Scott Sullivan
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Forgot to mention, we’re using a Macbook Pro 2.16 as well. 17″ and 2 Gig ram. Internal Hard Drive is a 7200 instead of the 5400. G-Drive was FW800.
Scott
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No problems here either. Ours was a lot of basic editing (two stream multi-cam, basic color correction, crossfades) and our G-Drive (FW-800) worked without a hitch. For capturing on set, at first I was hesitant, but I was even able to capture 15 minutes at a time direct to the G-Drive (via FCP) during the shoot. I was afraid to push it too hard so I babied it and broke it down into smaller captures since we had the ability to do so.
But on the editing side, no probs. Worst part is exporting the timeline to widescreen SD, DVD. We averaged about real time. For every minute of timeline, about one minute of rendering out from Compressor to a 16:9 SD format to bring into DVDSP. Editing was all done with full rez DVCPro HD in FCP 5.1 (this was a few months ago before the current update).
Hope that helps!
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Actually, from what you described, I think what was going on was that your video footage was acting as the matte for your PSD file.
This is why it was in greyscale, because the PSD was greyscale. Your video footage, in effect, was acting as an animated matte.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong (I’ve got being wrong down to a science!)
Scott
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Not sure if you can reshoot, but I have a makeshift solution. Instead of fixing it in post, how about placing rare earth magnets inside a hollowed out mouse and another one under the table. You can then move them around in a more realistic manner and without strings.
Since your hand would be moving the magnet under the table, it would be out of view and your mouse would follow the magnet under the table.
I am a magician as well as videographer and I always try and do special effects in “the real world” as much as possible. I just think that CG is good, but not good enough yet. The latest Star Wars flicks are a good example. Back in the “old days” models were used instead of CG. It looked better in my mind because the ships were ‘real.’ Just my 2 cents on that matter.
Warm regards,
Scott