Final Cut Express -- Newbie Edits in B-Roll -- Take II

Compression changes (for the worse) from Take I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVdQ1IsNu2o (See below for compression notes.)

This is why I bought Final Cut Express -- to cut in B-roll video footage on top of one video/audio take. I couldn't do that in iMovie. Very irritating. With this quick experiment I'm happy to report that FCE is treating me pretty nicely. Yesterday the program seemed daunting, but these edits just required a little dragging and dropping. (Definitely helped by the Lynda.com FCE intro tutorial.)

Compression notes: Used "ideal" settings used for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wJpBmtUvis (below). But this seems a tiny bit crappier than Take I when viewed on my computer, but does seem better when uploaded to YouTube -- especially when selecting the higher size.

File is 23MB. Take I was 29MB.

Not sure what the hell to do about compression.

At least the editing worked out, which was point of experiment.

This is set:
Format: QuickTime Movie
Compression Type: MPEG-4 Video
fps: 15 (to match camera)
Quality: Best
Size: 1024x768 (custom to match native)
Sound: AAC
Rate: 44.1
Quality: Better

By Ethan G. Salwen. www.ethansalwen.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Final Cut Express
• Video Editing
• Ethan G. Salwen
• Moving Into Motion
• Canon G9
• Experiment
• Video Compression

[mikequeone]

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