Tom Meegan
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I learned the basics of aspect ratio, pixel aspect ratio, 4×3, 16×9, letterbox, anamorphics and the rest through repeated exposure.
However, I never really nailed it down until I read Richard Harrington’s Photoshop for Non-Linear Editors. After that, Chris and Trish Meyer’s books and articles on After Effects filled in a few blanks – my blanks not Richard’s.
Here is an excerpt from Richard’s book I found by googling:
Good luck.
Tom
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To trouble shoot the mis-matched settings:
Select a clip and hit Command – 9
Make note of the settings.
Then:
Select a sequence and hit Command – Zero.
Compare and contrast.
Change the sequence settings to match the clip settings.
It is important that you do this before you start to edit. When you edit a clip into a sequence with mis-matched settings, FCP will make some modifications to the Motion settings of the clip in the sequence to make it fit. These modifications do not go away once you change the sequence settings.
These changes are tricky to catch and change unless you have a pretty good knowledge of both FCP and the differences between video standards, codecs, etc.
Best,
Tom
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That was as concise a response as I’ve ever seen.
In case you need more:
Select the video in the area you are going to be voicing in the timeline.
Hit Command – R.
Tom M
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I’m guessing that you are recording your voice over using the capture tool. If this is so, you will want to use the Voice Over Tool. If you are already using the VO Tool and you are having troubles, I apologize.
Tools > Voice Over or Option – Zero.
Then Help > Final Cut Pro User Manual and search:
The voice over tool lets
This will take you to Volume 3 Page 137. Spend five minutes reading and ten minutes experimenting and you will be golden.
Best,
Tom
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I’m on a rental G5 Dual 2.0 with 2.5 gig of ram, MacOS 10.4.11, and the ATI 9600 video card this week.
FCP renders and mpeg encodes are a bit slower than I’ve become accustomed to. Motion opens and does what I need – simple particle effects and lower third graphics. It could do more, but I don’t need it to for this job.
Not ideal, but fine. If you are going to be doing heavy design or encoding more than the occasional file for money, you will thank yourself for upgrading. However this set up is a very capable editor.
Just my 2 cents. Your mileage may vary.
Tom
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You will be fine for most things.
This page will give you the scoop.
https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/specs.html
You don’t mention your graphics card, but that could make difference, particularly with Motion and Color.
Best,
Tom
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Google:
mediaXchange evs broadcast
Sony IMX is the codec of choice for SD.
The Avid DNxHD codec was used at the Winter X Games, but I don’t think there is a FCP friendly HD solution yet – unless you are prepared to wait for the transcode.
Mike Shore is the guy at EVS to talk to. Ben Holmes, who posts here often is also very knowledgeable.
Here is the link to the Winter X Games article.
https://www.tvtechnology.com/pages/s.0082/t.10567.html
Best,
Tom Meegan
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Jason,
Is the purpose of your export to display properly on a computer for client/personal viewing, and are you going to a format other than HDV? If so
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Edit on a sequence that matches your clips.
Two options based on your final output.
A. Trans-code your clips before you start to match your final output.
B. Trans-code your final edit.
I would suggest doing some tests to see how the 60i footage converts to 30p before going to far along in the process. There are numerous ways to make that conversion, and the results will vary. I like and recommend Nattress Film Effects for this type of thing, but there are other options that are worth looking into.
Best,
Tom
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Try decelerating to a round number like 50% or 25%, if this is appropriate.
Final Cut Pro does not do a very good job with speed effects, so, if using a round number does not give you the results you need, I would use optical flow in Motion:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/962042
Only works if you are using FCS 2