Todd Beabout
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You can select to ignore the alpha, but I don’t believe that you can import ONLY the alpha. Once you import the image with alpha you can step into the matte key and there you have your matte and fill on 2 different tracks, if that helps. It sounds like you might be new to avid, so I don’t know if you know this, but the alpha coming into avid usually has to be inverted (avid treats black as fill and white as matte I believe), so if you aren’t doing that you may be getting some screwy results.
Hope this helps.
-Todd Beabout
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No, if you did it this way your titles would get soft when they are encoded to DV. DV is soft and you would do just as good staying in DV for your titling. But Jerry is right, and DV is all over the TV now… not just footage, but stuff posted entirely in DV titles and all. It is what seperates the high-end from the lower-end in production quality.
-Todd Beabout
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Did you do what Jerry suggested?
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=8&postid=856125
-Todd Beabout
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Nope, I’m still on 4.5 here. Look, you have to do what Jerry said earlier on this thread:
“In earlier versions of FCP, you can create a capture preset which will do the same… it’s done by duplicating your current capture preset, clicking on the advanced button in the audio section of the preset editor window which will open upon duplication of the current preset, and turning the speakers to ON.”
Basically just go to your Audio/Video settings, Capture Preset tab. You will need to edit whichever preset you are using to capture (Component, SDI, whatever) so click on “Edit”. (You may have to duplicate the setting first because FCP is not supposed to let you change the original presets– so you can’t screw anything up permanently.) Near the bottom on the right under audio settings is an “Advanced” tab. Click this, then change your speaker to “On” and then click OK OK to save the new setting.
From here you should be able to see the audio levels whilst logging footage. I will say that this is sometimes a bit buggy– I’ve had to do it twice before to get it to “stick”. Even then sometimes it seems to forget that I turned that speaker on, but give ‘er a whirl.
Hope this helps. Let me know what happens.
-Todd Beabout
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Yes it does.
-Todd Beabout
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Here here. Are you other guys even talking about VIDEO editing? If so then sound is certainly part of the edit, but it is only PART of the edit. I would never make a cut just because a manual said that I should cut on hard syllables or other such nonsense. Just my $.02
-Todd Beabout
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You might want to try exporting your sequence from FCP via Compressor (File>Export>Using Compressor). I use the 60 min High Quality setting and it works out great for me. You basically wiill have more control over your encode if you do it yourself instead of letting iDVD compress it. Poke around in the DVDSP forum for more on encoding.
-Todd Beabout
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You could do this through nesting the sections that you want an overall effect applied to. I’ve also found that you can drag the effect from the viewer (where your control sliders are) right onto another clip (or nest of clips) and the keyframes will be the same as on the original clip.
Hope this helps, not sure if this is what you were asking.
-Todd Beabout
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Nest the clip (Option-C), then apply the crop to the nested clip. Right click the nested clip and select “Open in viewer” to get the motion controls and not just open the nest.
-Todd Beabout
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I think this is because from your viewer you are looking at uncompressed bars. When you look at them in a DV sequence you are looking at them through DV compression, and I believe that DV adds setup (affects your black levels).
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios