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As I said, speaker output to XLR if your camera can handle line input.
Please do not hook up speakers outputs to cats. They tend to bite very hard when you do that even if you think their ears are perfectly shaped for XLR adaptors.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
But you can send the audio out analog through the speaker out.
These days a good portion of broadcast and/or cable programs get posted to the internet as well.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Why this workflow?
More typical but no less challenging is that most people record whatever TV show on to a DVR of some sort and then work on moving and transcoding the file for Post workflow.
It may depend on what your speaker outputs are and getting the adaptors to go to XLR and making sure your camera can support line level in with some possible adjustments given potential issues.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
It's not a bug. It's up to the Camera manufacturers to create the plugin.
Canon for example has one
Sony supposedly will have an announcement regarding XDCAM and XDCAM EX support at NAB.
I haven't heard anything about Panasonic as of yet.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Others would say 6 feet.
One factor is the light kit you have.
Another is obviously the space you have. There's nothing like having to shoot on a portable green screen in an 8x10 office.
How can you tell you're close than you'd like to be? Green spill on the talent. It's not often obvious in camera but is when you try to pull the key. Keying software has gotten so good that often this ca
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
I'm not having the problem at all. Select the edge of a connected clip (bracket key for example) for example and double click on the FXFactory of transition of my choice and it goes were it should, to the selected edge.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Not pro broadcast or film nor is FCPX ready for that.
Corporate video and local cable spots, it's more than ready for (well almost ready for in some cases).
Audio is FCPX Achilles heel for sure. I curse at it. It's not insurmountable though in the short form work that I do.
There are things about FCPX which I find leagues ahead of other NLEs (I spent 10+ years on Avid, trained editors on
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Andy Field Wrote:
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> ...and this is a step forward?
Why would you expect it to be? FCPX is still in its infancy much as the first few iterations of OSX was compared to OS9.
I suspect the handling of filters as metadata is radically different than it was in FCP7.
Given some more time, it probably will be a major step forward.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
While you can't copy paste, if you go into Commands there's unassigned keyboard command (you must custom assign) so you can copy a color correction up to three clips forward or back much as you could in FCP7.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Now that's an emerging market. Writing jokes for trainers.
Francois Wrote:
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> But Larry should get an author to write his
> jokes...
>
> (and maybe somebody to perform them also)
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
I think Larry's analysis is sensible.
People complained about the app but I think the "marketing" team and surrounding "decision makers" really blew it. They damaged Apples reputation.
The app itself is on the face track. Of course that creates its own bumps though (witness some of the bugs and beach balls). Somehow I have an image of the coders akin to that guy on the Ed
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Even easier maybe. The "V" key disables/Hides the clip . . . well it's still there, it's just grey. You can also hide bunches of clips using Roles depending on how you've assigned them . . . almost like turning off a track.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
There's someone on Ken Stone's site who has moved to FCPX for Broadcast in the Netherlands I believe.
I believe a few are doing local cable spots with it (as I will) but the above is the one broadcast facility I know of (so far).
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
The file has to be encoded since there's no way to "join" H.264 files in FCPX. Quicktime can do it with H.264 .mov I believe but, in my experience, there are all sorts of pitfalls with that.
Encoded file size is dependent on the data rate you use to export. Personally I'd recommend exporting to ProRes so you have a master. When I'm in a hurry I use Matrox with MAX to encode the ProRe
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
in FCPX Retiming Menu / Conform Speed. It'll conform to timeline frame rate.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Michael Horton Wrote:
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> One only need to peak into a crystal ball to see
> that broadcast is moving to broadband so might as
> well get used to it.
And YouTube specifically is. I understand they're in process of introducing original programing. There's other stuff going on that I may not be able to talk about at the moment.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
When I engineered at an Avid facility (that's all there really was at the time) we had both Windows and Mac Avids. The difference between dismounting the Shuttles (hard drives) was huge. So easy on the Mac. So risky on Windows if didn't follow the steps perfectly. The Window Avids got viruses because invariably somebody would bring some file or another from "home" (elsewhere at least) t
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Of course it wouldn't be as awkward with SAN as the above is workaround for non SAN networked systems. I guess FCPX focuses on the Pros (SAN users) instead of the prosumers.
The SAN will have to improve too but I'm going to guess we'll see some significant improvements in that area with FCPX during the year. I wouldn't be surprised why we haven't seen that yet because will be taking a new app
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
I've heard that this workaround would work but it's awkward.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
I've heard that this workaround would work but it's awkward.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Don't have Server or SAN software installed.
FCPX ADD SAN and I can go to any networked computer or drive or Event folder and
I CAN'T ADD IT.
Open FCP7 and I have no problem access any networked computer or drive.
Sigh!
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Short answer Shazbot!
It wasn't working in 10.0.2 so I tried for the first time today in 10.0.3.
I have several computers on my network here with FCPX as well as a NAS drive (low tech no SAN here yet).
I can get to anywhere on the network using using Add SAN but it won't actually let me add anything on the network. I can even log into that point and login at that computer or drive. Every lo
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
You have to make sure your Mini meets minimum specs. Not all do. The Intel CoreDuo does not and neither does the Core2Duo circa 2008 does due to GPU limitations. You'd really want to use FCPX on a i5 or, better an i7 or Xeon class (and with compatible OpenCL GPU).
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
I think you pretty much hit on one of Apple's strategies with FCPX.
I think it's going to find its way into a large number of small businesses and not for profits.
I think Thunderbolt plays into this as well.
Storage and Video I/O become portable. Buy one and move it from computer to computer as needed.
The wide user base will make it attractive for third party support. Look at the pletho
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
First step. Create New User Admin and delete all login items for that account. Remove all peripherals. Go into that account and test. That will tell you whether it's a user or system issue.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
What options did you have selected?
Whereas Plural Eyes had a "Try Harder" feature, FCPX might need your assistance in that area.
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Have you tried this in FCPX 10.0.3? I haven't beaten it to death yet but people playing with the new multicam feature seem to think it's improved.
BTW have you waited until it's complete. I would get that result if I unknowingly interrupted the process. In 10.0.2 I had to do a multicam piece in which the elements were nearly 90 minutes long. It work but it was slow. I probably could have synce
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Downtime is lost money. Sometimes for someone getting starting the loss can be even more severe. There's nothing like losing editing time or a client because the one NLE in your one person shop is taking you hours to troubleshoot some odd incompatibility that wasn't exposed until a certain set of circumstances arise. Granted I've known some people who are great system builders but that's because
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
stuckfootage Wrote:
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> craig seeman Wrote:
> > FCP7 Projects in FCPX via Phillip Hodgetts'
> > utility ($10).
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> It's cool that Phil and Greg put together a sweet
> utility, and it's totally reasonable that they're
> charging $10 for it, but...
>
>
>
> ...shouldn't that have been include
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
Not everyone bought Plural Eyes. Now FCPX has that built in (although some feel it's hit an miss). FCPX gives you a choice of sync methods. It even uses the Time Date stamp as an option (masochism not included).
Now the Multiclip is the Viewer (sort of) and the Sync is automatic. You drop the multiclip in the Timeline and you see the Source and Record side and they play in sync (I like using o
by craig seeman
- Café LA - X
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