Trevor Ward
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If that’s really what he wants, I would suggest NOT using it. It really looks horrible. It distorts the image and unless it’s a static shot of an interview or something, you really CAN notice the warping. It looks like something is wrong. Better to have the whole image stretched or squeezed.
On another note, what exactly IS 16×9 standard def? I’ve been asked to deliver a bunch of 16×9 stuff. My source material is regular DV (720×480). Is 16×9 720×480 but where the pixels are not square? So when I drop my footage into the timeline, should I change it’s aspect ratio via the Motion tab or should I just blow up the image to 133% and reposition so I’m not cutting off the head in my footage?
-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
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Yes, I think that’s it. Good price, demo video seems to do what I want. Hopefully the controls are straighforward. Thank you.
-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
orlando, fl -
Yeah, Aharon, I’ve learned so much from your podcasts. I didn’t know ANYTHING about AE until I found your podcasts. I’m still pretty much a poor hack, but at least I’m able to fool many of my clients and they are happy. Thank you so much.
-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
orlando, fl -
I had a project that was 3 DVD’s of about 2 hours in length with TONS of freeze frames. It was action footage so I was also applying a deinterlace filter to the freeze frame. And yes, it did start slowing down. It was mostly just waiting for saves, autosaves, and refreshing the display. It was unbearable, and I was still able to play back the timeline with multiple streams in real time from a firewire drive. DV footage.
-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
orlando, fl -
Interlaced footage means smaller fields of motion that the keyer has to figure out. It’s like the difference between shooting 4:1:1 and 4:2:2.
FCP filters don’t do a good job of keying. You’ll have to use a plug in or other software (personally, I use Keylight in AE.)
-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
orlando, fl -
Yeah, it’s playing through a computer, through a switcher, to a projector on a massive screen. And I guess it IS possible that the system can’t handle the bandwidth of8-bit uncompressed. Although it’s a brand new MacPro tower.
-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
orlando, fl -
I’ve used Maxtor drives for years and never had a problem. I use FW drives. I’ve used the FW400 and FW800 drives. I’ve had small ones (200GB) and big ones (1.5TB). I like them for simple backups and editing of DV material.
I just recently purchased a CalDigit Raid and it’s awesome. It’s about $.50 per GB. CalDigit has a 3 year warranty vs. the G-Raid’s 2-year.
-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
orlando, fl -
I agree. You don’t NEED Raid 5. Get a good Raid 1 or 0. OR just buy some inexpensive firewire drives and manually backup your source files. use the raid 0 for speed. I just started using a CalDigit FirewireVR and love it.
-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
orlando, fl -
Did you check the box next to VIDEO on the CLIP SETTINGS tab of the capture window?
-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
orlando, fl -
I’m doing my first multiclip job and I too am completely dissastisfied. The only thing that is cool is selecting them all and they all line up (after taking the work to set up auxillary time code).
they aren’t very flexible. They aren’t easy to work with. It’s a mess when you need to make changes for things that you didn’t anticipate (try color correcting on camera’s clips after you’ve already made all your cuts).
I’ll probably not use multiclips again. I’ll just create a sequence with each camera angle on it’s only video track.
-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
orlando, fl