Rob Grauert
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I do this quite a bit.
What I do is create my graphic in Illustrator with a full raster document. So my Illustrator document is either 1920X1080, 1280X720, 853X480, or 720X480.
After I create my graphic, I open up a new document in Photoshop, but this time the PS document has the correct pixel aspect ratio. Then I just copy/paste my Illustrator art into Photoshop. It come in as a Smart Object.
So for example, if I’m working in 720p DVCProHD, the Illustrator document is 1280X720. Copy/paste my work into a Photoshop document that is 960X720 with the pixel aspect ratio (Image > Pixel Aspect Ratio) of HDV 1080/DVCProHD720 (1.33).
I prefer to create an alpha channel and export a .tiff or .png though. I personally think it’s annoying that .psd files open in their own sequence in FCP. They all work though. It’s a matter of preference.
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Place your playhead of the marked clip in the timeline
Press: Command + Option + F
This loads the entire clip into the viewer with the playhead corresponding to the marked clip in the timeline.
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ohhhhh, so you’re having problems getting the card to mount. I gotcha.
Ummm….so you’re trying to mount the card from your DSLR by connecting the DSLR to your Mac, right? All I can tell ya is that I have a Canon Rebel at home that I shoot photos with (doesn’t shoot video), and my CF card does not mount onto my desktop either if I try to connect my Rebel to my Mac via USB. I never really cared though, and never tried to fix it, because I have a CF card reader and just always used that successfully.
Sorry I don’t have a solution for mounting the card with the DSLR though
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If you’re not having problems getting your computer to mount the card, then watch this:
https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1
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Thanks guys. Just returning the favor.
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I definitely agree with everything here. But since I only graduated from college a year ago, I’ll share some pointers since I was one of the lucky ones who actually landed a legit job.
– As stated, learn EVERYTHING. Kiss your social life good bye for a year or two. Instead of buying a 30-pack of PBR, buy a 6-pack. If you want to work in post, READ the manuals of as much software as you can. I work with FCP daily, but I know my way around the entire suite and can do some basic tasks in every area of post. Do I consider myself to be an audio professional? No way, and I don’t advertise myself as that. But I certainly can perform some basic cleaning and sweeting of audio in Soundtrack Pro. Same goes with motion graphics. I suck so bad at that, but I can go into Motion and make some nice lower thirds (with the help of Photoshop and Illustrator). I’m not a colorist either, but I know how to prep a timeline for Color, do some basic color balancing in Color, and send it back to FCP. I can make a pretty complex DVD as well. So yes, learn EVERYTHING. And besides, when you take the time to learn something on your own, you get this nice, “Yea! I learned this on my own” kinda feeling. it’s nice.
To give you an example on how much you should know: I work for the marketing team of a corporate company, but there are only 3 video guys: me and my two bosses. Well, my two bosses create a 10-episode reality show for The Outdoor Channel…just the two of them…by themselves. Talk about needing to know EVERYTHING. And no lie, I don’t see many shows on TV with better production values.
– Build yourself a website to display your work and résumé. Don’t blow your money on demo DVDs. It’s expensive if you want it to look presentable, and they go in the trash anyway. I wish someone would have told me this because I spent about $400 when I didn’t really have any money so I could send out about 100 DVDs. Not one response. So build yourself a website so you can email cover letters and résumés along with a link to your website.
– Be willing to relocate. Hey, I love Philadelphia, but there is practically no work there. New York, LA and DC have always been the places I looked the most…until I got lucky.
– You can check Mandy.com, Craig’s List actually has legit jobs for DC now, and there’s even job postings forum for here on the COW, which is actually where I found my job. Also, I haven’t done this in a while, but I go on IMDB because it always lists the production companies that make shows or films. Then I just Google those companies for the contact info, haha. Never led to anything though…
– Take 10 minutes to look over the stuff you send to employers. After I got hired, my bosses were telling me how some of the cover letters they received said things like, “I think I’d be a valuable team player for HGTV.” Yea, we’re not HGTV…
Also, you really should feel lucky that you’ve chosen a path in video production. Why? Because you have the COW. I feel so bad for my graphic designer friends and photographer friends, and whoever, because they don’t have ANYTHING that comes close to this website. I mean, look at all the free information people are just giving out on this site. I learned more here than I ever could at any school, and I can honestly say I don’t think I’d have my job if it weren’t for this site.
So dump your girlfriend and say good bye to your friends, spend a few hours reading manuals everyday (and of course mess around with the software as you’re reading), visit the COW for a few hours a day, spend a few hours just looking for potential places to work (I keep a list at home of all the places I’d like to work along with their contact info). And I don’t mean spend like, 2 hours doing all this. I’m talk about doing this all day – from when you wake up until you go to bed. I remember in college one teacher said to me, “FInding a job is a job itself.” And my teacher from high school said to me, “If you keep trying you’re bound to get lucky, because once you give up you guarantee nothing will ever come your way.’
Doing all of this paid off for me.
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Look at that, learnin something new everyday 🙂
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“My only gripe with Export Queue was having no way to save favourite settings, and having to re-enter the same data every time i open it up. So time to try the options in Compressor…”
I dunno what an Export Queue is, but to create you own custom setting, choose a setting in the Settings tab. Near the top of that pane, there are 3 buttons (if you’re in FCS2, I dunno about the new FCS). The third button duplicates the selected setting. From there you can modify/name it in the Inspector tab. Then click the save button at the button of the Inspector
“The one thing i cant seem to figure out though, is there a way to send to Compressor only the video between the in/out points on a timeline?”
I’m not sure what you’re doing because I’ve always been able to mark In and Out points in my timeline and send whatever I want to Compressor. You can also mark In and Out points in the Preview window in Compressor. Or, mark your In and Out of your timeline, export a reference movie, then bring the reference movie into Compressor.
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If you want a master file, export to ProRes422, not HDV. To do this, simply change your timeline compressor to ProRes and then go to FIle > Export > Quicktime Movie. Be sure the “Make Movie Self-Contained” box IS checked.
The easy way to encode for DVD with pretty good results: Bring your master file in compressor and drop the “DVD: Best Quality 90 Minutes” preset onto your file. This preset contains to settings: one for an MPEG encode, and another for an AC3 encode
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Open Log and Capture and go into the Capture Settings tab.
Does Capture/Input say “DV NTSC 48kHz Advanced (2:3:3:2) Pulldown Removal”
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