Kevin Monahan
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You are crowding the FW bus. Get a PCMCIA card to separate drives and deck. If that doesn’t work, output a self-contained QT and then reimport. Place it in a new sequence and then try outputting once more.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Michael, please check out my book. It will solve many of your problems.
Kevin Monahan
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Maybe your master clips are too long. Did you capture scene and take or did you capture the whole roll? Scene and take takes longer but is more reliable.
Kevin Monahan
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iMac’s are not the best platform for Mac and FCP. Why?
You can’t add a second HD for media. Doing that is much more stable for any DV show.
You can’t put the FireWire drive on a separate bus as there are no PCI slots.Try this:
Capture straight to the native HD.
After capturing to the native HD, copy the footage to the FIreWire drive.
Reconnect the clips to the new location of the footage.Kevin Monahan
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[endoftheend] “Whilst editing I’ve been relying on my mac’s monitor display and i’ve found that when outputing the film to view elsewhere it looks horribly different!”
I guess you did not know…pro editors attach an external video monitor as they work to see how their video really looks. The computer monitor is progressive scan and in RGB colorspace. Your video is interlaced and in YUV colorspace. Therefore, what you see on the video monitor is what you get. The computer monitor is not reality. The “look” you describe is actually what your video truly looks like. Video looks like video, right?
[endoftheend] “A few weeks back I messed around with all kinds of settings and thought i’d fixed the problem when I outputted a letterboxed version onto”
What kinds of settings? Filters? What?
If you want your video to look more cinematic, shoot in 24P or use G Film from nattress.com.
And always work with a video monitor hooked up so you can actually see what you are doing.
Use a TV if you cannot afford a bonafide production video monitor. 😉Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Sorry to say, but this would be a problematic setup. You really need a G5 tower.
To capture uncompressed video, you need a separate RAID array (speedy drives) or a FireWire 800 RAID. You cannot add either array to an iMac that offers no FW800 ports or PCI slots for a RAID array.
Kevin Monahan
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Crank up the Samples to 32 for the smoothest look.
The default percentage of blur is way too high.
Render out small sections to test, but I think that a reading under 100 will do.Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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[David Battistella] “did not mean to be snippy.”
No trouble old chum.
The four dots can be made with the paint brush.
Place them in the four corners of the layer.
This extends the border of the layer to the edges of the screen.This method is described in Lisa B.’s Visual QuickStart Pro in the Photoshop section.
Take a look if you have the book.Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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[Mark Arenz] “I tried going out firewire and controlling via 9-pin and it only resulted in a half dozen restarts and a stream of profanity.”
Hmm….that’s odd and should not be happening.
Kevin Monahan
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Google: Rotoscoping
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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