Kevin Monahan
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LT 1 file types are different than LT2 file types. That may be an issue.
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What you seem to be describing are blanking lines – totally normal.
If you scale clips down, you’ll have to crop them. Fact o’ life.Kevin Monahan
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The Soft Edges filter works pretty well too. Very simple to use.
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The biggest faux-pas is that you need to be in Safe RT as well. Unlimited will make stuff look pretty bad.
If you are not going back to tape, you might consider a better codec like DVCPro 50 as well.
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Often you must trash your preference files when this happens.
Go to kenstone.net for the article on that.The more important thing to understand is WHY that is happening.
Likely you are using FireWire drives and perhaps even daisy chaining your DV Cam or deck to the drive. This is not an ideal way to be set up – as the FireWire bus is becoming too crowded to display the image on both your video monitor AND the Log and Capture Window.Of course, if you don’t have a video monitor, you’ll never realize this, so hook one up – or at least a TV set. You hook it up through your deck or camcorder.
To prevent this from happening again and you feel you MUST use unsupported FireWire drives, get a PCI card with extra FireWire ports on them and place that inside your G4 or G5. If you have a PowerBook then you’ll need a Card Bus adapter with FireWire ports on them.
If you are running an iMac or iBook, then you are SOL as far as fixing the problem.
Hope this helps you.
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I see what’s going on here.
There’s a typo on my webpage and the verbiage is backward.
Sorry about that.It’s the last word on pg. 279 to enter the vault.
It’s the last word on pg. 187 to unlock the plug-ins.Try that. I just did. Turns out that I had to try twice to enter the vault.
If you need any more help, just let me know.Kevin Monahan
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Do NOT just put the digital stills in the Timeline. OPTIMIZE them in Photoshop first – always!
You REALLY need to resize those JPEGs to about 1440 x 960 at 72 DPI. Anything more is usually overkill and will give you some of the anomalies that you are reporting, such as moire and flickering. It also is overtaxing your processor and will kill alot of your RT performance. This frame size should be plenty big enough for doing your “pan-zoom” moves. If not, optimize your images at 2160 x 1440 at 72 DPI instead.
Many people choose to not optimize their digital stills and toss them right into FCP. I don’t agree with this and take every single still into Photoshop first. I also add 1 pixel of vertical blur, which seems to help as well.
A final gotcha is to make sure that you are rendering your graphics correctly and always monitor the results on a pro video monitor. The Canvas LIES.
Render ALL graphics at Full Quality prior to judging quality.
Sequence>Render menus all have the dark green “FULL” bar checked.
RT Pop Up Menu set to Safe RT and FULL Quality
All graphics are set on keyframes with an X Value that are WHOLE, EVEN numbers
If you don’t need to go out to DV tape and are going to DVD – master your sequence in a higher quality codec like DVCPro 50.Kevin Monahan
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