[Greg Mattison]

Much Thanks Gentlemen,
I was looking at the 422, nice to hear positive feedback.

Wouldn’t you know our 2 100 packs are in block 28. Apparently that was a gem of information we could have used a year ago.

This new development prompted a call to Lectrosonics. According to them they can re-channel Transmitters for about $300 but it is illegal for them to re-channel receivers. (Certainly is commercially advantageous)

The extra $700 for the UM400s just got a little easier to justify… Unfortunately now I need 4. Ouch. Think we’ll wait and see what kind of trouble we get into with the 1st 2.

Anyone interested in some gently used UCR100’s? 😉

[Greg Mattison]

I second Bret’s comment about resizing outside FCP. The less processing you have FCP do the better your image quality. This extends to filters as well. For example I had used the Flop and Rotate filters in FCP to fix a slide that had been scanned reversed. This created terrible distortions in my image, particularly if I Ken Burn’s it. By correcting the size and orientation of the image in Photoshop first I completely removed the undesirable distortion.
Another thing I found works well when working in a sequence of only still images is to set Field Dominance to None in the Sequence Settings. I’m assuming this essentially makes for a progressive scan sequence display even though I’m using the DV NTSC codec. I don’t know how technically correct it is, but it does yield very nice images on SD DVDs and deinterlaced webstreams. It could be I’m just seeing every line in the FCP viewer but my impression is that the MPEG2 files look better too. Perhaps someone can tell me if that’s just wishful thinking.