Jamie Pickell
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Todd,
It depends on what you are doing. If you are primarily editing, then you want Final Cut Pro which comes with Motion (which is somewhat similar to After Effects). If you are primarily doing motion graphics, then you should get After Effects. If you do get After Effects, spend the money and get the Adobe Production Premium which comes with After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Flash, Soundbooth and Encore. Basically it comes down to this: decide what primarily you plan on doing and go with that toolset.
Jamie
OS 10.5.5
FCP 6.04
2×3.2 Quad-Core
Kona 3
XRaid -
In your first post you mentioned that the clips coming off of the DBeta don’t have an alpha channel, and you are correct. What you are doing is taking the graphic elements (the Fill) and marrying them with white and black images (the Matte). The Matte is your alpha channel for the Fill. You want the opacity of both your Fill and your Matte to be 100 percent, unless you want them not as strong in which case you need to bring both opacities down to the same percentage level. Your Matte should be White where the graphics are visible and black where the video underneath should be showing through. You also want to double check that your Fill IN point matches your Matte IN point. Sometimes graphics guys will put a large X one frame before the start of the Fill and the start of the Matte so you know where to mark your IN point. Otherwise I would try to see if the graphics move at any point and try to match the movement of the Fill with the movement of the Matte.
Hope this helps,
Jamie Pickell -
Herb,
I think you want to open your Sequence settings and under the Audio tab, set the audio outs to 4, then set your first two outs to be stereo, and the second to be mono. At least that’s how I would do it if I were laying back via a Kona card.
Jamie Pickell
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Carlos,
In your timeline put the video clip with the graphics (Fill) on layer 2, put the clip with the alpha (black and white clip – Matte) directly below it on layer 1. Right-click on the clip on layer two, under composite mode, set it to Travel-Luma. To see if video will play where the graphics aren’t (like in the case of a graphic for a lower-third), move your two clips up one layer and place a regular old video clip underneath. You should see the graphics sitting on top of the video underneath. The key is to make sure your IN point on your Fill matches the IN point on your Matte, otherwise you’ll start seeing a graphics, white mess on top of your video.
Hope this helps,
Jamie Pickell
Mac OS 10 Leopard
Mac Quad-Core Intel Xeon
8GB RAM
FCP 6.04
Kona 3
XRaid
— Just laid my first HD program to tape with fills and mattes at the end -
Jacob,
I had a similar problem when I upgraded from FCP 5 to 5.1. I digitized via Kona 2 from DBeta and then the timecode would reset to zero on the clips. I ended up trashing the preferences and that stopped the problem from happening again.
Hope that helps,
Jamie
FCP 6.04
OS 10.4.11
Kona 2
XRaid
Dual 2.5 G5 (Intel hopefully coming soon…) -
Tom – thanks for the response.
I think I have a solution, but I’ve lucked into it. I mounted the Mac OS formatted drives with the files that have the -av extension onto my Intel MacBook. Lo and behold FCP recognized the files without any problem and I am able to shuttle thru the footage quickly (the original problem I ran into on the G5). So it appears if you have an MS DOS FAT 32 formatted drive, an intel Mac will like it a lot better than a PowerPC…
Pheww… that’s 30 hours of material that doesn’t need to be redigitized…
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Wayne,
I pulled up this site on Google:
https://www.fileinfo.net/extension/ivrLooks like it’s a RealPlayer extension.
Cheers,
Jamie
OS 10.4.11
FCP 6.02
Kona 2
XRaid
Dual 2.5. G5 -
I’ve got a 12 yr. old Kensington Turbo Mouse trackball on my system and I love it. It’s a holdover from my desktop publishing days. I haven’t bothered programming all the buttons, but the fact that I don’t have to drag a mouse over two screens of real estate is great. I highly recommend looking into a trackball like the Kensington Turbo Mouse.
Jamie
OX 10.4.11
FCP 6.02
Dual 2.5 G5
XRaid
Kona 2 -
I had this problem when I upgraded from ver. 5 to 5.1 and I have a Kona 2 coming in off of DBeta and DVCam decks. I could log and capture clips, but once they were captured, the timecode would reset to zero and the reel # would reset to 001. I solved it by trashing preferences and never saw the problem again. I am currently running 6.02.
Jamie
OS 10.4.11
Dual 2.5 G5
Kona 2
XRaid
FCP 6.02 -
Simmie,
Our team recently purchased a Sony HDV deck with HDMI out and a Convergent Design HD Connect MI converter box. Convergent Design box takes the HDMI and firewire inputs from the deck and converts them to SDI and RS-422 output and control. I have a Kona 2 capture card and have not had any problems. The deck was $3000 and the converter box was $500 a big savings over buying the Sony HDV deck with SDI and RS-422 connections ($6000).
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Jamie
OS 10.4.9
FCP 5.4.1 … upgrading very soon
Dual 2.5 G5
Kona 2
XRaid