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Show all posts by userYour basic troubleshooting forum for all things FCP Legacy (FCP 7 and below.) And general discussion on topics that do not fit in the other forums.
Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: dititizing video on FCP7 from my SONY DSR30 SD deck - 12 years agoI have FCP 7 and a Sony DSR-30 and Log & Capture works fine on my Mac Pro. Deck is connected via firewire to the back of the Mac, is set on DV in/out. FCP Capture Preset is DV NTSC 48 kHz and Device Control Preset is Firewire NTSC. To get the deck to record from the Mac, you have to turn it off and restart it while holding both the pause and record buttons down. This deactivates the DVCAM audby Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: SYNC problems with LCD SONY BRAVIA monitor - 12 years agoLoren: Yes, this allows you to use the mixer to determine the audio output for each display. HDMI output from the Bravia or MXO2 output for the SDI pro monitor and each will be in sync with themselves. The audio and video are both fed from the computer to the MXO2 since it has both HDMI and SDI outs. Never had the opportunity to use Blackmagic or AJA yet. Tomby Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: SYNC problems with LCD SONY BRAVIA monitor - 12 years agoWell, I have kind of the same set-up and my solution was to run the video and audio out of a Matrox MXO2 via HDMI to the Sony Bravia. Then cable the audio from the Sony Bravia to your mixer/speakers. This will eliminate any latency while monitoring from the Sony. I then use the SDI from the MXO2 to my broadcast FYI monitor and cable the audio from the MXO2 output directly to the mixer/speakers whby Tom Jackson - Café LA Compressor encoding in MacPro 12 core - 12 years agoUsing the Compressor encoding hack in my new 12 core Mac Pro doesn't seem to work the same as it did in the old 8 core machine. Re doing the settings in QMaster doesn't seem to have any effect like it did before. Is there a new trick to this? Thanks, Tomby Tom Jackson - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: FCP Matrox O2 - 13 years agoMy case is just the opposite. The 2.0 drivers are the most glitch free so far. Just occasional drop frame on scrubbing frame to frame. The 2.1 drivers were consistently doing so which made audio editing nearly impossible.by Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: Scroll through fonts like you can in Photoshop - 13 years agoOr in the library under "fonts" select to view icons instead of list and all the fonts will appear with a capital A and a small case a.by Tom Jackson - Motion Re: ribbon emitter - 13 years agoI'm no Motion expert, but the vertical direction of the emitter is caused by the gravity behavior applied to the emitter cell. The only way I could get the emitter to emit horizontally is by rotating it 90 degrees and then applying a ramp behavior to the y value of the emitter itself, while disabling the gravity behavior on the cell. Hope this offers a usable alternative. Or you could probably suby Tom Jackson - Motion Re: converting timelapse shot on HVX at 59 fps to edit in a 23.98 timeline - 13 years agoAlex, That happens occasionally. Why I don't know. But I get around it by moving the overcranked clip in the browser into another bin folder and then usually the Frame Rate converter will work fine. It is a little faster than using Cinema Tools cause it puts the converted clip right in your browser. But if that doesn't work, you can always use Cinema Tools as suggested by Shane and Derek.by Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: converting timelapse shot on HVX at 59 fps to edit in a 23.98 timeline - 13 years agoEasiest way is to use the DVCPro Frame Rate Converter in the Tools Tab. Just select the 60p clip in the browser and apply the Frame Rate Converter. It will insert the new 23.98 clip in your browser.by Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: Helicopter shoots - 14 years agoI've had some very acceptable results on our helicoptor shoots without using a stabilizing device. If you overcrank by shooting 720p60p with a good helicoptor and pilot who is experienced with video shoots, you can undercrank the footage in FCP and then add a stablizing filter if necessary. Results can look like you used a gyro mount.by Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: Slow Motion with XDCam Ex 720P 50p footage => change to 25fps - 14 years agoWhen we overcrank our Sony XDCAM EX1 to shoot 760p60 underwater, I have to put the footage in a 59.94 frame rate timeline and then apply the Change Speed effect to 50% with blend frames unchecked. This produces the undercranking lossless slo-mo effect you are seeking. I would think it would work the same in Pal land but with 50 and 25 frame speeds.by Tom Jackson - Café LA Another FCP 7.0.1 bug? - 14 years agoI have noticed that whenever an external drive is mounted when editing in FCP 7.0.1 that it will not appear in FCP's import window. To be able to import files from the drive within FCP using the import files from the file tab is not possible. You must either close out FCP and then re-open or go outside FCP to the drive and drag and drop. None of the other apps in FCS have this problem. Tomby Tom Jackson - The Bug Report Re: missing content - 14 years agoI had the same problem and just reset the Motion media folder location in general preferences and that brought everything right back. You've probably tried this but just