http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Forums Tag: Final Cut Pro en Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:20:56 +0000 http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/checkout-dfwreportingcom#post-39472 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:26:07 +0000 CGhanbari 39472@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi Videomaker!</p> <p>Checkout my brand new web site called <strong>DFWReporting.com</strong></p> <p>Come see us at <a href="http://www.dfwreporting.com/">http://www.DFWReporting.com</a></p> <p><strong>DFWReporting.com</strong> is a professional news and entertainment video reporting web site for the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex!</p> <p>It is important to us that all our video is shot and edited professionally.</p> <p>We hope to accomplish your continued viewership and respect.</p> <p><strong>The DFWReporting.com team:</strong><strong></p> <p>Reporters:<br /> Cheri Chafin<br /> Jessica Trober<br /> Stephanie Quinn<br /> Sarah Staes<br /> Aubrey Ross</p> <p></strong></p> <p><strong>Founder &amp; Executive Producer:<br /> </strong>Chris Ghanbari</p> <p><strong>Photographers:<br /> </strong>Mel Sayavedra<br /> Chris Ghanbari</p> <p><strong>Announcer:<br /> </strong>Darius Kline</p> <p><strong>Graphic Designer:<br /> </strong>Eric Costin</p> <p><strong>Web Designer:<br /> </strong>eLocomotive</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-hd100-not-recognized-by-nles#post-38884 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:07:35 +0000 thewatcher 38884@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Yeah, it's starting to sound like I got a raw deal on the camera.  Still, I've found some cheap HDV cameras on ebay (and a few cheap HDV decks), but will they maintain 24 fps (or even work at all) when I play back my 24p MiniDV tapes?  Neither the cameras nor the decks have 24p listed as one of their capabilities; they're either 30 or 60p. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-hd100-not-recognized-by-nles#post-38875 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:43:18 +0000 robgrauert 38875@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> yea. you should be able to put the tape into a cheaper camcorder with no quality loss. Also, try looking for a used HDV deck, that is, if you will trust the previous user. Seems you may have been screwed with your purchase of this used camera. </p> <p> I've read that the reason why Firewire ports can burn out like yours did is because of the sudden jolt of electricity that goes to the port once you plug it in. The port could also burn out on your computer. So the best thing to do is plug in your camcorder and turn it on while the computer is off. Then don't turn off your camcorder that your using as a deck...ever.</p> <p> I have a miniDV deck connected to my computer and I never turn it off.  </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-hd100-not-recognized-by-nles#post-38872 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:30:50 +0000 thewatcher 38872@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I finally sent the camera to JVC out of frustration... apparently the firewire circuit has been shorted either by myself or the previous owner.  As much as I relish the thought of paying the $1,928.17 I was quoted to replace the mainboard, I was curious if anyone knows of any cheap workarounds. </p> <p>I simply don't have the funds to purchase an HDV deck outright, but I was curious if I could put a MiniDV tape with 24p HDV footage into a cheap consumer handheld HDV camcorder and use that as a replacement deck.  Any thoughts or better suggestions?</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-hd100-not-recognized-by-nles#post-38283 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:34:22 +0000 thewatcher 38283@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I just tried HDVSplit, but that didn't recognize the camera either.</p> <p> I'll try giving Vegas another go...</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-hd100-not-recognized-by-nles#post-38255 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:14:53 +0000 Johnboy 38255@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>you should be using the internal capture utility in Vegas to capture HDV, if that still doesn't do it try hdvsplit to capture, it's free.</p> <p>John</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-hd100-not-recognized-by-nles#post-38253 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:07:26 +0000 thewatcher 38253@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I recently acquired a used (but in excellent condition) JVC HD100U.  Everything seems to work fine on the camera, but the problem I (and apparently half the people who own this type of camera) have is that I cannot capture 720 24p HDV footage in ANY NLE program.</p> <p>I've been scouring the internet for a solution to the problem... I currently use Final Cut Pro 6.0, which has no problem recognizing the HD100 when it's set to DV mode, but when set to 24p it simply cannot even find the camera.</p> <p>Being lucky enough to have several friends with PC's, I tried my luck with Sony Vegas 8.  