Todd Beabout
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That is basically it man. Load the clip/sequence you want to put in the timeline into your Viewer. Then type the timecode in point for your timeline (e.g. 10:01:00:00). Then press F10. And repeat.
FYI: 10:01:00:00 will put the clip 10 hours and 1 minute down your timeline. If you need to use 10 as your hour for some reason, go to your sequence settings and change the start timecode for your timeline to 10:00:00:00. Otherwise just use 1:00:00:00 as a starting point, and when you go back to tape set the inpoint on your deck to 10:00:00:00 and things should jive.
-Todd Beabout
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It really depends on what the settings are for your timeline. If the timeline is DV, then everything will be rendered (and “down-converted”) to DV from whatever quality it was. Just so you know, Animation codec is not uncompressed anyways. If your original footage started out as DV, then converting the now Animation codec footage to DV should not have any obvious drawbacks. If you are doing some high-end color correcting then I could see working in an uncompressed timeline. Also, graphics that are rendered out in a DV timeline lose quite alot of quality. But I am supposing that the clips you are trying to slo-mo are not graphical in nature but rather are footage, so the DV conversion should be OK.
You might want to open the Animation codec movie in QuickTime and see what the frame rate, etc is on the footage. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me that you would have better results slowing down a DV clip vs. an Animation codec movie unless the frame rate or some other setting does not match. But since you are on a deadline (and who isn’t!) the DV conversion work-around might just help you. Post back and let us know how it went.
Good luck to you!
-Todd Beabout
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You could try running your Animation files through Compressor, changing them to PAL DV and then try that in your sequence.
-Todd Beabout
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Create a white matte. Then crop it with a soft edge in your Motion tab as desired. Put it on the track under what you are wanting to mask and put the “Travel Matte – Luma” transfer mode on it also. Done!
-Todd Beabout
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You can get the product manual at this link:
https://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/docs/manuals/jh1-jh3%20ops%20manual.pdf
Here is an excerpt:
To display the digital hour meter
Press the SET/MENU button while holding down the SHIFT button, then turn the JOG/SHUTTLE dial to display the required item in the time data display.From page 48 (6-5) of the manual.
-Todd Beabout
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MPEG Streamclip. It’s free, and you will find it very very handy. It will de-mux MPEGs as well of course.
https://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
-Todd Beabout
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Export each frame from the animation using a program like Photoshop, then re-animate it yourself in FCP.
-Todd Beabout
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It refers to the hardware capability. Come to think of it I don’t know if DVDSP has that preference at all, even in version 4. We have an older G4 that we use for DVD authoring and the drive is old it. I believe we have to Build/Format from DVDSP, then burn the disc from the Finder, where we do have the slow-speed option. That may be the way you need to go.
-Todd Beabout
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You would set that in your preferences for DVDSP. If you look for it you will probably find it. Unless you are duplicating it though, you can probably leave it on max possible. I believe that is what DVDSP will default to.
-Todd Beabout
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You might want to cross-post this over in the Blackmagic forum. I have a BM card that I only use for monitoring (I capture and output through an Aja IO), so I can’t really help with that, but about the OS install…
From what I have heard, you need to do a “clean” install of Tiger, which means completely wiping your hard drive in the process. If this is not what you did then that could be the cause of these problems also.
Hope this helps!
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios