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George Mizzell
October 25, 2010 at 10:52 pm in reply to: Question of Keying green screen in FCP

Did you see the message with the link that I posted earlier today?

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan
George Mizzell
October 25, 2010 at 9:25 pm in reply to: Question of Keying green screen in FCP

1216_greenscreenedit1.tiff.zip

I think this is the link to the file. I brought this into FCP using the Apple Pro Res 422 HQ preset. I had been using the generic HDV preset. I was just trying it to see if there was a difference but I could not tell much difference.

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan
George Mizzell
October 25, 2010 at 6:14 pm in reply to: Problem relinking media

I have this problem all the time. I don’t know if it is a help to you but generally the link box is checked that looks for exact file name and when I deselect it I can click on the file I want. Once FCP makes the connection for one file in folder it connects all the other files that are in the same project that are in that folder. It does not require you to re-link every one individually – unless each file is in a different folder.

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan
George Mizzell
October 25, 2010 at 6:11 pm in reply to: Question of Keying green screen in FCP

Well I went through the steps for the uploading and have not received anything yet. Do you know where it goes or how many hours it usually takes for the site to send the link that I am to paste in the message?

Thanks again for your help. I can post the images on a web page if that helps.

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan
George Mizzell
October 25, 2010 at 6:24 am in reply to: Question of Keying green screen in FCP

Well, this might seem like a novice question but I know about the garbage mattes and set them up first thing and do some basic color adjusting to get it looking as good as I think it needs to look (I am not making a Disney movie). Then I use the basic color keyer with FCP and start adjusting the tolerance, thin line and feather. This usually results in about 90% acceptable. I tend to still see green tint in the hair and a dark line around the outline.

Are you saying that in addition to the garbage mask I can create more than one key or more than one mask and is it possible to create more than one key? I know I can just drag more keys into the viewer but I have not seen cummulative results. Please add a little more info.
Thanks
George

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan
George Mizzell
August 22, 2010 at 1:23 pm in reply to: Even more H.264 questions – please:)

I have read the manual and a mere technical description of codes is totally worthless without knowing how and when to apply which codec for which desired outcome. Apple left that out of their manuals. I know what I want – I don’t know how to get rid of the grayed out selections. I posted here because I found several other H.264 discussions in progress and read them and they were interesting but still left me with my question.

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan
George Mizzell
August 22, 2010 at 1:15 pm in reply to: Even more H.264 questions – please:)

Shane

Thanks but under my QT 7 tab I have 5 choices and on all of them the geometry tab has all options grayed out. If I create a new setting using the + drop down I get the choice of H.264 for Apple devices, Blu Ray and DVD Studio Pro. That allows me to change some parameters but the geometry tab only allows me to change the cropping – not the dimensions.

Thanks – still searching

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan
George Mizzell
April 17, 2010 at 3:54 pm in reply to: How to get the best video for a Flash video

Thanks for the information. I ran a sample of one of my 5 minute videos and could not find out how to resize it in the compressor configuration. When I ran it the file came out at 853 x 480 which is a bit larger than I wanted. I selected H.264 for Apple Devices and then I selected the iPod/iPhone Anamorphic (?) as the device and it gave me these settings:
Name: h264 test
Description: No description
File Extension: m4v
Estimated size: 675.46 MB/hour of source
Device: iPod/iPhone VGA (Anamorphic)
Frame sync rate: 5 seconds
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width and Height: Automatic
Pixel aspect ratio: Default
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: Off
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 50
Min. Spatial quality: 50
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 50
Average data rate: 1.5 (Mbps)
Maximum data rate: 4 (Mbps)

I did not get a chance to set it to the pixel settings of an iPhone. How do I get the file down to the correct size?

Thanks again. I really think this is making progress. Even though the file was quite large – 60 MB for 5 minutes it really looked great.

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan
George Mizzell
April 17, 2010 at 4:08 am in reply to: How to get the best video for a Flash video

Do you mean I do not need to run it through the flash media encoder program? If so, boy that saves time too.

Thanks
George

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan
George Mizzell
August 9, 2008 at 1:59 pm in reply to: Final Cut 6 crashes on open after upgrading to Leopard

Great idea. After the first of these successive updates Final Cut is working again. I don’t know if other problems will ensure later but this has resolved my original issue.

THANKS TO THE CREATIVE COW SUPER GURUS.

You guys are my Olympic Champs:).
Thanks
George

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan

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