Chuck Weatherall
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It’s all DV, all the way through the process.
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
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and you did mention that you’re working with DV material, so it’s compressed 5:1 from the get go. With DV there will always be stairstepping.
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If you’re feeling brave, Mariner Software has a new scriptwriting project in beta.
https://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=104
“Where ever you go, there you are.”
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You’re talking about two different things. One is “samples” the other is “loops”. GarageBand, Soundtrack, and Acid are loop-based production software, Each loop is file that can be stretched out in time and just continues to play itself over and over. These can be single instruments (bass, guitar, fluglehorn) or pre-mixed groups (jazz quartet, string section, R&B horns). So you might find a drum kit that you like, lay it down for 4 measures, go find a bass line that works well with it and put it in a new track, then a tasty guitar lick, etc, etc.
Samples are altogether different and really require a strong musical background. Samples are often single notes or chords from a single instrument (a Steinway grand piano playing middle C, a ’65 Strat through a Marshall stack playing a D chord). Then you compose the notes you want them to play and the software tweaks the samples to play what you wrote.
Loops are easier for the non-musician (I raise my hand) but are limited to what you can piece together from your available files.
For Acid look for Acid loops and for GarageBand/Soundtrack look for Apple loops. I know GB/ST can use Acid loops but don’t know about vice-versa. Also other files (wav, aif) can be imported and converted to loops.
Be careful, looping is very addictive.“Where ever you go, there you are.”
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I had to laugh. Sorry. Obviously jim is too young to remember the days before “Auto Everything”. Actually, the K1000 would be “Auto Nothing”. I believe it did have a battery for the manual exposure control.
My old Nikkormat Ftn (with split-image focusing screen!) was a real brick. Actually it weighed much more than a brick. I knocked it off a table once – didn’t even mark the all-metal body. And my Sunpak “potato masher” flash was another handful all by itself.
I might not have been a better shooter back then, but I was in better shape from lugging all that equipment around.
“Where ever you go, there you are.”
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I have found that if I don’t copy the file from the CD to my hard disk and them import that file (from the HD) I get the result you discussed. Maybe there’s another way, but that’s how I’ve been doing it.
“Where ever you go, there you are.”
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I have no idea if this will work (you might contact the SnapZ folks) but you might be able to capture the output using Apple’s Digital Cinema Desktop Preview (https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93797). If you give it a shot, please let us know how it works. Good luck.
“Where ever you go, there you are.”
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https://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/
SnapZ would allow you to create a QT out of your Canvas.
“Where ever you go, there you are.”