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Mike Johnson
May 13, 2009 at 4:45 pm in reply to: Is there a “Glint” filter in FCP?

You can create a starburst shape in Photoshop using whatever color you want the glint to be. Drop that into your timeline and keyframe the rotation, opacity, etc, to get the look you want.

Mike Johnson

Final Cut Pro Editor

Drury Outdoors

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Mike Johnson
April 29, 2009 at 6:41 pm in reply to: Looking for my next camcorders

If you’re a fan of the JVC DV500, then you’ll like the JVC HM700. Its brand new from JVC at runs $7K from B&H for the body, 17x lens, and Anton Bauer Gold Mount. There is also an option for a wider 14x lens.

The HM700 will shoot both SD and HD, with a choice of 720 or 1080 in HD. A variety of frame rates are available in both interlaced and progressive. It records to affordable SD cards ($90 for 16GB – which holds 55min at 1920×1080 35Mbps). The clips are QT .mov format using the XDCAM EX codec and drop right into FCP without any transcoding or rendering.

Whatever battery system you are using on the DV500s would easily be transferred to the HM700. As well as most other accessories. So, your looking at $7K per unit plus a handful of SD cards.

Here’s a couple of links:
https://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/features.jsp?model_id=MDL101851&feature_id=01#
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/606888-REG/JVC_GY_HM700L17_GY_HM700L17_ProHD_Solid_State_Camcorder.html
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/606881-REG/JVC_GY_HM700U_GY_HM700U_ProHD_Solid_State_Camcorder.html

Mike Johnson

Final Cut Pro Editor

Drury Outdoors

http://www.druryoutdoors.com
Mike Johnson
April 29, 2009 at 1:58 pm in reply to: Hey Joe D…How’s the GY-HM700?

I did some product shots in studio and an on location commercial shoot over the weekend and was pretty impressed with the HM700. It has great low light performance and produces a nice image. The media is plug and play. Just drop the clips into FCP and away you go editing.

So far, I have noticed only one issue. Everything we shot over the weekend was in 1080p30. On playback, we noticed a flicker effect on almost all of the footage. Passed it off as a playback issue and kept going. When I got the footage into FCP the flicker was still there. My theory is that its a GOP issue. I dropped on a CC filter and rendered, and the flicker was gone. Also no flicker when incorporated into an HDV 1080i60 sequence. I’m going to do some testing with the over the next few weeks to what the issue is.

Mike Johnson

Final Cut Pro Editor

Drury Outdoors

http://www.druryoutdoors.com
Mike Johnson
March 29, 2009 at 3:14 pm in reply to: HDV PB Output Question

The HDV PB Output settings only affect the component output while playing back an HDV tape. It does not have any impact in record mode.

Mike Johnson

Final Cut Pro Editor

Drury Outdoors

http://www.druryoutdoors.com
Mike Johnson
March 26, 2009 at 11:38 pm in reply to: I need help using the camera to capture

Before hooking up the camera, open FCP and change the Easy Setup to HDV 720p30. Close FCP and shutdown your computer. With the camera and your computer off, connect a FireWire cable between the camera and your computer. Power on the camera and switch it to playback mode. Power on your computer, then open FCP. You should now be able to open your capture dialog and proceed as usual.

Mike Johnson

Final Cut Pro Editor

Drury Outdoors

http://www.druryoutdoors.com
Mike Johnson
February 13, 2009 at 6:49 pm in reply to: removing echo – noise gate? what does it all mean.

I had the same problem on a project a couple of months ago. The camera op didn’t use headphones to check the audio and there was a bad echo. Come to find out he didn’t have the audio input set right on the camera and it was taking the signal from the onboard mic rather than the lav. After fiddling with the audio for about a day in both FCP and STP we finally got it fixed. We reshot the interview. If the echo is subtle, you can try to cover it up with a music bed. Otherwise there’s not much that can be done.

Mike Johnson

Final Cut Pro Editor

Drury Outdoors

http://www.druryoutdoors.com
Mike Johnson
February 12, 2009 at 9:54 pm in reply to: Render files won’t render general error

[george bonilla] “Then just send us an uncompressed video file, audio track and m&e track.”

That would be my suggestion too. Just export a QuickTime movie with current settings.

Mike Johnson

Final Cut Pro Editor

Drury Outdoors

http://www.druryoutdoors.com
Mike Johnson
February 12, 2009 at 3:58 pm in reply to: render files issues

Use Render Manager (in the Tools menu) to delete all of your render files, then re-render. Its a good idea to always use Render Manager to delete render files, rather than doing it through Finder.

Mike Johnson

Final Cut Pro Editor

Drury Outdoors

http://www.druryoutdoors.com
Mike Johnson
February 11, 2009 at 10:21 pm in reply to: Render files won’t render general error

You probably have a filter that does not work on the distributors system. The best way to avoid this is to set your render directory to the hard drive and render the project before sending it; run media manager to copy the project to the drive and include render files; or export a self contained quicktime and send just that.

Mike Johnson

Final Cut Pro Editor

Drury Outdoors

http://www.druryoutdoors.com
Mike Johnson
February 11, 2009 at 10:06 pm in reply to: Reducing Gain in FCP 6

A subtle blur filter can help to soften the noise.

Mike Johnson

Final Cut Pro Editor

Drury Outdoors

http://www.druryoutdoors.com

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