Kevin Monahan
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MIght want to try Flip4Mac and get a WMV directly from your Mac.
Kevin Monahan
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Clicking sound? Well that doesn’t sound good.
Kevin Monahan
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A couple of things. Are these drives initialized with Mac OS Extended? If not, you’ll have to erase the drive and recapture your clips. Another item might be that might be the cause of problems is Norton. Uninstall Norton, Disk Warrior is fine for what you need to do. Finally, do you have another device daisy chained to your FW drive? If so, it might be a good investment to get a PCI card with additional inputs to put the devices on separate buses. The fact that you have lost only a little data after a major crash is really not that bad of a situation to be in. The important thing is to prevent it from happening again. In other words, always prepare yourself for the day you may have to recapture.
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which is best, jpg, bmp, tiff, etc?
PICT, TIFF or PSD, not lossy JPG.With scanned pictures, the bigger the better. Have them scanned on the highest resolution possible.
300 DPI scan is usually OK.
I used to do weddings, and I would always have to scan the pictures myself. I’d scan them on a high resolution (usually to jpeg format)
Again, JPG is not the best you can do. Go with PICT.and then import them into FCP. From there, you can resize them easily.
No, you should really resize them in Photoshop. You could cause FCP to work too hard with an image that is not oversized.If they are too big, size can be decreased without the picture going to crap. If they are too small and you enlarge them, they start looking crappy.
That is why you must optimize them in Photoshop first, If you do not do moves on them, than they should be no bigger than the native frame size 720 x 480 and at 72 DPI. Anything beyond that is overkill and will tax your processor, take longer to render, less real-time and can introduce artifacts.The other good thing about having them large is that you can add a little bit of motion to them so it isn’t so boring.
Yes, 2x the native frame size at 72 DPI is usually fine. 3x if you really want to scale up (zoom into) the image. Many people leave the DPI at 300 DPI, which works OK, but it’s better to be with a larger frame size and at 72 DPI, since that is the target resolution of television and again doesn’t add any unnecessary overhead.if pictures are way to small to enlarge, say under 720×480- I
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Hi Michael,
It’s working fine.If your playhead is centered on the cut, you should be parked on the first frame of the incoming shot. Therefore, you should not have to move forward one frame to complete the Replace Edit. It appears that PeaceJames introduced an In Point, forcing the Replace edit to occur on the first frame of the incoming shot. This is not necessary. Typically, in a Replace Edit, you don’t usually use In or Out Points because a Replace Edit is a “playhead centric” edit.
Typically, if you moved one frame to the left of the centered transition, then that would be the method for a Replace Edit you’d be backing in the outgoing shot from the last frame moving backwards to the first frame. This is because your playhead is parked on the final frame of the outgoing shot.
Typically, if your playhead is centered on the transition, you are actually parked on the first frame of the incoming shot. With a Replace Edit, you’d be replacing the incoming shot from the first frame and moving forwards to the last frame.
The fact that a transition lies between the shots you are replacing makes no difference. The behavior is the same.
I’ll bet you get insufficient content because you have In or Out Points in either the Viewer and/or Timeline. Again, a Replace Edit is playhead centric, you don’t want or need In or Out Points – in fact, they can confuse the operation.
Also, I am thinking you may not understand just how Replace Edit works. Or the many things you can do with it. It’s OK! Not many others do, and it’s worth it to master it. Hint: it’s more than for merely replacing clips with others – it’s also an excellent timing tool to match actions to sounds or vice versa. I use it constantly, especially for music videos and action oriented film and video work. Need to match an explosion to the sound of an explosion? How ’bout a heavy metal downbeat to a diving catch by Jerry Rice? Yup. Replace Edit.
Can you read up on it in the manual and re-post anything you don’t understand? It’s worth the effort, believe me.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Transcoding to DV Vs. Component 8 bit?
Side by Side, your producer will not be able to tell the difference. I can vouche for that.Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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There are lots of different flavors of HD.
HDCam
DVCPro HD
Uncompressed
even HDVDepends on what you want to do.
In my case, I would probably go with DVCPro because of the lower cost and high quality.Kevin Monahan
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Yeah, but are you guys treating the drives right?
Are you unmounting (ejecting) them before shut down?
Not doing so is the #1 way to fry your directory.
Filling them up all the way is also not good.
Do you spin them up prior to launching your Mac?
Do you erase/initialize them between major projects?
Do you keep them in a well-ventilated cool space?
Do you have slower FireWire devices daisy chained to them (like a slow camcorder).Not as many FireWire drives would have problems if they were maintained better, IMHO.
There are so many things that can go wrong with them, you have to be fairly tech savvy
to keep them running in top condition.Kevin Monahan
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G Film plug-in + Color Corrector 3-Way. Just slide the Blacks Level slider a bit to the left and the Sat Level slider to 0. Very cool recipe.
Kevin Monahan
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True. Well, you can in the Avid Media Composer 9000 and in Avid Symphony, anyway. The feature is called “Single-Field Step”, right? Can you do so on Xpress? I don’t think it does. It’ll handle single field resolutions, but that is a different thing than stepping through interlaced footage field by field.
Would be a nice feature request, I guess.
Two things I like about FCP and wish that Avid had:
Resolution Free Canvas
Mode Free Editing Tools ala FCPCheers.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com