Dndobson
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How many hard drives are using? I’ve had this same problem when the footage I’m editing with is spread across several drives. I noticed that when FCP stalled, the drive was making spinning up sounds and the light was out (Seagate external Firewire 400 drives.)
Keeping all the video for a particular project on one drive pretty much eliminates the problem. -
That really depends on the speed of the laptop.
Not knowing that, I’d just pick the best settings for a DVD (mpeg2)and burn that to a DVD disk or to a folder and play that on the laptop. -
I remember that from back in my Avid days (haven’t touched it in a year.)
And there really is no way to duplicate the Avid 3 window set up, it’s unique to avid’s collor correction mode. Can’t do it in Final Cut either. -
How are you formating it in the DV frame? Is it letterboxed or anamorphic? I had some field isues when I letterboxed my HDV in a DV timeline, but it looked much better when I created a 16:9 DV timeline. When that goes to tape, it is anamorphic. Probably the same for DVD, make 16:9 DVDs and then hope your clients DVD player can deal with it (and that you got all the setting right in DVD Studio Pro to make sure the DVD players know it’s 16:9.)
So many buttons, so litle time.
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yes
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Oh – and then you need to export the new footage and to that i’d the AVID quicktime codec and use THAT to make new clips.
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#1) 24P what? DV? If so, then capture as DV. Avid can import quicktime movies – it just takes forever.
#2) You can change the speed of a clip in the Browser under the Motion Tab>time remapping – I think it plays back right away in the browser.
#3) Who are you calling a dinosaur!!??
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depends on how you set up your sequence.
24p is interlaced on tape and the pull down that is applied has to be removed when you capture the video. Or you can leave it interlaced and has the 3:2 pull down look of film transfered to tape (sort of). But it created a DV-NTSC – 24 sequence and then put your 29.97 interlaced footage into it – it won’t look right.Also, for your sequence settings, try DV NTSC Anamorphic, unless you don’t want your final output to be anamorphic, in which case you will have to change the size and distortion of the clips so they appear as letterboxed footege in standard DV frame.
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DV-NTSC, Firewire basic.
You will edit in DV and output DV – there is no loss of quality using firewire and DV.
You can color correct to your hearts content, though the effect won’t be as nice as working in 10bit uncompressed, but then, that’s not what you client shot….so, oh well.
You may be surprised, though, how good it does look considering it’s DV.
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Of course, cause now you’re convertng the video, not just writing it.
Premiere Pro 2 should play FCP DV-PAL quicktime movies no problem – but you will have to create them and that will take time – no shortcuts.