Kc Allen
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Has anyone tried DVDxDV? It’s not free, but I’ve been pretty pleased with it. You can choose which chapters of the DVD to rip. Rips to QT movies which work well in the FCP timeline.
KC Allen
Allen Film & Video“My name is actually spelled KC…really…it is…”
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Check your audio. I had a WMV file I was working with a while back and was absolutely dumbfounded when I couldn’t get it to work…don’t remember what I was trying to do with it, but I kept getting errors. I ended up checking everything and finally got to the audio and there was something wrong with it that was making the file choke. Re-do the audio for the piece, lay it in and see if that helps. Try to keep your audio at 48K if you can…you can always down-sample it later.
KC Allen
Allen Film & Video“Who’s the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows?”
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I have a way to do this and it works nice every time. Do your 16×9 project the way you normally would, using the HDV or ProRes codec. Make it pretty, make it perfect. When you’re done as done can be and ready to deliver, highlight the whole thing, Apple-C to put it in your clipboard, and open a new sequence using the NTSC 3:2 pulldown and the NTSC compressor, and Apple-V to paste it in. Viola! You’ve got a 16×9 project in the 4×3 space with letterbox. You’ll need to render it, but then you can do with it what you will…Flash, Compressor, DVD…whatever…
KC Allen
Allen Film & Video“Who’s the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows?”
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I don’t like working with JPEG at all, but PSDs aren’t always the answer because sometimes they show up as nested sequences. You double click on a PSD and it stays on the timeline and won’t open above. I’ve had this happen even when the PSD has only one layer.
A really nice alternative for me has been using PNG files. You can choose to interlace or not on save, and I’ve found them to be much cleaner than JPGS, plus they preserve transparency better, I think. PNGs are single layer files – don’t flatten them in Photoshop because you’ll get the background. Rather, merge all open layers and kill the rest, make sure your mode in RGB – FCP doesn’t like CMYK. They’re small files too, so you can play and render without the normal swearing.
KC Allen
Allen Film & Video“Who’s the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows?”
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Shift-L? Isn’t it Apple-L to unlink?
KC Allen
Allen Film & Video“Who’s the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows?”
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If I wipe the whole hard drive, can I reinstall FCPS2 without having to reinstall back versions? I think this last time all I got was the upgrade because I’ve been with FCP since vers.3.
Also, what’s the best way to wipe the drive? I was a PC guy forever until I switched in 2003, and there are still some things about MAC I’m not proficient with.
Lastly I do have some older software and quite a few FCP plug-ins. Will Leopard kill all that?
KC Allen
Allen Film & Video“Who’s the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows?”
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That’s the one I use – then I animate the scrolling back and forth, add some white noise behind – turns out awesome. I can send you an example, or post one on my website if you want to see it – kc@allenfilm.com. Let me know.
KC Allen
Allen Film & Video“Who’s the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows?”
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When you say, “format the drive first”, do you mean completely wiping the hard drive so that everything has to be reinstalled? Sounds like something I’ll have to devote a couple of days to do.
KC Allen
Allen Film & Video“Who’s the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows?”
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Something else you could do is use the dip to color dissolve and change the color. Incidently, I love Eureka’s vapor across.
KC Allen
Allen Film & Video“Who’s the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows?”
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I like to bounce to Flash right out of FCP because I have the Flash program (use export using QT Conversion). Then I create a quick Dreamweaver page and upload the whole kit-and-kaboodle to my website, then e-mail the client and tell them where to go to look at it online. Benefits are vast – no cost in burning DVDs and no worries as to whether the client can view a QT or WMV. Further, several people involved can all look at it at their leisure, all at the same time without having to pass a disc around. If you need to make a change, export it to the same file name, FTP it to the site and the spot is automatically changed online for the client. Presto-chango…
KC Allen
Allen Film & Video“Who’s the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows?”