Richard Scott
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This project was shot on 35mm flim transferred to Digital Betacam. The sequence was uncompressed 8 bit or 10 bit brought in through the SDI input of an AJA IO. When I export the footage to After Effects or Combustion the DVE moves look fine so whatever the problem is it seems to be happining inside of FCP.
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I am using both 4.5 and 5. 5 seems better but it still looks kind of gritty to me. I know that I am being picky and so far I haven’t heard a lot of complaints from clients but I researching other options.
Rich
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I have found Cubase SX3 to be a valuable program for audio work. It supports OMF and timecode.
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I am interested in this as well. At my old place of employment we used to run most everything through a hardware legalizer when outputting to tape but I don’t currently own one. With today’s digital spot delivery systems (DG systems and the like) transient peaks too small to see on a digital scope have caused problems.
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I am not sure of the exact look you are trying to achieve but what I can tell you might try building your text (the larger and more bold the better the effect will look) and use it to cut a matte. Fill that matte with your smoke background and then drag the completed smoke filled text into another compostition to layer it on top of whatever you want. That last part is optional but it will give you a little more flexibility.
Good luck.
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Serial ATA drives (SATAs) are great for video. I have a promax satamax array and I can do 5 streams of uncompressed. I can add another tower for HD.
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You shouldn’t have much trouble running FCP but according to the Apple tech person with whom I spoke, motion might give you some problems. Appearently, they don’t have much of a video card and there is no provision for adding one, motion being a video card driven application might have problems. Otherwise snag it, especially if you can get a good deal.
Richard
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Try one of these. https://www.promax.com/Products/Detail/27335
It also makes a great archive tool. When you fill it up, just pop in another pair of drives and keep going. I have bought several things from Promax and I am very impressed with the company. Currently, I have a SATA Raid that they made and it is great.
While I haven’t had any trouble with my Big Disk Extreme so far and I still like Lacie products, I am planning to pick up one of those Promax drives shortly.
Richard Scott
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Richmond, VA
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[Matte] “If you have some additional BACKGROUND ACTION (fish-tank, clock pendulum, oscillating fan, etc.) in the same scene as the actors… when you make your FREEZE, then UN-FREEZE it, it will be more “dramatic”. “
Excellent suggestion, I have used a celing fan in the past.
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I were tasked with this, off the top of my head I might approach it like this:
I would shoot each talent sparely against a non moving or neutral background (you could blue screen it if you had to)
Next, the entire conversation (or at least the first half) would have to be scripted well.
The second person would be essentially responding to a pre-recorded and edited monitor feed of what the first person was saying.
The next step of course, would be to composite them together.
Once the timing was down the freezing and unfreezing would be pretty easy.
You could achieve the audience effect by a few well played over the should shots and a few audience close ups.
I may be missing a few details but that would be my first thought on how I would try to make it happen.
Let us know what you end up doing.
Richard