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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 FCP should force you to name & save projects before you can capture - 17 years ago"Software designers can give you options, but they can't try to remember things for you if you're just "forgetful"." What a load of rubbish. The answer to this IS for the software to have a serious media management layer and the whole issue of which folder your media is in becomes mute as it simply doesn't matter - the app knows where it is and will always find it, be ableby mark.burton - FCP Feature Requests FCP6 Feature Requests - Mark Burton - 17 years ago- Full shared project support. - A Media Database model, using the unique clip identifier number to track and re-link media automatically. - A folder based project file - like Aperture etc. No more one huge file which can get corrupted. - Interface redesign to make full use of the space and colours other than light grey. Low overhead so window switching is lighting fast - perhaps even aby mark.burton - FCP Feature Requests Re: Exporting DPX sequence for telecine - 16 years agoThere may be a way with Color to get DPX out without having to do any color work in it, but personally I would go with Gluetools. Nothing comes close to these components for Mac OS X DPX support. There is no DPX support in the standard Final Cut Pro, so you would need these plugins to get DPX from there. If you have any specific questions, head on over to the Gluetools forum as the developer iby mark.burton - Café LA Re: OT: The successor of render beep - 16 years agoFantastic - works perfectly Andreas! Very cool idea.by mark.burton - Café LA Re: OT: The successor of render beep - 16 years agoHi Andreas, It does work for me. I've used the simple script above to send an autoSMS to my mobile and it sends using that CTRL + TAB command. I worked on the assumption that you could TAB to the send SMS button. Initially I found that if you just use TAB it goes through the Toolbar items, but I thought CTRL + TAB would go backwards and pick up the Send SMS button. Looking a little closer, CTby mark.burton - Café LA Re: OT: The successor of render beep - 16 years agoAndreas, If that works, how does it all fit together to work like your original BluePhoneElite script? Thanks, Markby mark.burton - Café LA Re: OT: The successor of render beep - 16 years agoCool. Using this process, could you do the same up to the part where you open the 'Call Phones' window, enter the phone number and then go to the Contacts menu and select SMS. This takes the number from the Call Phones window so you can enter text. Not sure if you can GUI script the Send SMS button though (edit: this is possible using CTRL and TAB) EDIT: In very simple terms, something lby mark.burton - Café LA Re: OT: The successor of render beep - 16 years agoSo could this script potentially use the Apple Address Book SMS feature instead of the BluPhoneElite app? Potentially you could also use the Skype Address Book plugin 'Send SMS with Skype' which means no need for the extra mobile phone and keeps it all software based and probably cheaper too since Skype SMS is very cheap. edit: perhaps this is useful for the Skype routeby mark.burton - Café LA Re: prores 422 in AE - 16 years agoAndreas Kiel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- But here for the records: > In AE import any mov (or footage). Press Option > and click the footage in the browser. > The type and codec are displayed right from the > preview. Now you tell me :-) That's a much better way.by mark.burton - Café LA Re: prores 422 in AE - 16 years agoThis might help you identify the codec http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Fiendishthngs/index.html Apple ProRes 422 Type: imco SubType: apch Manufacturer: appl Instance: 0xa80000 Version: 0x0 ------------------------------------ Compressor Name: Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)by mark.burton - Café LA DVCPRO HD 720p capture outside FCP - 16 years agoThis is a bit OT, but concerns the FCP DVCPRO HD Quicktime capture components. Apple have added a 720p50 capture codec in FCP 6.0 which is great news as we only used to have the 720p60 capture codec for DVCPRO HD. However I noticed that the components only work inside the FCP capture window, unlike all other Quicktime codecs which operate in outside Quicktime capture apps, such as QT Player Prby mark.burton - Café LA Re: FCS2 WOW! - 16 years agoSmoothcam does a great job, but it has to analyse the entire master clip, even if the edit you apply it to is only a few seconds long, which is not ideal. It will work away in the background, but pauses during any playback, capture or output since its quite processor intensive.by mark.burton - Café LA FCS 2.0 docs - "720p50 recorded at 24fps" - 16 years agoThis one's for any Apple peeps lurking around. Received FCS 2.0 the other day and have been reading through the new features / changes docs and came across the following paragraph: "720p50 DVCPRO HD Recorded at 24 fps Duplicate frames are recorded and can be removed during P2 card ingest with the Log and Transfer window or using the DVCPRO HD Frame Rate Converter. Note: This format isby mark.burton - Café LA Re: OMF 2.0 embedded file on DigiBeta - 17 years agoJust meams they want the picture on Digibeta and an OMF 2.0 file on disk, like you usually give. Digibeta can't store a computer file.by mark.burton - Café LA Re: 3:2 in QuickTime Pro Export? - 17 years agoThis exact question came up recently somewhere else and the answer was always "...use After Effects". However I had been using a small Quicktime tool called 'JES Deinterlacer' for a while - despite the name, this program was capable of all sorts of conversions including PAL to NTSC. I spoke with the developer and he added a strict 3:2 pulldown option to the next release. You simple lby mark.burton - Café LA Re: DVCPRO HD - DPX Output of 1920 X 1080. - 17 years agoHi Angelo, Cool, sounds like you have got the best output possible. Good luck with the grade. Regards Markby mark.burton - Café LA Re: DVCPRO HD - DPX Output of 1920 X 1080. - 17 years agoWith regard