[David Cooke]

Thanks to you Victor, Chris, Tom and Shane! I will check out the
tutorials, AND even though I’ve been editing with FCP over 1 year,
our staff is so busy just “making the sausage” as we call it with
commercials, we have only “grazed” the surface of Motion 3.
Have purchased the Apple training series dvd and book and have
just installed it, so this is my “summer project”.
Thanks,
Again

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[David Cooke]

Sorry Shane. We are editing in standard def,usually footage from a DVCPRO50 Panasonic camera. Using
After Effects 8.0.2 Photoshop CS3 usually a ‘couple of layers’. We edit alot of car commercials.
thanks,

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[David Cooke]

Sorry about that, forgot to post the software and equipment used. We edit on a Dual 3.0 Intel.
FCP is 6.0.5 OS is 10.4.11 with 4 Gig of ram, Aja LH, Caldigit 2.5T drives.
Thanks,
DC

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[David Cooke]

Thanks to all of you for your responses. Making sure we allow the sequence to “change/adapt”
to the settings of our video is a must.

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[David Cooke]

The original footage was uncompressed Quicktime “ANIMATION” at 1920 x 1080.The “Get Info”
also said – integer (Big Indian) I have no idea what that means.
Thanks,

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[David Cooke]

I just missed your settings question by seconds and you should now be able to see my post of
our “sequence settings. Our CS director ended up with apple pro res because after over half a
dozen “trial and error” settings, he was able to get the original 1920 x 1080 network quicktime
clips to finally play by “converting them to Apple Pro Res 422 (HQ) without “hicupping”.
I will send the “get information” on the original 1920 x 1080 clips in my next posting. Sorry,
have to leave for a location shoot.
Thanks for your help.

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[David Cooke]

Sorry all. We do have an Intel Processor. I have always called all “Mac Towers built” since the
old G4’s a G5. I’m sure that’s just my “mis-speak”.

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[David Cooke]

Here is what our Creative Services director set up. Under “Easy Set Up in FCP, chose AJA Kona LH 1080i 29.97 8 bit. Under the “View” pulldown in FCP, he chose 1080i 29.97 8 bit.
In the Sequence settings, chose 1920 x 1080 HDTV 1080i Square, upper odd, uncompressed 8 bit
The above changes seemed to “automatically” change the Kona Card Icon on our “dock” so did not
adjust any of those settings.
thanks for any help.

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[David Cooke]

Since you are waiting for IT to install some more ‘apps’, then you might not have Apple Motion.
We use that for our chroma keying and it works VERY WELL. After your CK in motion gets sent
back to FCP, we usually put a “choker” filter on it and then the regular FCP 3-way color corrector.
Unfortunately we have not “touched” the COLOR program so I’m sure we are missing some good
stuff. The difference is we shoot on DVCPRO50 when chroma-keying.

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[David Cooke]

Sorry, but even today, our text and graphics look fine. We use the text editor tool in FCP, its Boris 3D Text and
Photoshop every day in our work and so far has looked good. With the nature of NTSC, we sometimes
have to use the Motion tab in the viewer to “move up” or “down” by 1 scanline certain graphics/fonts
to get them to look a bit better. You know, ends up with that great NTSC “interlacing”. The only time
we have some “jaggies” is when we have to use “italicised” fonts which we avoid unless a client demands
them.

FCP 6.0.4
Dual Core 3.0ghz, 4gigram
Caldigit e-sata drive system
Kona LhE
Radeon XT1900

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