Martin Baker
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…and take a deep breath…the panic is off. The order forms now say that your package has to be postmarked by 19 March 2007.
Martin
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Well there’s a relationship between layers and objects so if you animate at the layer level then all the objects within that layer will move accordingly.
I guess in your example the hand and arm objects would be put inside a layer which allows animation of both objects (layer level) or individual objects (object level).
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Yes Neil absolutely right, no changes in 5.1.2 for this area. It would be nice if audio scrub worked with < and > keys but “JKL Blipping” as I call it does a pretty good job.
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Gribble, are you really saying that you dived into using FCP on your station without knowing if it would fit into your workflow?
Anyway, this application may create the type of mpeg-2 files you’re needing for your playout system:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.htmlMartin
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Thanks David.
If you do an Export to iPod from an NTSC DV 4:3 sequence then you end up with a m4v that is 640×426 rather than the 640×480 it should be. When played on an iPod, this will result in black bars at the top and bottom of the image which is wrong – a 4:3 image should fill the screen completely. Unfortunately this happens because the Export to iPod doesn’t understand the concept of non-square pixels.
Martin
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Same here, Podcast Maker is great.
Beware of doing an Export to iPod from either FCP or QuickTime Player if your sequence uses non-square pixels (i.e. 99% of us). The aspect ratio gets messed up. Personally I use Compressor and it works great.
Martin
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3. HDCAM format: is it a codec too? Meaning: DVCProHD is a format you can natively edit in (there is no “capture” just a transfer of 0’s and 1’s from tape to hard drive). Do you have to transcode in some way what is HDCam on the tape to something digital but different? (not sure if Im being clear here)
Sony use hardware to compress and decompress the images to/from tape, but unlike Panasonic they do not currently made their HDCAM codec available to third parties (and are unlikely to). In the past it was possible to do native HDCAM editing with Sony’s own Xpri system (which is no longer being developed). Also Sony did flirt with Discreet in 1999 to implement HDCAM codec support but this seems to have been dropped too. So the bottom line is that in 2006 you interface to HDCAM with uncompressed i/o and the VTR compresses/decompresses the image for tape. It is not possible to work with the format natively as you can do with Panasonic solutions.
5. Lots of DVD players in Europe (well, at least in France) offer a choice between RGB and YUV. I somehow understand that YUV is PAL, while RGB is PAL or NTSC-agnostic. When should you render in RGB, when should you render in YUV, if youre going to DVDs or youre delivering to the web?
I think you’re confusing outputs on the player from the data on the DVD. YUV and RGB are used in both PAL and NTSC. All DVDs are encoded as YUV MPEG-2 so if you’re talking about FCP’s sequence settings, then you should be YUV all the way. Same for web – the end codec will convert to RGB if it needs to.
7. Whats the difference between, on one hand,choosing the sequence settings (selecting the sequence and apple-0) to be anamorphic 16:9, and, on the other hand, choosing in the same menu (apple 0, sequence settings) the quicktime video settings in compressor DV-Pal advanced button, the aspect ratio at 16/9?
The aspect ratio setting in the Advanced section does not affect the FCP sequence at all. It gets overridden by the Anamorphic checkbox. However, if you do an Export > Using QuickTime Conversion, then the Aspect Ratio setting in the export settings will determine the aspect ratio of the file when displayed in QT Player or if imported back into FCP.
Martin
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If you’re seeing black edges then you need to change the Alpha type to “Black” in FCP.
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The MBP is 3 days old now and I’m massively impressed with it. Definitely the right decision to go with a glossy screen – the clarity and contrast are absolutely fantastic. Blacks actually are black and reflections have not been a problem.
Render times in FCP are 2-3 times faster than my 1 year old (!) PowerBook G4 and Motion runs like a dream.
Martin
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You can do it today:
– In the Compressor preset select the Geometry tab
– Set Frame Size to Custom
– Set Width to 1920, Height to 1080 and Pixel Aspect to Square
– Save the presetAll still frame exports using this preset will be at full size and proper 16:9 aspect ratio. Now if only you could do JPEGs from Compressor…
Martin
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