Recent content by rmckeague

Hi there, I would suggest looking into the Sony PMW-EX1 if you have not already. I'm not positive, but assume it is available in PAL. The EX1 is not a huge camera, but it is not small either. Shooting modes include full 1080p and i, and 720p to Sony's XDCAM memory cards. The camera can...

Thank you very much for your help. I was afraid I was going to have to do it that way. Guess I should a paid a little more attention when they were capturing it during telecine, but oh well, I thought they knew what they were doing. Well, a lesson learned right? Thank you all for help and...

Thank you all very much for your input. Clive I'm sorry if I got a little heated I just get very defensive when I feel I'm being talked down to, its one of my many faults. Anyway, your advice to buy a manual is good, I know that. But I honestly do not have the money (I just spent all mine...

Clive, You may be a guru, but maybe you forgot to learn about manners. It is possible that when I posted my reply that it was late, I had other things going on in my life, and I was in a hurry, and thus may have forgotten to say thank you before asking another question. I may have been wrong...

New Problem I actually already found my solution. Highlight a video clip and audio clip then go to modify>merge clips. But now I have a new problem. I am working with film telecined to harddrive at 10bit uncompressed quality. For some reason final cut automatically assigns the video twelve...

Is there not a simpler way? Im talking about 150 plus clips here.

Reversal has less grain due to the way it works. I was explained why at some point but it was a bit complicated. Has to do something with the fact that it is already half processed when you get it, which is also why it has less lattitude. By the way, if you weren't aware because I don't think...

I shot film and recorded synch sound and now have both in FCP. I know how to synch the sound with the video in the timeline, but does anyone know if I can then save the video and audio files as a separate independent clip with both the audio and the video. I know Avid can do this, so I was...

Will Image Stabilization help correct framer jittering caused by inaccurate registration? I shot super 8 knowing there was going to be some registration jitter and was hoping to correct it at least a little.

you should be putting all your project files including media, render, and exports and DVD authoring exports on external drives. I see you are planning on buying a Terabyte of external space, but you may want to consider something smaller. For example if instead of a terabyte you were to get 2...

I'd be willing to bet a lot of the space is being used up by files in your libraries, both the user and system library. There are a lot of files, such as preferences and such for applications, that as far as I know the computer needs to run efficiently and correctly. For example my Library...

Potential problems = none really, unless you consider interlacing a problem (interlacing will occur when they transfer the 24fps to 30fps for video and apply the 3:2 pulldown). But I recently read that some DVD players can deinterlace and play progressively, which is super awesome if its true...

If all else fails and compressor is still giving you bad results, try exporting your movie from FCP as a self contained DV NTSC .mov file. What are you using to author your DVD? I would then try using DVD Studio Pro to author the DVD. You can import the .mov file you exported and DVD Studio...

Spectra Film and Video. Pretty cheap, great transfer, really nice, really smart staff. Just had a great experience with them. They're located in North Hollywood. Google Spectra Film and Video for their website which will have prices and directions. I was recommended them by other people who...

I think 16mm film is running about $200 give or take for a 400' roll (which is about 10 minutes). Then there is processing (developing the negative and printing the positive, unless you shoot reversal stock) which is another cost you have to factor in. And finally like the other post said...