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Jeff Leonard started the discussion Smooth cam questions in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 18:51:27 +0000

Can someone tell me the way to bring up the background process window with the ETA time that occasionally appears then sometimes doesn’t ? Secondly, when I delete a smooth cam clip for whatever reason and try to start another one, I’ll get a notification it is in the ‘render que’ … since I cancelled the first I would think it would start…

Jeff Leonard replied to the discussion Large SD DV files in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:44:12 +0000

Reply to Large SD DV files

Not sure what you mean when you save ‘convert’. I had to set the project parameters prior to capture, I selected what I thought would be closest. I picked DV since it was the best choice I thought due to the VHS being SD format, others were HD format. I will try ProRes in the future, I know for years it has been the go to codec. Just tried to get…

Jeff Leonard replied to the discussion Large SD DV files in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:43:04 +0000

Reply to Large SD DV files

any codec recommendation for a vhs trans. I used DV/NTSC 48KHZ

Jeff Leonard started the discussion Large SD DV files in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:38:17 +0000

Large SD DV files

I was wondering why my SD files are as large or larger than my HD files. I brought in some vhs captures set to the DV/DVpro setting and the files are over 10gb/hr. I would think SD would have smaller files. Stranger yet, when I exported to .mov, that file is 35gb for a 150 minute movie. TIA