That too failed to recognize the camera.</p> <p>I've tried numerous workarounds (neither HDVxDV nor DVHSCap recognizes the camera either), but nothing seems to work.  I'd assume that the Firewire port on the camera was malfunctioning if it weren't for the fact that it works fine in DV mode...</p> <p>Again, it seems bizarre that instead of failing to import footage properly (dropped frames, lack of timecode, etc.), no NLE will even see that my camera is connected.</p> <p>Does anyone have any other suggestions?  Is there some setting on the camera for outputting HDV that I need to change?</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/combinginterlace-issue#post-37008 Fri, 30 May 2008 04:43:48 +0000 fpscomic 37008@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Yeah, it sounds like a field order issue or a maximum bit rate set too high originally (this causes some set-top DVD players to start lagging), or even the encoding method (I've found one-pass constant bit rate to work well for most things, esp. with fast-moving shots/cuts).  You could try running that through Compressor, or use the encoder (same engine as Compressor) in DVD Studio Pro.  The easiest way is to modify the DVD High Quality preset in Compressor (use BETTER motion, I think it's called, NOT Best).</p> <p>All the best,<br /> Keith</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/combinginterlace-issue#post-36705 Fri, 23 May 2008 06:21:08 +0000 Johnboy 36705@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>giving this more thought, another possibility would be incorrect field order when rendered.</p> <p>John</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/any-suggestions-for-improvement-1#post-36682 Wed, 21 May 2008 15:40:45 +0000 chrisColorado 36682@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Yup. I like to think I'm fairly good at rotoscoping, but it does take some time if you are a beginner and not very fast.</p> <p>I suppose you could combine the rotoscoping with motion tracking, but then this is more for After Effects. I did see a really good motion tracking/rotoscoping on adobetv. This guy took a movie of a red van, rotoscoped, copy and pasted and made a movie of a long train of red vans. He was REALLY fast and it looked really cool at the end.</p> <p>again, not Motion. But i'm trying to work on getting really good/fast at rotoscoping. You can get good jobs in it.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/combinginterlace-issue#post-36680 Wed, 21 May 2008 14:16:14 +0000 Johnboy 36680@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>part of the issue you have is the fact that you are working with a highly compressed file that may not have been encoded at a high enough bit rate.</p> <p>John</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/any-suggestions-for-improvement-1#post-36678 Wed, 21 May 2008 14:12:22 +0000 robgrauert 36678@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> yea i know what you mean. you're talking about rotoscoping. I did that once. Took way too long. I didn't have that much time to work on this project. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/any-suggestions-for-improvement-1#post-36673 Wed, 21 May 2008 12:16:06 +0000 chrisColorado 36673@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>That was pretty good! Is the "That was wonderful" voice clip from "Mary Poppins" or something? LOL </p> <p>My only suggestion would be once the athletes turn red with the white outline, that you pause and then keep the movie clip playing, except that they will be running in the red background with the white outline. It's pretty tricky, but it would look cool like something on normal TV.</p> <p>I don't use Motion, so I don't know if you can do this, but in Adobe After Effects, you can do it with a little work and some creativity.</p> <p>Of course, this is my opinion. When I showed my demo reel to my After Effects teacher, he started suggesting trying to do displacement maps and stuff that I KNEW wouldn't work with the flow...</p> <p>Good luck!     Chris </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/any-suggestions-for-improvement-1#post-36652 Tue, 20 May 2008 15:51:00 +0000 robgrauert 36652@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> oops...here is the url:</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&amp;videoid=2111669544" rel="nofollow">http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&amp;videoid=2111669544</a> </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/any-suggestions-for-improvement-1#post-36651 Tue, 20 May 2008 15:49:52 +0000 robgrauert 36651@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>This was created using Final Cut Pro 6 and Motion 3. My high school that I graduated from makes an annual sports video of all the school's sports teams. This is the opening intro.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/combinginterlace-issue#post-36649 Tue, 20 May 2008 15:44:24 +0000 iskitoofast4u 36649@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hey all,</p> <p>I'm working on a video that's about 40 minutes long. The first 20 or so minutes was edited by someone else using Vegas Pro 8. It landed in my hands in the form of a rendered MPEG-2 file, which I brought into Final Cut Pro 5 and continued to work on. It wasn't until I exported and burned to DVD that I discovered horrible combing and/or interlacing type effects, which are only visible when played on a TV.