Rob Grauert
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Thanks for the advice fellas. In the future I will make it a point to confirm I have all the media I need. As a youngster in this industry, I guess some things I just have to learn the hard way.
Unfortunately though, David, even though I’d like to, I can’t pull the plug. This isn’t a freelance gig. I’ve been hired to work in the multimedia department of a company that makes shotguns. If I stop working on this project, I will be coming to work everyday with nothing to do until my supervisors return from their shoot – practically stealing the company’s money since I have a salary. And besides, I know the footage exists because I’ve seen it from earlier versions of their DVD catalog. It’s just a matter of looking for it, which isn’t fun under a tight deadline.
And I’m glad you enjoyed the pretzel video, Nick. Made that in college in an attempt to emulate How It’s Made. Movin onto bigger and better things now though, haha.
Thanks again guys.
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I think the only option for viewing it on a DVD player is compressing your final video to MPEG2.
Doing FIle > Export > Quicktime Conversion is not the best option. Do you have Compressor?
From FCP, export a FCP reference file (FIle > Export > Quicktime Movie. Don’t bother making it self contained). Import that new file into Compressor, apply the “90 Min. DVD Best Quality” preset (which includes an MPEG preset for the image and an AC3 preset or your audio), adjust the preset accordingly in the Inspector pane, and then click Submit.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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I think whoever wrote that article just don’t know how to compress video. I have no problem down converting to SD…ever.
The schmuck is probably judging the video quality on his computer screen anyway….
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Have you gone to View > Video Playback and select the correct monitor.
If so, Command + F12 turns that function on and off so that you can toggle between having a large workspace and fullscreen video playback.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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DVCPro HD probably isn’t the best codec to export from AE even though your project in FCP may be DVCPro HD. I would go with the Animation codec.
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What do you mean you added an effect to your entire project? Were you nesting sequences? If so, you can right click the sequence in the timeline and select “load in viewer” and delete the effect in the motion tab. Otherwise, I dont think there is a list of actions like there is in Photoshop. What I do is go to Final Cut Pro > User Preferences and set my Level of Undos to 99.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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When you drop the Dolby preset onto your file, load it into the Inspector. In the Encoder pane, go into the Audio tab. At the bottom there is Dialog Normalization. Set that to -31dBFS.
I encountered this a while back and had a hard time understanding it in the manual, but I walk away understanding that setting it to -31dBFS will leave your audio untouched.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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huh? You can use P2 media to edit in FCP. I’ve done it multiple times.
I’ve always had a hard drive shipped to me though. In it contained folders labeled “Card 1″ Card 2” etc. Inside each of those folders was a folder labeled “Contents.” And then inside of that was the metadata from the P2 card. From there I would just use Log and Transfer and locate the Contents folder and then capture.
I would assume you have to somehow connect the camera to the laptop to get it to mount like a hard drive. Then drag the contents of the P2 card to your hard drive or go to Log and Transfer and locate the P2 card while your camera is mounted.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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if you do an Apple + A in the timeline, it will select all the clips. Then just assign a color to them. All your clips that are in your timeline will be colored in your bin then.
I understand it would be nice if FCP automatically marked them, but it isn’t that much of a hassle. Takes 5 seconds.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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Note that “Show Duplicated Frames” doesn’t work properly if you didn’t label your reel number in Log and Capture/Transfer. We figured that out during a big production…
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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