Paco Sweetman
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Thank you Sylvia, I had kind of given up on this post. But I hadn’t given up on the two videos I wanted to do!!
I have finished one of them (the easier one to key-out) and have been saving the other one to do at another time.
After reading your post, I believe that time is now. If you have time to do it, please do go into specifics of how you managed it. I would be very interested to know.
And thank you for such a positive response. Not everyone can afford tons of lights or a brilliant green screen to work with.Paco
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I’m not American Mr. LaRonde.
Believe it or not there is other countries in the world.
And yes it was shot very badly, but not by somebody who thought that this was the best way to do it. By someone who had access to little money or little equipment. Not everybody works for a TV station with access to unlimited equipment.
It’s all a learning curve Dave. Try and remember when you were young and had aspirations and made mistakes.
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Maybe key out as much green as possible and then rotoscope the rest. I don’t mind putting in the work. I’m only learning AE, so I’m into a challenge.
Fact is, all the keying tutorials use the best greenscreen footage that you could possibly get, so it’s hard to know what to do when it’s awful. Thanks for your suggestions though.
Paco
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[ Here’s a solution I found on the Apple support site…and it works.
1. In Finder select go, go to folder
2. Enter: var/spool/qmaster
3. This will find a folder (oddly named with numeral & text). Trash the folders you see INside this folder (mine were called Shared & Jobs
4. In compressor, select the menu item Compressor/reset Background Processing.John.]
This worked for me, plus I restart the computer afterwards. Running a Quadcore MacPro 2.66 Ghz. With FCP 7.1 and Compressor 3.5.1 (which I think caused the problem…)
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Anyone got any ideas on this? I would greatly appreciate it.
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Thanks Shane for your assistance. Unfortuneately I don’t have any money to pay anyone. I’m not getting paid. It’s all for the love of trying to make a film when you don’t have anything resembling stars like Christian Bale threatening to kill your DP.
I was hoping to find someone that could respond to some emails along the edit. I don’t want to keep spamming the forums with my queries.
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Thanks all for your help. I don’t understand how I could re-capture the footage using AJA (i actually have a Black Magic HD Extreme card on the directors computer) when it’s all solid state. I would like to capture all the footage using the ProRes 422 if it was possible.
At the moment all the footage is in each days folder in seperate folders for each card.
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Thanks for the responses.
If I was to convert all of the footage to ProRes from the EX3 files does that mean I need twice as much hard drive space for the original EX3 files as well as the ProRes converts? How long would it take to convert 18 hours of footage?
I would like to keep it as high resolution as possible to edit with. Can I run the final master, HDCAM from a final ProREs project? Or do I need to think about doing an online version?
The two editing stations are thus:
Mine: 8core 3.2 GHz, with 6GB of RAM.
Directors: Quad Core G5 2.8 GHz, with 8GB for RAM -
Thanks Rafael, I have searched through the forums using the search engine and I haven’t found anything answering my questions. I’m so used to using tape, I’m unsure of how to organise the footage and share the projects over various editing systems.
You said capturing in ProRes? I thought I had to convert the files to be editable on FCP? We currently view them on the XDCAM EX viewer.
We hope to be able to have duplicates of the footage on both the directors editing system and my own. We were going to share the projects between us, because we live in opposite ends of the city.
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So if you used both sides of the Dual Channel card to connect to your SAN, how quick a Data transfer rate would that give you from machine to storage?