Jeremy Doyle
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Here are examples of what I’m talking about. 10 bit timeline – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZB2p_u_M8o dv timeline – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVqstuEXUqI
The weirdness is plan as day even in the crappy web video.
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I understand the the “regular ugly dv stuff” in the video isn’t going to change but the graphics should. If I had a place to post photos of what is happening, I would as they would explain it much better than I think I did.
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“if i click the “16×9 anamorphic” checkbox in the sequence settings, it makes the sequence 16×9, but all the video is still letterboxed and squeezed.”
At this point select all the footage in the timeline control click – remove attritbutes – distort. That will unsqueeze your footage leaving you with a 16×9 sequence.
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The only problem that you’ll have is the MacBook Pro won’t run version 4.5 of FCP. It will only run 5.1. Apple Pro apps don’t run in rosetta. So unless your planning on upgrading your FCP you’d be better off looking for a used G5 tower.
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It was my experience that school is kind of like networking. It lets you meet a lot of people and give you connections you wouldn’t be able to get otherwise. As for the actual education part of it… I learned a lot of theories on how and why, but actually using tools, I’ve learned way more playing around with them and learning myself. Most of the books that teach specific programs are as good as training at most schools.
If you have a killer demo and already have contacts, I don’t know that school would do much for you exept give you bills to pay.
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I didn’t talk directly to AJA, just taking the word of the guy who is having his station replaced. Plus we had the machine for almost a year so I wouldn’t exactly say were switching the card out shortly after purchase. Thank goodness for apple protection or we’d be paying for a whole new system.
The biggest hassle is we don’t have any extra edit stations so he needs to jump on to whatever machine is available because he’s show airs new third quarter. It’s not a good time for his edit station to be out for several months.
But what do you do? Technology is always changing and there will always be issues. Somehow or another the work always gets done. Sometimes its just smoother than others.
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That doesn’t sound good. We just shipped back a 2.7 to apple as a lemon and they are replacing it with a quad. Problem is we had a kona 2 that now needs to be replaced with a kona 3 and aja doesn’t have a buy back program. Luckily the vendor we purchased the system from said they will buy it back. I won’t complain about the 300 more for the kona 3 card we need to spend as its probably a better card. We also need to replace the fibre card and if it takes another 3-8 weeks you can just add that time on to the 2 months we’ve arleady been without 1 station dealing with trying to get the computer fixed before apple would call it a lemon. That means the edit station is out a potential 4 months. The worst part about it is the guy who uses that edit station has a show shipping this quarter. So for the last 2 months he’s been using the station of who ever is on the road shooting! What a mess. In the end it will be a 900 dollar upgrade to go from a 2.7 kona 2 to a quad kona 3. Still not worth all the headaches though.
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Although I was hoping someone found it on a website somewhere so that I could have a little more immediate gratification… I did send Mark an email so I guess its just a waiting game to see if he responds otherwise I’ll call.
Thanks Bill and Steve for you responses.
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I watched the video and it told me to scale the video to 133. I revert to my orginal question – Is there a way of doing a center cut of anamorphic footage without scaling? I’m assuming the scaling affects video quality.
When you drop 4×3 into the 16×9 it automatically pillars it and when you put 16×9 into the 4×3 it automatically letterboxes it. If I take my anamorphic footage out of my deck I can crop which leaves me with full 4×3, but than I don’t have pan and scan. Is there a way to make my anamorphic footage pan and scan instead of letterbox without scaling?
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The quickest way to correct it would be to select all the clips with the -33.33 distort, control click then go to remove attributes. Then click the distort option. All the clips should then fit full frame without hurting the edit that you have already done.
Its nothing to worry about. For whatever reason the first clips you captured didn’t get marked as anamorphic.