[William Mcqueen]

Ooops, since I didn’t use a clapboard, I can see/hear where words/ phrases end. Any suggestions on marking and matching? Use an unnumbered marker? I can switch to an audio waveform in the source window and can see beginnings/endings quite well when they’re enlarged. But the audio waveform in the sequence timeline is too small for my vision.

I guess I also need to know more about “sync lock” as I directly cut into the original footage. I.e., Once I do get the original sync between Camera A-vid1 (wide) and Camera B-vid2 (CU), how do I maintain the sync as I cut and delete sections of either camera? Just leave the resulting gaps? Replace?

Sorry for my awkwardness…and learning curve.

But your help is gratefully appreciated.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Lance, thanks so much for your suggestions. I believe I will skip the multicam approach. Syncing will likely be a challenge with the introductory remarks by the event organizer and as we couldn’t use a clapboard (or clapping hands); there is little audio at all with the dance routines. However, sync is still required and since I want to output a DVD (with menu), I am unsure whether to place each of the three routines into a separate sequence.

A problem with the wide shot was that while the routines are actually quite exiting and innovative – a group of 3 or 4 persons, combining people with a variety of disabilities – the blocking of the staging area had not been fully prepared and so sometimes persons went outside the camera range on both left & right at the same time and I could not move the camera for a wider perspective. We were not able to see any rehearsals in the performance space (a large studio with a small audience), so there were a lot of unexpected moves on the part of the dancers.

Since the video is mainly for the dancers to see their work, the wide-shot may be the best continuous footage, but then the organizer also wants to use some of it for a fund-raising effort eventually.

I’m more used to cutting simpler, documentary pieces involving IVUs and b-roll, and recognize the opportunity to be more creative myself, but see the challenges.

Once synced, I was planning to nest the edit in a separate sequence for the titling purposes.

But I ramble, and again, thanks.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

I suppose so, of course increasingly these invasive companies think my computer is their computer, but they don’t have to pay for fixes, alas. But, thank you for your encouragement and help.
Bill in Toronto

You can\’t download the update in another pc. You must set up internet connection for your editing station only for the time you need to update. It\”s not so dangerous. Bue.

Alessandro Giusti
7Gold Toscana – Italy

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks so much for your reply, but I have always kept my editing/design computer far away from the Internet, so I have always manually updated my programmes. That is what I was hoping to do… I’m not sure if there is a URL where I could get the updates to my Internet computer and then transfer them from a virus-free safe drive.

Again, thanks so much..

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Re: Quality of Flash Video
by Alex Udell on Aug 1, 2010 at 2:14:03 pm

What exact export method are you using from the file Export submenu?

Tell me what the choices are you see.

Alex

I was a bit under the weather and haven’t replies that quickly, so I hope this email will find you.

The first submenu:
Movie, Frame, Audio, Export to Tape or Encore or EDL or Media Encoder

From Movie: AVI and Animation, and Quicktime among others

From Media Encoder: I found FLV out put here, but the menu among other options (include QT) distinguishes between Flash, and treats h.264 as a separate category. How can FLV be encoded according to h.264 standards?

Any reading you could suggest as well?

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

CS3 surely supports FLV.

I’ve looked at the general settings for export and I have no reference to FLV file type. I do have Quicktime which I can set to h.264, but there is no direct export to FLV I can find in CS3.

Thanks,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Vince: try exporting to Quicktime Animation and use that same software to convert again to flv flash

I did just that: exporting to QT Animation in h264, then converted that to flv with AVS converter 6. (Because CS3 doesn’t export to FLV?)

But the video had a dark look to it. Not terrible, terrible, but didn’t have the sparkle it had in the original…

Bill

[William Mcqueen]

Hi Jeff, thanks for the reply. This camera is entirely new to me, and I downloaded a copy of the manual to try and sort all this out as well. I’m using CS3.

I get some images but no moving video flow, but there is something I would call sort of stuttering of the images, and “crackling” of the audio. But there is little movement of the images.

I’m looking in the camera at the DV Output setting and it has selections which are identified as DV Output, either “DV locked” and HDV/DV “HDV/DV”. I don’t see any location identified as “convert” I’ve set the setting to HDV/DV, not DV Locked.

In Play/Out Setup 1, I changed the “Playback standard” to HDV rather than “auto”.

In setting up the CS3 project which HDV setting do you select for HDV for the 1080i?

I usually use various SONY cameras, so don’t see how to reset the device selection.

Thanks,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks so much for that link, Brian.

Is there any thing that primarily separates CS4 from CS5 of which you’re aware?

Thanks again,

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks you so much, Jeff, for your reply. I’ve been experimenting.

I am having the following problem in moving forward.

In terms of playing out – exporting to 864×480:

In the export movie settings, the frame size is grayed out and the Pixel Aspect Ratio selected is “D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1:9); when I select “Square Pixels” I get the same frame size: 720×480 (grayed out).

I’m trying “square pixels”, but the client wants “flash” for her website. So, I wonder what will happen if converted to Flash, in terms of current standards and expectations. The video itself in the expanded to “16:9” looks fine.

A couple of the supers are cut off at the bottom of the screen. I wonder how it would look with black slight bars below (looking like Letterbox. Is it just a matter of aesthetics, or is there an expectation or standard?

Thanks so much, again: getting there.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto