Illya Laney
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I’m not sure what market you work in but if I told any clients I was editing and grading with Premiere, they would look at me and ask “what the hell is that? I don’t have that installed on my laptop.” Anyone else I work with would just laugh at me. Too many people have invested money into Avid and FCP(and the Color workflow) already. Besides, what’s keeping you from using both Premiere and FCP at your studio?
Just because Apple hasn’t had any amazing announcements about FCP at NAB doesn’t mean that they won’t have any announcements in the near future.
Motion Design, Color, Editing
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Automatic Duck provides solutions for Adobe/FCP workflows.
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You’re using FCP 5? Wow.
You should just set your internal drive as the capture scratch and then transfer the footage to the USB drive afterwards. You can play HD and SD off of a USB 2.0 drive, you may just get dropped frames if you try to play high quality in the timeline with HD. Since you’re capturing SD, it shouldn’t be a problem though.
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Make sure you have the right capture preset and device control setup. I own an HV20 and it took a few minutes to figure out exactly what was up, it’s a little finicky at times so you may need to refresh a/v devices and close and open the capture window. Are you getting signal? If so just play it from the camera and hit “shift + c” to “capture now.”
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What are you monitoring on and what do you mean when you say FCP reports a frame rate of 23.98?
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I thought the color management settings in CS4 have fixed this problem.
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Particular has some good tutorials. They have a demo so you can decide if you like it or not.
Motion Design, Color, Editing
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Deselect all the points in the mask and then command click the point you want. Holding down command will turn your cursor into a white arrow with a little box when it’s around the mask, but when it’s over the mask it will become a sharp black arrow. Use the black arrow to click on a single point. You can lasso multiple points with the white arrow. Hold down shift and command to select additional points.
Using an expression to lock the layer in place is also a good little trick when you’re rotoscoping.
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Really easy effect to accomplish in Apple Color.
Dial back the saturation, crush the blacks and crank the whites. Notice there’s basically no detail in the blacks or the highlights, but still some in the mid tones. I only see red/orange/browns as far as color goes so I’d suggest using the saturation curves in the secondaries to get that look. Here’s a screen shot of what I’d do in the sat curves.
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By display, do you mean the actual footage, or do you mean the GUI? I’m assuming you mean the viewer.
I know this may sound simple, but if you have your footage at a lower res and you keep the footage the same size then it’s going to look aliased etc. Is that what you’re talking about? Try choosing a smaller percentage size for the viewer and see if the “interlacing” goes away.
“ProRes HQ is almost ALWAYS overkill for the video you capture or transfer into FCP.”
I’d rather use ProRes HQ than regular ProRes for grading and effects. An hour of ProRes is about 60GB and ProRes HQ is 90GB. Not much of a difference to me if I’m working on short form projects.
Motion Design, Color, Editing
Simulated Wood Grain Cabinet Inc.
Bunim-Murray Productions