Dennis Leppell
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look up “Edit to tape” and “Print to Video” in your FCP manual.
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In cases like this, assuming this is a preview vid, i like to crank the audio settings down. Mono, 64 kb/s or lower will gain a lot of extra space for vid and/or vid quality.
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The speed of computers and graphic cards is a moot point these days unless you intend on doing insane 3d or compositing work. Rule of thumb in this world is RAM trumps all. Buy the most computer you can afford while maxing out the RAM. If you don’t max out the ram, you have to at least make sure you upgrade the amount you have in pairs with identacle sticks…i.e. 4GB of ram is better than 5GB, but not as good as 6GB, because the 4GB is in matched pairs, whereas the 5 has an odd-man-out thing going for it.
Mac Pro has the most going for it for upgradeability. If you go with an iMac of Macbook, just make sure you have at least two things: Firewire ports and expresscard slot. The expresscard is vital if you set yourself up with a good RAID, since I haven’t seen a Mac come with an esata port yet (though I don’t follow the features when models are released), or if you want to get a capture card (i think blackmagic has a setup for expresscard, but I’m probably wrong with that).
As far as mobility, that’s for you to decide. If you think it would be valuable to have your laptop on location, or if you think your business plan will include editing at the client’s site, then that’s for you. If you forsee all your work being done in your office, then go with the workhorse.
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you need to change the settings on the camera itself. By default, when you switch a Z1U to DV, it still wants to record in 16:9. When the z1u is in dv 4:3 mode, the edges of the image on the lcd viewfinder will have a dark overlay on the edges of the screen, indicating the what part of the image is being cut off for the 4:3. FCP detected that the footage was 16:9 and captured accordingly.
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read pages 15 and 16, should answer all your questions
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unless things have changed since studio 1, all you need to install is qmaster on all the other networked machines to build your cluster. Compressor is not needed on any system other than your edit station, which is good since you’d need a separate license to run it on other machines.
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you can remap your keyboard to your heart’s desire by going to tools->keyboard layout->customize
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I prefer tif, since our company also publishes a couple of magazines every months….it’s a pretty universal format for us.
PSD is also good. I use this for simple layered graphics, which I can then animate/manipulate each layer individually without a trip to AE.
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Hi Tom, just saw this thread, and wondering why you gave the solution/process you did instead of:
1. Find a clip who’s aspect is incorrect.
2. click the motion tab in viewer, go to the aspect slider under distort settings. Make changes.
3. Copy clip, and paste attribute -> distort to all other incorrect clipsNear as I can figure, both should do the job well, though this method would be more target-specific in case he is mixing his media. Just trying to pick your brain on why you chose one over the other, perhaps I’m missing something here.
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I’d add the project file itself to the dvd backup with the finished sequence, so if another editor ever has to make changes, the log/capture info is available, as well the ability to see all filters/transition settings used.