Gary Askham
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Yeah, your video looks good to me too. Nice idea too.
You do realise that it’s never going to look as good as the original? Vimeo have recompressed your video to their own standards which you have no control over (as every other internet video provider does) – all you can do is get it to them in the best quality possible.
You might want to use Compressor for this rather then exporting directly from FCP as once you’ve learnt the basics it becomes a powerful tool.
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It shouldn’t make any difference to your user experience… maybe iPhoto will load faster? Probably use up more power too. If you go into activity monitor you’ll see that some apps now say they are 64bit. And in the unlikely event that it does go wrong just restart your machine with the keys ‘3’ and ‘2’ held down and you’re back in 32bit land.
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What is the ‘.mov’ for? Who has specified that it needs to be a ‘.mov’.
Because in actual fact your 8 minute film is already a ‘.mov’. You don’t have to do anything.
Okay, maybe you do. ‘.mov’ is the file extension for a QuickTime Movie and Final Cut Pro is based on the QuickTime technology. It’s more what is inside the QuickTime that is the issue. I am going to assume that the QuickTime is needed for distribution in some way, probably online (this is only an assumption though – you didn’t give many details so it could be for another reason altogether). Online distribution tends to mean nowadays creating a H.264 QuickTime (H.264 is the name of the most recent and widely adopted format for web based video). And the easiest way to create a H.264 video is by using a Compressor preset.
Export your sequence from Final Cut Pro as a Quicktime movie (untick the ‘recompress frames’ and ‘make movie self contained’ options) and bring that file into compressor. Apply one of the H.264 streaming presets.
To tell the truth when you start out encoding video a lot of it is down to trial and error. Apply a few of the different presets and look at the results. Choose which is the best. If you don’t like the results then make a duplicate of the preset and change the settings until you get what you want.
Hope this helps.
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Quicktime X is Apple’s new 64-bit capable version of Quicktime Player (to bring it into line with the other Snow Leopard Apps). Because of the jump to 64-bit they have had to simplify it a lot and a lot of features we used to take for granted have been removed.
As they knew this would cause problems for some people they included Quicktime 7 on the Snow Leopard installer disc which now goes into the Utilities folder.
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Have you got the deck’s iLink setting turned on (one of the buttons on the front). Also in the DSR-1500’s menu there is an option to switch control from Firewire to 9-pin remote (it is under the Interface menu item).
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What resolution and codec are you editing with?
For DV or HDV the 5400rpm drive will probably be okay for simple sequences but you’ll get better performance from the faster drive. It’ll eat your laptop battery though.
I wouldn’t use this drive for anything more demanding than DV though. You’re not going to be doing much ProRes editing with this setup, never mind DVCProHD or even XDCAM.
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