[Colin Mcquillan]

FYI
Easy set up is:

AJA Kona LH-NTSC Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)

Footage was captured from DigiBeta via SDI through a Kona LHe to AJA Kona 525 Apple ProRes 422(HQ) codec

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[anthony Faulkner] “so in any project with high proportions of animation sequences and keying i would be better off bringing all the footage into AE and cutting in there? then exporting directly from there? “

Or use a better quality sequence setting in FCP.

for SD the uncompressed 8bit and 10bit codecs are great to use with lots of GFX.
If storage/data rate is an issue try prores.

I’m just finishing a GFX overlay intensive show and used ProRes(HQ) with great results.

How are you exporting from AE? what settings, pixel aspect, dimensions?? Is FCP having to resize/resample the .mov? This can lead to softening and a bad case of the uglies aswell.

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

When they first changed this it drove me NUTS,
But then I got used to it and now I love this feature.

I can’t remember which update brought this about, but nowadays if you have a clip selected and hit ‘n’ to turn snapping either off or on, it will only remain in the newly selected state until you let go of the clip you’re dragging.

To get it to stay in the mode you want, you need to hit ‘n’ before you grab the clip you want to move.

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

Also, is where is you scratch disk set to?

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

I see this as well. Nests can sometimes act funky when something is dropped on top of them. I saw a lot of this on a recent project. 16 segments, each a nest, combined to one master timeline for output. Alpha transitions overlaid between some of the nests, and a few GFX overlaid at the head of a couple of the other nests. Occasionally, the nest under the GFX would play at the wrong spot, then jump to the right spot once it has passed the GFX overlay.

To fix this before outputting the broadcast masters one of two things can happen.
1: export the nests as self contained QT’s, then re-import then add your GFX/TCG filter,.

or if you still need the flexibility to make changes to those nests as I did, and want those changes to be reflected into your master sequence with out having to export/import/export/import… render.. render.. so on…

2: I found that if i put the playhead over the trouble spot, double clicked on the nest at that spot, the nest would open, then id switch back the the problem sequence and the nest would now display the right frame in the master.
If that didn’t work as it didn’t in all cases, add a razor slice after the problem area, then bring the opacity down, then up of the problem area and re-render that spot.

so,,, anyways,, if you don’t need to make changes to the nested sequences, your better off exporting a self contained QT before adding the TCG,, otherwise you’ll need to jump through a couple hoops!

***another cool way of adding TC to a screener, especially if you are going to use compressor to crunch out some web or DVD copies,, is to export self contained QT movies from FCP, then use compressor to add the TC Burn as you encode. This is super efficient especially if you have a multi-core machine set up to render in clusters…

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[Colin McQuillan] “In your “render all” drop down,

SEQUENCE –> RENDER ALL –>

is there a check-mark beside “FULL” “

You can of-course do this with “Render Selection” as-well

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

In your “render all” drop down,

SEQUENCE –> RENDER ALL –>

is there a check-mark beside “FULL”

If not, and if not on the other options, check them all and re-render using “Render All”.

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[Greg Gogava] “it look same on tv and I am using SD (mini dv) format “

Was it recorded in some kind of EP mode? Could this be a camera issue? Is there a green, orange or other colour bar above your footage in the timeline? what codec did you capture your footage to?

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[angela anderson] “there’s no reason you have to use vegas – do you have mac the ripper?
http://www.mactheripper.org
that will allow you to rip the dvd’s which you can then bring into mpeg streamclip and then into fcp. “

mac the ripper only adds another application to the equation It all can be done right in mpeg streamclip.

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

‘W’ (the shortcut for this) is an easy key to hit by accident.
I think this issues comes up here at least once a month!

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.