Don Greening
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[Chi-Ho Lee] “This is my opinion. Good luck with your decision.”
Well said, and I whole heartedly agree.
– Don
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Yup. Deadlines. That’s why I’m still up at this hour: have a deadline for Sunday night. I’m exporting 2 – 2.5 hour sequences which I’m setting up for encoding before I grab some sack time.
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Hi Colin,
I’d been using FCP for the last 4 years or so but it was one of those things where you just learn enough to get done what you want to do and leave it at that, doing things the same way all the time. I wanted to learn to work smarter and faster and the FCP 200 course is very beneficial in that regard.
I highly recommend the course at Emily Carr. Johnathan Tyrrell is a first class teacher and makes learning FCP a blast. I also took the Motion 200 course and learned a ton in the 3 days. I’m still considering doing the upcoming course there for advanced colour correction for FCP which is also an accredited 3 day course.
– Don
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[Colin McQ] “900 sounds kinda steep…
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[zeech26] “I was told that I need to take the 100 class or pass an exam that costs 175 dollars.”
When I first inquired about Apple Pro training here in the Vancouver, Canada area I was informed that the FCP 100 and 200 classes covered the exact same stuff. The only difference was the FCP 100 is done over a 3 day period and the 200 class is over a 5 day period. I decided on the 200 class. Now, I don’t know if the different course descriptions between what you were told and what I was told is just a local thing but it’s probably worth it for you to get an official response from Apple Inc. I don’t think that Apple would have different entrance qualifications depending on geographical area.
– Don
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Hi Terry,
Your encoding questions for glass master and replication are beyond my field of expertise. I was simply the messenger for the link to that web page showing the encoding differences depending on workflow. The author did mention that exporting a reference movie and using Compressor as a stand alone app managed to mirror the FCP timeline more closely than the other method (exporting to Compressor within FCP). However, you note that your reference movie version looks washed out even though this workpath is supposed to be the closest to the FCP timeline.
I can only suggest that you encode a small test piece of your project and tweak the gamma setting in Compressor until you get the look you’re after. With a large replication job ahead you want to be sure. There are better encoders out there. One of them is Bitvice and I’ve found it to be better than Compressor i.e. more consistent with a better overall quality using similar bit rate settings. The drawbacks to using Bitvice is the price and it takes much longer to do an encode than Compressor does.
Since I’ve never had to worry about bit rates for glass master replication I can’t advise you. My peak bit rates for burning DVDs never exceed 6.5 and when you factor in the 192 bit rate for .ac3 audio I’m getting very good playability results on commercial DVD players.
Sorry I can’t be of more help.
– Don
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If you go to the following link below you’ll see that you’re not alone in your observations:
https://www.visiontracks.com/compressortests/
– Don
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Try this:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93234
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Chris, I found it. The path is: Finder Menu>Preferences>Advanced>show warning before emptying the trash.
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[Don Greening] “?-Shift-Option-Delete.”
The question mark was supposed to be the Command key. Apparently the Cow doesn’t know what the Apple/Command icon is and substituted a question mark.
– Don
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