Kevin Monahan
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You guys should listen to this…
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Well, I agree with Arnie.
A lot of ISP’s mail servers won’t deliver mail with attachments that are over a certain size. For some, the size may be as low as 1 meg or as large.
Why muck with someone else’s email account?
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Do you have the latest drivers installed?
Did you do a restart?Kevin Monahan
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Those editors that don’t religiously back up their files on their own (e.g. not relying on Auto-Save to CYA) to a place besides their computer (internet, USB stick) and on a daily basis will eventually get screwed in this regard.
Back that project up guys. Every day at the very least.
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Never email a video file.
Download always – always – alwaysKevin Monahan
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[twotimes] “The stills are beautiful in Photoshop and other viwer apps, but when I lay my stills into the FCP timeline, they become funky.”
That’s because they are being ruled by the codec of the timeline you placed the images in. Also, only a low res proxy is used by the Canvas in FCP.
[twotimes] “The images look funky as soon as I lay them into the timeline, BUT appear pristine and perfect on an NTSC monitor. “
If they look good on the video monitor, they’ll look the same way when layed back to tape. I would not worry. You should always be monitoring the results of your renders on the video monitor.
[twotimes] ” The funkiness carries over when I export a QT file or print to tape but only when viewing on a computer display.”
That’s because you’re still looking at the low-res proxy. It appears that few people know that if you change the quality setting within QT, you can see the higher quality you’d normally see when viewing it on a video monitor. Just go to Window>Show Video Options – drill down to the video controls and check the box that says “high quality”.
Again, it is best to NEVER judge your rendered images on the computer screen EVER….so don’t even go there with a complaint about image quality.
[twotimes] “Again, the still images in the exported QT file or on the tape look great when viewed on an NTSC monitor, but horrible when viewed on a computer display. “
No worries then. As you should never, ever judge rendered images on the computer monitor. That is why you have your NTSC monitor fired up while you work – not after you’ve burned another coaster DVD. It’s too late to make changes then….
[twotimes] “resolution, whether 300dpi or 72 dpi doesn’t seem to be a factor”
Stay with 72 DPI, the target resolution of digital video. This avoids the moire problem of stills that are overly large.
[twotimes] “Adjusting render settings (and then rendering)
– Everything to full
– Sequence settings to Safe RT”So, in the Sequence>Render menus the dark green bar called “FULL” is checked?
You are in Safe RT, but also make sure that you are NOT playing back in “Dynamic” frame playback or for video quality. They should both be set to “FULL”.[twotimes] “Converting sequence and stills to 8-bit uncompressed and 10-bit uncompressed”
You should see some improvement here, but since you likely do not have a video capture card, you could never see it since you cannot view the rendered images in NTSC.
AGAIN, do not judge rendered images on the computer monitor EVER – regardless of the codec.
[twotimes] “Reimporting the files, reconnecting them”
Never heard of that one.
[twotimes] “Adjusting the position of the stills to maintain whole/ even postion settings in the motion tab”
Horizontal X values are all that’s necessary to check.
[twotimes] “Applying filters
– Gaussian blur
– De-interlace
– Flicker”These only help if you have a moire problem. Usually is due to oversized images.
[twotimes] “Changing the pixel aspect-ratio of the stills”
Never heard of that one.[twotimes] “The key elements seem to be that:
1) the images are natively fine and only become funky when placed into the timeline
2) the images look perfect on an NTSC monitor and horrible on a computer display.[/b] I know only a fraction of the DV stream is used to display an image in the canvas.”1. You know why. The codec in the timeline now rules your images. Look in the NTSC monitor: Looks OK? Don’t worry then. All is going according to plan.
2. You know why. You should never trust what you see in the Canvas.
[twotimes] “because the poor quality carries over to output, whether QT”
Well, now you know why this is going on. You are still looking at the low-res proxy. Click the High Quality button and BINGO – high quality image.
[twotimes] “or tape”
I seriously doubt that. The image on tape will look exactly like the version you saw in your NTSC monitor, which you have already said looked fine.
If you have image quality complaints about the codec, then that is a different argument. The DV Codec has 5:1 compression, so if all you have is DV – you are stuck with that compression if you lay back to tape.
If you go to DVD, you can master in a different codec, say DVCPro 50 with much nicer results for your rendered graphics.
So, what did we learn from all this? “STOP judging rendered images on the computer monitor – and TRUST what you see in the NTSC monitor. Have that NTSC monitor powered up at all times as you work.
Hope you have your head wrapped around all the pitfalls.
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For Auto Select:
To Select All Video Tracks – CMD + 0 (num key pad)
To Select All Audio Tracks – OPT + 0For Locks
To Lock All Video Tracks – Shift + F4
To Lock All Audio Tracks – Shift + F5Keyguide is here:
https://lormiller.home.mindspring.com/Also check out the Button List in the Tools Menu
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[Kevin Hedin] ” I’ve always placed a marker on my source clip and a marker in my music to sync up”
That’s what I call the “sissy’s” way. 😉[Kevin Hedin] “I do find it annoying, however, that you do get the “Insufficiant content for edit” message when placing your head on the first frame of the clip”
It only happens when you have a transition there.[Kevin Hedin] ” makes the feature not worth it for my to change how I currently edit, unless I have missed something here”
You have missed something.
Replace Edit is very powerful and YES, you should change the way you edit if it improves your workflow. Never stop learning is my credo.You do need to do a Replace Edit from the first frame when there is a transition there from time to time, but that is only one scenario. More often than not, you use Replace Edit on other frames in the clip – usually in the case like I’ve described above
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[Varangian] “Seems when you have the play head over the first frame of a clip in the timeline, and hit replace, what you actually think is the first frame (ON the transition)”
Replace Edit is broken when a transition is applied.
I’m definitely on the first frame of the incoming shot. I see the Overlay that states that I am on the first frame, I should be able to do a Replace Edit right there whether there is a transition there or not. As it works now, when there is a transition there I get a warning. If there is no transition there, I don’t get a warning and it works as expected. Broken.
[Varangian] “FCP thinks is the last frame of the clip before”
Yes. That’s exactly the case.Kevin Monahan
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JPEG is a poor format to export stills. Use PICT, PSD or TIFF. Don’t forget to deinterlace either in FCP or in PS.
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