Kevin Monahan
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Sure. Just delete unused media. There is a HOW TO article on kenstone.net
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Use the Easy Setup for HDV and you can’t go wrong.
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Your images are too large and FCP is likely not behaving well because of that. At that frame size they should be at 72 DPI precisely. At 300 DPI you are merely increasing the pixel dimensions since that all that that’s all additional DPI does past the target resolution. Resize your image to be 3K x 2K at 72 DPI in Photoshop.
Make sure that you are also rendering the piece fully and are evaluating the rendered motion control move on a pro video monitor. You can never judge rendered graphics on the Canvas.
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[cjahrens87] “Could someone explain why you need a capture card? When I edit in FCP I simply use Firewire and digitize my footage.”
You are not digitizing footage, you’re “capturing” it. Digitizing involves changing analog footage like Beta SP to digital, which incidentally, requires a video capture card.
You need a capture card (and speedy drives) for non DV/HDV/DVCPro50-100 Footage, like uncompressed footage. You may only be familiar with the DV format, but there are literally dozens of other formats that you may not be aware of.
[cjahrens87] “Is that compressing the image too much?”
DV Footage is compressed as soon as you shoot it. It’s about 5:1 compression.
[cjahrens87] “Would I need to get a Kona or AJA like people talk about for broadcast quality work? “
AJA makes Kona so it’s the same company. Yes, this is a good card for doing higher quality work. You will need faster drives than you have right now as well. However, certain compressed formats are considered broadcastable including DVCAM, DVCPro 50 and DVCPro HD do not require a capture card and can be acquired over FireWire.
[cjahrens87] “And if so where is a good place to go read up on what hardware I would need?”
I would just ask around here, if I were you.
Good luck.
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Sounds good Ed. One thing that you can never overkill is drive speed. 😉
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You can’t lasso, but you can do the function.
If you have your timeline in Clip Keyframes mode, you can drag between the set keyframes on the blue or green line with the Selection Tool to move them in unison.
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You should use Motion for this.
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Ditch the LaCie and get a FireWire 800 drive like a G-Raid.
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