Todd Beabout
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You might want to check out the new “Final Cut Extreme” that is RUMORED to be coming out at NAB next month. It sounds like it would do the real time work you are looking for. You could always look into a Smoke/Flame system, too.
I would mention that I, too, work all of the time with clients in my edit suite behind me. I haven’t seen any of them whine about the short render times that FCP requires cutting in 10-bit uncompressed. If I’m messing with a lot of keyframes and motion-blurs the times can get a bit long, but honestly that’s what I use After Effects for anyways. FCP is one tool in my editing tool box, and I find it to be quite sufficient (in most ways) for the tasks I require of it. And it really all depends on the budget that you have to work with. If you can afford a really high-end Real-Time system, then look at something other than FCP.
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I think you get what you pay for. I would never give up my professional CRT monitor, but if I had to I would think a tube TV would still be better than LCD, especially for SD work.
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Have you done a “Render-All” to get rid of the green bar above your timeline?
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Deinterlacing will basically trash on of the fields of your video, so you might want to avoid that. You could try either turning on or off the frame blending to see if that helps, and be sure to “Render-all” to get rid of the green bar over your timeline. I’ve also found that using even percentage numbers (e.g. 50%, 25%, etc.) seems to help a bit.
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The only real way around it is to nest the layer. Then drag the nest up to your viewer to add effects.
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Unless you need to really go in close on a still like that, it might be better to resize it a bit in Photoshop bringing it a bit closer to the 720×486 size of your sequence. That will actually help you a bit more in your render time than it will with the image jumping, but it might help a bit.
You should try applying the Anti-alias filter in your “Stylize” effects folder. I usually start with a value of 2. You will have to render-all to see the final quality, where you do not see a green bar over your timeline.
Hope this helps.
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I do ALOT of DVD encoding where I work, and I’ve found that using a CBR of around 6.5 actually looks the best. Apple calls this “One Pass”. I remember using their VBR several years ago, but in one of the many software updates along the line the quality of the “Highest Quality Encode” setting went way down. I believe some have even called it broken. Perhaps it has gotten better in recent updates, but that is what I have found in my experience.
Good luck!
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Pretty much any widescreen TV has a “Stretch” option built in that will do this.
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Just export the portion of the audio that you need as an .aiff and bring that into Soundtrack. Click on your viewer with your in/out set and go to File>Export using QuickTime compression>Movie to .aiff.
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You could just keyframe the “Distort” parameter under your “Motion” tab.
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