Dominic
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Tried a variation on your theme. Ctrl-clicked on the sequence, went to Settings and in Audio Options, set it to Dual Mono and put the Down mix at 0dB. Back to normal! Cheers. D.
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A good point which i have already tried. The issue is the panning effect works, I just can’t hear it once I have performed the switch. For example, sound that I can hear on the right speaker appears in the right channel of the audio meter. If I pan this sound to the left it appears in the left channel of the audio meter. The only thing is no sound whatsoever comes out of the left speaker. Similarly, if i have something on the left i can hear and move it to the right, it doesn’t come out of the right speaker, even though it’s showing as outputting on the right channel on the meter. Weeeeeird, huh?
I’ve quit FCP5, trashed my prefs and reopened, but no joy. And now it’s affecting former projects. At a bit of a loss, and slightly worried… -
I’m using the Hitachi 400GB SATA drive and it’s fine. I regularly edit HDV footage in Motion, which demands a very good bus speed, and have no probs.
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What if you’re trying to export a 16:9 movie? What’s the correct pixel values then? Cheers. D
Cutting on a 2.5GHz G5 8Gb RAM, 30in Studio display. Shooting on an HVR-Z1. Losing my mind in London.
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Point taken Gunner, and I do view my timeline as I cut. But sometimes stuff looks fuzzy on my Mac monitor but then on printing to tape and to disc it is fine as can be. And you’re right about self-taught FCP users!!!
Cutting on a 2.5GHz G5 8Gb RAM, 30in Studio display. Shooting on an HVR-Z1. Losing my mind in London.
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Could be just your monitor. Try recording to tape and viewing the tape on a TV. Or burn to DVD and then view on the computer and the TV separately.
Cutting on a 2.5GHz G5 8Gb RAM, 30in Studio display. Shooting on an HVR-Z1. Losing my mind in London.
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Actually yeah – HDV to MPEG2 encoding with Produiction Suite’s Compressor is awful. Compressor 2, supposedly built from scratch, is not much better on SD projects. However when encoding for hi-def DVDs, the settings are fine. Any advice on getting a good HDV to SD MPEG2 anyone?
2.5GHz G5 8Gb RAM, 30″ Studio display.
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My experiences to your questions (others will have other views):
1 Slo-mo seems ok. I use the Timing (or ramping) tool which is the clock that can be selected from the Slip tool from the tool pallet.
2 You can drop DV footage into an HDV project, but the quality is noticeably poor due to the frame size and resolution of DV versus HDV. It will need rendering for output to tape or file. It can be viewed in RT however.
3 Render the lot beforehand
4 Depends on how much RAM you have and the speed of the processor. I’me using a G5 2,5 with 8Gb of RAM (because I’m always using FCP, Motion and DVDSP simultaneously). FCP should be fine as long as you have 2GB of RAM. Motion isn’t always happy with HDV files (Motion can be quite RAM intensive) and crashes a fair bit, even though I allocate it it’s full 4GB.
5 Most of FCP is RT now. Depends on what you are doing. Color correction ect is all fine.
6 Yes you can preview it all full screen.
7 Last bit of advice – thinking of swimming with us Mac fans? Come on in, the water’s lovely…