Nick Price
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Hi Patrik,
I would use media manager to recompress your 8bit footage to DV, using exactly the same file names for each clip. Edit with this ‘offline version’. Then when finished, reconnect your 8 bit clips with the original uncompressed files. This is your final ‘online’ version. Pretty standard way of working now.cheers
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I would check the specs of your G4, but i believe it will be gigabit ethernet. Our G4 siver Tower has 1000baseT etherent port, i.e gigabit.
nick
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I would look at the lowest of the blackmagic cards…i think it is the decklink SP. Its around
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I have this problem too. Basically whenver i export a 16:9 sequence using , export quicktime movie, using same settings. When i open that up in Quicktime, it is 4×3 though. To get it to 16:9 i have to re-export it from Quicktime.
nick
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Ashley,
print to tape is just like pressing play. It has no real use for my money. Edit to tape enables you to record frame accurately onto dvcam/digibeta using timecode. If you want to run off a VHS dub press play. To create a master on digi, edit to tape.
best wishes
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Tektronix waveform monitor, 8 channel mixing desk, dvd recorder, legaliser, PPM meters, some wires….
nick
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I agree jamie….
but i imagine that whoever your employer has a contract with to deliver the commercial, they will provide you with tech guidlines as per the contract. They must do otherwise there is nothing to stop you delivering the commercial on a vhs! Ask them for that bit of paper and i bet it will give you the delivery spec. Same with any broadcast item.
Cheers
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not quite true. you can alter a sequence that has the wrong aspect ratio, or clips within it that have the wrong AR. Change the sequence to your final aspect ratio. double click a clip that is wrong, and go to the distort section in the motion settings tab. This controls the aspect ratio. For a 16×9 clip iin a 16×9 sequence it needs to be ‘0’. For a 4×3 clip in a 16×9 sequence it needs to be ‘-33.33’ (or just 33.33, i always forget which). Then copy that clip and paste attributes ‘motion’ to which ever clips are wrong.
for a nested clip you need to highlight nested clip and press return. This will load it up in the viewer and then you can alter the distort settings for the entire nest.
cheers
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Hi Mkie,
not sure if this is possible. I generally export a quicktime movie of my offline version, load that up in the viewer and gang it to the online sequence.
bets wishes
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Hi David,
it kind of depends on the complexity of the edit. We cut one 15m programme a week on an Avid version 7. Great solid old machine, then transfer to FCP using an edl, redigitise, and digitise a guide tape to check each cut. In 2 years never had a missed cut except where somone had named a tape incorrectly. However we cut simple documentaries, no complex effects, just cuts and the odd resize, perhaps a flip or two.Sebsky tools has an application that convert a FCP batch list to an Avid ALE, so you can log in FCP, then take to avid. I imagine you could then relink the clips when back in FCP to your final edl, but we havent done that.
Why would you prefer to log in FCP? Personally I think it would be best to log/capture in the Avid, then redigitise the pics in FCP. Leave FCP til the end to do the important stuff…..! Or perhaps log in FCP and capture in Avid.
hope this kind of helps
best wishes
Nick