Clint Fleckenstein
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COW Coin
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Dreamweaver will generate the HTML and SWF for you too, if you happen to have it.
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This is off the top of my head…
Layer>Transform>Auto Orient…>Off
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There may be better ways of doing it now, but this sort of thing is why I started working on a dpsReality system. You can render frames to its drive and it automatically sees them as a video clip, so there’s no rendering. It’s got genlock input and key channel output. We render sports animations as TGA32 frames to the video drive, throw the unit into our truck, and have keyable animations to play during our live sports telecasts. Since the dpsReality has been around a long time, they’re relatively cheap too. I have one at home as well.
If you have any questions, just email me. Clintvideo (*at*) Yahoo.com.
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You’re preaching to the choir there, but sadly I’m limited to that format.
Shooting progressive and overseeing the shoot helped tons. We’re dealing with a 3-pane window here, so it’s got plenty of lighting challenges before we even get to the whole chroma-key thing.
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I have the opportunity to have it re-shot progressive so I told the videographer to re-shoot on Friday. I’m using a matte choker but because of all the lines and angles of the frame of this window and the fact that it turns, that tends to give me wobbly shadows.
Animating masks is an interesting solution, I would need 3 masks because it’s a 2-pane window, but because of the wide angle lens I get some perspective distortion that makes it look out of square. That, or maybe it’s the angle between the window as it pivots and the camera. In any case, I’m really close…hopefully shooting it progressive will help tune some of that out.
Thanks for all the responses so far, I’ll follow up with my results.
Clint
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Yeah, it helped a little bit with the outer edges, but if I push things too far, I start to see the inside corners get rounded. I cringe everytime I have to pull a chromakey from DV, but people (with soft edges on their hair and clothes) are a cake walk compared to this!
Thanks,
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My first thought was video card. I’m guessing it’s linked to having the mouse button held down? If that’s the case, then I wish I had a solution. All I can do there is surmise the culprit. My system does the same thing sometimes (homebuilt P4, GeForceMX). Different drivers from nVideo produced different behavior in this respect.
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All sound seems spot on to me. We have a lot of cows here in North Dakota, but I’m not sure if any listen to your podcast 🙂 As for me, I save ’em. Thanks for the help your podcasts provide!
What music library do you use? That short intro tune is kinda catchy.
Clint
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Yeah, go figure. I never got any sort of error message before, and my habits haven’t changed. In any case, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. While I always assumed that FCP got the TC info from the tape, I didn’t realize it determined the yet-to-be-captured clip’s TC setting based on the status of the system at the time the batch list is imported. That’s the wacky part.
I just ran into the same thing today; the VTR timed out and shut off over lunch, I imported a batch list when I got back, and FCP issued the error when I got ready to batch capture. I deleted the clips from the bin, turned the deck on and refreshed a/v devices, imported the batch list, and we’re good as gold.
I would expect this is a change from 5.0, unless it’s just smarter at giving me warnings as you said.
Clint
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It’s interesting that you suggest rolling a bit of tape first. I’ve been searching all over the place (even in the MANUAL, how’s that for desperate?) and found ONE paragraph on page 326 of volume IV of the FCP manual. The sentence “Once a tape is playing, Final Cut Pro determines the timecode mode from the tape, not this pop-up menu.” caught my eye.
I’ve been starting up the deck after I get ready to capture in FCP, not before (I hate fan noise). I’m going to have to experiment more, powering up the deck before I start FCP, and see if that’s the cause. It’s odd that it didn’t matter in FCP 5.0. It could certainly be explained in more detail in the user manual!
Thanks,
Clint