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There’s also a ‘flicker-filter’ setting in After Effects which can add a slight blur to help. I’ve found it very useful for any type of moving text, especially when making a progressive clip. 0.2 max is plenty.
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A quality mic preamp is always a good idea. Mic to preamp, then preamp to whatever analog to digital interface you may use with your computer. You could use a preamp’s unbalanced analog L/R to an RCA stereo to mini-plug adapter into your Mac’s mini-plug ‘mic’ input, but you’d probably be better served with an external USB/Firewire interface. There are preamps/interfaces that already have an internal AD converter, and USB or firwire output. Here’s an example:
https://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrackUSB-main.html
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You really might be better off adding the grain to the oter footage to at least have things more consistent across the board. Or, if you are going to switch back and forth, come up with a rhythm that will accentuate that so that the ‘jarring’ changes will be the norm.
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Did you check your sequence’s render format and RGB/YUV settings, and make sure the graphic’s color mode is compatable?
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Isn’t there an issue with outputting HDV to an external monitor or deck via firewire, in that you have to render the entire project down in oder to do so, because of its GOP compression?
“HDV needs to be conformed, or rebuilt, into a consistent GOP structure before it can be output to tape or exported to a file. This conforming can take an exceedingly long time. (For instance, conforming a 30 second sequence consisting of five shots, took over 10 minutes on my PowerBook. Conforming a complex hour-long sequence could take several hours on a G-5.)”
Assuming, of course, that you haven’t done this already. I know some editors who actually load/capture HDV into FCP ass DVCProHD for this reason. Sorry if I missed that you’ve gone through this part already.
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Matrox MXO may be the only way to go to really get good scaling etc. to the HD Screen…you’d need a DVI to HDMI adapter if the TV only has HDMI, but you can also go analog component out of the MXO. Maybe there’s a PC Card to HDMI thingy out there, but I don’t know of one.
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Do you have a good mic/preamp and compressor for recording to begin with? FCP’s compressor is pretty basic and can work for some things, but you’ll obviously get better results using higher quality software-based compressors in audio programs/DAW’s or a quality outboard unit.
If you can only work with what’s already loaded, you need to play around with compressor and limiter settings to get where you want. Some people just slap the compressor on and set the ratio to 3 or so…makes things too squashed most of the time. So you should really look into what compressors and expanders/limiters do and how to work with the ratio/attack/release/threshhold settings. Yes, it’s still time-consuming, but that’s what the work requires, and it’s essential to understand these things for broadcast audio when you’re tryting to prepare audio that’ll play on a variety of systems….from full-on entertainment 7.1 surround to little mono TV speakers.
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Thank you Dan. The more I think about it, DigiBeta or BetaSP to uncompressed is looking like the way to go. I’ll see it they can load straight to diak as uncompressed.
Thanks again to everyone for their insight. Sometimes when you have an entire hardware store at your fingertips, you forget that all you need is a hammer. 😉
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“There is no such thing as 720p HDCam. HDCam is only 1080, i or p. The only Sony recorder that supports 720 is HDCam SR, a completely different format, and no current HDCam camera model supports 720.
I think asking for such a thing, given that the delivery is for the Internet, is tremendous overkill. If you have the ability to do so, consider recording standard definition either uncompressed into a computer, or compressed into a low-loss recorder like a Wafian. Proper lighting and distance of the talent from the green screen will be much more of a factor than whether you’re recording in SD or HD for your application, especially if compression is not an issue”
Thanks Mike. Yeah, I was wondering if it was ony HDCAM sr for 720. And the more I thought about it, good BetaSP shooting into uncompressed has worked fine in the past, especially for such an ultimately compressed otuput. the studio at which they will be shooting has a dedicated green-screen stage and they’ve done work for some major feature films, so the consensus is that they know what they’re doing. I think SD into 8-bit unc might be the way to go….it’ll also take up less space and processing than the 720.