Chuck Reti
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I’ve been using that for a long time. Glad it helped solve your problem.
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OK, I fail to see your issue. The hi-con alpha appears to be correctly cutting the key foreground-the blacks in the foreground artwork are opaque where the alpha is opaque.
If there is supposed to be more semi-transparent black trailing off to the right, your alpha has no corresponding semi transparent area. A linear key uses transparency in the alpha to control how much foreground is keyed through. -
Firefox Add-on “Video Download Helper” works ok for this purpose, for much, but not all, content.
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A basic Luminance key will always key out black.
In the switcher’s Menu area, you must select the proper DSK Key Type- Linear/EXT, not LUM/Self.
In order for black or other low luminance portions of your title to be properly keyed, your artwork or character generator must also have an Alpha or key “hole cutter”.
Your HS400 manual’s config section will direct you how to set up your DSK source and fill signals.
Alpha and fills also can be imported into the unit’s Frame Memory and used as DSKs when the keyer config is set up for this. -
Yes, the series of Macs using the G5 PPC CPU are also called “G5s.”
The Mac Pro line, with Intel CPU, is very similar in outside appearance to the G5 tower. You need an Intel-based Mac with suitable graphics card, per FCP’s System Requirements, to do what you are wanting to do.Try a restart and hold the mouse button down while it’s trying to boot up.
That is a suggested method for getting the optical drive drawer to open up.
If that works then maybe you can try a start from the System or restore disc. -
Well, there’s no such thing as a “G5 with an Intel chip” (G5 being a Motorola PPC CPU). Thinking perhaps you mean a Mac Pro.
Have you tried booting up from the install/restore DVD? Sounds like problem with hard drive or a corrupted system. -
The install and restore disks that come with a computer are specific to that hardware, and in most cases will not work with other machines. If you have a proper, bootable backup of the iMac’s HD, you could at least give it a try.
The published System Requirements for the iPods are clear as to what OS and iTunes versions they now work with. It is very difficult to find, inexpensively, as you’re finding, “retail” versions of Leopard 10.5x to give an older Mac a few more months of usability. I gave up on this quest for my old G4, now using it mostly for web and email. I manage my i-Devices from a User login on my wife’s intel iMac, which I updated from Tiger to Snow Leopard when she got her a Nano last year. -
DVD camcorders typically don’t create Video_TS folders, but just create straight .mpeg files or VOB files, which indeed will usually play ok for viewing on a home player. This topic has been discussed on other COW forums in the past; the usual advice regarding editing camcorder mini-DVD is “run away!”. Also, if the camcorder disc was recorded at the equivalent of “LP” or “EP” speeds, it will look pretty bad. And, if the disc was not finalized, it’s content may not be recoverable as a file. You could always simply dub video and audio to another tape format, or directly into your system as an uncontrolled device. At this point, and with this format, there is little further notion of “quality” so do whatever works! And, of course, the suggestion posted daily in the editing forums, MPEG Streamclip https://www.squared5.com, free.
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Assuming the answer to Dave’s question is “yes,” Tektronix has a wealth of free information on video measurement.
Good start point is
https://www.tek.com/learning/video-test-tutorial/ -
Shareware utility Default Folder X
https://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/index.html
might be useful.