[Simon Modery]

Yes, there is no ProRes 444 before Final Cut 7.

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Motherlode

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[Simon Modery]

You probably used a codec that only works if you have Final Cut on your machine. If your delivery file is a .mov I recommend the H.264 codec which can be read on every machine that has Quicktime installed.
Go export>Quick Time conversion. Keep the format setting to Quicktime and click the Options Button. Under Videosettings you can select Compression-Type : H.264

Head of Postproduction
Motherlode

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http://www.simonmodery.com

[Simon Modery]

Hi Alan,
open Window>Brushes (F5) and untick any Brush Presets that might be selected. Also check your “Brush Tip Shape” (first Item on the list on the left of the Brushes-Window). You might have selected some wired shape by accident. If that is the case you just need to select the normal round one again and everything should be fine.

Hope that works,
Simon

Head of Postproduction
Motherlode

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[Simon Modery]

Yes it is a Mac thing. But you can get closer to the PC look of PS by clicking View>Screenmode>Fullscreen with Menu Bar.

Head of Postproduction
Motherlode

http://www.motherlode.org.uk

[Simon Modery]

DVDs only work with interlaced format. So if you deinterlace now, then you would need to bring the interlacing back in the final step, there is no point doing it. You will just loose quality.

[Simon Modery]

If you have a big difference between FCP and the Quicktime Player you probably didn’t activate the “Enable Final Cut Studio Color Compatibility” in the General Tab of your Quick Time Player Preferences.

[Simon Modery]

The reason why your colors look washed out in Quicktime Player might be that you didn’t activate the “Enable Final Cut Studio color compatibility”. You find that under Preferences in your Quicktime Player.

Anyway I woudn’t create an uncompressed file, but encode the MPEG-2 you need for your DVD straight away inside FCP. You do that by selecting File-Export-Using Compressor.
The Compressor program opens and there you can select the DVD preset in the Settings window.

[Simon Modery]

Well, you can export your film as a sequence of still images, and use the “Batch” function in Photoshop to apply the same correction to each image.
However I would recommend to use a real grading-program like “Apple Color”

[Simon Modery]

Hi,
all you need to do is to reconnect the master-clips, then the subclips follow automatically…
When you open the project, a window appears telling you that media-files are offline. Select “reconnect”. Another window opens up listing all the offline files. Select “search” if the file- and reelnames are identical on both computers. Otherwise you need to connect your media manually with the “locate” function. (but again, you only need to do the masterclips, so it should not be too time-consuming)