Enzo Tedeschi
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Convert your mp3 to a .wav file and use that. You’ll get better results.
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Same principles as this post, just change the speed values to a positive value:
https://creativecalf.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=871302&pview=t#head
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Are your media files still there? No success doing a reconnect? Opt-click the files and “Reconnect Media”. Point it to the file locations…
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Have you exported a file out of FCP, or trying to import the FCP project? If it’s greyed out it usually means that the file you’re trying to import is incompatible for DVDSP or iDVD.
Also, quick space-saving-tip: If you leave the “Make Movie Self-contained” button unchecked when exporting out of FCP, you’ll get a QT reference movie. It does not recompress your media, nor does it re-create it. It points to your original clips and is a small fraction of the size of generating a self-contained movie. Otherwise you’ll have gigs of rushes, gigs of exported final cut, and then gigs of encoded DVD files!!
The one caution: a ref movie depends on your original media – SO DON’T DELETE IT UNTIL YOU ARE DONE! :o)
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Hmmm…
Never having used the Block Dissolve effect, I decided to take a leaf from Tim’s book and play with some images. Tweaking the settings, I can see the effect, and I can keyframe it, but when I ram preview or preview, or simply park the timeline marker in the middle of the effect… nothing!!
Very strange. Tim, what res stills are you using?
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Out of curiosity, what comp size are you working on?
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Just to leave no stone unturned… When you see your “cropped” image, do you have black bars on the left and right of the comp?
Sometimes if your widescreen footage hasn’t been digitised with the 16:9 flag on, AE will import it as 4:3. If you drop the footage into a 16:9 comp, it will pillarbox it, thinking it’s 4:3. Check your footage attributes by right clicking the footage in your project window and selecting “Interpret Footage” (I think that’s the name of the command…) and you’ll get a dialog where you can set the aspect ratio of the footage to 16:9, to match your comp. You may have already have this covered, but it’s worth checking.
If not, maybe you could post some screenshots of how it looks so we can all be on the same page?
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This may be a silly question, but have you tried both Alt keys? (ie Alt and AltGR?). ALTGR + [ doesn’t work on my Keyboard, but Alt + [ does…
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[rob katz] “is a 9″ sony/jvc/ikegami too small for real world fcp application?”
Personally, I would say yes. Cutting with a 9″ monitor would drive me batty. I find it difficult with anything less than a 14″. Besides, if you ever need to screen anything for someone like a client, do you really want them squinting at the details on a 9″ monitor? It also becomes difficult to check things like supers (whether you’re having edging issues etc…)
[rob katz] “if dvi is not necessary for my modest needs, any recommendation as to decent crt ntsc monitors? are the studio lcd monitors color accurate? more affordable?”
I’m confused as to wether you are talking monitors for your Mac or for your DV video signal here…
[rob katz] “do i need a sata card w/ the internal hard drive that comes w/the dual and a 2nd 500gig internal drive which would hold the media?”
You only need an additional card if you want to start raiding multiple drives. You can only fit the system drive and an additional in the G5 as is, if you want to start raiding, you’ll need to go external anyway. RAID’s a bit of overkill if you’re just working in DV, but a must if you start thinking of uncompressed SD or HD.
[rob katz] “lastly, any opinions as to how much ram?”
The only answer to this question is how much can you afford? The more the merrier when it comes to RAM, especially if you start doing stuff in say, Motion. I would recommend at least 2 Gb at a bare minimum.
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:o)[Mav777] “or do you mean to use AVI and a different compressor type?”
The Animation codec is a Quicktime codec. Export a QT file, and you’ll find the settings there.
And for the record: codec = compressor.
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