Week 12 notes

Outputting a high-resolution format from QT Pro:
Open your movie in QT Player Pro
Export: Movie to QT Movie
Use: Default Settings
Click the OPTIONS button

This opens a new window.
From the top:
Video: Compression Animation
Keyframes All (how many frames are perfect: higher # means that many are crap betw frames. every 100 means it's only perfect 1/100 frames.
Depth Millions
Quality Best
Size: Dimensions NTSC 720x480 4:3
(if using 16:9 footage (widescreen) please check the box next to "Preserve Aspect ratio using" and choose "Letterbox" from the dropdown)
Only check the "Deinterlace" if your final format is Web or CD-Rom

Sound: Format Linear PCM or Apple Lossless
Channels Stereo LR
Rate 48
Quality Best
Sample Size 16
Uncheck "Prepare for internet streaming"
what it means?? you can watch the 1st part of your QT while the 2nd part will load

Open Final Cut
-Reset Scratch Disks, set them all to FCP folder within your project folder.
-Save your project also to the FCP folder
-Copy/move all your editing clips (stuff you'll be putting into your FC timeline) into Capture Scratch Folder
-Drag those things into Bin window
-Drag your footage into the Timeline
-Will prolly give you an error, saying "Do you want your sequence to match your footage" and you should say Yes.
Saying No will lead to render.
-Unlink selection by clicking the small button in the upper RH corner of the Timeline.
Looks like a link, not Snap.
-Select and delete original audio
-Drag in new audio

To see waveform in FCP, go to Sequence/Seq Settings.
-Timeline Tab, chose "Track Display/Show Audio Waveform"
-Lock your audio tracks in the Timeline so you don't accidentally mess them up.
-On timeline, set in and out points for where i want the clip to last. (i for in, o for out)
-Cut your video for what action should take that amt of time.
double-click the video, go to Motion tab in clip viewer. Time Remap section, and change Duration part TO MATCH the in-out length.

Review of AE retiming

Apple's Motion software
-starts with Welcome screen
-Start with a New Project
-Preset: NTSC DV

Window/Timeline

On left,
Filebrowser: select stuff from your computer to import.
Library: Filters, Behaviors, Particles live here.
Inspector: tells us about what we have clicked.

To change colors, swivel open your particle in the Timeline till you see the "3-star symbol" and click that.
-Go to Inspector and change colors there in the Particle Cell tab, under "Color Over Life"

File/Export
Export: Qt movie
Use: Lossless + Alpha
Check the box next to "use play range"
Click OPTIONS
Go to output Tab
Resolution Full
Color: Color+Alpha
Say NO to premultiply.
Use 29.97 fps
Quality Best
Field Rendering.