[Paul Nevison]

thanks David

forgot about the in menu help!!! hidden away in that cryptically labelled drop down menu called “help” …..so obvious i missed it 🙂

for anyone interested on getting thumbnails while in list view, you control click on the colums while in list view and select ‘show thumnail’. the scrubbing feature is really nice, gives you a visual preview of the clip…i’ve found it very handy…i think i remember reading it’s a new feature of 5.1.2 but for all i know its been there since version 1!!!

thanks again

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[Paul Nevison]

if you do a search plenty of threads should come up on this topic both on this forum and the AJA and FCP forums. As for Bob, guess he just didn’t get his morning coffee yet 🙂

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[Paul Nevison]

for this kind of control try placing an oval shape from the generators menu on V2 over your clip. then apply the “muliply” composite mode and then key frame the size and softness sliders in the oval controls tab to creat the animation you are after.

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[Paul Nevison]

i’m pretty sure it’s called “bank gothic”

google it and you should find plenty of places to download it

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[Paul Nevison]

hey shane,

nice touch having the ring on the gun cylinder! did you do the graphic sequence at the end or was that done by a mograph guy?

Also how was the show shot and on what format (varicam perhaps)? nice DOF on the IV’s.

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[Paul Nevison]

aint that the truth walter!!!

digitizing becomes such a drag with HDV – totally unresponsive….i wasnt really sold on the format to begin with and now my short foray into the world of HDV has confirmed that this is not a great post solution…unfortunately for many budgets it seems its the only option.

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[Paul Nevison]

thanks for the info,

when you go the ingest via HD capture card route….do you still experience the weirdness of scrubbing through HDV footage as in the lag in picture and audio and is it possible to monitor the picture and audio on capture using this workflow ie rather than on the camera LCD and headphones?

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[Paul Nevison]

thanks guys,

yes i know i need to upgrade the card to HD. Do you also need a converter box with the AJA set up?

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[Paul Nevison]

thanks for the info andy,

i was a bit confused as the FCP press release only spoke about 720p25 sources coming from P2 devices.

Using the JVC camera is a last minute replacement as our other camera got stolen….I’m liking the feel of the JVC though and might get it as a replacement for our Z1.

thanks again andy

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[Paul Nevison]

so after a bit more online research it seems from an asthetic point of view the XDCAM HD cameras take some pretty nice images and the 35mbs recording explains some of the ‘pop’ behind the pixels.

the questions i still have unanswered have to do with XDCAM in post production.

In several Apple demos, I heard none other than Paul Saconne (FCP product manager), talk about the extra pull that HDV has on the processors as it is a very computational heavy codec resulting in longer render times and final conform.

If XDCAM HD is HDV’s older more attractive brother, what magic are Sony doing under the hood to make this a different experience from cutting with HDV apart from the random access and tapeless aspects of the workflow?

thanks for your thoughts

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