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[Walter Biscardi] “Welcome to Editing 101. Editing is a tedious job and you spend more time with the tedious stuff that you do with the creative. I spend 3/4 of my time logging and digitizing and 1/4 actually editing and compositing. That’s the nature of the business.”
’nuff said. Welcome to jungle. Who ever said editing was all fun and games?
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Optimize the images for TV in Photoshop. No more than 72 DPI, no larger then 2-3 times the native frame size.
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You would be so much happier with a tower. You are forced to use unsupported FireWire drives with an iMac. Not good.
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Make sure your drives are properly initialized with Mac OS extended, as well. Sounds like your drives are wonky.
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Good lord this is great news for the effects guys! Now we got super duper fast slots for super duper fast vid cards which will make Motion fly. And you have the Quad procs for FCP renders. Cool. Really cool….
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[Joe Shapiro] “FCP 5.0.2’s CinemaTools takes a 2hr clip and turns it into a 1.5hr clip!”
Your clip is probably too long for CT to handle.
When performing reverse telecine to remove pull-down, avoid using large files wherever possible. In some cases, large files may result in issues with timing and audio sync. For the best results, use files that are under 2.5 GB for reverse telecine.
If you have larger files, you should split them or recapture them as smaller files before performing reverse telecine.
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You can also fake a border (a boarder is a house guest that pays! lol) by editing and then cropping a color matte a little larger than a clip on an underlying layer. If you don’t have CGM filters, you might look into it.
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Have you tried the CGM version of Basic 3D? It’s pretty nice and came free with FCP 3, if I recall.
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Another benefit of nesting is to change the order of the render pipeline. Effects are rendered in a certain order that you cannot change unless you leave that effect out of the nest, nest the other items, then apply the effect to the nest.
Nests are great for keeping a lot of layers more manageable, like the elements making up a lower third.
You can make oversized nests to “pan and scan”.
You can nest layers together and then add effects to that nest.
Get my book or take my seminar to get up on all these techniques….
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Nice tip.
But sure, It will “look” normal if you do that, but it is a trick in PS. The actual frame is distorted. It’s good to realize what is really going on under the hood. 😉
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