Terry Mikkelsen
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Can you post a still of the offending text, so we can see exactly what the problem is?
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“capture now” will not send control commands, hence it will not start/stop your camera/deck.
Since pressing the control commands DID work in FCP, then your control setup is working. Set an in and out point and use the “capture clip” command. This will then rewind your tape, get some pre-roll, lockup, capture the correct duration you set with your I/O points, and then stop the transport when finished.
See if that contains synched audio.Tech-T Productions
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If you think the animation codec files are “large and clunky”, the ProRes 4x4s will be even bigger.
Stick with Walter’s suggestion:
If you need alpha, leave the file alone – if no alpha, then transcode to your editing codec.Tech-T Productions
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No problem. Give me a call to check my schedule if you want me to be your “sound guy”.
513.549.PRO1 (7761)
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I responded to your other post, but I noticed something different here.
You make it sound like your .ai file is not 2GB, but your .eps is. I’m not sure exactly the reasons (I think it has to do with postscript level 2 vs 3), but if your eps is Illy version 8 or earlier, the file does become quite large. I think that PS Level2 doesn’t support transparency layering and so has to flatten everything.
Also 300 dpi is WAY TOO MUCH (for this situation). Call your printer, like I said in the other post.
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Since your file size remained the same after scaling, I am guessing that the raster images (jpg, gif, tif, psd, etc…) are your culprits.
You first need to get in touch with the printer. Find out what resolution your files need to be for the size you are printing. This will be dependant on the type of printing the printer is doing AND the distance at which your final piece will be viewed.
Once you have those answered, you will need to resize your rasters in photoshop for the correct resolution.
ps – make sure to mention the gradients. they can sometimes need twice as much resolution as your other graphics to reduce banding.
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As a better than average “sound guy”, may I add a couple of suggestions.
1. Hiring a sound guy would be a good idea. You don’t need an entire production company to double mic everything. Use the direct outs from the board to feed a second board for YOUR audio guy. (If no direct outs, use mults or splitters etc….) With the restrictions on cable runs, your audio guy will probably need to be next to the house system. This will be difficult for your audio guy to give you a perfect mix, since he will be influenced by ambient sound, however, an experienced pro will give you excellent results with minimal tweeking in post.
2. If the budget won’t allow for more crew, use two recorders and your camera mic. One recorder near the mix position, but with its own mics getting a room feed. One recorder like you had getting a board feed. Finally use you camera mic as a backup. I say backup because you are likely to move around which will affect your audio and disorient the viewer.
In defense of the house sound guy:
You are right in that he is hired to provide the best quality sound for the event. He is most susceptible to scrutiny during the event, because everyone hears exactly what he is (or is not) doing. There is more pressure from the TD/producer/event coordinator who can easily give “the evil eye” from across the room or be leaning over the shoulder second guessing every move.
Also, for recitals/competitions/etc… most of the audio is provided from MANY different sources. Some crap scrapped from YouTube, some mp3s, some CD rips, etc…. Even if all the songs are recorded to one CD, the level and EQ of each track is grossly different. Having to adjust for this on the fly just plain sucks and there isn’t much hope to get it any better.However, there are some extreme no-no’s going on with your event.
1. “audio tests” should be done at full level. There is usually about 6dB increase when the house is full, but you should know that and the audio guys should have also told you that. Hence after peak check, you should have lowered your levels about 10dB for unattended recording.
2. Your audio feed should never be muted! Tell the production company what happened last year and that it cannot be repeated this year.Finally, if you venture into the wireless transmission, the previous post was correct. Rent pro gear. Get an external directional antenna. Yes, it needs to be up high, but nothing crazy. It is line of site transmission. So as long as antenna and receiver can “see” each other without obstruction (columns, people, speaker stacks, etc….) you should be good (for transmission).
What is not good, is a venue that you have only been to a few times with a unknown audio setup (til the production company gets there). To coordinate frequencies with so many unknowns will be quite difficult. Your rental equipment may come with a “seek” function of some sort which could make things much easier. Once ALL of the equipment to be used that day is up AND running AND transmitting, you use the “seek” function in which it will locate a frequency which (at the time you perform the function) has the least interference. Some gotchas to that are venue systems which get turned on at the last minute (after you have already performed your search), which include hearing impaired wireless systems, house sound “MC/introduction” wireless mics, paging systems, etc…
If you are in a small venue, in a small town, without much technology (in the venue or surrounding area) this becomes SO much easier. But large downtown cities can be a real nightmare.Tech-T Productions
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Coming in very late here, but one thing to note:
The video file does not dictate the projected/displayed resolution. The computer does this! You set the screen resolution and if you put it too high for the projector (size or frequency) is will bark at you. So you are just going to show the video full screen to whatever the screen size is set to on the computer. The video playback program (QuickTime, VLC, etc…) should scale it proportionally. If the computer screen size is set to the native size of the projector then only the computer will be scaling. If they are mismatched, then you may have two rounds of scaling on your video, once for the computer and another for the projector.
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