Thaxter Clavemarlton
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Tools menu > Video Scopes
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The audio is very easy to change during the edit.
If you captured two channels, you can choose to edit only one (either) channel or both.
You can “pan” any channel to center, left, right or anywhere in-between.You can separate or create any “stereo pair” by clicking on the track in question and hitting “option-L”.
I sometimes spend as much time setting and adjusting my audio tracks as I do on the video.
It depends on how the tracks were recorded and how I’m using them. -
Age-Old request.
In Avid you CAN.
In FCP you CAN’T.You CAN carefully copy and paste EACH individual number SETTING, one-at-a-time… but it takes forever.
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MAYBE he was asking about the use of 16×9 “Converter Lens” adapter (which IS a type of Wide angle adapter) and NOT just a “standard” Wide Angle lens adapter.
The Century Optics (for example) 16×9 adapter will create an anamorphic (squeezed) image on a standard 4×3 camcorder that can be “stretched-back” to re-create the intended 16×9 aspect ratio in playback.
This allows a greater utilization of a camcorder’s “full” CCD image-area compared to just “cropping the 4×3 image with black bars” for the 16×9 look (which “loses” much of the effective CCD area).
There are so many methods and adaptations of 4×3 aspect to 16×9 aspect (and the reverse) that the confusion will not subside for many years to come.
As to “standard” WA adapters (say 0.5-0.7)… they do their “work” independently of any aspect ratio.
(A 4×3 camcorder or a 16×9 camcorder can utilize a WA adapter for similar reasons).
These adapters allow for shooting a wider shot without having to back the camera farther away (great for shooting in small rooms).
WA adapters can create a mild-to-strong “fish-eye” or barrel-distortion and some shooters find they “like” that look.
Some say it is more “film-like”, but I don’t see how they can make that claim, as I have seen millions film scenes… and very few have any barrel-distortion. -
There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many problems!
You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs or freezes.
NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.
First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:
Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.
You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.
It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.
NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.
I think that this is one of the functions that is SUPPOSED to take place automatically during pre-processing of “Edit to… Master to… Print to…” but sometimes it may just not quite perform this completely.
I flat-out NEVER use any of these playback “features” anyway. I always just hit “record” on the deck and PLAY the timeline out to tape. -
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What CAMERA did you use to shoot the tape(s) in question?
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[Dez Loreen] “After a short session of ‘capture now’ there were 2 identical pop ups saying that there was a ‘tape error’ and that capture now had reached the end of process, and that I should check the VTR. “
In general, rather than using “capture Now”, you may get better results if you first mark the In-points and Out-points for short clips and enter them into the Browser.
THEN choose “Batch Capture” and let FCP cue the tape and Capture them.If you find you still have Timecode problems on a given tape, the standard workaround is to make a FireWire copy of the whole tape to a new DV tape (using two camcorders or decks) then capturing only the new copy.
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[Del Frost] “I assume the preview screen is “faking it” in some way & I also assume that I need to “fake it” to appear progressive on a computer, probably using the method you mention. “
The Viewer and Canvas show only one of the two fields on-screen.
Applying the De-interlace Filter can do basically the same thing to your interlaced video clip for output from FCP.
And/or if you’re trying for a “film-look” there are countless techniques, software (and discussions).
Do a “Search Posts” on this forum and go back several months (or years).