Zane Barker
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[Lynette Gilbert] “I changed to DV-NTSC in Easy Setup and then I couldn’t capture at all”
Thats only going to work if your shot DV, and the deck is set to output DV.
You have provided next to no info at all that no one hear can really provide you with a answer.
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[gary mc closkey] “Maximising quality and title sharpness in FCE”
[gary mc closkey] “my source footage is MiniDV PAL SD anamorphic.”
[gary mc closkey] “export it directly out again, as Apple Intermediate Codec, 1024×576,”
If you start off with SD material and scale it up you most certainly are NOT going to keep or maximize quality.
The video will actually look more pixelated then the original because you are effectually just enlarging a smaller image to have a bigger image size.
[gary mc closkey] “The thing is, I can’t see a way to set FCE to use AIC with interlaced SD, it only gives me options for – 720p25 – 1440 / 1920i50”
Thats because AIC is a HD codec (and not a vary good one at that) and not an SD codec.
Frankly unless you can move to FCP there is not much you can do for image quality and title sharpness when you are working with SD footage.
You also say you plan on using iDVD to make the final DVD. You will take another quality hit there. You cannot control the encoding of the video for the DVD in iDVD like you can when you use Compressor and DVD SP.
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[gary mc closkey] “My first question is, is it advisable / good practice / a complete no-no to scale everything by 90% or so, so it all comes inside the title area?”
I would NOT do it. NOt all TV’s cut off the same amount around the edges so on some TV’s that don’t cut off much at all your viewer will see black around the edges.
And if you scale by 90% im betting MOST TVs will show a LOT of black around the edge.
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[Craig Alan] “On a mac pro 8 core the cd/dvd master option creates the image much faster on my external drive. that seems weird.”
Not at all a LOT of things work faster when you tell it to use a drive other then the system drive. The system drive is keeping fairly busy running the OS after all.
As for CD/DVD Master vs Read Only both will work just fine.
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[Marshall Mullen] ” I am using a canon 7d, and the clips wont import with any of the settings i chose”
And those settings are what?
Did you convert your footage to a proper editing codec first? The 7D records in h.264 which is NOT an editing codec.
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It may be there Internet provider. Some Internet providers will stop downloads if they don’t complete within a set period of time. Could also be something on their computer that is causing the download to time out after x amount of time.
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[Dillan Cohen] ” It was shot on a canon dslr and then converted to h.254 for editing”
canon dslrs record in h.264, and h.264 is NOT an editing codec. You need to convert to a proper editing codec.
Do a search on the cow for editing h.264 and there will be plenty of info on what to convert it to.
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[russ andris] “Will we get Live Type?”
Live Type died with FCP6 and never came with FCP 7 so why would it come with FCP X.
[russ andris] “will we get Shake?”
Apple announced that it discontinued Shake back in 2009. The last major update to shake was in 2006 with a minor update in 2008.
Why would you think that Apple would resurrect dead programs with FCP X?
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[tad newberry] “i don’t get it…so why would i want FAT-32 if it won’t take anything over 4GB?”
Because FAT32 is the only format that both windows and macs can both read and write onto. But not only does it have a 4GB file size limit but it makes the drive slower.
exFAT aka FAT64 is only supported in some versions of windows after an additional software install.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFATBut if your going to have to install additional software you might as well install software on the windows machine that lets you read and write a regular mac formatted drive.
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[tad newberry] “is “FAT-32” the same as “MS-DOS (FAT)””
Yes and no, a lot of people call use the terms interchangeably, but technically no MS-DOS was an a old operating system. MS-DOS 3.3 for example introduced the FAT16 format.
[tad newberry] “how do i format in FAT-32, because Disk Utility does not offer it as an option”
A hard drive must me partitioned using the Master Boot Record scheme in order to be able to choose choose FAT32
[tad newberry] “does FAT-32 allow for files bigger than 4GB”
Like I said in my first post no. You will get an error message if you try.
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