[David Bogie]

The topic of handling AVIs in FCP comes up often so you can search the forum for tons of information. The problem will be the codec, not the AVI wrapper itself. Some work, some don’t. Flip4Mac offers a WMV playback module for Quicktime for about $100.

I hope you’ll post your results for the benefit of those who ask about AVI next week.

Yes, you will save yourself a bunch of trouble/hassle if you simply export to a known, directly-supported QT codec. You could just print to DV tape from the Premiere machine and reingest at the FCP machine.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Some models of Betacam decks had a sticker under the top lid that describes how to access the hidden operations or diagnostics menus. They come up on the window output. Sorry, been an awfully long time since I looked under mine.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Weird as it sounds, takes two keyframes on the START parameter. Set one to 100% and one 0%.

You can make the stroke move without ever finishing by animating both the start and finish params.

Don’t forget to try Vegas.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

You can’t do it realtime, but you should be able to do a quick capture and then render some of the effects.

I don’t think it’s important that you see your keying capabilities in the filed, just my opinion though. What you need is a good lighting crew that can use a good light meter, proper green screen material or paint, proper camera setup and a crew of experienced costumers who understand the whole green screen process. Being able to preview the software output in the filed might be nice but it will be too late to do anything about any serious design screwups.

You can rent a good hardware keyer for your location to get a good idea of what will happen when you go to post. But the number of tweaks and tricks you can do with today’s chromakeying tools can save lots of messy shoots.

Hope you get better advice and please stop back by and let us know how you made out.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Is it Scrub?

Sorry, not at my Motion machine right now to check it for you.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Boise is a long way from the coast but it’s in every sales person’s Pacific Northwest territory.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

There are dozens of 3D video and film production sites on the Web, most are informal.
If you pull this off, you might want to visit some of them and post your success/horror stories.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

There are dozens of 3D video and film production sites on the Web, most are informal.
If you pull this off, you might want to visit some of them and post your success/horror stories.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

I think the fan will run a bit longer, that’s all. The idea, AFAICT, is to force (or suggest that) the CPU remain at full power most of the time. If you give it permission to ramp down during inactivity, there is the suggestion that ramping it back up is not instantaneous.

Dunno, one of those mysterious settings. I have not seen it explained in any depth in the Tiger/Panther books I’ve got.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Here’s what Mac Help has to say so it’s Macintosh model-specific:

Music, video-editing, and other applications require a lot of processor power. If your iBook, PowerBook, or Power Mac G5 doesn’t perform at its maximum speed when you’re using these applications, it might be reducing processor performance to save energy.

To optimize the performance of your computer, you can change this setting in Energy Saver preferences.
To change the processor performance setting:
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Energy Saver.
Click Options.
Choose Highest from the Processor Performance pop-up menu.
If you don’t see the Processor Performance pop-up menu, your computer doesn’t support this feature.
Setting the processor performance to Highest uses more energy, so your iBook or PowerBook battery might run out of charge faster.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”