Kevin Monahan
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I can monitor audio and 16:9 right now with FCP 4.5. Just hook up your speakers to your deck and view the 16:9 footage on a proper pro video monitor. Page 55 of the manual has the proper system setup.
Kevin Monahan
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Sorry to be a naysayer, but expecting consistency and uniformity with unsupported formats is not realistic. Although I’m sure it’s not what you want to hear, I suggest you wait until FCP 5 for HDV support.
I could be wrong, however. Has anyone else done this with any success?
Kevin Monahan
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What kind of drives are you using for your media drives? External FireWire? A separate Internal SATA? Hopefully, you’re capturing to a separate drive and not your boot drive. Also, limit capture now to 20 minutes. If these don’t work for you, look into dubbing the VHS tape to DV and capturing it that way.
Kevin Monahan
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Does it lie on a whole, even number on the X,Y axis?
Did you render with the FULL quality bar checked in your sequence>render menus?
Are you checking your render on a bonafide pro video monitor?You need to do all of these things, then post back.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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In my opinion, there is a point where too large a frame size is overkill. I need no more than 2 to 3 times the native frame size for stills. If you ignore that, you’ll get sluggish performance and a bloated project file. Can you guys dig that?
I oppose calling motion control work, “the Ken Burns Effect” as well. Reeks of bush league video post. 😉
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Yeah, but to be fair–most people work in DV with FCP–and most people already have a DV Camcorder–so it’s most convenient to monitor through your DV deck or camcorder. Walter is right though, there are several ways to go about monitoring, just that using a DV device is probably the most widespread.
I think it’s cool that you want to use a video monitor, most folks new to FCP do not even know they need one! 🙂
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Have you tried an audio mixdown?
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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I believe Compressor is the only app in Studio that runs with QMaster. Distributed encoding is the job it will do, AFAIK.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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I usually drag the keyframes past the handle area of the transition, so that as the images blend, the motion effects are still in motion, and in doing so, don’t halt before the transition is complete.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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This lecture will only be distributed as a streaming [or possibly downloadable] video clip, so getting a better display on an external monitor doesn’t really help me.
HI Steve,
As illogical as it sounds…yes it really will help you to view your footage on a NTSC or PAL video monitor. Why? Here is your answer in a nutshell: even though your final output is for the web, you still need a video monitor to judge your rendered graphics. It will give you a more accurate view of your final output than the Canvas can. The Canvas is showing you only a low-res preview of the final output quality, so, regardless if you go back to tape, DVD or streaming web video–you still need one to be able to judge that initial pre-encoded quality. The reason why the Canvas is of low quality for preview is because of what is called “RT Extreme” architecture, which allows for more real-time “preview” of your rendered graphics.I agree though, that this is confusing for anyone that just gets into working with videographics using FCP.
Other things that are vital to seeing your graphics at their highest quality, and in the manual, but not well-known: