Russell Lasson
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Yes, the first problem is getting it into AE. Then there is AVID…. JK…. It can’t be that hard….. RIGHT?
-Russ
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DV doesn’t have an alpha channel. That’s what millions of colors+ means. The quality is the same as millions of colors, but it just has a alpha channel included.
So if you digitized over firewire, you copied data from the tape to the computer. No quailty loss or recompression.
If you export as a quicktime movie (not quicktime compression) then you have no quailty loss (except for the fact that all of the titles, transitions, filters, etc (anything that you had to render) was rendered in the DV codec (4:1:1 color space and DV compression)).
If you then bring that file into AE, there’s no quailty loss. It’s still DV so it is what it is, but it didn’t get any works.
-Russ
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It is my understanding that those codecs are packaged with Final Cut Pro, but not After Effects. So if the other guy that you are trying to send the footage to doesn’t have FCP on his system, he probably won’t have the codecs as you’ve found out.
How can you get around this? Well, it might be against the license agreement of Final Cut Pro, but I suppose that “hypothetically” you could email the other guy the components that he need from the library/quicktime/ folder. If he loads that into the same folder, it should work. But if he’s on a PC, good luck trying to get him the components.
Good luck regardless,
-Russ
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I would burn a test DVD and see how you like it. If it looks good enough, then you’re fine. If not, then we can go back to the drawing board.
-Russ
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I agree. For now, you should probably just stay in 29.97. As you get more experienced with FCP, you can start worrying about editing in true 23.98. But for starters, it pretty tricky.
-Russ
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I know it might sound lame, but do the preferences thing again and be for you try to open FCP, restart the computer. I’m just guessing now. If that doesn’t work, you might try reinstalling FCP, but some other people might have some suggestions you should try before you get to that.
-Russ
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You’re definately on the right path. As far as how it looks, you looking at it in the canvas window and it doesn’t look that good, right? Resize the window so it shows 100% resolution instead of whatever it currently says.
Another thing that you can do is export the video as a quicktime movie (not quicktime conversion). Open that files up and hit Apple+J. Select the video track and then under visual setting select High Quality video. Then play the movie back and see how it looks.
-Russ
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From the sound of it, you don’t have your timeline set up right. This is probably the root of your problem. You shouldn’t be having the problems that you’re having, even if you are editing 29.97 footage with a 2:3 pulldown.
Here is what you need to do.
1. Find out the frame rate of your footage.
In the browser, change the view to list, scroll over to the frame rate column
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Try delete your preferences.
In your home folder go to library/preferences/Final Cut Express User Data/ and delete the prefs file and the cache file. (or just move them to the desktop if you don’t want to delete them right away.)
Did this fix it?
-Russ
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Decklink cards have there place in this world (I own several) but if you want real support, get the AJA.
It also sound like you could use a small patch bay. I can’t imagine what my life would be like with out ours. It is an investment, but it can save hours and even days in the long run.
-Russ