Recent content by heartofglass

Hi everybody, I'm editing in Final Cut Pro and want to create scrolling credits. As everyone knows, the scrolling text in FCP is pretty crappy. Would After Effects be an improvement over FCP in this regard? I have access to AE on a PC - would there be problems integrating the credits with the...

Oh, and I almost forgot: FCP 5.1.2 Mac OSX 10.4.9

Thank you for your reply. I didn't actually need to render at all, I figured out (I thought that the last person who had the file had done something to it that required rendering, but it was actually just me absent-mindedly forgetting to change my sequence presets from my previous project - how...

Okay, before I go into specifics and scare anyone away, I'm mostly asking for a way to render specific portions of a 1 hour, 38 min video, instead of rendering the entire file all at once. My situation: I have an external 500GB drive with a 1 hour, 38 minute quicktime file on it, including 4...

I have a digibeta master of an old (but digitally remastered) animation, which I am getting digitized onto a 500GB Lacie FW800 drive. I need to get frame grabs of this uncompressed video for publicity purposes for the company I work for (they will be used in making DVD menus, desktop wallpapers...

I wanted to add to the lighting answers, and this may be obvious, but you would be surprised at how many times I've seen this done: if using available light, i.e. ceiling lights/lamps/wall sconces, try to avoid getting the light source in frame if you're using miniDV. While this can look neat on...

I have what may be an odd question. I'm going to be editing 9 miniDV tapes worth of digital video in Final Cut Pro, but after purchasing my Mac I do not have any money left to buy a miniDV deck to capture with. Is there any reason I wouldn't be able to take the footage (shot on a 3 ccd prosumer...