[Todd Gillespie]

Hey Enzo,
The post I made wasn’t a slight on you. I know you know. But it didn’t look like he knew. You know?

🙂

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

[Jedowdle] “I need to keep my timecode intac”

Not sure what you mean by that? Any plug-in that creates a new clip from your video will give you new timecode. The only way to keep timecode of the clip is to apply a filter to that specific clip in that timeline. Which begs the question: Why do you need to keep the timecode? Or How come you can’t replace the clip with exactly the same time?

Bad TV by The Foundry is one of the few I know, but I’m sure they are others. I think Boris Continum has one…Either way, it would need to be compatible with FCP to use it in the timeline.

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Jay,

I would take a little different approach…digitizing your footage is one of the most critical parts of your project. I would take the time to log all of your footage correctly before you digitize. It will give you much better media management. If you digitize your footage with out labeling your clips, reels, etc. Then all of you clips will be ‘untitled’ If something happened and you needed to located the original clip, it can be very difficult if all your clips are untitled.
Enzo’s approach is great if you know what your doing and create new master clips with every clip you like, but if you forget to create a new master clip, delete a clip, or lose one, then it can affect a lot of your clips if you’re using a 20 min chunk of video. Make sense?

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Debbie,
I do remember a flattening option, but can’t remember why we used it and when? But it sounds like you should try it.

I’m still not sure it’s not a customer issue? (duh) But what I mean is even though a customer CAN play another QT movie doesn’t mean that their QT player is not configure correctly. They could be playing older QT files that wouldn’t have a problem with an older QT version.

A compatibility chart for QT and OS’s would be a great resource! Obviously the longer a codec has been around, the more compatible it is. (usually)

Although it might be a little late in the game to wait and gather this kind of info, BUT you might be able to zero in on the problem if you got OS model and QT version from every complaint. I bet a pattern would emerge.

You might want to try the dual option of .mov or .wmv
Or maybe include a hyperlink to get the latest QT player?

I have 4 PCs, what’s the web address with the tutorial giving you the most problems? If I can duplicate the problem, then we can find, at least, one solution.

Let me know,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Walter,
I figured it was time to get off the sidelines. (since we’re in football season, I went with the analogy)

You have my dream job for Cable TV, working with Good Eats. That show is the best!
If I ever make it back to Atlanta again, I’d love a tour.

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Dave,
I will usually do other stuff on my computer while rendering. I don’t use Caps Lock, but I DO close out all windows exept for the render queue to the same effect. Opening and closing windows doens’t bother me, but I may not be getting in and out as much as you. But If I were, I’d probably create a windows layout template, then whenever I went back in, I would click on the template and all my windows would be back up.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Oh boy, the list and options are endless. Plus you will get different options from everyone. So to save you some time, just listen to me!! 😛
There are a couple of questions that need answers before someone can get you a full answer.
What’s your camera format? And what’s

[romprec] “setup that will meet the needs of a semi-professional filmmaker for the next 5 years”

Does this mean that you will be only doing documentary films? Or will you take on the occasional corporate/commercial gig? What will your distribution format be? Beta? DVD? DV? Questions, questions.
All of this will affect your decisions. Kona? Great cards from an innovated company. But if you are only going from and to DV then there’s not much reason to get a card. But if you are going to another format (the occasional commercial gig for example), then your going to need a card to use with a professional deck. Also even if you were only making DVDs, Kona cards can make your picture quality better when converting to DVD. Many more pro and cons. I won’t go Cinewave, old technology.

[romprec] “How powerful of a mac should I be looking at? Is G5 the minimum? “

Apple designs their software to take advantage of newest and fastest machines, but if you’re only cutting documentaries on it, then you probably don’t need the fastest. But defiantly a G5, with lots of RAM.

[romprec] “Is it alright to stream video right off of a DV camera, or should I be using a deck?”

You need to get a deck. Can’t answer which deck until I know which camera. But the deck can also become a switcher of sorts; it will get you a feed to connect to a NTSC monitor (required for any edit station) and a possible video output to record to VHS or DVD dubs.

[romprec] “Are there other things that I should be thinking about?”

NTSC monitor, audio mixer, nice speakers, good desk, probably more, but, again, don’t exactly know your needs.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hello Debbie!
One of my favorite plug-in companies!! I think I have everything you make.
Is there any reason that you don’t make the movies window media? Since they core of your tutorials are windows? Although I’m using Mac and PC for my D.A. plug-ins!
I don’t hear a lot of feedback from our compressions, but some have complained about QT with their window’s machine. Usually it’s an upgrade issue with QT. I’ve watched your tutorials fine on my Windows machine. The Apples MPEG4 tends to be an issue for some machines. You might want to try Sorensen3 codec, it has better compression than Apple’s MPEG4 and might have better compatibility. If I understand the problem correctly, these users are having problems whether it’s on your site or on CD? If so, it shows that it’s localized to that OS config.
But if you really want to reduce your compatibility issues then running your movies through Cleaner to make them .wmv files would be best. Although I’ve heard some say that Canopus ProCoder is better than Cleaner. At least for PC files. In some situations we still create MPEG1 files. That has absolute compatibility with ANY machine. But terrible compression compared to Sorensen or wmv.
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[Todd Gillespie]

Did you also trash the FCP prefs?
If that doesn’t work, you might want to reinstall FCP over the new OS and QT.
For your problem, you might need to come up with the correct combination of installs.
i.e. first OS, then QT, then FCP or it might be OS, FCP then QT. You’d be surprise how sometimes it can make a difference.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

There’s something very therapeutic about doing that…I don’t know what it is?
But when you are walking barefoot for the first time in a while, your like ‘hey, this feels kind of good!’ 🙂
Thanks for the welcome.

Todd at UCSB
Television Production