[Will Keir]

Well I hope someone has a better answer but here is the easy way.

Setup your camera on a tripod or something completely still. Film yourself in camera left, talking to an invisible you camera right.

Now switch places, film yourself in camera right, interacting with invisible self in camera left.

Now in FCP, drop the two clips on top of each other. One should have you frame left, the other frame right. Now crop the top clip about half way.

Now you should see two of you on the screen, timing & acting will make the rest work. If you get any lines in the middle from the top clip, try to feather the edge a bit.

BAM, your seeing doubles.

Will Keir

[Will Keir]

Michael,

Does it scroll smoothly? The final cut scrolling text tends to bomb up and down a bit as it scrolls by.

Do you have any examples of work you’ve done like this? Any credit scrolls?

Will Keir

[Will Keir]

good to know, thanks man.

Note: the camera was a video camera, a small hand held home video type. Never even asked the name.

Thanks again,

Will Keir

[Will Keir]

It means that instead of “capturing now” 10-15 times to make 10-15 individual clips I only “capture now” once, for one big long clip that has the 10-15 moments I want, plus everything else.

Sounds like the best way is QT Pro, seems pretty simple. Can anyone else confirm that QT Pro editing of a .mov file will preserve orginal quality of the .mov?

Thanks for all the advice guys,

Will Keir

[Will Keir]

[walter biscardi] “My 5 drive LaCie S2S gets about 220MB/s”

Is this 5 disc setup a RAID or daisy chain?

[Will Keir]

Walter,

Are the eSATA drives really that much faster than FW800? On LaCie’s site they boast 300MB/s on their eSATA II drive but G Tech has the same eSATA II ports but only boast 135MB/s, I am not really sure how that can be.

Also 300MB/s is faster than RAID 0 right? So one of these eSATA II drives is faster than a 2 disk RAID array? I’ve been looking into getting a RAID but if I can get the same speed from a single drive, if not faster (and I’m looking for speed), why mess around with a RAID?

Thanks in advance for your feed back,

Will Keir

[Will Keir]

[Shane Ross]
“That would be the Matrox MXO and Apple 23″ Cinema Display. The MXO is $995, and the Apple monitor is $899…so under $2000. And not only can you monitor, you get broadcast quality monitoring, and the ability to output to other tape formats via SDI, Component and Composite.”

Shane,

A couple questions for you. So the apple 23″ alone at Cinema Display is not good enough? What are you not seeing that requires a Matrox MXO box as a middle man?

Does the Matrox MXO actually turn the LCD Apple 23″ into a TV monitor? I know I’ve had some footage taken at 29.97 FPS mixed in with 24p footage, and on the LCD it looks fine but when I burn a DVD and watch the footage on my TV it looks much worse than it did on the LCD screen of my Mac Book Pro, especially because it looks like nasty documentary video.

So what’s the Matrox MXO box really doing and can’t I just get a LCD/Plasma TV and set it was my external playback monitor?

Thanks for the lesson to come and I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions,

Will Keir

[Will Keir]

Target audience is DVD for film festivals, then DVD and then Web.

[Will Keir]

Shane,

What’s this about EXPORTING to a RAID? Basically you export to a RAID hard drive or set of drives right?
Does doing that actually increase the quality of the image? I’m editing on a Mac Book Pro, top of the line specs, and I export to my External LaCie 7200 RPM firewire 800 drive, so am I getting lower quality images than say… you with your
RAID setup?

With the editing, to get a high quality picture into my DV 16:9 timeline, I want to make a new sequence right?
But what Sequence Preset should I be looking for. The file is a .mov file and I know I don’t wanna go DV because of the quality loss, so what do you use or recommend for the highest quality possible?

HDV, Uncompressed, Offline NTSC, XDCAM HD etc…

Then I take that timeline I’ve created, and Exporting it “using quicktime conversion” and seclect H.264 and that should get me some high quality footage to then bring into my DV NTSC Anamorphic timeline?

I know it’s long winded, but everything your teaching me helps tremendously, thanks a lot!

Will Keir

[Will Keir]

I was doing DV NTCS. So the quality was a bit lower, when I did “None” for compression it
seemed to get better, but here’s another catch. I dropped the .mov file I made into my FCP timeline and
the quality in my 16:9 DV timeline dropped significantly. I don’t know what to do about that, any ideas?

So when you