Don Greening
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[Jeff Carpenter] “And boy, doesn’t Madison Ave. know it?”
No kidding. Nothing brought out this fact more prominently than the last wedding fair we were at. We were showing two different weddings we’d done. One was editied ‘wedding story’ style and the other was ‘doc’ style. The couple in the wedding story were in their 40s. They’re certainly not at all in the unattractive catagory, but the couple in the other one were much closer to the, shall we say, age group of the wedding fair patrons. The fact that they were also an extremely attractive couple didn’t hurt, either. We soon decided to stick to playing the DVD with the young couple because there was about 3 times the traffic in front of our booth than when we played the other disk. Which was too bad because I thought the wedding story style we did showcased our shooting/editing talents better than just a simple show-everything-the-way-it-happened style.
Beauty gets the attention. Just ask my neighbour Pamela Anderson.
– Don
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[paul] “Is it actually recompressing to DV even though it already is coming from a DV timeline?”
Well it must be, otherwise it would take the same amount of time to export as using the simple “Export Quicktime Movie” command does.
[paul] “When would you use QT Conversion export and set it to your timeline settings, or is this redundent…..”
Beats me, although there must be a reason to have the choice available or they wouldn’t include it in the export options. Would They? There has to be a reason why it’s in there. Since I’ve never had the need to export a DV movie using the Quicktime Conversion command plus using the same exact DV codec I’ve no idea what kind of quality hit there’d be. If any. Why not take a 5 min. piece of your project and encode it to see what happens to the quality as compared to the simple “export QT movie” command.
– Don
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Export a self-contained QT movie from FCP. Use the same export presets as your timline. This will allow you to put the movie on an external drive for use on another computer. Export using Quicktime conversion will encode the movie to a different codec such as MPEG2 for use on a DVD, so that’s why that particular method is taking so long when you export that way.
– Don
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HI Graeme 🙂
Have you been able to take the family to the Rideau Canal yet for some quality skating? It probably hasn’t been cold enough. The skating was a family ritual when my wife was growing up in Ottawa. They used to live close to Vanier park and would get onto the canal from there.
– Don
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Most advice I’ve seen about using JPEGs in FCP is…….don’t use that image format becuse it’s a lossy codec. I think the trouble starts when encoding to MPEG2 for your DVD. That’s when you’ll see the decrease in quality with regard to your JPEGs. The reason for running them through Photoshop is to convert them into a Photoshop document, or .psd file. But if you have another program that can convert your JPEGs into a Tiff or a Gif file, that wouuld also work. I’m pretty sure that the program “Graphic Converter” is still a free app and it can easily convert JPEG to the Tiff format, which would be the next best thing to a .psd file.
Just Google it and it should come up.
– Don
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Try reading the article at the link below. It should answer most of your questions. Just delete where it says “DVX100A” and insert “XL2”. Exactly the same workpath.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/24p_in_FCP_nattress.html
– Don
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Yeah, why would they do that? Why didn’t they just use progressive scan CCDs so one could get a true 24p or 30p like the XL2. I don’t get it. If I was in the market for an HD cam under 10 grand USD I’d be taking a hard look at either the new Panny or more likely the new JVC. Anything but 24F.
– Don
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The PD170 is actually better in low light than the 150. So if you can, get the 170. When I’m shooting where I’m not in control of the lighting I’ll put down my XL2 or GL2 and reach for my PD170 every time. The PD170 is the undisputed king of low light aquisition in the 1/3″ CCD class, HDV included.
– Don
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A general rule of thumb is to scan your pictures/slides at least double the resolution of your video frame i.e. if working in DVCPro HD your scanning resolution should be at least twice as big as 720×1264 pixels. More is even better. This will allow you to pan & scan and still have the pictures looking good onscreen without any artifact issues. For more info on how to crop your still media for a 16:9 project youu can go here:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_homepage_index.html
Navigate down the page to the section called: “Graphics – Photoshop” and you’ll see a number of articles that address issues and solutions for getting your pictures looking good in FCP.
– Don
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I duno………your cat probably likes the attention. The only drawback to that is the looks from people when you answer the door and Fluffly is still stuck to the front of your sweater from the static cling.
– Don