Gunner Jones
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Dude….2much2soon really does rule. Have you checked it out? Much better than home-cooked gruel.
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choke…..welp, you have the “he-man” drives. I’m on an Xsan and the playhead doesn’t seem sticky at all. OK, just a bit with 1080i 10bit, but that’s a monstrous amount of data to scrub through.
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I’d still trash those prefs though.
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Are you using girly-man FireWire drives? Or real man’s internal SATA drives? 😉
This makes all the difference in the world IMHO.
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Drives should never be set to sleep in my experience.
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[Jason McCaffrey] “I’m trying to accomplish a good flash bulb burnout effect without buying any extra plugins.”
If you’re a cheap bastard, you can always get Matt Sandstrom’s Too Much Too Soon filters for free. But I’d kick him down at least a few bucks by donation if you take them. Don’t let us down, Jason….everything cool should cost something as I’m sure you’d agree…..;-)
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Use a video monitor to check the quality.
Get your Timeline in Safe RT mode.
Render with the FULL bars checked in the Sequence>Render menus
Add Rob’s advice about placement of the graphics, as well.…and always use a video monitor to check the quality.
Did I mention to always use a video monitor to check quality?
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Don’t screw around. Get yourself the fastest and best Mac TOWER you can afford. Stuff it with a fast Video Card and you’ll be set for Motion. Motion needs a fast video card and the iMacs is rather a slowpoke. With the iMac, you’ll be forced to daisy chain your deck and an external FW device and this has been known to be very problematic for many folks.
Get 2 GB of RAM and a separate 400 GB internal SATA and you’ll have a machine that’ll last you 2-3 years no problem.
Don’t cheap out. Get what works for a predictable and reliable FCP Workstation. FCP is more than an app, it’s a SYSTEM. And just ’cause it sorta works on iMacs, doesn’t mean you should use one if you plan to do serious work on it.
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Control + click on the keyframe in the Canvas and choose Ease In/Ease Out. Adjust the small purple dots on the bezier handle to control acceleration.
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If you color correct AT ALL. A LCD is simply not the right tool for the job. You want to use the right tool, don’t you? Or does tabletop space more important than the final color of your DVDs? I think not….
IMHO–Prosumer or Pro, you need a good CRT video monitor–regardless.
Stick with a good CRT, maybe go a step up on that WEGA with a pro Sony monitor. Might even be cheaper too. Even the Sony REPS admit that CRTs are much better for editing than LCD.
You can do what you want, but I can say that it’s probably gonna do more harm than good. Take that to the bank!
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