David Rowan
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Just save it as a PSD file. FCP treats them a little bit differently (they open as a sequence instead of as a clip) but otherwise that works great.
DWR
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DWR
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I knew it would be simple. Thanks
DWR
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Since I work in news we occasionally can use bits of movies in news stories under a rule called “Fair Use”. Playing from a standard DVD player through our capture device (AJA io) seems to get around copy protection.
There is a company in Provo Utah under a couple of lawsuits for renting edited versions of commercial movies. Its called “Clean Flicks”. Perhaps they have a copy of the film you want, and you can let their lawyers take the heat.
DWR
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Yes, I get the dual speed renders, too.
Now, I’m one of the anal-compulsives who actually quits one program before opening another (unlesss I need them together). I still can’t help wondering if the little gerbil inside the shiny box is thinking about something else, and when I quit and restart a render it gets her attention again.
One thing thats messed me up; if I do a “Render All” and there is something outside of my view on the timeline that has to get rendered before the bit I’m working on. So I’ll quit the 11 minute render after a minute or two and “Hey, You didn’t do anything!”…then its “Oh wait…thats what you’ve been working on.”
DWR
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I’ve seen a lot of countdown slates after all these years in TV, but I’ve never seen one that started all the way back at 30. Are you sure about that? Back when the old Sony 800 U-Matics came out I had to make a “15” to account for the differnce in the way they threaded tape, and thats the longest I’ve seen.
How fancy does it need to be? Just throw down a number with text, blade it at one second intervals and then just change each increment. Probably take you less time than hunting one down and downloading it. Not really re-inventing the wheel.
DWR
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Quit Compressor, or do this before you try to use Compressor. If I’m working from FCP I usually quit that, too, but I think that might be unneccissary.
Launch Terminal (Application>Utilities>Terminal) and type this:
sudo /Library/StartupItems/Qmaster/Qmaster
(I saved in in a text file so I can cut and paste it when I need it, which is always).
Terminal will then ask for your system password, enter the password and hit enter. (BTW, When you put in your password you wont see it on the screen, but it is working.)
Quit terminal and open Compressor, or go back to FCP, and Voila!
If you reboot the computer you have to do this over again, it doesn’t stay “fixed”.
I can’t take the credit for this, I found it in the Apple Compressor discussion.
DWR
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Anything you do is gonna add a lot of noise and grain. The gammas will also get weird. So once you “fix” it it won’t match the other footage.
That said, try the three way color corrector. Use the auto level adjust first, then adjust the brightness of the whites, blacks and midranges. Under image control there is also a brightness and contrast filter and a gamma corrector, used together you can get some acceptable results.
One other trick I have is imported from Photoshop. Take a clip and lay it over top of itself (lay it down once on V1 and again on V2) Then take the top layer and set the composite more to “Screen”. This kind of doubles the brightness. Then you can adjust the opacity of the top layer to get the mix just right.
Good luck.
DWR
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Right click (cntl+click) on the file in I-tunes and select “Show Song File” it opens a finder window with the selected clip highlighted.
Since the batch process here would probably put all the files in the same folder a “Show Song File” would give you the whole batch, and you could drag them to whever you need.
The first step of changing your preferences only needs to be done once. So once you have your preferences set up your workflow would be:
one click and drag to open your files in I-Tunes
another click to highlight your files (if they aren’t already highlighted)
(cntl+click)and select “Convert selection to MP3”
When its done you (cntl+click) one of the new MP3 files and select “Show Song File”and there they are! 3 or 4 mouse clicks and a batch of files is converted! Seems to me it doesn’t get much simpler than that.
One other thing that would help this work better is if you have I-tunes show the column “Kind” that way you can tell you MP3s from whatever the originals are.
DWR
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Why are people mad at Compressor?
DWR