[Todd Gillespie]

I haven’t shot with the DVX, so I may be off, but I believe that was a choice that need to be made in shooting. You are stuck with footage that is shot with a widescreen look, but the actual image is 4×3. so to get the 16×9 footage, you would have to stretch the image (around 40%) to fill a 16×9 frame. Otherwise you’ll need to keep the black bars.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Either change the FCP sequence setting to match the render file-Animation (probably not a good idea since you can’t get realtime with your hardware)
Or render out of AE with the FCP setting of DV anamorphic-instead of Animation. But the render probably won’t look as good. At least that’s been my experience.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Nic,

We predominately are a tapeless workflow for our post work. Most of the broadcasts that we produce are created with a MPEG file.
As Walter mentioned, most video servers are MPEG-2 and should be able to read a file that you can give them. As long as someone in master control is willing to try to see what flavor of MPEG will work best. Compressor is able to kick out a MPEG-2 Program Stream that should work nicely with most servers. We’re able to send ours to the servers via ftp! So they don’t ever get a tape from us, just a digital file.
I’m sure there might be a color, contrast, etc. shift when converting to a MPEG file (as there usually is with any compression) but as long as you are aware of the changes and can make adjustments for them, then the compress file should look fine.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Steve,

I haven’t used this function in Adobe, but it sounds convenient.

The easiest way to create a DVD (i think) would be to export a QuickTime movie (by reference -not self contained) then drop that file into iDVD. Probably the least steps.

There’s no way to directly export to a DVD through FCP. Usually you’d; export to compressor and then create a DVD in DVDSP.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

To get the FCS to install faster you’ll need to take a shot of alcohol after every install disk pops out…no wait…that just makes it seem like it installs faster.

Usually for a Mac tower it runs around 4-6 hours, and longer on a laptop. So I’m not surprise that it’s going to take a while for a iMac. You can uncheck files that you don’t want to install. Media from Motion, LiveType, Soundtracks, and DVD Studio takes up the bulk of the time to install. Since you really can’t run Motion on an iMac you can uncheck that. Chances are it will not take 13 hours, but you should set aside the computer for the day.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

I don’t use mesh warp that much, but it looks like that’s about all you’d need.
There’s also some plug-ins by Boris, and others that might hold a frame or have different parameters that would work better than CC Time.

But God know why you’d want to…it looks disturbing on the video.

Cheers,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

If you think that is cool-rent the movie “Rope” by Alfred Hitchcock
You’ll think that the entire MOVIE is shot in one take!

It’s an old trick-pan to something that you can use as a transistion for the beginning and end of the shot i.e. asphalt.

It’s done very well with the video.

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

It sounds like the problem lies with your deck. Not FCP. Obviously you should try powering down your deck-maybe unplug it. Trying a different tape & rebooting the Mac.

If it’s still a problem, try recording locally-play/record on the deck without FCP. If its it still be a problem, then it’s probably a bad sensor with the deck.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

The two ways you would normally hook up a broadcast monitor would be to either the ‘output’ of the deck and/or the output of a capture card Aja, Blackmagic, etc.
With a good monitor you would have multiple inputs so you could do both.

Cheers,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

You need to ‘check’ the audio output section in the output module at the render queue.
I miss it sometime too.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production