[Jeff Greenberg]

Finder Preferences.
General tab. Show these items on the desktop…

That’s what’s missing.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Actually, ProRes ought to work. Just go ProRes LT. Do one clip. I think you might have to buy QuickTime pro on Windows. Premiere Pro handles it just fine.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

I don’t think there is an xml way to ‘ripple’ your changes from FCP to Premiere Pro (while retaining what youv’e done in Premiere Pro.)

The closest I can suggest is that he finalize scenes, rather than the whole timeline and send you sequences of specific scenes.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

I don’t think there is a way around it – I can explain the ‘why’, just not a solution.

First the why – since it’s being used on a mono track, modifying the clip would have the audio on a track it ‘can’t exist on’. It’s impossible to have a mono clip on a stereo track and vice versa.

I think I have a way to take stereo clips and make them mono…but not vice versa (via FCP export since FCP doesn’t have a stereo track.)

I’m curious if there is a solution.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Go to the preferences> Audio. You have the audio set as 5.1. Set it to mono should do the trick.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Oded,

I’m not excited (or not excited) about ColorSync. I suspect apple will be changing the way things work; until they do, you’ll have to rely to a broadcast monitor to evaluate images.

I suspect you’ll still need that broadcast monitor after the fact as well. Nobody is sure what apple is planning – could they be washing their hands of broadcast space and say “Use color sync for the web?”

You’ll know at the end of next month.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

That’s a fascinating question now, isn’t it Tom?

Perhaps Apple will come up with some math transcode for their work with colorsync extending it to video
Perhaps Apple will say f*** it and say, hey, this guarantees it will all look the same, as long as everyone has the same colorsync values.
Perhaps Apple will be modifying QuickTime along with FCPX.

Anyone who knows isn’t saying – and we’ll all know by July 1st.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

If you’re in FCP7, just send to compressor and use the youtube preset there. All the MPEGstreamclip work? And AIC conversion? Not necessary (or necesarrily smart). You’re adding layers of transcoding that aren’t necessary.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

ColorSync syncs your monitor for Print – which is in CYMK space. In print you add no ink (subtract) to get to the color white on the paper….where on a computer, you add all three channels (RGB) to get to the color white (additive.)

The math is different for video display than for print or a computer, so colorsync is not going to help you – and yes, you’ll need a calibrated monitor for proper output. There’s no getting around this.

[Oded Helman] “also another general question, does professional Films get regraded for different delivery Systems” Film print vs. digital cinema? If there’s money in the budget? Yes.

[Oded Helman] “would there be a different Color Grade for a NTSC DVD vs a PAL DVD to compensate for example on black levels???”
Possibly – but yes, the QC on both are different.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Devon,

You won’t be able to get exactly what you want without putting two copies on the DVD.

DVD media can be flagged as widescreen (16×9) and will automatically be blown up/letter boxed depending on how they’re individually set up.

You have some odd cropping – 1.66:1 which doesn’t match 16×9 and would have slight black bars on a 16×9 set.

I’d take your video, regardless of what sort of cropping you’ve done, toss it into a 16×9 SD uncompressed sequence, change it’s scale so you’re happy, send to compressor which will generate a 16×9 MPEG2 file. In DVDSP, you’ll have to throw the flag that says ’16×9′

On a 4:3 tv, it will automatically be letterboxed (unless the person has changed their dvd player to blow it up).

On a 16×9, it will be displayed normally.

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