David Roth weiss
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I think hard drive storage is the only way to fly these days. Get yourself an external firewire enclosure and some inexpenive hard drives. I have all of my clients buy hard drives now, and I archive their projects completely.
DRW
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Donatello,
You might try MAC Drive. The demo is free.
DRW
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Well, there’s lots you could do, but if you’re just learning color technique you could mess things up fairly easily. Unless something really stands out to your eye as unacceptable, you should be okay.
Just for the record, did the broadcast colors filter improve the look of your project throughout? If not, then take it off. These universal one step filters are not always a good idea, especially if your material was pretty well shot to begin with.
DRW
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There is nothing of value anyone could possibly tell you without seeing the project. If you are concerned, then take the DV output to a professional colorist and see what you can wrangle from them for a profesional tape to tape color correction. There is nothing that will give your project a more unified look, and a professional colorist will be able to tweak the black levels and contrast for optimal projection as well. If you go this route, make certain to remove all color prior correction before taking the project to a colorist, as you will add noise if you correct twice.
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You must use a shareware program like DVDxDV. It works brilliantly.
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Gary,
Funny thing is, Apple definitely copied some things directly from Edit* and some of the other NLEs, but they didn’t copy some of the very best from Edit*. However, I do like my FCP very much, and I go back to use Edit* only when an old project needs to be resurected.
DRW
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I have to say, I just encountered the same issue and its ridiculous that it works that way. Apple should fix that in a hurry. Who has time to deal with stuff with like that? Timecode is not a luxury, its a necessity, and it should be as simple as toggling a switch. Discreet Edit had that feature perfected six years ago, and so you would have to imagine that its not exactly rocket science.
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[thewanggao] “H.264 Quicktime… pretty much universally playable.”
Not really!!!
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Michael,
Since Extreme is a SD card you have to set your output to something like blackmagic 8-bit or 10-bit, and make sure your view settings match that as well.
DRW
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Mike,
Your client is making a mistake. All NLEs on the PC side can import uncompressed QT files such as Animation millions of colors, but not all are actually capable of importing the many flavors of AVI that are created with Compressor. You may get lucky, but there is a big chance that the file will be useless.
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