Nick Brenner
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Yes you will have to supply 2 seperate tapes.
If the program was made entirely in 4×3 domain then spit this out to digibeta. No letterbox, plain 4×3 as that was how it was shot. Easy.
The 16×9 version is more difficult.
With the 16×9 version you need more info from the distributor. Do they want the program to fill the 16×9 frame thus you blow up (arc) the 4×3 program and lose top and bottom of picture and quality (about 30% blow up). Maybe they only require it 14×9 safe thus the program is 16×9 but the picture does not go all the way to the edge of screen.
The final way is not blowing up the picture at all but sticking a 4×3 image into the 16×9 sequence and you’ll have black bars down the sides when watching on a 16×9 monitor.
I’d get more clarification before going ahead.
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Tragically your Apple tech is correct.
docofilms PAL 25fps
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The difference with the drives is the top one – 250gig is a 7200rpm 3.5inch external drive where the other 2 are only 2.5′ drives yet run at only 5200 speed. So work out whether you want a larger (x2) sized cased that runs faster or a slower 2.5′ drive. I’d go for the faster drive for video editing, less possibility of dropped frames etc.
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Cleaner is the best program. Also there is another application Mac something that will let you export to WMV from Avid or quicktime instead of sending out a movie then inporting into Cleaner.
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For me it’s a no brainer. Going to FCP from Media 100 is the way. I cut both FCP and Avid, and presently all Avid Adreneline doco series and it just doesn’t cut it for me. I can make better looks in faster time on FCP. I left Media 100 at Version 8.
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Yep I couldn’t find it either thus I remapped my keys to how i liked them. First in your project bin select settings then click on keyboard then go up to the pull down menus top of your screen and select Command palette then select edit and map your commands by dragging them onto your keyboard to the place you are familiar with. That’s what I did. I also remapped the Matchframe to M on keyboard and keyframse to N.
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First create 16×9 sequence – select anamorphic box.
If you want it to go from 4×3 to 16×9 and have the image fill the whole frame, then you have to blow up the footage in Motion – Scale – set scale to 133 I think. If you are happy with black bars down the side of an actual 16×9 image then just place it onto a timeline.The above is for real 16×9. You may want to merely add black bars to the top and bottom of the 4×3 image in a 4×3 sequence to mimic the look of a widescreen production shown on a 4×3 screen. In this instance you don’t need to scale you video. Add the widescreen filter from under Mattes. Obviously if this is then viewed on a real widescreen TV it will look 4×3 with side bars plus your widescreen bars.
cheers Nickdocofilms PAL 25fps
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The DAC transcodes the Component signal into DV signal. So for SP beta you are going from a 4:1 compression down to 5:1 for DV. Get a card as suggested try Decklink SP for under $600US. Then you can go to 8 bit on your internal G5 second drive. It’s going to cost you what ever you decide to do. If DV quality is fine you could hire one of the new J3 Sony that plays SPBeta tapes and spits out a DV signal for your computer.This would be cheapest option.
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I did this for a doco. Unfortunately it went thru a Decklink card not IO but same process. I wanted the effects and titles to come out as 10bit for broadcast & to Digibeta. I plugged in the firewire drive and then copied the files across to SCSI. I did do a media manage (before going to Post) so that all that I was sending across was the timeline and not all the footage in the bins (save heaps of time and $). Yes I did not want to redigitise all the footage either thru their SDI and thus pay 3hrs digi time.
Now that the project was on the uncompressed system it was opened and all the footage in the final DV timeline was put into a 10bit timeline. There is a big issue with DV and uncompressed (with PAL) because the fields are opposite. Lower for DV and Upper for Uncompressed/SDI/Component. I think they are both lower for NTSC (please check this). Thus I needed to use a Nattress plugin for Fields to make the DV upper.
Then we rendered it all and mastered out to Digibeta.
Expect 2-3hrs, in case you make changes whilst there. Went to ABCTV and passed their stringent technical checks.
cheers Nickdocofilms PAL 25fps
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All the DVD’s in the video stores here are PAL dvd’s. The only NTSC ones here are from C grade films that no one has ever heard from. So make one of each.
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