[Enzo Tedeschi]

David’s right, Andrew. There isn’t really a drag and drop filter than can accomplish this sort of thing in a click. Way too many variables – the tute David has suggested is how you’d tackle it in Final Cut.

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Nothing included. You need plugins.

http://www.nattress.com rocks.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

No probs. Nattress plugins are definitely top shelf. I swear by mine, and I’d say you’ll probably get exactly what you want out of them.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Load the clip from your timeline into your viewer and click the motion tab. Adjust the Scale slider for uniform scaling, play with the Aspect slider in the Distort drop-down to stretch.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

You could also make short work of it using G Lines from nattress.com:

https://nattress.com/Products/set1/GLines.htm

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Mpeg 2 isn’t really a great format to edit in – I’d use something like mpegstreamclip from Squared5 to convert it into a DV or uncompressed .mov file for editing. You’ll find your audio will convert over as well.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

If the interview was mic-ed with a lapel or boom, you may have only one channel of audio, the other channel will just be empty or from the on-camera mic. Check your waveforms on the timeline and it should become pretty obvious pretty quick if this is the case, then delete the dead track of audio as that may be causing some of your background noise…

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

If you’re creating content for distribution via web, I daresay DV will be more than sufficient a format, so just about any off the shelf Mac Pro will do the job for you. Software, get FCP Studio, and that will be enough for just about anything you need to do.

Obviously, the more you can afford to spend on putting more grunt into your Mac (RAM, faster CPU etc) the better off you’ll be.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

For my money –

Go directly to nattress.com, get Film Effects. Do not pass go…. ;o)

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Jason,

Check your External Video settings and your Playback settings, they may be set wrong. If they are set to firewire out for video playback to a deck (for example), your internal audio will be mute.

Enzo Tedeschi
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