John Phillips
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Thanks Robin
I was in a bit of crisis mode… the transfer from the card works great. Thanks! When I searched the web, all I saw as programs that rewrap into PR.
Appreciate you taking the time…
John
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Not to take up your time, but in the world of live video performance, PhotoJPEG is still a codec of choice. It is quick to decode, and each frame is available so time scrubbing etc is possible. Some programs can use HAP codec which is great and the new version of Isadora (one of my favorites) now can playback up to 8 HD clips in H264 and ProRes, but not with realtime effects.
Thanks again for your advice – much appreciated.
John
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Thanks Robin, that’s what I’ll do. Appreciate your time!
John
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Thanks for getting back so quickly. PhotoJPEG is one of the codecs of choice for live video projection where high fidelity is not always that critical. My worry is about doing my editing then recompressing to ProRes then back to something else. BTW, I make all my original clips in ProRes then compress for performance.
Does your reply mean that no matter what comes into FCPX it must be transcoded into something else on output?
Thanks again,
John
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Not sure what this person is intending by starting this thread, but to add another “fact” – I regularly add at least a dozen layered and processed .wav files to my FCPX 10.1 projects without any problem.
Fact!
John
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For those interested, I figured it out. While pro audio programs allow one to make a custom setup inside the program for speaker assignment, FCPX uses the Audio/MIDI set up window to assign speakers to surround output. I did that, FCPX works, my sound programs work as before – so cheers,
John
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To add some information to my question: I have been researching!
I am doing a video art installation in a large gallery and I “map” my video parts onto walls or areas which need to be tweaked with distort parameters or other modifications while in place. I hook up a video projector via VGA to my laptop and finish the video in the gallery. My video projectors work fine at 800 x 600. For video projection 800 x 600 _is_ a standard video resolution. This is a problem with FCS3 as I have used this technique last year w/ FCP6. Motion 4 outputs the correct image and does QT7 & 10. I must have screwed up my sequence settings somehow? I followed another’s advice and made an 800 x 600 ProRes422 seq. setting. When I drag a clip into the timeline a pop up window implies that External Video is not optimized, asks Yes or No – advice was No. FCP still says clip doesn’t match my sequence settings and crushes the vertical height when playing back even if I drag a full 800 x 600 ProRes clip into my sequence, or say Yes change the seq settings to match.
Thanks for any advice… here’s my seq settings –
John (MP 2.66 octo / os 10.6.4 / FCP 7.0.2 / motion 4)
btw, I will use the program Isadora outputting 3 video streams (AIC @ 800×600) through a Matrox TH2Go into the three projectors each set at 800×600. The Matrox only does a 2400 x 600 output on my MBP thus the resolution.
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Hi
Thought I’d jump in with some limited experience… I make multi-chl audio DVDs for my sound art installations in galleries, etc. Since most of my pieces are under 30 minutes, I don’t use AC3, but make my 6 tracks full-range PCM files. My DVD player(s) have 6 RCA outputs on the back, these I attach to 6 powered speakers and it works fine. I have avoided home A/V receivers as amps because of the LFE routing.
hth, John
John J.H. Phillips: intermedia arts: https://terragizmo.net
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To answer my own post, if anyone is a silly as I am and is curious, I found an Adobe folder in the Lib/Prefs and removed the AE doc and voila – all better! Not the prefs at the top level of Prefs.
Now I have to figure out how to get my CRT monitor to work with AE!
Sorry to bother the group…
John