Don Greening
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[debe] “A Customer Service Rep telling a paying customer almost gleefully they don’t support them is generally a bad sign for a company’s future.”
Indeed.
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April mentioned in her first post that she can’t get any of the autosaves to boot. I’m wondering if it’s a problem with accessing her media from the scratch disc, which happens to be a LaCie 160G FW drive.
If FCP opens a new project without issue, then it’s perhaps a problem with a corrupt project file or the project can’t access the media it needs. Corrupt FW directory?
April, can you start a new project and successfully import some of the media files you are using from the troublesome project into the new project? Just trying to determine what’s workiing for you and what isn’t.
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Can you open up an untitled/new project in FCP just by clicking on the FCP program icon?
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[AdamElder] “If I put the DV tape into a Canon ZR600 and import into Final Cut via firewire, will I lose any quality or colors?”
You’re only using the ZR600 as a tape deck, so there will be no loss in quality.
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[fromcalifornia] “my only other query is if i could shoot in 4:3 (possibly with a second, cheaper camera) use an anamorphic matte in FCP. could this be mixed with the anamorphic footage and one movie created.”
Yeah, you can do that too. It’s called “shoot and protect 16:9.” So, you shoot in 4:3 but you need guides on the top and bottom of your viewfinder so you don’t cut people’s heads off when it’s time to make a 16:9 version of your 4:3 movie. The beauty of shooting this way is that you’ll always have a full rez 4:3 version of your movie, but gives you the option of making widescreen, too. For example with the Canon GL2 you can turn on 16:9 guides when shooting in 4:3 mode. Others will actually use a bit of masking tape on their flip out LCD screens to hide the top and bottom parts that will be later cropped in post to make a 16:9 frame.
To make a widescreen version of a 4:3 frame that works in an anamorphic timline you’ll need to physically crop your full screen clips to the 16:9 aspect ratio. It’ll now be smaller than the rest of your widescreen footage, so you need to display your clip in the viewer or canvas window with ‘image and wireframe’ checked. Then just drag the corner of your cropped clips and expand them until they’re the same size as the rest of your anamorphic footage. DV footage will usually expand to 112% before it starts to show a resolution loss, so you’re still going to see a difference in quality between the regular widescreen footage and the cropped and expanded 4:3 footage. Hope this makes sense.
– Don
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Alex,
Welcome to Creative Cow. As you’re going through the process of making a 16:9 movie keep saying the word “anamorphic” several times. In your head of course, otherwise people will start talking.
I’m assuming that because you’ve captured your footage at 25p you live in a PAL country. Therfore, your squeezed footage from the DVX100 has to be captured using the DV PAL 16:9 Anamorphic setting, edited in the same Anamorphic timeline, and exported using the DV PAL 16:9 Anamorphic setting.
Once you’ve exported your final QT movie, if your ultimate goal is to create a DVD, then your Compressor project settings have to be DV PAL 16:9 Anamorphic. Your DVD project settings should also be the same, making sure that the properties of your main movie track display mode is set to 16:9 Letterbox. This setting will tell your DVD player to play a widescreen movie with black bars on the top and bottom on a 4:3 TV, but will fill the screen on a 16:9 TV.
Hope this helps.
– Don
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I’m in NTSC land so I haven’t researched the following yet, but I’ve heard that Compressor 2 will do the conversion now. If you don’t have it then I strongly suggest you go for Graeme’s Standards Conversion plugin for FCP.
– Don
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Tanner,
I’ve never seen that before. Perhaps your XL2 needs to take a trip to the repair depot. Before you resort to that, try pulling the memory battery so the XL2 defaults to its original settings. Have you tried using a different brand of tape? If nothing helps, then you need to send your camera back to Canon for testing and calibration. It almost looks like there’s light leaking in from the sides, doesn’t it?
Sorry I can’t be more helpful.
– Don
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Google ‘Artbeats’ or ‘Digital Juice’. Both have lots of what you’re looking for, but it’s not royalty free.
– Don
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The above described workpath will not affect the video quality because you’re not recompressing the video in any way. You’re simply importing a file then exporting the same file with changes to the audio.
– Don
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