Keith Putnam
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For whatever reason CinemaTools declined to recognize the ALE files. But it seems that sebskytools did the trick.
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Excellent! Sebskytools worked like a charm.
I still find it odd, though, that FCP had difficulty simply importing the ALE files considering Apple claims that ALE recognition and importability is a feature of 5.1.2. -
Hey, folks. I have discovered how to export QT movies from FCP WITH alpha channels.
The trick is to “export with quicktime conversion” and set the color depth to “millions of colors +”.
The end result is a quicktime movie with an alpha channel.
Hooray!Keith
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I frequently need to be able to pull a key in FCP (or Avid for that matter) and then export a quicktime movie with an alpha channel. It’s frustrating and seems nonsensical that FCP doesn’t have this capability; it’s not terribly exotic or arcane.
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I can’t think of any reason to capture via component in this situation. Doing so will eat up a lot more drive space unnecessarily, and the footage won’t be of “better” quality.
I’d say edit in DV25 and then output to DigiBeta via whatever your best output option is (SDI, Component, etc.) -
Well, this seems to suggest that your DV deck is applying copy protection to your master tapes, doesn’t it? I would go through the deck’s manual or settings menu and look for anything related to copy protection and turn it off.
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It looks like I MAY be screwed here (surprise! it’s Avid). The company that made the EDC card currently in my Symphony, Number Nine Technology, went out of business in early 2000. So I guess I need to find out who, if anyone, is manufacturing the display cards that ship with Meridien systems or at least shipped with Meridien systems when they were still being sold. And then I need to find out if any of their cards will do 1024×640 so I can have my 1.6:1 aspect ratio but still be within the resolution restrictions for the Composer window. Argh.
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No, just the two monitors for the computer and, of course, the NTSC client monitor taking the feed from the Avid I/O.
From a response on a post I made to the Avid user forum, it looks like I might be screwed. Avid still only really supports 1024×768 and I didn’t realize I was required to use the EDC card… shoulda figured that with anything Avid you have to do only what they want you to do at all times.
If I can run the monitors at 1024×640 that would solve my aspect ratio problem and still be within Avid specs… I guess it’s a matter of finding an EDC card that will do 1024×640. -
Are you referring to songs you purchase and download from the iTunes music store, or just any old audio file you happen to have in your iTunes library? If it’s the latter, you have no problem: Avid will import .mp3, .wav, and .aiff. And iTunes can import audio files as (at least) .mp3, .aiff, .aac, and Apple Lossless. These settings are in Preferences, which is where you also choose pretty much every other option important to iTunes, such as bitrate and other parameters for encoding, CD burning options, etc. If you’re not fooling with your iTunes preferences you’re missing 90% of the functionality of the application.
Anyway, if you’re talking about music downloaded from the iTunes Music Store, those files are in .aac format and have a bunch of lame DRM applied to them to keep you from doing what you want to with them. The DRM can be defeated by burning the tracks to CD as CD audio (not as .aac files, of course). At that point you have regular old CD audio files that you can do with as you please. -
It seems to be a bit faster to me, though I haven’t actually done a comparison.