Nicole Haddock
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Steve and Shane are right- you’ve just got to take the time and noodle around. Even with the canned filters from Magic Bullet, the now Tiffen 55mm suite, etc, once you slap it on, you still have to spend time tweaking it to get something you dig. That being said, blending modes, contrast filters and gaussian blurs can yield some pretty interesting looks.
Once you’ve made looks you like, you can drag the filters over to a bin, label it with a look, then drag those filters onto other clips.
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Bizarre!
I think the $20 out of your own pocket will probably be the easiest and best solution. If you want to see an example of the screencaps, just look at the Final Cut Help podcast up on the Podcasts section of Creative Cow. The HD ones really show off what iShowU can do.
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$20 is pretty cheap for a great program. Just buy it for yourself and uninstall off their system when you’re done 😉
I don’t see why a .dv movie would make any difference, and you might be recompressing the footage, which won’t help the situation. Can you link to the articles?
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We sink in screen caps all the time to sequences that don’t match the original record specs. You just have to be careful about checking the scaling, distort and center points in the Motion tab if stuff is looking off. But quite right about the frame rate.
My 1920×1080 Apple Animation 23.98fps screen cap is in a DVCProHD 720p24 timeline. It’s automatically scaled down to about 66.7% and the aspect ratio is flipped to 33.33%. Still looks crystal clear with no weird flutter, but my sequence settings are on the Best motion setting up in the Video Processing tab. YMMV of course.
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It’s been a long long time since I used Snapz Pro for anything, we’re using I Show U instead- https://www.shinywhitebox.com/
That being said, have you actually rendered your timeline? It will look like crap until you render, as I’m sure you’re getting a nice orange bar over your footage. Set your sequence Compressor settings to Animation, set your Video Processing to Best, bring down a 10 second clip, and render. See what happens.
Alternatively, buy I Show U for $20 and you should have no problems. Having FCP 6 with Pro-Res helps the screen caps, but even in a DVCProHD 720p24 timeline, I can zoom up to 200% without too much of an issue (screen cap recorded at 1920×1080).
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Hmm, that’s a bit of a tough one then. What’s your source footage and what are the sequence settings you edited in? Pro-res is an FCP codec, but I didn’t think Uncompressed would have issues. Did you try doing a short export of an Uncompressed 8-bit version? I rarely do anything with 10-bit video, maybe that’s an issue. You could also try a short clip exported at Animation.
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Aren’t all fish?
But there’s the keyboard shortcut, forgot that one 🙂
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Hi Ty,
You can access the opacity control in a few ways.
1- Double click a clip to load it in the Viewer window and click on the Motion tab. Halfway down is the Opacity box and you can dial a number in there.
2- In your sequence, click on the Toggle Clip Overlays button (tiny button in the lower left of the sequence window, looks like a jaggy mountain) and you’ll see a thin black line appear in any video track. That line is also an opacity slider.There are a few other ways I’m sure, but those are the most direct (I think, I may be forgetting something).
nicole (rhed pixel editor)
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From what I’m seeing, you can either choose one of their presets of Low, Med, High or choose a constant bit rate at whatever you specify. Sorenson Squeeze is definitely the better compression tool when it comes to punting footage to the web, in my experience.
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Clap the DP on the back next time you see him. I can’t tell you how many people shoot 4×3 on the DVX and think it will be easier just to blow it up in post. What maroons.
That being said, you’re in an OK spot already if you just suck it up over firewire. You’ll be blowing the footage up 150% to fit in an HD timeline, but c’est la vie. Do you have a Kona card that will let you uprez on the ingest? That would probably be the ideal way to go. Cheaper alternatives include ingesting the footage as in into FCP, and then running it through AfterFX and have that do the blow up. After Effects actually does a good job at blowing footage up, changing frame rates, etc. Obviously not as good as a hardware conversion (Kona, Telenex, etc) but good in a pinch or for not alot of footage.
I would also cut the piece in an HD timeline, even though you’re going out to an SD DVD at the end. The picture quality will be better and you never know down the line if you’ll go out to blu-ray, or upload it to the web in HD.
What I can’t comment on is mixing Panasonic 30p footage with Sony 30p footage. Take in some of the SD footage over firewire and test it out in the timeline and view on a monitor. See what happens, or what else people post!