Gordon Gurley
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I kinda feel the same way as Martin. $1500 is not a ton of money, but when you are talking 2 or 3 suites, it adds up. We have been an AJA only house for years, but wondering: do the Blackmagic cards mix well with the AJA cards?
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Try Automatic Sync:
https://www.automaticsync.com/
You send them an audiofile with TC. They generate a file that you drop on your sequence that contains the line 21 data. Much like the CPC solution, but you don’t have to buy software.
The other way is to send your master to the National Captioning Institute. You lose a generation. Couple hundred bucks per master.
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Thank you so much for the info!
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Video over IP
Check out Pleora
https://www.pleora.com/products/ethercast_pl4453a.php
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Cool, good tips. I’ve also found bugs when rendering certain motion tab animations. Still haven’t found any acceptable answers.
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Toni,
You are not alone. I’ve also noticed a more problems working with stills in FCP. Starting with v5 and getting worse with 6. I’ve never received a good answer to my questions, but I have heard rumors that Apple is pushing Motion for doing any motion graphics work.
Some things that I have discovered on my own and with the help of other Cow members:
Working in a higher quality sequence helps sometimes (sometimes it makes it worse!).
Shrinking the still in photoshop helps sometimes. Changing it’s file type helps sometimes.
Keyframing or altering certain motion tab parameters can cause problems (especially Distort, rotation and drop shadow).
I think what’s happening is that there are such a plethora or input formats as well as output formats that FCP isn’t good at dealing with all of them all the time. Certain filetypes (and even certain types of content) cause problems. Heavily compressed jpegs are not a good source for motion grahics work.
Like I said, Apple says “use Motion”. But I’ve even found that that doesn’t always help. It makes me think the problem is in Quicktime.
Anyway, there definitely appears to be a gremlin somewhere.
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One word: Lectrosonics. Really expensive but worth it. Also, keep in mind that the FCC has sold much of the band used for wireless mics. I can’t remember the specifics, but in the not too distant future, many wireless mics will be riddled with interference.
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I can’t speak technically here, but probably the only time there would be any change to your audio would be if you added audio filters. Otherwise you are just playing 16 bit audio in a 24 bit mixer. I’m guessing that for most simple things, FCP is adding the extra bits on the fly. Generally, 16 bit is fine for delivery, but for mixing and processing, 24 bit is desirable.
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dv garage matt blast is pretty amazing
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OK, I’ve at least isolated something here. Keyframing anything in “Drop Shadow” or “Distort” motion tabs seems to be causing problems.
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