Matt Sepeta
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Nevermind, fixed
24″ Imac | 2.8 ghz duo | 4 gb
Mac Book | 2.2 ghz | 2 gb
pscs4 | idcs3 | macromedia suite 2004 | fcp5
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Just make the new document, and under presets choose film + video, then change the size to HDTV 1080p/29.97
Then all you do is import each title into FCP and you can keep reusing the correctly sized template
-Matt S.
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Correct, we had been putting the wireless recievers for the arxdens on the cold shoe and plugging it into the “Mic” jack on the camera. It looks like a standard headphone size cable, I have no idea what one would call it.
Another question I had forgotten; With our MBox, can we bring it to speaking events, and use it in conjunction with my laptop to plug into the venues Pa system or whatnot, and capture the speakers voice that way?
Thanks!
24″ Imac | 2.8 ghz duo | 4 gb
Mac Book | 2.2 ghz | 2 gb
pscs4 | idcs3 | macromedia suite 2004 | fcp5
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>>Can you be more specific than “pretty bad?” How bad? What did it sounds like, what was the situation?
-It would be getting a load of feedback, buzz, stuff like that, I’m sorry I can not be much more specific.
>>The mBox: you got that for voice only, not for video, right? Stand up mics? What make and model?
-MBox 2, its a blue thing with a handle piece. We got it primarily to record audio only interviews, and figured we might as well use it to record the audio of our green screen interviews as well. We ordered two Countryman EWM wired lavs, and plan on clap boarding to sync the seperate audio/visual tracks in fcp.
Our cameras do not have xlr jacks, only standard headphone size mic inputs.
Do you think the results will be worth all the extra effort just for some better audio?
24″ Imac | 2.8 ghz duo | 4 gb
Mac Book | 2.2 ghz | 2 gb
pscs4 | idcs3 | macromedia suite 2004 | fcp5
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did this:
Quicktime Movie: datarate 17 mbitsps Apple intermediate codec
Quicktime conversion: datarate: 357.44 mbitsps h.263 codec
Why on earth the huge gap between datarates? Does it have to do simply with the codec?
Thanks
24″ Imac | 2.8 ghz duo | 4 gb
Mac Book | 2.2 ghz | 2 gb
pscs4 | idcs3 | macromedia suite 2004 | fcp5
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Alot of it depends on alot of things…
What are you planning on producing?
But first of all get more RAM, you will probably need to have FCP running alongside after effects / photoshop / a whole bunch of apps, so personally, I would try to max out your RAM.
24″ Imac | 2.8 ghz duo | 4 gb
Mac Book | 2.2 ghz | 2 gb
pscs4 | idcs3 | macromedia suite 2004 | fcp5
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Im using the preset settings, and working with miniDV footage captured via firewire.
-Matt S
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That is extremely helpful, thank you!
-Matt Sepeta
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Ok, let me re-phrase this-
I need a finished video file that is high enough quality to be projected onto a pretty big screen in a powerpoint presentation. How should I go about exporting the timeline, as far as settings, codecs, etc are concerned?
I know this sounds pretty rudimentary, but I have never had to bother over creating high quality videos, only straight to web things.
The link is a screenshot of the same exact timeline exported out in the two different ways, Quicktime movie (on the left), and quicktime conversion set for Broadband – High (On the right)
I do not understand why he compressed web video looks twice as good and is wayyyyyyy smaller in file size.
24″ Imac | 2.8 ghz duo | 4 gb
Mac Book | 2.2 ghz | 2 gb
pscs4 | idcs3 | macromedia suite 2004 | fcp5
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Thanks a lot for the feedback, that cleared up a ton of questions. Look like SD is clearly the way to start. How much RAM can my imac hold? There are 4gb in it already. D
o you have any recommendations for a good camera? We are planning on renting for the first few times, so cost is not really an issue, we just need to get spectacular results.
How about lighting? I was looking at LED panels that mount on the hot shoe, would that work or would you recommend more of a directed light or maybe set up some standing lights?
Thanks again!
24″ Imac | 2.8 ghz duo | 4 gb
Mac Book | 2.2 ghz | 2 gb
pscs4 | idcs3 | macromedia suite 2004 | fcp5