Debe
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Use Quicktime Pro to export the .mov as an Image Sequence and import those separate images into Final Cut. You can change the default length of imported stills in the User Preferences. Click on the Editing tab at the top of the window and the first box is “Freeze/Still Duration”.
Hope this helps!
debe
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What are your “standard settings”? Are you working in DV, SD, Uncompressed, HD?
There’s honestly no such thing as “standard settings”. Standard to your normal workflow, yes, but unless you tell us what that is, we can’t know.
I just exported over two hours of DV, so it’s likely not a program length issue. I’d watch those last 6 minutes for signs of corrupted media, or just trash the renders and re-render that section.
Is the drive you’re exporting to formatted HFS+, aka Mac OS Extended?
debe
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Short answer is yes, you’d have to license it to legally use it. Expect to pay more for that segment of your documentary than you spent on everything else to create your documentary.
Although you had no control over it being played, that doesn’t mean you get a free pass on copyright. If that were true, folks would just have their “neighbors turn on the radio” all the time.
Is there dialogue in the shot you need to salvage? If not, replace the audio with other, royalty-free music. You may want to consult with an audio post facility, as royalty-free doesn’t necessarily mean you can use it any way you please. Some royalty-free music is royalty-free only under certain circumstances.
Sorry. I know you’d love to use it, but you’re asking for a heap o’trouble, including never being able to air your documentary because without proper licensing, if you leave it in, no one will touch it. Worst case scenario is you get sued by 50 cent.
debe
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How much space is available on the drive you are wanting to export to?
debe
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…at least then they’ll know the answer may be in there SOMEWHERE!!!
I can’t stop laughing, either!
debe
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Effects>Video Filters>Perspective>Flop.
Is this what you’re looking for?
debe
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Also, dirty heads have caused it for me in the past.
If you’ve never manually cleaned heads, then you might want to try a head cleaning tape instead, although several engineers back in my facility days would cringe and try to have me flogged for suggesting it. However, just once to see if it’s dirty heads as opposed to bad heads probably won’t wear on the heads a tremendous amount. Every day, yeah, not a good idea. Once….well, it’s your call.
If it’s not dirty heads, and you end up having it serviced, you might want to have them teach you how to manually clean heads while they have the thing open anyways. This is not a bad skill to have if you don’t already know how to do it!
I used to do it every morning on 7 machines back in my assisting days. It’s not terribly difficult once you know what you’re doing, and it doesn’t take that long, either.
debe
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Okay, maybe it’s my age showing again…
…but… the first room I edited in back in 1992 cost over three quarters of a million dollars to build. …and then there were the yearly maintenance fees of tens of thousands of dollars…
The edit suite I have in my office cost me roughly $50,000 to build, give or take bad math and the fact that I’ve spent three years acquiring gear and I likely am forgetting something…and I’m still not done yet…
I have WAY more capability in my $50,000 room than I ever did in that $750,000 room. Boris FX is comparable in results to the Grass Valley Kaliedoscope (oh…remember those days!?), which if memory serves, cost $250,000…(don’t quote me…). The $1400 (I think) I spent on Boris FX is a downright bargain. Other than the fact that the K-Scope was ALL real time…and boy do I miss that….the results I get out of Boris are comparable to the results I used to get from the K-scope. For less than 1% of the price…can’t beat that with a stick. I’ll take a 7 minute render for that price!
15 years ago, you couldn’t even DREAM of doing what we do for less than a half a million dollars. $50,000 is a bargain!
$100 for a piece of software to let you do something that no one even knew about 5 years ago is astounding. $1000 for 10 pieces of software is similarly a great deal.
I guess it’s perspective…
debe
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Ian-
I’m not an experienced F4M user, but I KNOW you can make all kinds of adjustments in your compression in F4M. I’ve watched a client do it on his copy of F4M.
You must’ve missed an option button somewhere.
Go back and look again, or perhaps an experienced F4M user will point you in the right direction.
debe
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You need an app that will convert to WMV, like Popwire’s WMV Component or Flip4Mac.
Popwire is less expensive, but F4M has more options. Head-to-head comparisons show no real huge difference in quality between the two at default settings. If all you need is to convert to WMV, then Popwire is probably enough. If you think you’ll need more options, then Flip4Mac is probably your best bet.
debe