Debe
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Yep.
MPEG2 can mean almost anything. Tell them you need more information like screen size, fps, audio sampling rate, data rate…
10-to-1, their eyes will glass over and they’ll send you to someone else who’s more “technical”, and at least there you’ll have half a chance of getting useful information, or you’ll find out what they REALLY wanted was a DVD that will play back on the Windows DVD player, not Windows Media Player.
If they do want something that will play on Windows Media Player, consider purchasing a little app called Popwire Windows Media Component from popwire.com. Once installed, it gives you the option in the Export Using QuickTime Conversion to export as WMV.
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The first thing you need to determine is whether or not these PPT slides were designed within television specs, you might find that re-creating the files will be far better.
If they used fonts smaller than 24, but preferably no LESS than 32 pt, and lines that are thinner than 3-4 pt, and did not leave 20% of the border of nothing around the edge of the slide except blank background to accommodate for title safe, you’ll likely have a heck of a time making this thing legible on tv.
Take a look at it first and determine how it looks on an external video monitor through Final Cut. Just looking at it on the Canvas won’t show you how really bad it may be. You can probably use a TIFF exported from PPT of the most complicated-looking slide to test this out first.
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Or you can change your Expose settings to be any modifier key and the appropriate F-key in the System Settings for Expose.
See? Lots of options!
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Yeah, if you need to reinstall while your disks are “in transit”, you’re pretty much SOL.
Other than that…it’s a pretty good deal!
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Anything you changed in the User & System Preferences, or if you customized any layouts or the keyboard will be gone.
It basically resets the system to “factory default”, as it was right after you installed it.
If you saved your layouts and keyboard, you just have to reload them. User and System prefs you changed will have to be re-set. Once you get them where you want them, you can launch FCP Rescue and use that to backup the new prefs so the next time you use FCP Rescue, you can restore those prefs after a trashing.
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If you decide to go with a service, I recommend CaptionMax. They have offices all over the country.
They have great customer service, and they are really really really good at the art of captioning.
Disclaimer, I used to work for Max a decade or so ago when he was post supervisor at a large-ish facility. He’s a great guy. But even if I didn’t know him, I’d still use CaptionMax because they are very good at what they do!
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Well, there you go.
Final Cut is designed to be used in conjunction with external video and audio monitors.
Check the manual for proper set up using external audio and video monitors. It’s likely the problem will go away after you connect external monitors correctly.
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I just did a “favor” for a friend. I shot stills for a local band at a small club. I only agreed to do it because it was last minute and the real photographer who had originally signed on had some sort of unavoidable conflict arise. They were in a bind and I thought I was helping.
What a disaster. There might be a fistful of “ok” photos in there, but nothing like what they would have gotten with someone who really understands still photography. Granted, I haven’t even tried to take a still that was more than a snapshot in years.
Photography is a whole different animal, and to be really any good at it, you either have to be a natural-born photographer, or have spent a lot of time practicing the craft. A person who shoots movement on tape thinks differently than a person who shoots stills, whether the stills are movement or portrait. To be constantly switching your brain from video to stills in the middle of an event I would think would be very draining on the best of folks.
There might be a few unique people out there who can do both superbly, but I don’t think it’s the norm, and I don’t think most people should strive to do both. Unless you are one of the few who can excel at both simultaneously, you may find that you are able to charge more initially, but when you get a roster full of customers that aren’t raving about your work, you’ll find it harder and harder to get more work.
I’ve always had respect for still photographers, but this experience for me dramatically underscores how different of a world it is from what we normally do.
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Then you’re back to the 3-Way Color Corrector. At the very bottom of the graphical CC window, drop the carat on the left side, and the Limit Effect controls are in there.
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Photoshop on the PC has a different layer structure than Photoshop on a Mac.
The simplest was to get around it is to open up a PC PSD on the Mac and Save As a PSD.
That should be enough.
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