to rendering what codec do you have selected for the 1920x1080 sequence? Ideally you don't want to render the program in the 1920x1080 sequence as this will be another compression, just do the DPX export right after nesting. Having said that, I'm not sure how FCP works in this respect - it might be going through the sequence codec to the DPX format on export anyway, in which case iby mark.burton - Café LA Re: DVCPRO HD - DPX Output of 1920 X 1080. - 17 years agoDid you create the 1920x1080 sequence with a square pixel aspect ratio. I tried this with 1440x1080 DVCPRO HD media by nesting the standard DVCPRO HD sequence into the 1920x1080 sequence and it worked fine for me. Also what DPX export component are you using?by mark.burton - Café LA Re: DVCPRO HD - DPX Output 1280 X 1080 instead of 1920 X 1080. - 17 years agoYou could create a 1920x1080, square pixel sequence preset. Then drop your DVCPRO HD timeline into this. The DVCPRO HD has a 1440x1080 pixel aspect ratio, but when that sequence is dropped in the square pixel 1920x1080 sequence, it will come out correctly at 1920x1080. The only thing I don't know is what compressor to choose for the 1920x1080 sequence and if this is even used if you export strby mark.burton - Café LA Re: 25 to 24 pulldown or repeat for external playback? - 17 years agoHi Rich, In theory 24@25 Pulldown would be smoother than the repeat method as it is adding two fields to smooth playback to a PAL monitor which sounds like the 'blur' you are seeing, but as you have found this is not the case and repeat is the method which gives the smoother results in FCP - I am wondering if perhaps the FCP methods are switched (bug?) as the way you describe the playback withby mark.burton - Café LA Re: PAL film problems....25 to 24 conform - 17 years agoRich, Reading more about this on the Decklink forum there is mention that only ETT is effected with PAL DV material, normal playback mode should work ok with the 24@25 Pulldown method selected. AJA cards are mentioned, but not Kona 3 specifically, but it sounds like you should be ok apart from ETT. The solution mentioned was to work in the Photo-JPEG codec - so it seems its only a PAL DV fiby mark.burton - Café LA Re: PAL film problems....25 to 24 conform - 17 years agoRich, You are on the right track. You absolutly want to work at 24. FCP did get the well established 12+1 field pulldown method to smooth out 24fps playback to PAL displays in v5.0. This pulldown method is known as 24@25 Pulldown in FCP and can be selected in the Preferences. The way it works is to dupe 2 fields every second; for a much more detailed explanation check out Micjael Phillips aby mark.burton - Café LA Re: QT Sync Errors... - 17 years agoIf you exported to a new self contained file then it will, but note this is a re-compress job as the overlay will then be rendered into the Video track.by mark.burton - Café LA Re: QT Sync Errors... - 17 years agoI use this program too, very useful. The problem is not QT Sync but rather FCP which FCP makes zero use of the TC and text overlay feature's in the Quicktime framework, so it won't show up in that program. Another example is to open a file in QT Player Pro, change the rotation and save - again FCP will ignore this change even though its supposed to a fully QT native app. Again AE etc will see thaby mark.burton - Café LA Re: SheerVideo Frustration - 17 years agoFirst a bit of background to this idea; Currently FCP does not support 720p50 P2 MXF files, but a company called Imagine came up with a passthrough codec to allow people to work with 720p50 files in FCP, first converting the MXF to Qt via P2 Log. When this passthrough codec is installed you have to remove the Apple DVCPROHDVideoOutputCodec.component in order for the image to render properly insidby mark.burton - Café LA Re: HXV200E and 720/25p in Final cut pro - 17 years agoAs Shane says Apple have not yet built in 720p25 support, but there is currently a workaround which works fairly well. Imagine Software who make HD Log have recently released a cheaper version specifically for the P2 workflow called P2 Log for $99. Along with this they have built their own DVCPROHD720p50 Quicktime passthrough codec which makes it possible to work with 720p25 from the HVX200Eby mark.burton - Café LA Re: FS100 - anyone using? - 17 years agoI've just started using one with my HVX200. Initially I had some issues with blocking and subsequently Focus put a firmware update out which seems to have solved the issue for me, although others report the issue even after the update. As FCP ( and most other NLE's) has no support for 720p 25/50 I have been mainly using it to capture 1080 25p and it has performed very well. I have done some 720pby mark.burton - Café LA Re: Viper Camera with FCP and Blackmagic - 17 years ago"I'd be quite intrigued by the MetaFuze thing IF it works with FinalCut." Well I would speak to Apple about that - Avid have broad support for the industry open standard MXF which is how this workflow is managed - Apple rely purely on Quicktime. Their P2 workflow for example has to first unwrap the MXF data and then re-wrap it in Quicktime.by mark.burton - Café LA Re: Viper Camera with FCP and Blackmagic - 17 years agoActually contrary to what I suggested earlier about Clipster outputting Quicktime files, the key to the current workflow's is to actually use the DPX host system as a virtual vtr. The DPX frames are loaded in sequence and the chosen NLE controls the Clipser like a deck and captures the input. This allows you to choose the codec according to your NLE and retain TC and reel data easily.by mark.burton - Café LA Re: Viper Camera with FCP and Blackmagic - 17 years agoFrank, although that is a great tool to transfer DPX image data to Quicktime, it has zero header data support so you will have no link back to the original files. This is the reason the camera companies are so keen to see the NLE guys introduce tools to manage this link. Avid have a tool called MetaFuze which should eventually appear later this/early next year. It is designed to do exactly thisby mark.burton - Café LA |
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