[Russell Lasson]

I still like you’re posts Walter, even if you’re not as excited to install potential project ruining software on your system as I am:)

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

[CharlieX] “honestly, FCP 6 doesn’t do anything spectacularly more than FCP 5. So fine by me.”

Besides a working version of Color, 3D FX in Motion, using the ProRes codec on projects that don’t need uncompressed, etc.

(I see where you’re coming from though. I’m still going to do some testing before I dive in completely. But I’m not going to wait for three months before I do.)

-Russ

(I’ll let you know if I have any problems)

[Russell Lasson]

[MikeFromLA] “1. When should Export>QuickTime Movie VS. Using QuickTime Conversion be used?”

Export QuickTime Movie is usually used to export your movie as one file in the same file format that you’re using. In your case, DV.

Export QuickTime Conversion allows several more options like exporting a still frame, iPod Video, image sequence, video for web, etc.

[MikeFromLA] “2. What type of situations would you export as uncompressed 10 or 8 bit instead of DV NTSC?”

That’s a tricky question and many people have different opinions about it. Exporting a DV timeline to uncompressed doesn’t make your video any better looking. If you have a lot of effects, titles, and/or color correction, then it MIGHT be worth changing the whole sequence to uncompressed or DV50 instead of DV. It also depends on how you’re going to deliver it to.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

You should also be aware of how FCP is measuring the video. There were some updates to the vectorscope from 5.0 to 5.1 that you should understand.

To find this info, in FCP, click on Help – Late-Breaking News. It’s on page 6 if you have FCP 5.1.

Even at that, if you’re delivering on tape, the only way to be sure that you are in broadcast safe is to measure the video on hardware scopes from the tape master you made.

Best of luck!

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

rlasson(at)kalpics.com

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Call AJA asap. They have great support!

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

I’d to that in DVDSP by using Pan and Scan.

Edit your video as 16×9 in FCP. Export it for DVDSP. When authoring the disc do some testing with the Pan and Scan features of the track to get it to look right.

I don’t understand what you’re doing in Photoshop.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

I’m a keyboard shortcut type of guy. But now that Motion 3 has really cool vector paint, I’m definately going to get a tablet.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

It’s working great! A lot of really great solutions are created by those late night/early morning mastering sessions, just like you proved with this fix.

Thanks again. I owe you lunch sometime.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

The drivers are posted here:

https://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?displayTab=R&storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=93120&catGroupId=14569&surfModel=AG-HVX200

You’ll want to use FCP 5 or better too.

-Russ