Rob Grauert
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i can’t seem to find what you’re talking about, Tom. Thanks anyway though. I’ll just deal with what I have – stills beats tape to tape editing, i’m sure.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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Yup. Those are the obvious places to check and I already checked them. I see nothing for changing the keys for volume and I don’t even have any keys set for expose. So I don’t know how to turn it off for F3 an F4
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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Well, for the rendering, when you go to Sequence > Render (or Render All), make sure all those colored bars have check marks next to them. Whatever is check marked is what FCP renders when you press Command + R or Option + R.
For your screen issue, have you gone to View > Video Playback and make sure the proper selection is checked?
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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Thanks Chris.
While I have seen somewhat hostile responses on the Cow before, I don’t feel I was treated that way. I do, however, feel that no one understands why I can’t just stop working and start organizing their footage.
Like I said above, I was hired by a large shotgun manufacture (large meaning, many of their models are used by the military and law enforcement) and I work in their multimedia department. I don’t work at a video production company, and this isn’t freelance. It’s more like a corporate environment (and I have to wear a button-down shirt every day). So If don’t get the updates to the DVD catalog finished, saying “But look, I took the time to organize your footage” won’t do me any good. The people who hired me and have the power to fire me aren’t video people. To them, not getting this finished means I’m interfering with their sales.
#2, I’m just plain scared to do that. I am young. And I spent all my money to move away from home, by myself, to the DC area. I have no contacts to find work elsewhere, and I still have 11 more months left on my lease on top of car payments/insurance. I really am in no position to get fired. And while the lack of organization is keeping me from creating the best video I can create, I’m not making horrid video. Unfortunately it’s just “good enough.”
#3, I was always under the impression that this industry is just as much about problem solving as it is videomaking/filmmaking/story telling. So I figure I should keep working to solve this problem.
As for not checking the assets before my supervisors left: I agree, I should have done this, and I wanted to. But they were pressuring us to have a few videos finished before they even left for the trip (which didn’t happen). So I kinda just started trying to edit right away. Also, like I said above, I have purchased Shane’s “Getting Organized” video and much of it I was already doing…because it seemed like common sense. So I was in the mindset, “Well a schmuck, recent graduate like myself can be organized, surely these 2 guys who came from major networks are organized too,” but I was wrong.
And my two supervisors are definitely in the middle of no where. They’re shooting a hunting show in Arkansas, Louisiana, etc. Sometimes they are at a hotel that has internet, but phone calls are often very hard to hear and are always cut off eventually.
I appreciate your advice to keep working through the problem. I’ve been working hard and have been working 14 hour days, and it seems we will make the deadline. I will definitely talk with them about the organization when they get back. If they are not into it, then I suppose I’ll be looking for a new job. I just can’t work like this. It’s not fun when you can’t get into that groove where 10 hours of editing feels like 10 minutes.
Thanks again!
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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Yea, you’re probably right, Chris. I just never had a problem with 640X360 ever since Youtube’s video quality became watch-able. Your logic definitely makes sense though.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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For Youtube I use 640X360 when using 16:9 video. That’s the size of the image on the site, so that’s why i use it.
As for Settings, once you drop the h.264 preset onto your video, in the inspector:
Go to Encoder Pane:
Video settings: 30fps, set keyframes to automatic, and quality slider to High.
Audio settings: Set format to ACC, Channels to Mono, Rate to 48KHz, Render quality to Better, and target bitrate to 128kbps.Frame Controls Pane:
Click on the sprocket to turn on Frame Controls.
Resize Filter: Better
Output Fields: Progressive
Deinterlace: Best
Race Conversion: BetterGeometry Pane:
Dimensions: 640X360
Pixel Aspect: SquareIf you shot interlaced footage, deinterlacing will take a long time. If you shot progressive, Compressor doesn’t have to deinterlace, so the encode won’t take very long.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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That’s actually a great idea – keep working but just let them know it will be hard to make the deadline due to the lack of organization. Sounds so simple, I dunno why I didn’t think to just do that.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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And you’re right, it was pulled together in the past because it was pulled together by those who are familiar with the content but didn’t bother to organize it.
If I’m still experiencing the same problem for the next couple days, then I will tell them that can’t do it due to the lack organization. But until then I feel I should work at it a little longer before finally deciding to quit..
I apologize if you feel I wasted your time, but that was not my intention at all.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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“If you can do this why did you ask for our advice? ”
Because hours after my original post I eventually did find a drive with some footage that MIGHT work for the video I am having the most problems with. And that has given me some hope.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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Yup, I purchased that DVD not too long ago when it was on sale. Most of the tips I have already been doing, but I definitely learned a few more great tips. I’m hoping after this project they will let me devote a lot of time to implementing that same system of organization as well as set up a data base with File Maker Pro.
As for the comments about stopping and starting to organize now: I completely agree and I’d love to do that, but I just can’t. It probably will take months to organize the terabytes of footage. And these videos have to get done for the new year. They’ve done it in the past, so it can be done. It’s just a matter of finding what I need, which I spend more time doing than actually editing. But what’s the point of a DVD catalog that is months late?
I certainly value and appreciate all the advice though. Thank you.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
http://www.robgrauert.com