[Enzo Tedeschi]

No sweat – all in a day’s taming… :o)

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Depending on how many images you need to do this with…

I often do my moves in AE, WITHOUT transitions, leaving plenty of handles on either side of my moves, render out a movie, and then import that into my NLE to chop it up and add transitions.

The advantage I find is that I find it easier to make minute adjustments to the transitions in an NLE. Once you’ve rendered your file from AE and you need to change a transition, that’s another render of the whole file to sit through, rather than just the transition.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Spend some time on http://www.creativecow.net! The tutorials there are awesome.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

MPEG 1 audio is a strange animal. Try MPEG Streamclip:

https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html

It’s a very useful tool.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

No probs, Larry. Pleasure.

Play with the Motion blur check box if you are doing moves, and use the FCP Flicker Filter to get rid of that horrible shimmering you get from the stills.

Have fun!

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Depends… what system are you running it on? How long is the clip? What resolution are you converting to?

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Dont try and cut from the VOB – it’s an MPEG2 file. No good for editing. Download Mpeg StreamClip off the Apple site (free download) and convert your DVD footage into a DV MOV file.

Better, if you have a DV camera, use it to convert the stuff from the analog camera and digitise it into FCP via firewire. You’ll get better quality images that way.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

If your still is a hi-enough resolution, it’s a matter or cropping it to fill the frame. You could do this in Elements, or better yet, from within FCP without actually discarding any image info.

Cut the pic into your timeline. Select it in the timeline and hit Enter. This will load it into the viewer. Then select the motion tab, and scale the picture up, adjusting the center until you have the framing you like. Advantages of doing it this way – you still have the image off screen to bring back if you deceide to change your framing,or keyframe a move into if you need to. Another way is to select “Image and Wireframe” display in your canvas window. This will give you handles on your canvas view to drag for repositioning and scaling.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

I think you may have your mires crossed a little here…

Uncompressed video is video that has been digitised or created at an uncompressed resolution, not something that has been compressed and subsequently UN-compressed.

Once you create / digitise / compress a video using a codec which discards a certain amount of data, it is impossible to get that data back unless you have a source of a higher resolution to refer back to.

DV codecs compress at 5:1, which means you are discarding data which you can’t get back. Create your AE movies as uncompressed AVIs or MOVs to retain maximum quality, whatever your destination.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

I’d like to see your “cropping” – before and after your aspect ratio display correction…?

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