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Jeff Greenberg
June 19, 2011 at 8:32 pm in reply to: DVD Compression Issues

I think this is a bit hard to diagnose – you’ve done some workaround that are ‘stop don’t do that’ moments.
– Compressing it to an MPEG2 PAL, compressing it back to NTSC…going to 10 bit uncompressed.

I think you really need to go back and examine what the problems are and have us help you solve for that, rather than solving for your workarounds.

I’m trying to sum up your problems to make sure I understand them:
Some images (jpgs) were shifting in luminance (getting brighter/darker)?

Was all the video Standard def? Was it all at 29.97? The more we know, the more we have a possibility of helping.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 19, 2011 at 8:29 pm in reply to: Which kind of computer monitoring program is best for an Apple?

OSX Keyloggers.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 18, 2011 at 1:35 am in reply to: Compression Problems

How are you exporting out of FCP? Are you exporting via QuickTime Conversion? Doing a QuickTime reference file? Or using Compressor?

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 18, 2011 at 1:34 am in reply to: Squeezing to 490×316 f4v – getting judder

That’s a very odd size. Where does it come from?

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 18, 2011 at 1:30 am in reply to: Avid MC 5.5 on an iMAC i7

Works great. Just taught a class using them.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 18, 2011 at 1:29 am in reply to: Avid Media Training

Avid, through Avid Authorized Training Centers, has a comprehensive set of courses that are intense and hands on.

Start with MC 101 on this page here for a schedule of the one closest to you.

If you want to know a specific of any given class, ask away!

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 18, 2011 at 1:17 am in reply to: Popping Reds

Marc,

You really need an external broadcast monitor (not a standard TV set) to gauge the colors correctly; how do you know that the sats aren’t just turned up on the external monitor?

Then, it needs to be calibrated. Google Calibrating NTSC monitors.

Last, you need to be able read your scopes to be able to correctly handle color evaluation.

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But to actually reduce reds:

If you use the 3 way color corrector, there’s a ‘turn down’ arrow at the bottom. It’s a keyer. You use the eyedropper to pick the ‘red’ then adjust the saturation at the top of the effect (not in the bottom section) to reduce the red values (and only the red values) on the clip.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 18, 2011 at 1:13 am in reply to: FCP Quicktime to MPEG?

To add to shane’s questions – what are they cutting on?

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 14, 2011 at 2:59 pm in reply to: Template Creation Problem

For the future – any still/video can become a drop zone. (look on the 4th tab of the inspector.)
Basically it permits a swap of another element in a more user friendly method (than a standard replace.)

Also, if you save the motion project as a TEMPLATE, the drop zones are replaceable in FCP.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 14, 2011 at 2:57 pm in reply to: Edited Clip larger in Export Movie? uncompressed AVI

Yes, it’s compressed. Uncompressed video = approx 1 gig/min. This workaround you’re doing? Not worth it.

Couple of things; first, you’re trying to save storage space – for $70 you can go get a 1tb in storage (not the best, but it’s affordable.)

Generally speaking, especially with file based media (vs. footage from tapes), you bring it all in, you preserve all of it, in case you need it. I have a closet full of hard drives of client material like this (well, not exactly, but I’m trying to stress this idea, preserve the video; storage is cheap.)

The compressed video you have is likely not very happy being cut up into smaller pieces. To do so would require that it suffer a hit in quality. If you want the long discussion let me know.

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer | Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC | Adobe Cert. Instructor
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