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Chris Poisson
October 10, 2007 at 3:46 pm in reply to: Plasma on LCD

Hey Walter,

I looked up those monitors am amazed how affordable they are. Question, how does SD look on them, does it do it 1:1 or scale it? Or both?

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
October 10, 2007 at 2:10 pm in reply to: Very best TImeline settings for HDV footage?

NO, do not convert your HDV to ANYTHING else before editing. (sorry David) Especially another highly compressed format. Set up a D1 8 bit timeline and edit your HDV Firewire captured footage in there. DON’T let FCP change the sequence settings to match your first clip. If your footage is 1080i FCP will put a shift fields filter on each clip. If you shot 30p, all the better.

You will need some kind of card to do the downconvert to your monitor and Beta deck on the fly, Blackmagic and Kona are excellent for this. You will have to render but it will be normal render times, not the lengthy conform times in an HDV edit. I use this workflow daily and it looks as good or better than any Betacam footage I’ve ever used.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
October 10, 2007 at 1:51 pm in reply to: DVD freezes while audio continues to play

DVDs freezing is sometimes due to your bit rate being too high, bad disc stock or an older DVD player. Could be other things, but I’d start by using DVDSP first, and Compressor before that, so you can control your bit rates. Plus, get some decent discs, Tayio Uden or Verbatim, there are other good ones too.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
October 9, 2007 at 3:27 pm in reply to: How to get better quality stills from video?

Yeah, it’s not free, but it’s worth every penny. Mine has paid for itself many times over.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
October 9, 2007 at 11:56 am in reply to: How to get better quality stills from video?

One of the re-sizers available is PhotoZoomPro, which I have been using for several years, it can blow up these things more than 8 times without any problems.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
October 8, 2007 at 4:19 pm in reply to: Animate a mask shape, NOT!

Hey Jeremy,

FYI yes, I found it, it is surely handy for regular vignettes, but it does not have an animatable center point. It just works on the whole frame. Marcus’ filter is perfect.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
October 8, 2007 at 3:33 pm in reply to: Animate a mask shape, NOT!

Sonofa,

Really? The Marcus plug works perfect, absolutely great, but thanks Jeremy, I’ll look for that.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
October 8, 2007 at 12:23 pm in reply to: Animate a mask shape, NOT!

Thanks guys, I’m trying that plugin.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
October 7, 2007 at 2:53 pm in reply to: cartoon look

Toonit can be very close if you take the time to learn it and tinker with it, but be ready for some LONG render times. I mean REALLY long, like days.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
October 5, 2007 at 8:13 pm in reply to: How do I create a split scrren that doesn’t lock to the image?

Still not as flexible as using travel mattes in my opinion. But very good.

Have a wonderful day.

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