[Paul Dickin]

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Or maybe you can switch your Z1 to NTSC mode to play the tape.

[Paul Dickin]

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iMovie v2 or maybe v3 was a lot less fussy, but to get iMovie to successfully fire up in NTSC mode when you have a PAL camera required some trickery – basically you have to have an NTSC FW device connected when you open iMovie, I used a Canopus ADVC100. As soon as iMovie is ready and expecting to capture some NTSC DV you whip the FW cable out of the ADVC into the DV camera, press play and off it goes. Use scene detect to capture the whole lot in one go.
No timecode though…

[Paul Dickin]

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Its Tiger 10.4+ that removed the QT MPEG-2 option – with QT7 in 10.3.9 its still there.

[Paul Dickin]

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A year ago I read this:
“My Wintel colleague and I have just completed some large SIMD optimizations for a very well known image processing application. I also see the same performance ratio – the AltiVec version is easily more than twice as fast as the SSE2 version (take the fastest G5 you can find and the fastest x86 you can find and the AltiVec-G5 version is easily twice as fast). I’ve taken pride in being able to handily beat the SSE2 version and in many cases doing so with far less instructions. I don’t drink the Kool-aid.

I had a conversation with an engineer from a certain fruit company today and he said that even Intel engineers were having problems getting SSE2/3 versions of some of the Apple Altivec sample code running at anything better than half the speed of the Altivec code, and this on a CPU with twice the clock speed of a G5. Steve can sit in his distortion field all he wants but that doesn’t change the fact that Altivec is far superior to SSE2/3.”
From https://www.simdtech.org/altivec/archive/msg?list_name=altivec&monthdir=200506&msg=msg00037.html

[Paul Dickin]

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In Macromedia Director there are Lingo scripting functions that count duration in system tics, 60 to the second.

[Paul Dickin]

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Typing precompose into FCP’s online Help results in 0 occurrences…
Typing “define precompose” into google I get this:
Quote:
[i]You can precompose a layer or multiple layers in After Effects. Pre-composing is often the answer to vexing nesting problems. Say you wanted to animate a car going down the road and show the wheels turning. You could first rotate the wheels on the car, then pre-compose the car and the wheels. Then you can move the nested comp (the car with the spinning wheels) down the road.

To pre-compose layers, select the layers you want to pre-compose, (Command – select to pick layers that are not right next to each other) then choose pre-compose under the layer menu.[/i]

How does that work in FCP?

[Paul Dickin]

… Can you put the names of the files back to the original version, then Export (In QT Player Pro) a new self-contained movie, then relink to that with FCP?

[Paul Dickin]

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This is a typical error if the ingredients of a QuickTime Reference (no-selfcontained) movie are altered.
For some reason it sounds like the original capture resulted in non-selfcontained movies.
Apple capture programs don’t do this routinely AFAIK – but lots of Windows .avi capture programs used to do so.

[Paul Dickin]

[dan’s droppings] “DV rack generated the timecode for the clips and the tape deck. the timecode does not match.”
Check the Auxiliary Timecode settings for the clips (Modify>Timecode).
When I imported DV clips captured in Premiere 6.5 into FCP (v2/3), I couldn’t see the clip timecode, but it was visible in an Aux t/c track.

[Paul Dickin]

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Also in Video Generators>Others there is a full height non-SMPTE 75% colour bar alternative.