thought I'd mention it.by Tom Jackson - Motion Re: Does FCS 3 work with MXO? - 14 years agoThanks guys. Onward and upward.by Tom Jackson - Café LA Does FCS 3 work with MXO? - 14 years agoCan anyone verify if the new FCS works with the Matrox MXO? Can't seem to get an answer out of their forum and that's the only thing keeping me from updating. Thanks, Tomby Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: Text Bounding Box - 14 years agoApply the filter to the text's group layer instead, select the group layer, and then in the inspector under the group tab, check the fixed resolution box.by Tom Jackson - Motion Re: Exporting alpha channels from FCP - 15 years agoThanks Strypes: Forgot about not rendering before exporting.by Tom Jackson - Café LA Exporting alpha channels from FCP - 15 years agoI am trying to export a rendered alpha channel clip keyed on track V2 from FCP, using the animation codec, millions of colors +, self-contained, but it always contains a black background when I open it in Motion or even re-import it into FCP. What am I missing? Thanks, Tomby Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: Keyframing BCC filters in Motion 3.0.2 - 15 years agoFound the problem. It's the 5.0.7 update. At least on my system it prevents the proper playback and render of keyframed results in Motion 3.0.2 using BCC5 filters and generators. When I reverted back to FxPlug 5.0 all works fine.by Tom Jackson - Motion Keyframing BCC filters in Motion 3.0.2 - 15 years agoAnyone experiencing problems keyframing BCC filters in Motion? Repeatedly the filters only keyframe properly on the first clip in the timeline. Anything else and the playback does not reflect the keyframe changes. I have trashed prefs, re-installed BCC FxPlug 5 and re-upgraded to 5.0.7. to no avail. Thanks, Tomby Tom Jackson - Motion Creating Blu-ray discs - 15 years agoHas anyone been able to successfully burn a Blu-ray disc from a DVCPro 720p file from FCP using Toast 9 and the HD plug-in with an external burner (Lacie d2). Every time I try I keep getting an error message ( -39) near the end of the burn. Thanks, Tomby Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: MXO Calibration tool bug...and a fix - 15 years agoShane: Can't seem to open that link. Could you advise an address? Really appreciate it as this has been a minor headache since June. Thank you, Tomby Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: Importing P-2 footage directly to Hard Drive - 16 years agoShane: Hadn't read your latest tutorial. It cleared everything up perfectly. I have adopted your excellent workflow and all is well. Thanks Again, Tomby Tom Jackson - Café LA Importing P-2 footage directly to Hard Drive - 16 years agoAm currently using my HPX-500 DVCPRO camera as a reader to import P-2 clips into the Log & Transfer function of FCP 6.0.2. I would like to import the P-2 media directly to one of my drives instead, and then import into FCP, but I cannot get FCP to recognize the MFX files from my hard drive. Could someone briefly list the procedure. Thank You, Tomby Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: Compressor Quitting on launch - 16 years agoDon't know if this is your situation, but this happened to me after I re-installed Studio 2. Compressor suddenly would not launch. After trying everything I could think of and then finally calling Apple, I was told this is a known problem. Their only solution was to re-install your entire operating system! I did that and Compressor then functioned normally. Huge pain in the butt. Tomby Tom Jackson - Café LA Apple Knowledge Base Nudge problem workaround - 16 years agoIn Motion 3 the nudge 1 frame function does not work. The Apple Knowledge Base article says there is no workaround, but I have found that if you go to Motion/Commands/Customize and then duplicate the Standard set, rename it and re-edit in the nudge and move 1 frame commands using the keyboard, that nudge will now work as normal both in the canvas and the timeline. Small thing but a pain in the bby Tom Jackson - Motion Compressor problem - 16 years agoAnyone had the problem of Compressor 3 not opening at all after a re-install of FCPStudio 2? I called Apple and they said they were aware of this problem and the only cure at this time was to re-install your entire operating system. Is there an easier solution? Thanks, Tomby Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: P2 transfer from camera to Mac Pro via firewire - 16 years agoSorry for the dumb question. I soon figured out that by leaving the camera attached to the computer while FCP imports the P2 files, it automatically ends up placing the files you select onto the scratch drive as well as in the browser in the proper format.by Tom Jackson - Café LA P2 transfer from camera to Mac Pro via firewire - 16 years agoJust new to HD and the HVX-200.The only way I have to get P2 files into my Mac Pro is thru the camera via firewire and using the camera in PC mode I am able to do that. Everything works great in FPC and the MXO monitors just fine. Only problem is when trying to remove unwanted P2 media later from the computer hard drive. All the files are locked and must be individually unlocked before they wilby Tom Jackson - Café LA Re: Beginning Colorist Roadmap - 16 years agoSo how do you monitor Color?. It doesn't work thru firewire or my MXO. I don't use a capture card and have no more PCI slots available. Thanks, Tomby Tom Jackson - Color |
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