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Archive for July, 2005

VLC media player

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VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a free and highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Article found in free OS X stuff and DV news.

Musicbed DV 1.0.3

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at July 21, 2005 1 Comment

An intuitive and easy to use production music tool. You can browse and shape professionally composed music beds to suit your video, DVD, or web project quickly and easily. download here (103 MB disk image)

Article found in post audio gear, gear, free OS X stuff and DV news.

How should I record narration?

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Josh

at July 21, 2005 3 Comments

Our recommendation is narrate into your camcorder onto a DV tape, using a studio quality balanced condensor mic.

The advantages of recording onto a DV tape are:

1. After your project is finished, your narration is still on a tape and if you re-edit the project in the future, you won’t have to record and edit the voice-over again.

2. You can narrate …

Article found in post audio and location sound.

Why don’t I hear any sound from Final Cut?

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Josh

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If you don’t hear any audio, you probably have your output set to FireWire, but don’t have any speakers plugged into your DV camcorder or deck.

When you’re sending video through FireWire to view on an external monitor, Final Cut Pro is also sending the audio through FireWire.

Plug some headphones or speakers into your DV camcorder or deck and you’ll hear …

Article found in Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro.

What causes dropped frames or out-of-sync problems?

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Josh

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Check the Apple Tech Info Library summary here.

Article found in Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro.

How come my computer cannot connect with my camcorder?

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Josh

at July 21, 2005 0 Comments

I don’t know, but maybe this will help:

Navigate to Library -> Receipts on your main drive (not from your personal folder).
Remove all files of the form QuickTime*.pkg, where "*" is a version number. E.g. QuickTime600.pkg, QuickTime650.pkg, Quicktime700.pkg and QuickTime701.pkg. This simply tells your system that those packages are not installed.

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Article found in Final Cut Pro.

How do I capture and edit “24 fps” video in FCP?

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Josh

at July 18, 2005 1 Comment

Shoot “advanced”- or “2:3:3:2″ mode with your camcorder.
Use the capture preset in FCP titled “DV NTSC 48 kHz Advanced (2:3:3:2) Pulldown Removal”. This preset will capture at 29.97 (that’s what the actual recording on tape is), but remove the redundant frames added by the camcorder to make the video technically 23.976 fps (notice the box is checked that says “Remove

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Article found in editing, film, postproduction and Final Cut Pro.