Tom Brooks
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Are you creating graphics according to the Frame Size Chart in the manual?
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Many thanks for running this valuable service of “Shane’s Stock Answers” and dealing with such essential information as “Getting Organized.”
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That sounds familiar Micah. I have seen that file you mention on occasion when an export messed up. It is some sort of temp file that is used by the sytem (?).
One time I sent what I thought was a Quicktime self contained movie to someone off site and it would not play. Said it needed “movie.av-1” — that mysterious file. On my hard drive it played–because the mystery file was available. The export had been sent to a network drive. I re-exported to the local drive and all was well. How it relates to your capture trouble, I’m not sure.
In answer to your problem, please double-check your easy setup and your scratch disk setting. If you’re capturing DV, the whole 90 minutes should be only about 15GB. If your tapes are not 90 minutes long, try setting Cap Now limit to a shorter length.
Anybody else have an explanation for this “temp” file thing?
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Anything much slower than 24fps will have a herky jerky look–it’s a law of nature. I’d look for a plug-in that can generate in-between frames and then find a way to stylize the footage to the extent that it creates the mood you want and covers the flaws.
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Some time ago this was mentioned somewhere in the forums. It might have been in After Effects. The suggestion was a luma or chroma stabilizer filter. Something to even out the levels. I have to say it’s a tough one to fix though. Try your search with that suggestion and see if you get hits.
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Just to clarify, you have selected a clip in the Browser, then clicked on the FRC? Nothing?
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Walter, I sure don’t see the result you’re describing. Are you pulling our legs or are you perhaps also changing file type or file compression in your process? For example, a tif with the Zip compression option will be smaller than a psd file of same size.
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All I have to say is that it’s about the pixels and only the pixels. Make your stills at least the same pixel dimension as your sequence format. If you need to do moves on the stills, go for twice the dimension of the sequence format (as a starting point).
If your scanner only “speaks dpi” then find out what the resulting pixel dimension is when you use a certain dpi setting. It’s about the pixels. Always get back to pixels!
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File size is always proportional to the number of pixels and the bit depth. If you don’t change those things, the file size will remain the same, even if you change the dpi setting. Does FCP really care about dpi at all? Does dpi show up in the Item Properties?
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Fascinating! I wonder if this could happen with two P2 cameras or two hard drive recording cameras.
Here’s my theory. The audio sample rate really is off by some tiny amount but it’s too small to show as anything different than 48K in the item properties–a rounding error if you will. As to why that would happen I have no guess. I’d be suspicious of the FireWire bus though.
Please tell us the answer if you find it.