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Wow! Thanks Thomas that’s pretty incredible that it’s free, I’ve downloaded and will use.
And Thanks Mark for those tutorial links, the tutorials I have are good, but pretty basic.
Once more I’m left with a warm glow thanks to the Creative Cow guys.
Cheers
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You make perfect sense Stephen! 🙂 Unfortunately I think I’m too much of a novice to follow your instructions, working in 3D makes my head hurt and probably will do for a while. Thanks for that link, I’m going to check that out.
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Sorry in advance if my answer is stupid, but I recently ingested XDCAM footage for the first time myself and once I downloaded the software I had no problems (up until colouring but that’s another story!).
When you say you right clicked, do you mean you right clicked the actual files and imported them? I found that once I downloaded the plugin a new import option popped up in my FCP file menu and it just seemed to do everything automatically and the res was fine with lots of really big files.
Have a search under my name and XDCAM/EX footage and you’ll see the answers given to me by the more experienced members of COW.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for your help guys, I think that it all sounds a bit advanced and daunting, so I should probably try and practice for free, before I have the cheek to charge someone for editing their RED footage. I will check out the website though.
Once again, many thanks for your help.
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ah that did it, the problem was that they were all checked apart from show 3D overlays and my tired eyes didn’t spot that.
Thanks Stephen
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I don’t really know express but see if you can get these settings h.264 Data rate 1000 kps Frame rate 30fps Key frames every 150 size 1280 x 720 crop custom de-interlace optimise for streaming.
That’s a compressor setting I really like and then to get better quality try upping the data rate and chopping the key frames, though I’m definitely no compression expert so it tends to be trial and error from there.
Good luck.
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Ah I see, marking on the fly so to speak. I don’t believe there is, I could be wrong but I think not; maybe the M key?.
I would go old fashioned on this if you want to mark on the fly and that is with a pen and paper just make quick notes as you’re watching, not ideal and a bit primitive but it’s how they used to do it in the old days! 🙂
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You can use the markers button in the log and capture window, personally though I would add these markers after I capture, much less fiddly and time consuming.
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No you wouldn’t use cropping, because you want to go from 4:3 to 16:9, so you need to scale your image up (and lose image quality), if you had a 16:9 letterbox image, then you could use cropping to get rid of the letterbox.
So the way I described in the first instance would be the way to go, you don’t need to send it back to FCP from compressor, yes the image will be squished, but there’s not an awful lot you can do about that.
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What export settings are you using? Are you using compressor to export?
At a guess, without knowing your export settings, I would say it’s probably a bit rate and or key frame issue.
Export as a de-interlaced h.264 at half size (1280×720) with a higher bit rate and key frames closer together.
I don’t know express but if you have compressor, use it as you have far greater controls than simply exporting using QT conversion within FCP
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