Jon Barrie
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Better get some advice from some other guys here at the cow, but If you are having read/write issues because of the fragmented drive, I would do it. I don’t how the ‘issues’ would destroy anything you’ve done. I can’t say I’ve done it with a massive project, but I’ve done it on 30min projects and haven’t noticed any ‘issues’. I’d suggest you just defrag. But let other’s get onto this issue with their experience. It might play with the way it…looks at the render files, that doesn’t make sense to me… I’d defrag.
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I own and operate a SONY Z1P. I shoot both HDV and DV modes and use the downconvert when editing the HDV footage. I have used it on Mac and PC and haven’t had any issues with audio yet. It is possible that the audio has been recorded too loud and then crackling at the distortion level. Might want to clean up what you have and do some test recordings with the camera to see what recording setting is best. Soundbooth from Adobe also has a great audio cleanup function. Whatever you can do to get it back on track is good. But you need to test the recording on any camera and make sure its not recording incorrectly.
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This app won’t do the converting from NTSC to PAL for you. Do that from a PAL project. Import the NTSC clip. Take note of its length to the Frame. Change the interpreting of the clip from 29.97fps to 25fps. The clip will now be much longer. Add the clip to the timeline then change the speed/duration to the length of it’s original fps. that will speed it up and now play the same length it used to be in 29.97fps. Only now its showing you in 25. This process only works well with NTSC to PAL.
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Try using DVDtoAVI it’s a freeware that works really well. You can set it to do 2passes and use no compression. That will result in a large file but it won’t degrade an already low quality MPEG2 file. The app sometimes needs to have larger length clips broken down into sections to maintain the audio sync but it’s the fastest and highest quality converter I’ve found for free.
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Take note of the speed your text is moving at. That makes a difference. Slow it down (make it take longer to cross the screen). Bluring should only be for a small amount like 1. Anything more and it looks blurry. The flickering is usually caused by the interlacing delay caused by tv’s. The blur needs only to cross that pixel depth to overlap the interlacing delay. Text that is legible is usually min at about 18pxls. 20 is perfect, but if it needs to me smaller than 18 you can’t really read it.
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I’m actually working on a video tutorial that shows how you can use more than 4 clips – so stay tuned to the cow. Generally most directors/editors know which parts of cam angles are actually good enough to use. In a way you would never have more than a top 4 shots to choose from when you only will only show one. Setup the MC setup seq with a seq per cam. each actual cam seq has the clip in it. Then decide which of the 4 clips you have would not be competing for that 5th clips spot. You probably already know where you really want to use this shot. Lay inside one of the camera seqs and put it on another track then trim it in the timeline to keep its sync and your know using more than 4 shots with a choice of 4. It does seem like a lot of work, but its actually not really. And knowing your footage better means you make better choices. If this seemed a little hard to understand I’ll be posting a tutorial by end of week.
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Try reinstalling the soundcard drivers (the original one not an update).
Silly as this might sound I had similar problem few years back, same setup for ages and then realized my minijack cable was the problem.
Check that your hardware is connecting properly. Jiggle it as you playback in PPro at the computer end and the Speakers end to see if it affects it.
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You can setup and save your own custom presets when you open PPro. If you edit something in one format and then want to render in a different format create a new project with the actual settings you want to use/render (custom one?) And then import the project. Open it in this new project with say uncompressed rendering codec and bob’s your uncle. It’s not that PPro is restrictive it’s just the way your are used to working. I’m certain you come from a FCP background. If you know what you want from the beginning you can’t go wrong with PPro. If you work on something and someone else changes your setup settings to another format PAL/NTSC that’s different from your own, the next time you make a new sequence you have no idea it’s running in the other format. Pro’s and Cons to anything really.
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Wow, VHS that takes me back. I think you might be refering to the analog VHS junk signal that lives outside of title safe. It’s only there becasue that’s VHS. When you capture you’re seeing the whole signal, parts never actually seen on a TV. Use title safe to see if the warping signal is outside of it, if so you are fine to display on TV without that junk. I used to crop it. If you have heaps you want to crop as part of an edit then edit and insert the edit sequence into another sequence (nesting) then apply the crop to the nest.
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Hi Sebastian, I use FCP all the time as a freelancer. I find it frustrating the amount of rendering I actually need to do in it. Premiere shows me things that otherwise I must render in FCP. Back to your question tho. There is no other way to render a specific area. The short cuts for in and out points to the workarea bar are (alt+[) for in and (alt+]) for out. Unless you need to see what something looks like in full res with effects you don’t need to render anywhere near as much as FCP.