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Chris Poisson
November 10, 2008 at 7:04 pm in reply to: Layering footage – making a background transparent

Marsha,

Try changing the transfer mode (under modify, composit mode) to lighten or add, or use the color key filter and select the black to key.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
November 10, 2008 at 6:29 pm in reply to: XH-A1 – System Reqs for Editing HD

Nate,

Assuming you mean to edit with FCP 6.0.4, your laptop at least will handle it, not sure about your iMac.

You should put 4 gigs RAM in the laptop. You will be able to capture to ProRes which is much better to edit with than HDV which is really poor to edit with. There is a boatload of info on this on the FCP forum.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
November 7, 2008 at 11:42 pm in reply to: Best way to create titles going from HD to SD

[Michael Gissing] “after looking at HD for weeks, SD looks shabby.”

One of the main reasons why I use the workflow I outlined.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
November 7, 2008 at 10:08 pm in reply to: Gott the sequence right…now need some more help.

When you send to Motion from your timeline, you don’t have to mess with any settings.

For an SD DVD from an HD movie, put it in Compressor, and select 90 minute best quality.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
November 7, 2008 at 9:04 pm in reply to: Using Compressor to create best DVD quality for HD project

Anna,

I get better quality encodes out of Episode than Compressor. Others swear by Bit Vice.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
November 7, 2008 at 8:45 pm in reply to: 50s TV Look-and-Feel Plug-in Needed

Pete,

You got a lot of good advice here, but look in the AE tutorials here on the Cow as well. Aahron Rabinowitz has a few on old TV effects, including a great one for turn on, turn off the set.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
November 7, 2008 at 5:15 pm in reply to: Best way to create titles going from HD to SD

Well,

Really hard to judge on a computer monitor, you need to see the downconversion by WHATEVER method on a good NTSC monitor.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
November 7, 2008 at 5:00 pm in reply to: Best way to create titles going from HD to SD

Christoph,

At some point, you’re gonna have to render everything to SD, so in my mind it makes no difference. I have really happy clients using this method.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
November 7, 2008 at 4:34 pm in reply to: Tried and true RAID storage suggestions

Greg,

I feel your pain. My first major storage solution was a Huge Media vault. It worked well, but I had to ship it back for failing drives twice. Now it’s a doorstop. It only lasted two years.

Regarding Davids advice, go with it. He and I also like the Firmtek units, but the CalDigit is probably best.

Have a wonderful day.
Chris Poisson
November 7, 2008 at 4:25 pm in reply to: Best way to create titles going from HD to SD

Christoph,

Regarding your original query, the best titles come from vector based tools, such as Boris Title 3d. Plus all the other stuff I mentioned.

Have a wonderful day.

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