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Your 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.
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Re: Editing metadata - 14 years ago
kick ass thats exactly what i needed. I figured there was a way with XML and thanks for figuring that out but the column way will do just nicely!by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Editing metadata - 14 years ago
OK, quick context: we're shooting 30p and sending over SDI to a direct-to-disk capture system. Everything works fine. The problem is FCP is treating this clips as interlaced and is in fact interlacing our progressive images. Even when placed in a progressive sequence, it still degrades the image. See example below: Original Interlaced I've found if I go into the clip properties while inby Scott Erickson - Café LA
FCP 7.0 - Nevermind... 
- 14 years ago
Does any one else think it's weird that FCP 7 has been out for over 8mos and we are still on a .0 version? I know there wasnt a major issue they needed to fix right away with the upgrade but still, throw us a bone Apple. All the upgrades I've seen lately have been from third party vendors like Canon...I guess this is why at the SuperMeet they only talked about other developers Anyway, the wholby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: 5D/7D workflow - 14 years ago
Yeah HDV is not a good option, you are taking all the negative traits of H264 compression and combining them with all the negative traits of MPEG-2(HDV) compression. It's bad times all over. Plus I've never heard anyone say HDV is faster than anything, it's kinda the default standard for slow complicated processing. What flavor of ProRes are you going to? If you are on FCP 7, you can try ProReby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: O.T. The future of editing - 14 years ago
Ive seen demo's of tech like this before and while i think its neat, its hard to see this in practical applications. I know X-box and other cable box systems are using gestures for some neat applications but editing is all about the details and fine tuning. iMovie glosses over those details but my sequences never look as clean as an iMovie layout. It's complicated and has depth and tweaks all oveby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: QuickTime INFO - 14 years ago
Check out MediaInfo... lets you see all the nitty gritty details of your files.. the mac version is bit rough still but just switch out of Easy View and its a lot betterby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Conforming 30.00 to 29.97 - 14 years ago
Surprisingly, this isn't a 5DmkII question. Potentially I might have a lot of footage coming in that would be recorded at 30.00 from a PC. I want to be able to mix this easily with footage from a camera and have them play together nicely. I can batch conform to 29.97 in Cinema Tools but I'd like to know a bit more about what is actually going on before I do. I know the logic behind 29.97 anby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: FCP to Compressor - 14 years ago
In general, a SCQT is the fastest way to go with Compressor. It's not always the highest quality tho. When you make a SCQT, you lock yourself into the codec of that sequence, such as DVCProHD or HDV. So if you're going to compress to DVD or Web, your compressing from a compressed source. This doesnt matter soo much if your sequence is primarily straight video footage but if you have a lot of grapby Scott Erickson - Café LA
7D Slow Motion - 14 years ago
Now that Canon has offered us some choices in video from their HD-DSLRS(i don't like my video in 30.00fps thank you), I decided to take the camera out and test its overcranking abilities by shooting in 720p60 and conforming to 23.98 in Cinema Tools. I think it turned out pretty awesome.... =S=by Scott Erickson - Show and Tell
Re: [OT] Individual DVD Watermarking Software - 14 years ago
yeah the Force Subtitle option is the best way to go. Add a sub-title track and in the Inspector, you will see a check box for it. You can also have them fade in and out which is nice. The only problem is that it is not 100% effective. It will work for standard DVD players but anyone with some computer skills and DVD ripping software can pull out the m2v file sans the subtitle overlay. So it'sby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Looking for a FCP Tutorial Recommendation - 14 years ago
There are several out there, I think Ripple's probably the best known ProApp training source. Lynda.com has a free day-pass if you want to check out their offerings for FCP and lots of other software as well...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: The Cannon 7d - 14 years ago
Here...I did a write up on this workflow on my blog a few months back I based it around the 5D but did not go into the frame rate issue so this still works for the 7D. In fact, I use this setting now for all the 7D footage i shoot. You can download the droplet with the compressor setting at the bottom of the pageby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: What's the best place in LA to learn - 14 years ago
$330 bucks? damn that aint too cheap...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: 24p and 24pA mixed - 15 years ago
Dude, Strypes, thank you! That was it...I did a test file and it all came out fine once it got through Cinema Tools. Not i just have several hours of footage to run through the process...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: OT: screen recording software - 15 years ago
While Screenflow does have a lot of impressive features, even when captured to Animation it is not as clean as Snapz is when going to Animation. It can't handle gradients as well, adding some pink fringing in window shadow gradients. It also locks you into their proprietary edit format so if you want to edit things professionally(i.e. Final Cut), you have to export out to a QT movie and then if yby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Ellen Show Post Workflow - 15 years ago
Yeah our Xsan has been both amazing and a nightmare at times. The permissions issues seem to keep popping up, regardless of how many times we fix it. We've had to have our tech guys come out many times to address issues(we use the guys from 318, who've always been great). Our workflow is totally collaborative as our editors are always sharing files back and forth but it all comes down to the eby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: 24p and 24pA mixed - 15 years ago
