Will Macneil
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This depends mostly on what’s behind the microphone: overcast sky, no problem, actors face, big problem. Of course you may have the option of masking the top and bottom of the frame if you shot 4:3 for a 16:9 production. Just use the widescreen filter in the matte group.
For the overcast sky or similar situation, find a suitable bit of footage to cover the offending mic, place on a video track above the mic shot, apply the 8 point garbage mask and draw the mask so as to cover the problem below. Adding the mask feather filter will soften the edges.
Good luck,
Will
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To apply the same filter to several shots, select the original effected shot in the timeline and hit copy. Then select all the clips you want to apply it to and hit paste attributes (edit menu or right click in the timeline.) Then tick the radio button for filters.
Not sure how to do this to transitions, but there’s probably a way.
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I’ve had very good results with Automatic Duck (XML to OMF.) We used it on a 48 min UK Documentary last year. The online editor said it was brilliant. Check the Automatic Duck website for a list of supported filter/effects.
But if your film’s just cuts and dissolves, it may not be worth the price – an EDL would be fine.
EITHER WAY, DON’T LEAVE ANY NESTED EDITS IN THERE!
Will
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It’s in video filters – video – timecode.
Will
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Something I did on multicam shoots for avid was to create a sequence that represented the whole shoot day (time of day code for the master timecode) And cut each camera into its own video layer, matching its source code to the timeline code. This way, I could see how everything lined up and easily start to make my group clips.
I’m not sure how FCP5 will create group clips, but it sure would help if there was a function do automatically sync up a day’s shoot.
Will
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I did learn about some ways of improving gigabit ethernet here, if you’re interested,
Will
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Pop your foreground in V3 and Luma Matte in V2. Assign V3 composite mode to travel matte-luma.
Will
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Thanks Graeme, is there an upgrade to 2.0?
Will
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Be sure to reload your easy setup. Also check the firewire port in the system profiler. Select About this Computer from the Apple menu, press the button for more information. When the profiler loads, select the firewire port in the left-hand column. You should see your dv device there. If not restart and check again.
Will
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I think I see a problem in that this doesn’t account for pulldown. I’m assuming the original transfers used either a 12:1 or 24:2 pulldown to get onto PAL tape, unless they did a standards conversion!
So you’re going to lose frame accuracy working this way.
There is software which can do this edl conversion, but I don’t think Cinema Tools can handle it (it’s specifically designed not to do this.) You might try loading the source columns from a 25fps edl into your online and see what happens.
Good luck,
Will