Raymond Tuquero
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I believe there is a tutorial ONLINE … here is a link
https://www.studiodaily.com/main/richmedia/6577.html
It is done in FCP 5 … but there wasn’t a big difference from FCP 5 to 6. You can use that to get you started.
good luck with your project.
-Raymond Tuquero-
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in FCP –
You select the clips logged from the tapes in the BIN then right click one of the select clips.
In the submenu it will say make multi-clip. (Mulicam clip)The next box will ask how you would like to connect the clips … you can connect them by either Timecode or In Points or even Out points. (In points are great when you footage has time code breaks, common on DV footage.)
Once you do all that … a new Multi clip will populate in the bin.
Double clip that and it will pop in the Viewer as a 4 quadrant video. From here it is like having a virtual switcher at your finger tips.
** FYI – if you are thinking about doing this in HD Formats … I would make sure you have a Very powerful Video card and Lots of ram. Or you will get a lot of errors**
Good Luck.
-Raymond Tuquero-
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Are you building the text in AE?
I find that when you create it in Illustrator and bring that file into AE it is quite a bit cleaner (gives it that Vector look in a raster environment)
That’s would be my first thing.
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I agree with Previous post by Kevin. Once you get into CS3 AE … You will notice a HUGE difference.
I felt the same way when I upgraded equipment. There was not much of a difference in Speed from my G5 and my Intel Mac. Then when I got the CS3 Package, it was a major surprise. I love the setup. Do a trial of CS3 AE and see for yourself what I mean. (but don’t do any major projects on the trial; You can’t go back to AE7 once it is created in AE CS3 … just in case you didn’t know)
Good Luck with your new set up.
-Raymond Tuquero-
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Well … I for the Throwing part … I still like my window.
As for the Raid, it is connected via Fibre Channel 4GB (Big o thing). And I am capturing footage by hardware downconverting … I am not a fan of downconverting then capturing. I feel footage done that way looses some info and doesn’t look as good as it was originally shot. The deck has a setting to downconvert the footage with either Crop Edges, squeezed, or with Black bars.
Still pondering … I had an issue with this before … and it was back when the Raid had an update that messed up a setting change to screw with FCP. But the last update fixed that. Do you think it messed up the setting again?
Hmmm … More diving is needed.
Thanks for the reponse,
-Raymond Tuquero-
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SO I Downloaded the pacafist and installed Quicktime 7.3.1 through that, and also told it to replace anything that it needed to replace. BUT the computer still sees that I am using Quicktime 7.4 And I still get the error message.
AM I Missing something? Can some one walk me through the steps? DO I have to fully throwaway Quicktime?
-Raymond Tuquero-
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^^ That is a good Tutorial ^^
Do you have an understanding of 3D Space in AE?
Because you can build a Nested comp with the assets you are creating. Then in a new comp have a Camera move around the nested comp to get that pretty cool effect. But check out the tutorials and you will be well on your way.-Raymond Tuquero-
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Also, How are you capturing the Footage?
Because the Capture device will include capture codecs. Like for instance, I have an AJA KONA and FCP captures the footage from BETA SP as “AJA KONA LH: 525 29.97 8 Bit”. You should look into your capture device, or check your audio/video settings and see if FCP sees a new capture preset.
-Raymond Tuquero-
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I would recommend that for future reference, if your goal output is SD; I would capture/downconvert through the deck. A hardware downconvert will be TONS faster than you enconding and rendering ANY DAY.
But Yeah Follow ^^^Jeff’s^^^ Idea on getting your current project to DVD. Good Luck
-Raymond Tuquero-
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Well, the MacBook would not have the Graphics Card you need to run any motion software like AE or Apple Motion. So, its the iMac in that battle.
The new iMacs 20″ Basic, actually is more than basic, and more than suffice. I have seen those machines work wonders with the 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB of Ram (Upgradeable) and the Ati 128 MB Graphics card.
If you feel you are still on a budget look for the older iMac 20″ or even a older 17″ iMac with the better graphics card. (Saw one for here in the states for less than $700) Maybe even check into the older 15″ Macbook pros. They keep making new ones that even my MacBook Pro has dropped significantly since I bought it mid last year.
Just make sure whatever you go with you get a system with at least 2GB of RAM and a STANDALONE Graphics Card with 128mb or better. Standalone like ATI and NVIDIA.
Good Luck in your search.
-Raymond Tuquero-
Houston Editor