Michael Sacci
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I use DVCPro50 or prores, It will hold together better when it is compressed for the other DVD. Not a huge difference but enough to make it worth taking up the extra HD space.
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The Apple Pro Training books are great, they walk you right through the software.
Then there are 2 others for advancing more in-depth. There are also several DVDs that are good if you would rather watch vs read and do. For software I prefer the latter myself.
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But if you edit in HD you need to process the SD footage. How well the footage is able to be upconverted will help you decide if HD is even a choice. If the SD is extremely well shot on DigiBeta, it can be upconverted via hardware and come out looking pretty good. If it is so so DV footage it is going to be tough. Using a shoot or two every now and then is one thing but 1/2 the video would not look very good.
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For weddings you need fast lenses, for some reason people don’t like to use lights during the ceremony. In my thinking zooms are important also since it is hard to move position once things get started.
As you are seeing every situation requires something different. All the gear like a steadicam and shoulder mounts take a lot of practice to use correctly. For me the worse footage in the world is bad steadicam. When I hire a steadicam guy I only hire someone that has years of experience and that is his main thing. But most steadicam with not allow you to get real long takes.
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This is something that FCP does much better with Multiclip but for express you have to do it the old school way.
Sync them up on different layers in the timeline, then scale each one down to 50% then put one upper left, another upper right, and so on. Unless you have a fairly fast hard drive system it is going to hard to pull four streams of video.
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Your frame rate are assumptions and they can be right or wrong. 720p is normally 60fps but can be shot 30 or some cameras shot 24
Canon can be 24 or 30.
If you open the files up in QT you it will tell you the frame rate and resolution of the clips.
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[Tammy Camp] “I find it very odd that Final Cut Pro with not work with .mov files automatically. “
.mov only means it is a QT file, can be one of many codecs, that codec it not made for editing and needs to be converted if you want to use FCP. For fast and quick edits of footage like this Premiere Pro CS5 will do a much better job working with the native files. There is reasons to convert them on more complicated jobs but for quick easy edits FCP is a little behind the time.Don’t know about capturing, it does have video cables but you would need a capture device.
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You don’t capture P2 you transfer it, copy it to your hard drive, keeping the folder structure in tact. Then you can format the card.
720p @24p with a frame rate of 60 is slow mo, no audio is recorded.
If you shot in 24p vs 24pN when you log and transfer you need to make sure that remove duplicate frames is checked in the prefs and it should come in correctly.
This thread is 2 years old, only a couple of people will see it, the forum leaders and someone that is on the thread before. Post a new thread if this doesn’t fit you up
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Robert,
It is bad enough we have to do this for legacy project, what I’m saying is this is the worse way for a client or anyone else to send you footage. And most of the time there is no reason to get tapes made. Files can be sent to you or buy you. The files can be on DVD or BluRay media but they should NEVER be made into playable disc.
Honestly I have never needed to rip a BluRay so I don’t know how.
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up to the longest clip, like if one clip is 30 minutes and the others are 29, it will add 1 minute of black to the rest, although it is really not adding anything. Or is there extra time after the longest clip.
It there any way you can be very specific to what is happening.