Recent content by Daniel Rigdon

I've shot a lot of 480i/24p footage with my HVX to tape, and when I go to FCP 5 to capture, the footage is fuzzy and interlaced. I've played around with the capture setting, but was wondering what settings you guys use to capture 24p footage to FCP. Thanks mucho, Daniel

I need help yet again (the story of my life). I filmed an amazing short in 720p and it's sitting fully edited on my "17 MacBook Pro. Now I'm trying to enter the film in some festivals, and they need a DVD copy of the short. I’ve heard people here talk about the amazing quality DVDs they’ve...

I need help yet again (the story of my life). I filmed an amazing short in 720p and it's sitting fully edited on my "17 MacBook Pro. Now I'm trying to enter the film in some festivals, and they need a DVD copy of the short. I’ve heard people here talk about the amazing quality DVDs they’ve...

I need help yet again (the story of my life). I filmed an amazing short in 720p and it's sitting fully edited on my "17 MacBook Pro. Now I'm trying to enter the film in some festivals, and they need a DVD copy of the short. I’ve heard people here talk about the amazing quality DVDs they’ve...

The pictures all look great when I render the quicktime movie, but when I convert to a mpeg2 format so I can burn to a DVD in DVD Studio Pro, the slideshow loses TONS of quality. And most of the pictures start looking trippy, with weird colors. I used the BEST setting possible for the mpeg2 in...

I'm told this works well, but I'm a bit scared that if I buy a laptop, it won't be able to handle capturing HD footage with FCP. I was planning to get a new MacBook Pro 2GHz Intel Core Duo, 2GB Ram, 100GB 5400rpm hard drive. Will that be able to capture HD properly (if I had final cut 5.1 of...

When I capture DV footage from my HVX200 to Final Cut Pro, it looks so crappy! The footage looks fine on the camera. I've tried different filming modes (60,30,24p,24pn) and they all look bad. My Capture Settings are: Device = NTSC Basic, Capture/Input = DV NTSC 48 kHz. Seriously, the footage...

I've got final cut pro, and when I try to capture DV footage from my HVX, I get a "general error". This has only started this last week. I see the footage on the screen, but when I click NOW, it get the error message.

I have scrolling text in a video. The text scrolls along-side a small video window. Everything looks great in the rendered video, but when I burn it to DVD the scrolling text is really messed up. It's blinks wired colors and is really jerky. Nearly impossible to read. What could be causing this?

Ok, with my recent switch to Macs and FCP 5 I'm having lots of issues. Everything looks great in the timeline, but when I render, it looks like crap. I'm selecting the best quality too. Can anyone help me with exact settings to help me out. I have 4:3 ratio SD footage. Sequence Settings...

I just got FCP 5 and I'm trying to edit some DV footage. The problem is, then I play my project, I get the "unrendered" screen. However if I hold down the arrow key, it plays perfectly (just slightly in slow motion). I have a dual G5, so I know it must be a setting that I have wrong. I've looked...

Hey all. I just got FCP 5. I'm trying to edit standard-def. video with it, but I don't know how to change to project settings so the viewer will not be widescreen. Any help on changed the project settings would be awesome. THX.