Don Greening
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[Steve Wargo] “It’s kinda like basketball and baseball games, or national skating competitions where they play music and then the music becomes part of the event”
It’s called “Incidental” recording and is legally acceptable, at least here in Canada.
– Don
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Yes. It’s probably a bad piece of media or a render file that’s being loaded and then causing a crash. The easiest thing to try first is go to your media drive and find the folder where all your render files are. Rename the folder so that FCP can’t find the render files. Then start up your project. If it doesn’t crash this time and loads up then it’s a corrupt render file. FCP will tell you that all the render files are missing, but then it’s just a case of FCP re-rendering everything again. Don’t forget about the audio renders as well. They’ll be in a separate folder.
Try this first.
– Don
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[Aaron Duprey] “The FCP mixdown seemed to leave everything where it was without making a new track.”
The track FCP makes using the mixdown command is invisible and probably won’t make a difference to your audio because you’re exporting the audio for a DVD. The mixdown command DOES make a difference if you’re exporting to tape and you’re dropping frames during the export. The mixdown command consolidates all your timeline audio tracks into a stereo L & R. If you make any audio changes at all after using the mixdown command the invisible track is deleted and you’ll have to use the mixdown command again. In order for the mixdown to work there has to be nothing selected/highlighted in your sequence.
When encoding to AC3 audio in Compressor make sure that you use the 192 kbps data rate if you’re doing a stereo file. Dialog Normalization should be set to -31 so the playback volume isn’t altered. The only other thing you need to change is in the preprocessing tab: change from the default “Standard Film Compression” to “none.” Change nothing else and you’re ready to encode.
Using the above method I’ve never had a part of my audio change for the worse and other parts remain the same. I’m thinking it has to be something that was done in FCP before export or something DVDSP is doing during the build and format process. Have you listened to your offending audio within DVDSP after the encoding process but before you build and burn the DVD?
There has to be a point where the audio sounds good and then doesn’t sound good during the workflow after a certain task is complete. It’s just a case of narrowing it down.
– Don
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[Steve Wargo] “Sorry, I couldn’t resist”
“Resistance is futile” anyway.
What you’ll really find amazing is that you can use the flip-out screen for critical focus. Sure, sure, guffaw away, but wait until you try it and then see if you’re still laughing ;0
– Don
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[Will Schmidt] “Menu selector drum on back is too small and fiddly, the toggle selector on top is much better. “
Couldn’t agree more. I tried using it once and have used the joystick on top ever since. Perhaps if the drum wheel had a thin rubber covering on it or something….
[Will Schmidt] “Camera/off/Media switch although recessed for protection is also a bit fiddly.”
Also agree. I guess the trade off here is that you don’t don’t want something that is easily activated by mistake. Maybe more rubber or anything that has more friction.
BTW, welcome to Creative COW and thanks for the feedback, Will.
– Don
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Try doing an audio mixdown before export. See if that solves it.
It’s in the Sequence Menu>Render Only>Mixdown. Or Apple-Option-R
– Don
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[Arnie Schlissel] “Why 1440X960? That’s not a standard size for… well, for anything.”
Except that it’s exactly double the size of DV NTSC. Maybe the graphics were originally done in DV 25 using AE. Just a guess. I know that when I’m working with stills in a DV timeline and I want to put some moves on them I always make sure the stills are double the frame size of the codec.
– Don
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[Alicia Harwell] “Do you have to render all effects on a timeline before exporting?”
Yes. Or you can check the box for “Recompress All Frames” in the export dialogue which would essentially do the same thing. However, with that box checked the export will take longer than if you rendered all effects in the timeline first before exporting.
[Alicia Harwell] “Does anyone have a technical explanation for “render”?”
In a nutshell, when you add an effect FCP has to build a completely new file with the added changes. For example, if you added a broadcast safe filter to a clip FCP will make a copy of that clip with the filter applied. When you play back your timeline FCP will play the new clip instead of the original.
– Don
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[Craig Seeman] “If you format you’ll lose those.”
As long as the camera will fully over-write the deleted files I’m going to always do a delete instead of a reformat.
When you get your camera tomorrow there’s one thing I know you won’t like. The hand grip is so far away from the centre of gravity that it’s virually impossible to hold it with just your right hand and keep it level. For its size it’s a heavy little beast. But that’s okay. I’m still keeping it 🙂
I also ordered the W/A adapter when I ordered the camera and the adapter is still on back order.
– Don
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[Craig Seeman] “Isn’t there a “claymation” function?”
You’re right. The time lapse thing. I forgot about that. We’ll offiicially call that a still frame feature.
– Don