[Maria]

Thank you. Totally watching that. It seems like YouTube is the place to go for answers.

Maria Luisa Gambale
Vera Donna Media, LLC
Brooklyn, NY

[Maria]

Okay, that make sense. So, 1 questions. I’m planning on going out 4K. If I import various flavors, but majority 4K, and then create proxies that are about 1/4 of the size (1024x 540), then do I create sequence settings that match the proxies or that match what I want my output to be?

Maria Luisa Gambale
Vera Donna Media, LLC
Brooklyn, NY

[Maria]

Thanks Shane – and would you recommend using Media Encoder or are there known problems with that route? (Obviously I’m trying to cheap out and not buy a third party software.)

Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY

[Maria]

No, you tried to be helpful, Chad, and I do appreciate that. It’s just the meaningless tirades that came after that sullied the experience. Forums and chatrooms are popular homes for people who have a found a place to project their negativity or bitterness, but it’s still always a bit of a shock to find out that people have time for it. It’s harder to construct a response with intelligence and civility, but it would be a worthwhile exercise for some people here (yourself not included).

Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY

[Maria]

This chain of messages is very funny. Just to clear up a few wrong assumptions (though I hate to break anyone’s stride here), we are taking it to a post house for mastering. They hardware-converted the offending footage for us originally and didn’t catch the problem. We discovered the issue over the weekend with a tape mastering session planned at the post house for Monday morning. Not being able to reach them, we were trying to figure out some possible answers over the weekend from anyone who was available, so that we could show up prepared with options, as our film is due to be sent to an international festival tomorrow.

I did manage to consult off the forum with some editors and post-production professionals, and we got our answers. Notably not here.

Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY

[Maria]

I’ve attached the image. Apologies for the terminology confusion; our Executive Producer threw the name in the ring, and we all just adopted it.

Updated information:

The footage is actually old DV material, still PAL. We are working in a 1920×1080 timeline.

It seems like these problem parts of the 1920×1080 image would show in projection and on HD flatscreen TV’s.

So, some people here in NYC have actually recommended that we crop the whole movie. Our editor is trying 0.5 crop in FCP for the bottom and 0.2 for the top. But we want to confirm that this is an acceptable fix for broadcast and for theatrical projection. Otherwise, we’d have to blow up just those shots (DV, approx. 5-6 minutes in a 57-minute movie) 2-3%.

I’ve attached an image, but it’s really hard to tell from a still image. At the bottom of the image, you can see the width of the stripe in the white wall where the bad part is slightly brighter. It’s also happening on the top, and you can tell at the right of her head scarf.

Thank you all for your advice so far!

Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY

[Maria]

Global transitions

Save time by applying a single transition to multiple cut points in one step. Just select a range — either a set of clips or the entire sequence — then add a transition. Final Cut Pro automatically inserts the effect at every cut point and resizes the transitions to use available media. Easily substitute different transitions until you get just the look you want.

I must’ve hit a keyboard shortcut for add favorite transition or something.

Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY

[Maria]

Really? And do you know how this is achieved? Or are you kidding? I’ve lost all perspective.

I must say I really don’t get some of the changes in this update. Why change keyboard shortcuts?

Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY

[Maria]

See, I totally didn’t do THAT. So, the mystery remains…

Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY

[Maria]

Heh. Or elves.

So, what is exact procedure of adding a dissolve transition to every single clip in your sequence?

Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY