Josh Olenslager
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No problem at all. Glad you were able to figure out what you needed.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Try using the flop effect — FCP effects/Video effects/Perspective.
Best of luck.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Although I haven’t had much experience in designing/publishing (a few editions for the college lit. mag.) I can only pass on a bit of info that might address your problem. I do have a professional writing degree and deal with publishing my own work. So using these two areas of experience, here’s what I’ve seen is a common structure for formatting guidelines that are out there.
1. It makes a huge difference on your end if you’re (as a publisher) soliciting certain authors for their work or if you take unsolicited manuscripts and have a staff that weans them down to final pieces which will appear. If you solicit the work, you’re sort of behind the 8-ball for formatting. You’ve basically given the author the upper-hand, because they know you want it. You can request a format that works better for your design work, PDF, Word, RTF, etc., but if your “boss” is set on a piece, it will arrive how it arrives. If you are taking unsolicited submissions, simply set your guidelines to say something like “submissions must be RTF (or whatever format you like to work in and is good for your design program) in order to be considered. Submissions which arrive in other formats will not be read.” Then stick to your guns and reject stuff that doesn’t fit your guidelines. This is pretty standard procedure that authors are used to seeing. So find the format that is easiest for you to work with and stick to it. (Then if you have a 5-space instead of a tab, at least you’ll be more comfortable approaching a fix.) No manuscript should arrive in shambles, either in content or formatting. Make your submission guidelines are professional and demand professionalism on the author’s end, too.
2. Make sure that the lines of communication are open between staff members on your publication. Even if you’re doing this as a favor or on a voluntary basis, make sure that the people you work with know what your limits are. If you can only dedicate so many hours or with certain technical formats, make sure that this is known and respected. I’ve seen too many things go wrong between editorial and technical staff to think otherwise. Everyone should have a clear idea of the commitment, roles, and workflow of the team around them. No sense in holding things in until they become unbearable. That is how things end up failing. Good communication is key for success. Some sort of master plan for the transition from ezine to paper-zine is the first step. Clear the air and set the expectations before you get too deep into the process to recover.
Hope this bit of information helps a little bit. Consequently, I would also be interested in a separate forum based around the publishing structure and how it function.
Thanks! Good luck Dan.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Make sure your tracks are linked in FCP before sending them to Soundtrack Pro. (i.e. A1 & A2 Locked together before sending them).
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Darren,
You could always use the “match destination format” option in your office document. After you paste whatever you’re copying into the document a little clipboard pops up on the document screen. Just click that and you can choose destination format — as long as your document is set up properly (TNR 14pt.) it will convert the text to those specs.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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You could control+click your sequence and duplicate it. It will retain the properties of your original sequence so formatting changes (sometimes caused by copy/paste into a new sequence) shouldn’t be an issue.
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You can use compressor to batch export individual clips with custom watermarks.
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Try using the FCP easy setup and select HD / 50fps. Should give you the option for a 720p50. Relaunch the log and capture and make sure that your device control is set properly. Should be a go.
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Have you tried to save/export your graphics coming out of photoshop with interlaced dominance (versus none)? Would probably help with DV render issues.
Josh