James Whittington
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I copied everything from the drobo to my internal 700GB media drive. It’s a little better, but still has a good amount of stuttering. Perhaps this project is just too big for my system? Any other ideas?
Thanks for your help!
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All my media is stored on an external 4GB drobo raid drive. It is hooked up to the tower via FW800. So maybe that is the problem?
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Sorry, I guess I’m not familiar enough to even know what info to provide! 🙂
I’m working on a Power Mac G5 with 4×2.5 GHz processor and 4.5 GB DDR2 SDRAM. So it should be good. Final output will be for broadcast to Beta SP…4:3 and standard def. So I’m not sure why they’re even shooting HDCAM to begin with. So I guess I’ll have to capture natively at 16:9 and will lose some picture on both sides (they are aware of this). We are renting a deck to upload all the footage (it won’t be that much footage…less than an hour I think).
Thanks for the help. Wish I had a way to practice this, but I’m just gonna get the deck and footage next Wednesday morning and away I go!
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Yeah, it’s strange….I got the software and everything seems to fall within range with the image that’s giving me trouble. It’s really only one very specific region of the image that is completely blurred out. The rest of it looks alright.
Wish I could show you a pic of what I see….because I have no explanation! Thanks for all your help though!
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I figured it had to be the colors….I tried using the broadcast safe filter in AE but it still wasn’t working. I’ll give that plug-in a try. Thanks!
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Thanks for everyone’s help on this matter. It seems to me there were two problems…
1. I would get uncompressed QT’s from outside sources and drop them in Final Cut. Somehow this created a field issue. I figured out I can bring the QT into After Effects and export another QT with the setting “Apple FCP Uncompressed”. This seems to work better.
2. The text issue must be a problem with really thin fonts or too bright of colors. Again, I can fix in After Effects with the “Reduce Interlace Flicker” filter or by reducing the color level.
What still gets me is the comment about how I shouldn’t do “moves” in FCP. This would seem to me to defeat the whole purpose of an editing program! With my job, I have to do lots of zooms, resizing things, dissolves, etc. I don’t think I should feel limited with doing these kinds of things.
To answer a couple questions, I usually export a QT either uncompressed or DV. Size NTSC 720×480.
Thanks again for the responses! In film school editing class they taught us how to tell a story, but all this technical stuff is pretty new to me!