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Terence Curren
May 20, 2007 at 12:47 pm in reply to: Mixing 4:3 and letter-box video in DV editing

Loaded question to which I respond with more questions.

Number 1 and absolutely the most important, what are your delivery specs?

If 4×3, just do everything in 4×3 and be happy.

If 16×9, you have several choices. Do the delivery specs call for anamorphic or letterboxed?

Here is the major difference between the two. If you work anamorphic, you maintain more vertical resolution at the sacrifice of horizontal resolution. Due to how TV and the human eye work, this is better visually.

In other words, anamorphic throws out info and adds it back horizontally. Letterbox throws out vertical resolution replacing it with black. If you view on a 16×9 set, the difference is very apparent.

Also, once in letterbox mode, you lose any options without further degradation of the signal. In anamorphic, you can still pull a 4×3 center cut master that will have the same resolution as the master.

As for workflow, If you choose 16×9 anamorphic, you will be blowing up your 4×3 material. This will cause some visual degradation. If you choose letterbox, you are just cropping the 4×3 so you don’t lose resolution but you do lose part of the picture.

So, letterbox will be friendlier to your 4×3 material, and anamorphic will be friendlier to your 16×9.

In the end, it really comes back to question number 1. Most 16×9 delivery requirements now are for an anamorphic master. From that the end user can easily pull a letterbox master if they want. If they ever want to uprez to HD, the anamorphic master will produce far better results as there is more vertical resolution there.

Terence Curren
http://www.alphadogs.tv
http://www.digitalservicestation.com
Burbank,Ca
Terence Curren
May 20, 2007 at 12:34 pm in reply to: Opening a project on a different computer

Sounds like you are relatively new to this platform. Here is a hot tip. If you have custom mapped your keyboard, open it up and take a screenshot. Then when you go to rebuild your settings, it won’t take very long.

I like to rebuild my user settings with every new build of the software. This is an old habit developed through many years of troubleshooting issues with corrupted user settings.

Second hot tip, when you get you user settings where you like them, back them up. It’s a very small file, and one day, when your user settings do go bonkers, you will be very happy you have that backup.
Terence Curren
May 19, 2007 at 3:14 pm in reply to: Transfer Project from FCP to Avid

[Tcurren] “You are in a world of hurt do to P2.”

Meant, “Due to P2.” :-[
Terence Curren
May 19, 2007 at 3:12 pm in reply to: Transfer Project from FCP to Avid

You are in a world of hurt do to P2.

Automatic duck will get the project over, even though many things will be missing.

If you still ahve the original P2 clips, you can copy them into the Avid media files/mxf folder.

If you didn’t change the names on the clips in FCP. they MIGHT relink. I’m very doubtful of this, but weirder things have happened.
Terence Curren
May 19, 2007 at 12:45 am in reply to: pan and zoom??

Several options. The built in Pan & Zoom allows you to do Pans and Zooms using your original stiil as the source protecting quality. The good news is, it’s free, the bad news is, it doesn’t do rotate.

Next is Moving Picture from http://www.stagetools.com. It adds rotate functionality and a few other niceties.

The next step after that would be something like Boris Red from http://www.borisfx.com. This would let you do all the moves, and glows etc to your original still. It’s like having After Effects built into your Avid.
Terence Curren
May 16, 2007 at 5:02 pm in reply to: FCP to Avid issue

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Terence Curren
May 16, 2007 at 4:25 pm in reply to: FCP to Avid issue

Put the Avid codecs on your Mac and then you will have the option of exporting them out of FCP. This will speed up the import on the Avid side tremendously.

Terence Curren
http://www.alphadogs.tv
http://www.digitalservicestation.com
Burbank,Ca
Terence Curren
May 15, 2007 at 10:41 pm in reply to: FCP to AVID, computer says no

The best way is to purchase MacDrive for the PC. Then you can read and write to Mac formatted drives.

The poor man’s way to get around it right now is to connect your Mac and the PC to the same network, make the drive shareable on your Mac and mount it on the PC.

This doesn’t address any of the codec issues are heading for though….

Terence Curren
http://www.alphadogs.tv
http://www.digitalservicestation.com
Burbank,Ca
Terence Curren
May 14, 2007 at 6:49 pm in reply to: FS-100 Transfer to Avid

For more fun and excitement of using P2 with Avid:

https://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/thread/234361.aspx

Terence Curren
http://www.alphadogs.tv
http://www.digitalservicestation.com
Burbank,Ca
Terence Curren
May 14, 2007 at 2:29 pm in reply to: shot od DVcam > Master on Beta

Bouke,

You I think you are agreeing with me that Beta SP is better. My point is that the average viewer will not seee the difference.

Terence Curren
http://www.alphadogs.tv
http://www.digitalservicestation.com
Burbank,Ca

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