Captain Mench
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He is kind of SHIFTy that way. You’ve got to remove his SHIFTy-ness.
Uh-oh, have I said too much? No… THEY WON’T TAKE ME ALIVE!
CaptM
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Aargh!!! Thanks Tom.
CaptM
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Congratulations, you have met Bruce… our pet Yak. He comes around now and again just to say hi. Don’t worry about him and for goodness sakes, DON’T feed him!!!
As for your other problem (not that Bruce is a problem…) what type of computer do you have and what type of video are you compressing to and from?
No — it shouldn’t take that long. How are your drives setup? Are you using your system drive for keeping your captured material?
We’ll need a bit more information of your set up.
CaptM
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It’s one of the modifier keys and your MatchFrame key… Shift-F? Command-F? Control-F or Option-F…. I forget, but some ‘sparimentin should do it for you.
Good luck,
CaptM
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The difference with FCP and Premiere transitions is what’s got you confused.
FCP uses handles to build the transitions. You’ve got a limited handle supply on one of your clips (ghost frames that are on original material before or after the edit). Best way to fix that is to change the inpoint or outpoint of the outgoing clip to give you more of a handle. If you just don’t have the room on one clip or the other you can tell the transition to either begin on edit or end on edit. Two ways to do that… one is to dbl click on the transition in the timeline to open up in the viewer… you’ll see three buttons on the top that look like triangles on their sides… left one is END on edit and the right one is BEGIN on edit.
Good luck,
CaptM
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I’d suggest taking a look at the tutorials here on the cow for AE… a bit cheaper than the TTDVDs. Also, subscribe to the AE Cow Podcast. GREAT helpful tips and tricks.
Not sure what effect you really want to do so it’s hard to give you exact advice. A lot of us work with Photoshop and Illustrator to get layers we want and bring them in with alpha channels and such to get the video to “show thru” layers.
Rotoscoping is a whole other life… and a huge timebust — but if you need to do it you can in AE.
Good luck,
CaptM
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When you are in the Render Queue window make sure you Output settings are set either to Full Comp or in the timeline window make sure you have your work area set to the full timeline.
I’ll bet you’ve somehow got your work area set to the first 6 seconds and your output settings set to work area only.
Good luck,
CaptM
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If you want to make a new version that is a tru(er) 16:9 you can follow the steps that are in this tutorial… the tutorial isn’t really what you want to do, but it does have the answer in it…
It will tell you how to put a 4:3 sequence into a 16:9 sequence and make it work.
Good luck,
CaptM
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What’s happening is you have mismatched capture/sequence presets.
Control-click the clip in the browser of FCP and look at its properties. How was it captured? DV/NTSC 29.97 48k? Or maybe something else?
Then, click on the sequence you’re trying to use (again, in the browser) and Apple-Zero it to pull up its settings. Do they match? If not, change them to match the clip.
If you happened to capture the clip using some very odd presets you might need to recapture. Though I doubt that’s what you did.
Check your sequence settings.
CaptM
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Aargh.
I do believe you are correct. I got thinking after I posted it and didn’t have a chance to check it out…
Wait… I remember typing in 10 frames… so if it was frame specific, why was I still getting one second jumps when I was editing in 24fsp AND 30fps.
Well… I’ll admit jumping the gun on this answer.
CaptM