Gunner Jones
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You can not raise or lower the audio for capture unless you’ve got analog video and a capture card. With DV, what you shot IZ what U got!
O&O-Gunner Productions
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Nope. AFAIK, that’s the way it works. Maybe you can have an audio specialist create this for you on a DAW?
O&O-Gunner Productions
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If you insist on FireWire drives, you should get a separate PCI card to put your FireWire drives and deck on separate buses. Remember that Apple doesn’t recommend them, and I suspect that is what is preventing the preview from happening in Log and Capture.
Also make sure to hook up that video monitor, which I suspect you have not yet..
O&O-Gunner Productions
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Trash your prefs to restore the window. Avoid daisy chaining FW drives from now on if that’s what you’re doing.
Also, make sure you set up your video monitor and speakers out of the DV Deck. The reason? If you’re hard wired as well, you can make sure all is working to spec. I never use the L/C window for video, and prefer my video monitor instead, so that is more important that it is getting signal from the deck.
O&O-Gunner Productions
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[dan] “You know what….now that I think about it. The footage is imported from After effects in which I export at 720 x 486…and I think, for some reason FCP is only at 720 x 480…..
“480 is DV and 486 is the 601 frame size for SD. BTW, FCP does more than DV, so FCP can handle any frame size, including 720 x 486, it just wouldn’t be a DV size sequence. You should export out of AE at 720 x 480 when working with DV footage. Use the Animation codec to preserve an alpha channel, use the DV codec if you don’t need alpha.
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Why not use Compressor? It works great and it’s free. Distributed Encoding ROCKS!
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When things like this go wrong: trash your prefs….
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
gunner
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My output looks awesome at Best for render quality.
BTW, you cannot Compare the Canvas of FCP vs. Xpress Pro: totally different animals.
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I think you mean the Video Processing Tab. Fastest is not the highest quality, Best is…by far. I rendered out a Time Remap effect that looks simply stunning.
[Brian] “No wait, I’m not done. The video looks good on my external monitor.”
If that’s the case, then don’t worry about it. You should ALWAYS check your render quality in the video monitor and never the Canvas. You haven’t been hiding under a rock, have you? Everyone knows that! 😉
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Shane,
The image quality and scaling is vastly improved in FCP 5. If I can stay in FCP and get the job done, then I don’t need to hop out to AE. It looks like I will be able to stay in FCP more often now.