Randy Lee
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Thank you Shane for saving me from writing video for 4 hours, 4 times to lay off an hour-long DVCPro HD sequence 4 times. No writing needed and I can go home tonight instead of staying g at work all day on a Sunday. Is this typically just an issue with HD, or is it something you don’t notice as much in SD? Today is the first time I’ve run into the issue.
Of course, there’s always the possibility that the other editor that was using my system could have changed the settings. I haven’t noticed anything else strange though. Regardless, thank you for clearing this issue up for me.
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Oh, the joys of Final Cut and Graphics. It might be worth a shot to try to change your sequence settings to something higher, such as dv50, then render, then export. DV25 can be hell on anything with graphics, and while some don’t notice or it doesn’t bother them, sometimes it helps tremendously. At this point, it’s definitely worth a shot. Select your timeline, cmd-0(zero), and change the sequence compression settings. Run a test of a minute or two of the timeline, and if it doesn’t help, you can always change it back to dv25.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that if the shooter shot something, didn’t like it, and deleted the clip, if the camera was in rec run it would create a timecode break, with the timecode continuing from where it was after shooting the clip.
I’m not sure right off hand (and don’t have the manual handy to check) what would happen if they were to shoot multiple clips then come back and delete earlier ones. I assume that this would also create a timecode break. It hasn’t happened here, but theoretically it could.
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If you go to Itunes > Preferences > Advanced > Importing, you can change how you import music. (I think this has moved in Itunes 8, but it’s still in preferences, under Importing) Pick AIF, Custom, 48k. Hit OK to confirm and exit prefernces.
Now just select your song and go to Advanced > Convert to AIF. It will convert your music over for you fairly quickly (much faster than real time) with no need to burn a CD. If you want to go back to importing music as mp3, just go back into preferences and change it back. All done in around 2 minutes.
I’m not sure that this will bring in the proper panning into Final Cut for the stereo file, though. I’ll try that out to confirm for myself later today, if I have the chance.
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If you go to Itunes > Preferences > Advanced > Importing, you can change how you import music. (I think this has moved in Itunes 8, but it’s still in preferences, under Importing) Pick AIF, Custom, 48k. Hit OK, select your song, and go to Advanced > Convert to AIF. It will convert your music over for you fairyl quickly (much faster than real time) with no need to burn a CD. If you want to go back to importing music as mp3, just go back into preferences and change it back. All done in around 2 minutes.
I’m not sure that this will bring in the proper panning into Final Cut for the stereo file, though. I’ll try that out to confirm for myself later today, if I have the chance.
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Piecing parts together will be much more expensive than buying a new used Mini. Check Ebay, you can pick up a Mini or an Imac for a few hundred, and it would cost you close to that to upgrade the old G4. A couple hundred into an old junker, of sorts, or for something just a tiny bit slower than the new top-of-the-line system? No contest, in my opinion. We’re a throwaway society, and it’s time to throw that away if you want something useable.
Best of luck to you either way, but if you try to use the old one, she’s gonna be slow.
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Capture now works great…. *if* you’re never going to have to go back and re-edit, or change anything. Finish a project, get it off your system, then a year from now the client calls and you have to go in and change things? No timecode to work with. Talk about fun. If you log and capture, you’ve got timecode and can re-link everything, no problems.
One day Apple will listen…. I hope… Maybe a complete re-write with Snow Leopard? We can dream.
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Also, how are you monitoring? If you don’t have a broadcast monitor set up to check it on, you can’t know what the final output is going to look like. At the minimum, set the viewer to 100%, if it’s set to anything else it is likely to give you poor looking results. Also, rendering set to high quality, and this piece is fully rendered, correct? If you’ve got all of that and it still isn’t doing a very good job, feel free to give us full system and timeline specs so we know what you’ve got to work with and we’ll see what we can do for you.
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Most Americans buy their generic, everyday things solely on price. When you start looking at a commodity, especially say… a commercial to make your business look good, or a corporate piece to get your employees pumped up, though, it’s a different market with different expectations of both quality and price.
Most Americans aren’t buying post-house time. The ones with the money to spend are, and I think that most of those realize that if they spend their money appropriately, they’ll get more bang for the buck than if they have their nephew do the project. The problem comes in when there is a squeeze, and the company has to look for any way possible to cut back. That extra $15K looks like an awful lot of money in the short term.
In the long term, though, they’ll soon see the error of what they’re doing and come back. They need a good quality product, and that is something that the nephew being paid $5,000 to do the work on his pirated version of Final Cut can’t give.
Unless the client is trying to compete based on price, too, in which case we get a bad case of catch-22. They can’t get quality without spending the money, they don’t have the money to spend because they’re not making anything quality. Soon they’re out of business, and we move on to people that come to us because we do better work.
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I agree with Mike. Technically, using the music in the finished video isn’t legal. But it happens all the time, and no, or virtually no issue is made of it, except for professionals going out of their way to not use the music. It’s like speeding. You can get in trouble for it, but it happens on a regular basis anyway.
That doesn’t mean that you should use the music, and hopefully someone who doesn’t use music from the dances will step in here with a few good words on a quick way around it, but otherwise it’s completely up to you to make your choice. Sync licenses are prohibitively expensive for your run of the mill wedding video. Sit back and enjoy the conundrum.
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Btw, long time no see, Jeff. How are things going with Two Wheel Films? It’s rare to see the old instructors posting on the COW.