The problem im having with Cinema Tools is that all the Reverse Telecine buttons are greyed out. When i choose Batch Reverse Telecine and select the clips, i get an error that says "This movie has temporal compression" which doesnt make any sense since its DVCProHD, which doesnt use temporal compression! Sigh...also in Compressor, not getting my settings right is hard to do since oncby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: 24p and 24pA mixed - 15 years ago
Right that was my first course of action, the problem is that it did a horrible job, It essentially interlaced every frame into a huge smushy mess. I took a standard 1080 DVCProHD setting, changed the frame rate to 23.98, and turned out Reverse Telecine and no dice. Also, I'd like to stick within DVCProHD because otherwise i can't multi-clip these files with the rest of what we shot. Whatby Scott Erickson - Café LA
24p and 24pA mixed - 15 years ago
Hey dudes- So got some footage back from a shoot and apparantly one of the cameras was left in 24p not 24pA. So now I have 29.97 footage with a 3:2 pulldown that i want to get into 23.98 so i can multi-cam this footage with the rest of the cameras. I've been lucky enough to not have to do this ever before but i know it can't be too hard. I know it's a bad idea to do this after editing aby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Objects moving on different computers? - 15 years ago
So we have a nice project all laid out and then when i pass it off to another editor here, they have all changed their scale and position as compared to how i laid it out on my machine. Any idea whats going on here? I have the nagging feeling its a video card issue since I know i have a more powerfull card then she did and we're dealing with high-res photos in this project? But still, this isby Scott Erickson - Motion
Re: Won't select video AND video - 15 years ago
Linking or un-linking was not the problem, I do that all through keyboard commands. It's just a matter of my thought process. I've always assumed FCP will select a linked-clip by one click and if i want to only select one section, i option click. So now it was reversed and that's what was killing me.by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Won't select video AND video - 15 years ago
Yeah this was at the global, not clip level, which is why it was so frustrating. It was the opposite of how i normally work with FCP and couldnt figure out how to get it back. It's a weird place to be located, under the Edit menu, since everything is else meant to modify a specific object, not toggle a system wide change. Oh well...Derek to the rescue i guessby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Won't select video AND video - 15 years ago
Fantastic Derek thanks soo much! I knew it had to be something easy like that. Apparently i've avoided this feature/aspect of FCP for the past 6 years... BTW, it's actually under the Edit menu but a quick search and help pointed me true.by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Won't select video AND video - 15 years ago
OK, on a different machine than usual and for whatever reason, when i click on a linked clip, it only selects the track i clicked on, not the linked clip as well. So I have to Opt-Click it instead, which is the reverse of how it normally is on my machine and it's driving me insane. I can't see to find this in the System Prefs or User Pref's anywhere to switch this back to normal. I'm assumingby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Multi Cam - 15 years ago
why not export Reference movies of each track from the timeline where you laid them all out? yeah they'll be black spots in between but then at least you can edit the whole thing in one go? plus with reference movies there's minimal file size and no further compression. Just keep those movies firmly connected to the source media and you should be good. I agree that would be an awesome toolby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Panasonic HVX200 settings - 15 years ago
Your info is right there, the format he shot was 1080p24 which means he shot with a 3:2 pulldown inside a 60i stream. That's the interlacing every few frames that you are seeing. If you really wanted to edit at 24fps, or rather 23.987, he should have shot at 24pA which has an Advanced pulldown, or 2:3:3:2, which FCP can then extract the full progressive frames for a true 24p clip. What youby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Sequence setting advice needed for editing AVIs from Canon PowerShot - 15 years ago
well im surprised FCP accepts avi's at all. QuickTime of course, but FCP is made for mov's. Probably why it's not offering to auto-adjust the sequence settings to your source material. Anyway, this is an old trick, pre-auto adjusting and open format sequence days. Select the clip in the bin, right click and say make multi-clip sequence. It will now create a sequence based off your clip andby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Larry David, compressed - 15 years ago
Jeff- You're right that converting codecs won't improve the source footage but going to high quality most definitely improve any effects or title work he has in his timeline as those will render out of FCP into a better colorspace/bitrate. And this is where he was complaining of issues because DV is a horrible effects codec. Now DV to H.264 to DVD is a total laugh but DV to ProRes/Uncompreby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Need an experienced editor to advise on workflow - 15 years ago
While it def needs a lot of updating to bring it into the proper video/film workflow, if you get dedicated people with some experience, the 5d can gets some amazing results... Personally, for me, once the GH-1 is released I'm prob going to pick one up for my personal/hobby use. I've always been a big Panny fan and while it'd def not as highend as the 5D, at least the designed it for videoby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
We def need more info on your source...tape from what? HD? SD? Interlaced? Is it coming from an analog source? QT filters can be useful for batch processing, etc, but can be finicky. For reliability, i would use FCP for your color correction. Also, use ProRes HQ or the original 8-bit uncompressed, the flip that to H.264. "None" may sound right but it will only give you trouble. Tby Scott Erickson - Café LA
