Chris Poisson
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Take a look at Digital Kitchen, just what you need.
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The most common workflow is to keep FCP project files on the boot drive and all your media and render files on another drive or RAID.
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You would put color bars and a countdown and slate on your timeline and export the whole shebang. There are countdowns on just about any stock footage place. Apple used to put one on the installer disc way back around FCP 3, don’t know if those are still around or not.
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Jimi,
Stills that are jpegs won’t get any better in quality by making them into tiffs. The damage is already done. But, as a rule, your stills should be twice the frame size at 72 dpi, too high rez images can choke FCP and cause artifacts.
As to sequence settings, work in uncompressed 8 bit or ProRes, your final DVD will look better than if you work in DV. No need to work in square pixels.
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Shane,
As I said, my sequence settings are 23.98 and my Kona output settings are 59.94, but it plays great, no flickering at all. I’m viewing on a Sony 720p monitor.
BTW I tried the Compressor conversion like you suggested, and scrubbing through the resulting QT file looked horrible, terrible smearing of motion, but it played fine. But, the 59.94 footage looks fine in the timeline, so I think I’ll just stick with that.
Thanks for all your help on this.
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[Matthew Joal] “Is there a way to know exactly what the aspect ratio should be set to so it is the correct proportion? I changed it to be what looks correct, however, I want to make sure it is exact.
Some common aspects are 33.33 or 12.5, an easy way to get it is hold down the shift key and grab a corner of the clip in the canvas, and drag the edges to fill the screen. Then look in the distort tab and type in whole numbers close to the proper aspect.
Does doing this method of distortion, hurt the quality of the video clip?
Well, it shouldn’t but I’m not so sure about native HDV, which I never use. It’s a great acquisition format but terrible for editing. I use ProRes.
Also, is there a way to resize a video clip in proportion and hold it so it doesn’t rotate. If I hold down the Apple Key, it resizes it to proporation but it also allows me to rotate it.”
The cursor changes into a rotate tool when you hold it just so, you can correct any rotation in the Motion tab.
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Matthew,
You change the aspect ratio in the Distort tab. Open the clip in the viewer.
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Ryan,
This is very hard to do with a garbage matte, but you may not have to keyframe every frame. Start at the beginning and do your moves and keyframing, then go to the end and do the move and keyframing, then go to the middle and do it again, then keep splitting the difference. You may get away with only a few dozen keyframes, depends on the motion.
This is much better to do in After Effects as Richard says.
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You never should use media on your boot drive, everything should be on an internal or external drive, you just drag and drop it.
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Paul,
Compressor, when working properly is a good tool, but Episode is a much more user friendly interface, and it does everything and does it well. Even m2v encoding for DVDs, better than Compressor. Lately though, Compressor seems to be full of bugs.
Regarding which tool to use when, I often use Episode and Compressor and see which works best.
BTW you can set up presets in Compressor for things that aren’t native in there.
Have a wonderful day.