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Location Sound (the secret to making your project “look” great)

August 3, 2005 in location sound by Josh

With all of the attention and time that’s spent on shooting great footage, recording quality sound is often overlooked. A questionable visual shot here or there in your finished project will likely be unnoticed and just merge into the flow of the story- IF you have an excellent soundtrack that holds the edit together and [...]

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Why is motion in my DVDs so “jittery” and “stroby”?

August 3, 2005 in DVD by Josh

This seems like a popular question lately, here is a likely culprit: In Compressor 2.0, all Apple’s supplied presets seem to have Field Dominance set to "Top First" (aka "Upper Field First"), as you can see here. I went through a few and they were all set this way. Since DV camcorders capture video lower [...]