Mark Maness
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Well, you could purchase the Flip4Mac WMV plugin. It works very nicely. You’ll have to check their site for the right package for you and your needs.
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Wayne Carey
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We use TunEdge. We met the top dogs in Vegas about five years ago and they sold us on their library. Check them out at http://www.tunedge.com. They also have a really cool online catalog for searching and downloading their music.
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THANK YOU! You’re a real lifesaver! I can honestly say that I learned something new today.
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Wayne Carey
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I would have to say that beyond extensive graphics, the only thing you have to gain is a loss of much more drive space…
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Wayne Carey
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Ok… here’s a question. How big is your drive array? If your drives are pretty full and you have 75 gig left, then that would be your problem. FCP will protect you from completely filling your drives as a precautionary measure. If that’s not the problem, check to see if you are rendering to the correct drive. Otherwise, trashing your preferences would be the best solution. Give that a try!
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Wayne Carey
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You got it! Now, if we could just convince all of the master control operators and programming managers of this, our lives would be just peachy.
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Wayne Carey
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I have to agree with everyone. My G5 is pretty quiet as compared to my drive array. Mine is under my desk, right next to me. Yeah, it does put out some heat and needs very good ventilation but that’s true of all computers. Yeah, it does get loud when all the fans kick on but that’s not all of the time. Overall, it’s the best and coolest setup I have ever used.
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Wayne Carey
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You guys hit the nail on the head and both of you are exactly correct. BUT we do live in a world where people are generally lazy and don’t want to have to do anything. Therefore, everybody has adopted their own “standards” and expect all of us to adhere to those. I tend to edit like Matte and I haven’t gotten many complaints either but there are those who don’t want to check your levels and complain that your levels are too low or too high. So basically, it comes down to do what is right for the industry and make the broadcaster adjust to their levels. That’s why we have these neat little things called level adjustment knobs.
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Wayne Carey
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Those are all good tips to consider. BUT, did you check to see if your LiveType project settings match your FCP sequence settings? Often times these are not the same. LiveType always opens to the last used project setting. For example, you did your last LiveType project in DV and your next FCP Sequence is uncompressed 8-bit. Well, those are different screen aspect ratios. You’ll get waht looks like serious aliasing happening when you render your timeline. In that case, just change your LiveType project settings to CCIR 601 NTSC 40:27 and save your project. Now, when you render in FCP, your CG will look correct. Give that a shot!
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Wayne Carey
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Matte is right, but whn you do any kind of slo-mo you have to keep in mind that you have to work in threes. Meaning that there are 30 fps, 60 fields per second. They are divisable by 3. When you slo-mo at 55%, that means you are going to have to get rid of some frames of video to make that work. When you do, the video looks jerky because its missing key frames for smoothness. But now, when you make that same slo-mo at 60% it should look smooth because you are dropping an equalivent number of frames that make for the smooth motion. Its all in the math, just remember to keep it in a form of threes and your video should look smooth. Now, when I say threes, I mean the number of frames that make up one second. Such as 50% motion looks great because you are splitting the video in half. So, there are exceptions… But keep this in mind wehn figuring out your slo-mo speeds.
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Wayne Carey
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