Shane Ross
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You need to download the Avid quicktime codecs from avid.com.
Shane Ross
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Are you pressing that silver button?
Also:
#8 External Monitor Viewing.
Shane’s Stock Answer #8:
A simple path is mac > firewire > camera or deck > rca cables > tv
Then start up your camera and tv, then open fcp.
Then go View > External video > all frames
Video playback should be Apple firewire NTSC (If you are using an NTSC set)
Audio playback should be Audio follows VideoTechinially, this should send synched video to your TV
If for some reason you can’t view your timeline on your external monitor, there are a few things to try:
1) Make sure that the camera/deck is connected and powered on BEFORE you open FCP.
2) In the Final Cut Pro menu select AUDIO/VIDEO Preferences and make sure your signal is being sent out thru Firewire DV.
3) Go to the menu and select VIEW>EXTERNAL>ALL FRAMES.
4) Click in the % box above the image and select FIT TO WINDOW.
5) Go to VIEW->refresh A/V devices
6) Make sure the Log & Capture window is closed
If you want it to play in both the canvas and the external monitor you need to go to the FINAL CUT PRO menu and select AUDIO/VIDIO settings and make sure MIRROR ON DESKTOP is selected under the PLAYBACK OUTPUT section
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
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#2 Playback is blurry
Shane’s Stock Answer #2:
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timelinehttps://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
Video footage requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
Shane
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
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10-bit? With all you described? Yeah, I can see that. I had an hour-long show that was pretty heavy with layering and plugins…DV…and it took 6 hours to render at full res.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
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It all depends on what codec you are editing with, what effects you are doing, what filters are applied, length of program…and speed of your computers processor.
If you are just working with DV and have multiple windows, it will take less time than someone using 8-bit uncompressed and filters in the multiple windows.
An hour and a half sounds like the normal render time for what you are describing. Not to long ago, that would ahve taken many many hours.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net -
Thanks Jeremy, but that link just links to the andersholck site, which is down.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net -
Well, most of theme can be found here:
https://proapptips.com/tips/faqman/index.php
and here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1063431􃨇
Although those are a bit out-dated, as I add new ones all the time. I do have them in a Stickie File where I cut and paste them, and that is available for all who want it.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net -
As long as a professional dub facility did the dub, and they timecode was put onto the DVCAM tapes, then yes, it will be accurate. And capturing it with the DSR-11 will retain the timecode.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net -
[Peter McAuley] “Hell I can shoot 1000 ft of 35mm and get it transfered too for less than $2300.”
Yeah, but you can’t use that same roll of filme over and over and over. The cards eventually pay for themselves.
And still, it is a relatively cheap camera.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net -
The solution is simple: Log and capture.
And shoot for five to ten seconds BEFORE you shoot the footage you want, and keep rolling for 5 seconds after, so that you have room for pre-roll when you capture.
I work with TIME-OF-DAY code all the time on multi-camera shoots and get TC breaks whenever PAUSE is pressed.
Logging and capturing is a good habit to get into anyway.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net