Steve Eisen
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I would only reuse your mini-dv tapes on non-critical shoots or edits.
Mini-DV tapes are very inexpensive and are very susceptible to drop outs compared to DVCAM stock tape.
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You are 100% right Walter. Even though the new version of Toast 9 allows you to author BD with basic menus, it is a consumer product. When it comes to professional looking menus and custom DVD’s, DVDSP and Encore are the way to go. I have only burned a few videos with iDVD since it has been released. I been using DVDSP since version 1.
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You are right that v8 allows you to create BD. v9 added a lot more enhancements such as you to create up to 20min of BD or HD DVD on DVD-R. HD Templates (for those that don’t have Encore).
V9 is very impressive.
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It is definitely the camera. That is why you MUST always manually set your white balance on any camera that is capable to do so.
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FCP does not automatically capture individual clips based on start/stop. It only does this after you have captured long clips.
My advise to you as far as your Fat 32 drives. Capture the way Apple/FCP likes it (Use log & Capture, most organized way to edit, Capture whole tape or Capture Now, least preferred)
HFS+ non-journaled drives. Once you are done capturing, copy those files onto your Fat drive.Steve Eisen
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Current projectors will detect automatically the signal it is being fed. Projectors have video (Composite, S-Video, Component and/or HDMI) and computer inputs.
DV25, DV50, DVCPro HD ProRes are all compressed formats.
To answer your question, no, the signal being projected will not be uncompressed.
I’m guessing you concerned about quality. If your original video (DV or DVD) is good quality, any decent projector will display your video very good via video input. Obviously the component input will yield the highest quality.
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Place your clips in the timeline. Add your fade in and fade out on your first clip. Copy the attributes. Select all other clips in the timeline. Paste attributes. Done. You will still have to render.
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Look for an update any day now from SONY.
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Contact them directly! I’m sure you can find them online but that would violate copyright laws if you use them.
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Two ways you can adjust your keyframes.
The first is double the image from your timeline. Select your motion tab. Go to your outpoint. Drag the key frame to the outpoint. It’s tedious but it works. One day, hopefully soon, FCP will allow you to move all your keyframes at once like in AE.
The other way is much faster but takes precision on your part. Press Option T (Toggle Clip Keyframes) Drag the blue dot to your outpoint.
You can always create and save custom window layouts in FCP.
Steve Eisen
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