Jeff Carpenter
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I know this doesn’t help your current issue, but thought I’d mention that there’s no reason to repair permission “weekly” as you said.
Do it when you’re having trouble (as you obviously are here) but when things are going fine you’re just wasting your time.
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If you mean semi-transparent text, double click it and go to its ‘Motion’ tab. Opacity for the object is in there.
If you’re talking about a matte where you ONLY see though the text and not anywhere else, then create the graphic as pure black and white in photoshop (white text, black background) and drop a luminance key filter onto it in Final Cut.
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On my version (6) it’s under the effects folder AUDIO FILTERS -> FINAL CUT PRO -> GAIN
I have no idea when they added it. It’s possible you don’t have it but I would have though this would be a basic, older filter.
If you don’t have it I’m not aware of a way to share filters besides sharing a project that contains it. And since you couldn’t open up a version 6 project that wouldn’t work.
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There is an audio gain filter. You can turn that baby up as much as you want.
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Either use Chris’ suggestion of 1920×1080 or, if you have the most recent Photoshop, take your 1440×1080 project and go into IMAGE -> PIXEL ASPECT RATIO and change it to ‘HDV 1080.’ Then fix it to make sure everything looks right again.
Just another option. Both ways will work.
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I don’t know how much money you do have to use for this, but the best idea would be to rent a switcher AND a guy from the production house to run it.
If you haven’t done much live keying you might spend hours trying to get it right. Someone who’s used to it can help you get it right the first time by making sure you bring all the correct equipment.
It could be a big help to you.
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In DVD Studio Pro, you need to look at the settings for the video timeline. It should be set to 16:9 letterbox.
That will make it fill a widescreen TV properly and it will give you a letterboxed image on a 4:3 TV.
That should be it, but if the image still looks distorted within that, you’ve gotten something messed up in the export from Final Cut. Export from Final Cut using Compressor and just use any of the standard DVD exports in Compressor. You can change any of them to say 16:9 instead of 4:3. I doubt you’ll need to re-do this part, but that’s how if you need to.
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By that logic we should all be running 4 different opperating systems on our computers. Kind of risky to depend on just one for everything.
Hmmm…on second thought, with 16 core computers just around the corner and virtualization programs springing up left and right, this might be what everyone will be doing in the future.
So ok, you might be on to something.
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Make a smart folder. (Option-Command-N)
Configure it to find what you want (All files with ‘omg_svmh_ehc’, for example) and then save the folder. It will auto update if changes are made to the files elsewhere.
Then, use the folder to move, zip, or do whatever to all those files.
Not the one-step option you were looking for, but it should prove to be more flexible.
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>>QT must be totally benign since it is the very foundation of all media on the Macintosh.
Quicktime must never be toxic.===
So when a security flaw is found…something that could be exploited by a hacker…what is Apple supposed to do? A fix could certainly affect programs that depend on that part of Quicktime. But Apple has no idea how other company’s programs are written. How could they?
So what’s the solution? Never fix flaws in Quicktime?
Clearly they can’t do that either. What WOULD be useful is if Quicktime saved ALL the .x updates within itself and you could just go into the menu and pick any of them whenever you want.
That would be super-useful. But to just say that Quicktime shouldn’t be toxic in the first place? Not possible.