[Jeff Greenberg]

It’s not out of sync. Sync only exists with Video and audio that came from the same tape.

Instead, do a single roller trim of video only. Since you’re making video longer (and every shot after is pushed down), it’ll throw every clip after out of sync.

Also, I always use pieces of film to teach this. Not Paper towel rolls, not toilet paper, but actual film.

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

If you have it configured right (in AE’s export), The ‘fast import’ should be 1.25 RT or so.

Meridian uncompressed, Millions of Colors +, STRAIGHT Alpha, lower field first, 720×486.

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Stay away from DV.

SD or HD (4:2:2) please.
Capture SD uncompressed.
The greater the distance the better. Even lighting. Make sure your screen brightness is the same as your foreground as well.

I’ve keyed tons of glass…might take more than one ‘pass’ at the key. I’ve done this with keylight, ultimatte, and primatte. The Key (pardon the pun) is to have it shot right and use professional keying software.

Oh yeah, test first!

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Well, the biker is blurry because of 24p, yes.

With only 24 frames per second, the lens is open for a longer period of time, resulting in motion blur. And the choppiness? 24 frames per second doesn’t handle some rates of motion well. For example, certain panning rates yield choppiness in motion.

You can still possibly key this stuff, but it’ll struggle at areas of blur between the screen and the motorcycle. There’s a chance you’ll have to go in and do some roto to fix it.

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Addressing #2:

Look, it’s critical you have the people in your shots exposed properly. On the variety of cameras you have, you should be using a meter or zebra striping (at 70-80%) on the highlights of someone’s face.

Yes, it’s good not to blow out your sky (or anything else for that matter…) but getting exposure right so people are visible is always more important…especially in run and gun.

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Technically speaking, when you capture DV, you’re just copying the data off the tape.

If you were to use cuts only, and then use the Export to tape, you’d have no lossage in quality, as the data has merely been moved. Only in a render does it go through a compression/decompression cycle.

When you export as mentioned before (as DV) it’s just copying the data (and any renders) to a new file (essentially flattening it.)

If you cut your show out to tape (even if it’s a crash record – where you hit play and record on your camera/deck) it’s a copy of the finished show.

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Mick,

Two thoughts:
FCP uses frame blending. Motion has two other qualities to use. Motion Blur blending and Optical Flow.

Optical flow will create a *huge* file (and draw upon all of the frames of clip – if you usually capture the ‘entire’ tape), this will take forever (and then some!) To get around this, export and reimport the relevant frames.

Send to motion. Click on the clip.
F1 takes you to properties. Bottom of the properties pane there is a drop down to pick the rendering quality.

Note two: I’d suggest the advanced FCP class – 300 (the experienced editor class 250, specifically is meant for editors coming from a certain purple application.) Yes you can take both at our facilities, but there are a number of great places to take apple training.

You could even drop in your local bookstore and look at (I think it’s chapter 13 or 14) of the Motion 3 book to see how to set this.

[Jeff Greenberg]

Hold down the command key on the edge of the bezier handle. This allows you to “break” the two sides.

Alternatively right click and choose make corner.

Best,

Jeff

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Outside of pushing it to motion where it will look very good…if you switch to optical flow)…are you looking at the video @ 100? or in your NTSC monitor?

Best,

jeff

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Drag them to the timeline.
Video over audio.

Drag them back to the browser. Now sync’d and a single clip.

Best,

Jeff G
Principal Instructor
Future Media Concepts

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Editorsretreat.com