, but they get kind of expensive…
Downconverting is the way to go for what you want to do.
Good luck,
CaptM
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Matt —
I think you hit me right between my eyes with the “well, that’s your camera’s problem.” Ya — cost of doing a $3600 deal on a camera. My entire video world has the DVX as it’s center of the world. ALL decisions and understanding of shooting/editing comes from that camera – what? Varicam? Anamorphic lens? All foreign.
I’ve never let the magic smoke out of my camera — and even TALKING about it gives me the willies.
I thought I understood this whole thing, but realize I don’t. I’m gonna sulk into my corner and draw little pictures on roles of toilet paper trying to figure this out.
Kind of reminds me of the 30 hours of solitude figuring this one out: Three guys rent a $30 hotel room for $10 a piece. After they get to the room, the desk clerk realizes the room was only $25. He gives the bellhop $5 to return to the men. On the elevator up the bellhop realizes splitting $5 with 3 guys is gonna be tough… so he knocks on the door and says, “we overcharged you for your room… here’s a dollar back each.”
Now — each man paid $9 for the room… $9×3 is $27, but the bellhop had kept only $2… $27 + $2 = $29…. who has the other dollar?????
BTW – this is a rhetorical joke… I don’t need the answer to this.
I thank you for your calmness.
CaptM
overheard as slinking away…
Ok… so here’s a ‘distorted’ picture in 720×480… ok… now it’s showing up on my widescreen tv as STILL 480 tall… but it fills the darn tv… where did those extra ‘lines’ of horizontal space comefrom….???lol
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What kind of footage is this? Is it standard DV? Is your sequence setting for standard DV?
Grasping now…
CaptM
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Matt — just want you to know I’m not trying to be confrontational with you…
But what you are saying doesn’t make sense to me.
Remember, we’re talking about filming in anamorphic:
1) I’m saying only 75% of the CCD is being used to fill 100% of the image. How is that not an image loss?
2) Why wouldn’t my native size of 16:9 not be reflected as 720 if the image wasn’t being stretched to get to 16:9?
3) Letterbox is 720×480 and when editing stays 720×480. Anamorphic is 720×480 but when editing it goes to 853ishx480.
3) Any way you look at it, some pixel is being distorted. Distortion has to lead to quality loss. Just to what degree?
I’m like Pooh, a bear of little brain, so once I’ve got my head wrapped around something it’s hard to switch.
OH — unless you are talking about SHOOTING with an ANAMORPHIC lens… which I’m not.
CaptM
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My default answer here when ALL FRAMES is indeed checked…
Make sure none of your windows are overlapping and also check that the video in canvas and viewer is set to Fit to Window. A quick check to see if there are scroll bars in the viewer or canvas will tell you that your video is too big for the windows… make it smaller.
Also I assume the monitor is hooked up the the s-vid on the CAMERA? yes?
Another question… where is the media you are trying to play thru… it’s not on the system drive is it? That could be chugging you down quite a bit. Not recommended either.
Good luck,
CaptM