</p> <p>Although I have all the original footage on DV tapes, I'm loathe to go back and re-do the first 20 minutes (which is the only portion with the combing problem). Is there any other way I can solve this problem?</p> <p>I've considered re-rendering the MPEG-2 footage in Vegas to another format, then re-importing that to the FCP project...might that work? Any other ideas?</p> <p>Thanks in advance </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tiffen-infrared-filter-plugin-for-fcp#post-36624 Mon, 19 May 2008 13:24:26 +0000 xNEWBORNxHOSTAGEx 36624@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I am looking for a way to see what the Tiffen Infrared filter looks like when applied to footage in Final Cut Pro. Is there anyone out there who has experience with the filter, or someone who might know where I could view footage with this filter applied?? Thanks</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/advice-on-editing-techniques#post-36092 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:16:43 +0000 STUDENTNEEDSFEEDBACK 36092@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi</p> <p> I am working on a short film and would really appreciate advice on the work in progress film.</p> <p> It still needs a lot of work including compositing of 2d &amp; 3d effect but any feedback would be really appreciated.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F2JlkJZQqk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F2JlkJZQqk</a></p> <p> Many many thanks!!!</p> <p> :)</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/transferring-footage-on-avchd-camcorder-shooting-in-sd-into-fcp6#post-35396 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:31:31 +0000 Got1fin 35396@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I've been using AVCHD on my Sony HDR-SR1 camcorder and it transfers just fine into FCP6. However, when I shoot in SD format I go into the "log and capture" screen where I normally transfer my AVCHD files only to find that the SD footage isn't there.</p> <p>Does anyone know how to transfer SD footage shot on an AVCHD camcorder into FCP6? I've been fiddling around with this problem for awhile...please help. Thanks!</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-pro-video-quality-whats-the-best-but-smallest#post-33539 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:12:28 +0000 Jag 33539@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>It's all good.  Great product </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-pro-video-quality-whats-the-best-but-smallest#post-32941 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:03:01 +0000 chrisv39 32941@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>cfulton Wrote:</p><blockquote>This is kind of a slow forum, but good things come to the patient. (Welcome all the same--we're glad you're here.)<br /> <br /> The first codec that comes to mind is H.264. You could drop the clips in question into Compressor and convert away; the resulting clips will be half the size (or possibly even smaller). But it'll take a while, depending on the speed of your Macintosh.</blockquote><br /> <br /> Is there any codec that it will keep the resolution almost the same, could be even a tad smaller and be compressed to a lower file size? Because I converted this one file, used to be 11GB, then when I output it in Final Cut, I check marked the Recompress frames or something like that, and it is now 610MB and its really nice quality. By me putting a check mark beside that option, what did it do really? http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-pro-video-quality-whats-the-best-but-smallest#post-32940 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:20:13 +0000 cfulton 32940@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ This is kind of a slow forum, but good things come to the patient. (Welcome all the same--we're glad you're here.)<br /> <br /> The first codec that comes to mind is H.264. You could drop the clips in question into Compressor and convert away; the resulting clips will be half the size (or possibly even smaller). But it'll take a while, depending on the speed of your Macintosh. http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-pro-video-quality-whats-the-best-but-smallest#post-32934 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:18:30 +0000 chrisv39 32934@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Come on, help me please! http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-pro-video-quality-whats-the-best-but-smallest#post-32927 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:10:40 +0000 chrisv39 32927@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ I was wondering, I am converting some dvd quality scenes in my sequence and if I convert them with the current settings it comes out to 11 GB. I was wondering, what is still really good quality but small file sizes? Please help.