Martin Baker
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Because DV is compressed approximately 5:1 and uncompressed is not!
Martin
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It’s soft because older versions of QuickTime Player do not display DV movies at high quality on screen. This is a historic hangover from the days when decoding a DV movie at full quality and frame rate was on the edge of what was possible with the processors.
In 2006 it’s not a problem, so the current version of QuickTime Player provides a preference called “Use high-quality video setting when available”. If that is checked then DV movies will play at full resolution and not look soft. Uncompressed movies always play at full quality which is why your export looks much sharper.
Regardless of whether it looks soft when played in QuickTime Player any further compression you do to the file will always be done at full quality.
Martin
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I agree Zach. From the comments on here I was expecting an FCP slamming, which it wasn’t at all. Yes there are errors and misunderstandings that any new user will struggle with but overall I was surprised how complimentary he was.
Martin
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Holding down the Command key “gears down” the dragging of a clip around, it doesn’t affect the snapping. Option key is already used for doing a shuffle edit. In v4/4.5 it used to be that you could hold down the N key to temporarily swap the snapping state but this seems to be broken in 5 and 5.1. However it is possible to change the snapping state by hitting the N key after you’ve started dragging a clip or trimming and personally I’ve never had a problem with it.
Shift-F will highlight the master clip in the bin (and open the bin if necessary) and you can do Shift-F directly from the timeline without having to matchframe first as you do on Avid.
Martin
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There is no built-in way to do this on FCP as there is on Avid. AFAIK this is the only app that can access audio timecode and turn it into something usable for FCP.
https://www.gallery.co.uk/timetools.htmlMartin
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Sure you can capture 2GB+ clips to Mac formatted disks but I didn’t say you couldn’t! As for PC formatted drives, FCP doesn’t care until you hit 2GB file size and then things fall apart as they have done in this case. The 9 minutes was a clue.
Martin
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The six-legged creature had a day off – the Aspect Ratio number of -33.33 is the same in PAL and NTSC, it’s just a percentage.
Joel, I bet you’re comparing the two versions in QuickTime Player and you’re seeing the raw non-square pixels (720 x 576) rather than the “corrected” square pixels display you see in FCP . Basically, don’t worry about it, what you’re seeing is normal because a 720 pixel wide movie will make things look thinner.
Martin
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The reason the capture is consistently stopping early is because you’re hitting a 2GB file size limit which just happens to be just over 9 mins of DV footage. AFAIK this is connected to the formatting of the disk and may or may not be fixable. As others have said, it’s just a bad idea to be using an ethernet disk for capturing.
Martin
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Not to be discouraging feature requests but Avid have a patent on 4-up trimming display so don’t hold your breath on this one…
Martin
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Nobody is talking about releasing Intel-only versions (including Adobe, who will release UBs just like everyone else). Until PowerPC’s share of the market is so small as to be insignificant, then such a move makes no business sense. PPC isn’t going to disappear overnight so I’d expect we’ll see UB versions released for at least another couple of years.
It’s always difficult to make decisions during a major transition period however I think it boils down to this:
1. If you earn a living from the tools – software and hardware is now so ridiculously cheap that if you can’t make your money back within 18 months, you’re in the wrong business.
2. If you aren’t earning a living from the tools, then you don’t need the latest and greatest anyway, so be happy with what you’ve got and save your money 🙂
Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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