[Paul Figgiani]

Evan,

I’ve experienced this as well. What I do is a bit time consuming, but it solves the problem:

Before you convert the sample rate open the files in an Editor (STP, Peak, Audition, etc). Add about 10 seconds of silence to the end of each file.

Let me know how it goes …

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

So your issue was with the framerate and not the resolution. There are ways to conform the odd framerates that most of the screen capture apps. output.

I’m not sure I agree with you in terms of 1024×768 being the most common format. I can see using that res. for slides and stuff like that. However if you are capturing Mac desktops and full screen apps – I wouldn’t recommend it. But , hey … that’s your call.

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

Try capturing your screencasts at 1280×720 instead. It’s a FCP friendly resolution and they will look great on the iPad.

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

Hi, Stefan.

Are you familiar basic routing and busing?

First you need a plugin (Gate) that supports Side Chaining.

Let’s say you have your spoken word on Track 1 and your Bed on Track 2. The spoken word will act as a trigger. When it is audible the Gate is engaged and the Bed is attenuated.

In this particular example you would need to set the Gate’s Side Chain Parameter to Track 1 (the trigger).

-So-

Route the Output of Track 2 (the bed) to a Bus. Add an Aux channel and set it’s Input to that Bus. Now add the Gate to an insert on the Aux channel. Don’t forget to set the Gate’s Side Chain parameter to Track 1.

That’s about it. Of course you will need to tweak your Gate settings to get the effect that you are looking for.

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

Final Cut doesn’t have easy ducking like iMovie. I do it in Logic using a Noise Gate that supports Side Chaining.

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

Niether format is supported in FCP for editing.

You need to convert the video file to ProRes and the audio file to AIFF (48 kHz).

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

If you are set on a USB mic I would suggest this from Rode:

https://www.rodemic.com/microphone.php?product=Podcaster

If you are willing to invest in a mixer or an interface, I would suggest the Shure SM7B, the Heil PR-40, or the Electrovoice RE-20.

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

And Conforming support:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe1fSEf6eKc

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

Cool, Shane. I will try that.

thx.

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

Shane’s tutorials look good.

The one thing that bugs me about Screenflow is that you cannot set a project resolution. It’s limited to full screen or dedicated window capture.

What I do is capture my demo applications at 1920×1080 using iShowU. In fact for the apple Pro-Apps, I resize the application UI’s to 1920×1080. I then drop the source captures into a 1280×720 FCP sequence. Now I can zoom in on the footage without affecting the original image quality. This manual FCP workflow is much more time consuming. There is lot’s of rendering and a few tricks with regards to maintaining proper frame rates. I think the results are a bit better.

If you are curious about the rest of the workflow, let me know. As I said … it’s very tedious.

-paul.