Robert Garry
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Mort,
When I move stills I do it one of two ways.
The first method is to layer them on separate video layers. So my first still will sit on V1, I do the move within FCP and then I throw my second still on V2 and perform the move. I then either put a dissolve on the V2 track or use the opacity parameter to cross dissolve between the shots.
Another way is to figure out your duration first. Lay in both stills on V1 and throw a dissolve on the transition. First, get the timing of the transition right. Then, pick your motion start and stop positions and keyframe them. (I usually make these keyframes somewhere in the middle of the shot so I can easily see the motion path without interference from any other video) You can then move those keyframes in the motion tab to the head and tail of your shot. I usually will move the keyframes a few frames beyond the dissolve point so that I don’t see any abrupt stops. Basically you are letting the motion continue after the shot is off screen, you won’t see it but it ensures that the image will always “flow” into the next image. Do this for the start and stop point of each shot and you should see great results.
Hope it helps
Bob -
My biggest issue with clients shooting Mini DV is that man of them do not listen to my advice when it comes to tape speed. I have had countless instances where they shot in LP or EP mode instead of SP mode. I use a DSR 1800 for capture and the deck does not recognize the speed of the recorded tape. The only way I was ablle to solve it was to redub or use the original camera for input.
DId you perhaps shoot LP or EP mode? You will see tears, dropouts and basically just overall destruction when you play it back on pro level decks.
GL
Bob
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LOL
I’m an idiot and the COW is a god!! It KNOWS that it is a link!!!
Sometimes I feel like the internet is just battling me alll day….. 🙂
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It’s pretty outdated since I haven’t needed to redo it for any recent gigs but .mac works pretty good for me when I need to show someone my reel.
https://homepage.mac.com/robertgarry/Professional/iMovieTheater12.html
— By the way, what is the code for inserting this as a link? Most forums use [url] and [/url] or something along those lines but I see nothing around the cow explaining how to do this? Oh well, copy and paste I suppose!!!
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First I would try trashing your preferences for FCP – there are several threads on here that will tell you how to do that.
Secondly, I am not sure your internal drive will be capable of capturing 1080i at full resolution. I have always used RAID arrays or SATA drives for this type of work because you really need the throughput for it to work correctly. Have you ever been able to capture 1080i to the internal with consistency? The most I have ever forced my internal to do is DV quality and I don’t do that very often unless I have no choice.
I’m sure one of the guru’s will be in this thread shortly to tell you all the gritty math details about why this is probably not working.
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Double check your video waveform on ingest. Sounds like you may be bringing the video in hot and therefore are seeing it washed out. Hopefully you have color bars at the head of the tape to adjust to.
Good Luck
Bob -
Thats what I told him – From what I could gather he didn’t like how compressed his video looked. He is trying to do 40+ minutes and I guess it just looks like crap.
I don’t iDVD (prefer DVDSP) but I thought there was a way to use whatever compression you exported at and not use the iDVD “compress/encode” that it uses when importing a QT movie. Isn’t there a way to do that?
Again, don’t have the iLife Suite here at work…they don’t want me to play with other toys!!!
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I can only think of one simple solution for you. Try to go back in your autosave folder before you disconnected the drive and use a porject that had the files connected. if you have the autosave function set to 15 min or less you shouldn’t really lose all that much work. I have never tried this before but I think the theory might work.
You might also try putting all the files in the same folder and directing FCP to look in that one folder. I think it will reconnect all the files once it finds the first connection but I may be wrong on that one.
Good Luck
Bob -
You might try just recconnecting the files within the sequence by right clicking on them and choosing recconnect. Then choose the approriate file on your HD that will replace that file. Should do the trick.
Either that or cut them straight over the previous version, but I’m sure you already thought about that.
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You must have the image rest on EVEN values in the position parameter under your motion tab or you will get blurry pics. Try repositioning so that the start and end point of your moves are on EVEN values that have no decimals.
Example:
200, 154 is okay and should look crisp
but
201, 155 will probably give you a blurry image
200.3, 154.7 will also give you a blurry image b/c of the decimals
Best
Bob