Michael Garske
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Im sorry, I’m new to the program & so not very effective in my descriptions. I need to move three different objects along different paths in 3D space. I thought the way to do this is to make three different cameras, one for each of the items with different properties of movement. But all three objects adhere to only one set of camera movement keyframes. I’m guessing from your response is that you can only have one camera active at a time. Is this so? Can I apply different paths for movement in 3D to multiple objects with just one camera? thanks.
Mike
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My PC unfortunately for some reason can’t handle HDV footage (working with Vegas 7.0). I think it’s the limitations of my processor, which is a 3.2 GHz Pentium 4. Or more likely the software.
I didn’t know there was an option in FCP to export to a PC readable format. That would save me so much time. I thought that files rendered on mac were only readable on macs. Not so? Is there anyway to render an AVI? What the settings for export to transfer from mac to PC?
Thank You for your post that will be a tremendous help.
Mike
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This is a response to my own post. After many many tests, I’ve decided to Down Convert within FCP from HDVi60 through down sizing into an uncompressed 8-bit timeline. After rendering it out, I open another timeline & print to a DV-CAM tape.
This, despite many recommendations to use Compressor for down conversion, seems to be the best way of doing it. I ran dozens of tests in compressor to see if it would provide better image quality, & from the tests I ran I see that it does not (not recognizably at any rate).
As for the practicality of down converting I would say it’s better to shoot SD if that’s your final output. The HDV footage was shot with a Z1U & the SD was shot using a DVX100 at 60i. The footage quality of the DVX100 is NOTICEABLY better than the down converted HDV shot with the Z1U. (That’s in every test both with Compressor & FCP)
Also the down converted footage doesn’t do well with quick camera movements or pans. There’s quite a bit of ghosting in the image during such instances.
Therefore if you’re going to edit and output SD, shoot SD. That’s unfortunately what I should have been doing from the start. Hopefully someone out there can find this helpful to not make the same mistake that I have. 🙂
Mike
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Oh. Sorry wrong terminology. I just meant raw footage from a DVX, if anyone happens to be familiar with the image that it produces at 60i. And to give you an idea of what I mean by terrible, after the HDV was converted it looked something like a YouTube video, lol. It was pretty pixalated & muddled looking. This was using the ‘anamorphic DV NTSC’ setting. I still haven’t had an opportunity to try enabling the resize filter though. That may solve the problem. Ultimately, I’m hoping that I can match the DVX footage as closly as possible. However, So far the conversion is far from looking even SD quality. I didn’t think that down converting 1080i to SD would look any worse than SD shot on a three chip camera such as the DVX, I was hoping it may even look slightly better if not the same. Does anyone have any insight on this? Thanks
Mike
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I do. I’ve never had project that required more than one subfolder for organization. This project is coming from another editor though, so It’s a bit of a process to locate them folder by folder.
Mike
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Yes. I have about 50 primary folders with folders within those & folders within those & so on. You can see how that would be troublesome for reconnecting media. The project just moved from another system so every file is offline.
Mike
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Thank you all for your response.
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Yeah I went back & manually fixed the problem. Not the most ideal solution but better than chasing some ghost in the machine. Thanks for the response.
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Sorry I got really busy & didn’t have time to check this post. Thanks for your reply, I wasn’t really expecting there to be an easy answer just thought I’d ask. Actually after moving some of the clip’s locations I was able to manually reconnect most of the media. Still not sure what caused the problem.
Thanks again for the reply.
Mike
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wow thats great man! I knew it would be something simple. I was wondering about the option drag copy as well. Thanks for the tip.
Mike