[Chris Poisson]

Ken,

I just did this a couple of days ago, I put anamorphic footage into a 4×3 comp and all I had to do was change the aspect ratio to -33, and that cropped off the sides. I didn’t have to enlarge it at all.

[Chris Poisson]

Hi Jerry,

I will do that later today!

[Chris Poisson]

Kevin,

Try changing the transfer mode to overlay or multiply.

[Chris Poisson]

Atrain,

You hook up a camcorder or deck via FireWire and run the analog or S video outputs to your monitor. Or, if you have a capture card, you can monitor from that.

[Chris Poisson]

Barathon,

Take a look at these two plugins, Lyrics’s PanZoomPro and Digital Heaven’s DHbox, they are all about picture in picture effects.

[Chris Poisson]

Carl,

1/60 is a good shutter speed for most video. Faster speeds can help you achieve a more shallow depth of field, useful for rack focus effects which can help video look more film like.

[Chris Poisson]

Jason,

This will hel you do a fine job.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/qt_movies_from_fcp.html

[Chris Poisson]

Hal,

DeckLink SP has been very good for me, and I have a Huge System SCSI media vaule, but since I mostly work in 8 bit I also have a Promax FireMax 2-drive RAID which handles 8bit just fine. Actually, I now use the Promax as my primary drive and the Huge vault for backup. When I went to Tiger I had some problems with the Huge drive, so I decided to use the Promax as my primary scratch disk because it is so solid, and didn’t seem to notice the change to Tiger. Plus it just flat out performs.

BTW the Kona2 is on my list of new toys, primarily because of their uprez capabilities, but since Graeme Nattress is working on a standalone uprez app, I think I might wait a bit.

So yes, FW 800 RAIDS like a Big Disk Extreme or G-Raid are more than adequate, but some of the SATA arrays would give you more throughput and insurance against dropping frames on more complex projects, or if you want to move into HD. Promax has some great solutions.

[Chris Poisson]

Christopher,

If you’re saying you’re gonna put all your media on their drives, then on their machine you’d have all the DeckLink codecs and whatnot, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

I do a lot of DV based work with lots of text and graphics, and I often change my compressor to 8 or 10 bit at the end, render it and export an uncompressed QT for DVD authoring. Works great.

[Chris Poisson]

Paul,

I had a feeling thaat was it, I didn’t know how cool Soundtrack could be, any tips, tutorials? Or are the Apple ones enough?