David Hames
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And in terms of “feedback” to Apple and markers, we need to also encourage them to add the ability to do a search (find) for text in markers. Markers seem like a great way to add a quick note about a clip, but if I can’t do a “find” to track that clip down later, it’s pretty much a limited function. I know I can add log notes, but those don’t put me on the specific frame within the clip. Of course, even more ironic, is that there’s a place within the marker dialogue to add a “comment.” Just hope you don’t want to try and use your computer’s powerful search capabilities to try and find it. But hey, it’s only version 6–searching for specific text is something that must require special floating point processing, or faster VRAM, because if the company that invented “Spotlight” can’t get their “professional” editing software to find a note you added in a marker they must assume people that use FCP don’t edit documentaries and don’t have a lot of footage to organize–I guess they designed it to simply add “page turns” to vacation videos.
Pardon my rant, but it seems like a blatant oversight.
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Red Balloon
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If you’ve done a lot of motion tab effects, like resizing, this won’t help, but try this.
Create a new sequence that matches your original HDV footage.
Go to your original sequence, select all the clips, Copy them then paste them into the new HDV sequence.
Select all the clips in the new HDV sequence, then go under the MODIFY menu and select “Conform to Sequence” I think it should do it.
If it doesn’t, UNDO and “try scale to sequence.”
If those options are greyed out it’s because there are transitions that are highlighted also.
Another option (if you don’t have a lot of motion tab effects) is to select everything in the HDV timeline and under the EDIT menu choose REMOVE ATTRIBUTES. When an option dialogue comes up check Basic Motion and check Distort, that will return everything to its original HDV size and aspect ratio.
I hope that helps.
David
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I recently needed to output HDV to FLV (using the adobe flash encoder) and one thing I discovered was that I got better results when I first created an SD .mov and then encoded that for the web (flv). Of course, Squeeze may do a better job on the scaling end than Adobe. It may be worth doing a short test, since the difference was quite significant in my case.
David
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Red Balloon
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Here’s an out from left field thought–2 actually. It be that the image is a field off. A couple of options to rectify this. Use the Shift Fields filter (It’s under video effects/video) Or you could nudge the image up or down a tick under the motion tab. Of course, if this fixes the problem then it means there’s a discrepancy between your AE settings and FCP.
When I use the text tool and move it around on the canvas, sometimes it will land on a spot that it’s straddling two fields which makes it look bad–an option-up/down arrow usually fixes it.
Anyway, I hope this helps.
Where in Colorado are you? I’m in the Springs, and the white stuff has been coming down most of the day.
-David
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Red Balloon
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I’m experiencing the same problem. HDV footage in an SD timeline (720×480 ProRes), slow motion with frame blend stutters. I tried with and without field shift and have the same problem. When I step through the rendered footage one frame at a time it looks like the footage is skipping back a frame every few frames.
If I render slomo in an HDV timeline–either HDV or ProRes–I don’t have the problem.
I’ve tried trashing prefs and repairing permissions with no luck.
My footage was shot on a Sony V1U at 24P (standard, not Advanced)
It seems like a bug looking at the footage frame by frame.
Can anyone else confirm or deny the same problem?
Thanks,
David
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Under the ENERGY SAVER system preference there’s a check box that says, “put hard disk(s) to sleep when possible” make sure that’s not checked. The delay is being caused by the drive spinning back up to speed.
I hope this helps.
David
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Obviously missing a few details, but it sounds like AE is rendering the QT at one size and the sequence is another. For example. AE is creating a 720×486 (D1 Raster) movie and you’re editing it into a 720×480 movie (DV). FCP will squeeze the video ever so slightly to make it “conform” to the sequence which will make a pristine clip look like poop. Solution? Render the shot at the same size as the sequence, or open the clip into the viewer from the timeline and make sure the scale is 100, and there’s no aspect ratio change under “distort” in the motion tab–that way FCP won’t try to make it “fit.” I hope this helps.
David
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Thanks Pelai,
I think I finally see the light (or darkness) regarding HDV. What’s ironic, however, is that FCP will playback the mixed sequence (HDV & ProRes) in realtime, yet, to send it to compressor to make an h264 file for the web, it still seems to conform the movie first to HDV then to h264, at least that’s what seems to be happening based on the time it takes.
I’ll have to re-evaluate my workflow. Ideally, I’d like to capture HDV to a client drive (for back-up and keeping the media nearline–HDV is so efficient on drive space), and quickly convert it to a more friendly format (ProRes or other) onto my RAID for editing. At the end of the project, I’d use MediaManager to create an editable final sequence for future revisions–barring major changes, of course.
I’m just dealing with the growing pains of moving into HD. Most projects are delivered in SD, but we’re shooting HDV to future-proof the assets. Once Seagate or someone makes a 2TB drive that sells for $150 this will all be moot, but in the meantime…
Thanks again.
David
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Thanks. When I ran a quick test, I put some markers in audio only files, and when I clicked on the “find next” it did find the odd keywords I put in them. However, I just discovered this only works with audio files.
It seems silly that there’s no way to search the text contained in markers. They are a great way to “mark” a great moment within a clip and note its content. How ineffecient to have to go to the clip and enter the comment within the log note or other column entry points. And even then, you still don’t know exactly where in the clip that magical moment happened. It’s like half the results for twice the work. Pardon my rant, but Markers seem like such an obvious thing to be able to search.
Thanks again,
David
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