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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: My Film Is Done and Thank You - 15 years agoMore people out of work and a planet healing from the wounds of overpopulation is starting to sound good to me, but this is a discussion for another forum. How do you do an overwrite edit?by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA My Film Is Done and Thank You - 15 years agoI received much help on this forum over the last few years in making this film and I wanted to thank you all for your graciousness in helping me maintain and run these amazing tools in the FCS2 suite. Here is a little preview. One of the first 16x9 videos to make it onto YouTube.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: anamorphic to youtube what gives??? - 15 years agoStop the presses. YouTube just went widescreen this morning. This changes everything. Videos are now displayed at 960 pixels wide in 16x9 aspect.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: File I / O error when exporting a quicktime movie - 16 years agoI had a problem recently with having my render files stored on a FW400 drive while the 720p material is being read from an ext. SATA. They didn't play nice and I would get that File I/O error. Once I changed my scratch disk to the SATA I could export again.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: Hey SATA guru's..Help! - 16 years agoOK, solved. I had just hooked up a FW800 to a FW800 card separate from any 400 drives, to write the render files to. When FCP played media from the SATA it choked, thus my belief that something was wrong with the SATA, but those files had render files written to the FW800 drive. Once I unhooked the 800 drive the problems disappeared. I'm still not sure why a FW800 drive with render files wouldn'tby Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Hey SATA guru's..Help! - 16 years agoI have a 1TB Mac Burly Bay with 4 250 Hitachis. I'm running FCS2 and it's been working fine for 2 years. The drive claims 325 gig's available, but FCP is choking to the point that I can't even write a self contained movie with it. I get a File I/O error. When I open up the QT's from the finder it all seems to play well, but I'm locked up within FCP. When it drops frames FCP tells me that the diskby Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: how do I export an anamorphic video - 16 years agoTry un-checking "preserve aspect ratio" in the Quick Time dialogue.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: SATA Raid not showing up. - 16 years agoI restarted the computer and it showed up! Scary. Time for some maintenance.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA SATA Raid not showing up. - 16 years agoI've been running a 2.0 G5 with a Mac Burly Bay 1TB Raid attached to it for the past two years flawlessly. This morning I fire it up and it won't show up on the desktop. In Disk Utility it shows up as (1) 928 gb. disk and (3) 232 gb. disk's. Usually when I fire up the SATA bay I get these dialogue boxes and click OK and I'm good to go, but they keep coming. That tells me that something must be teby Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: Edge Feather within Crop - Final Cut Pro - 16 years agoMy peeve with the Crop-Edge Feather is I can't get it to feather one side. It feather all sides equally. Is there a way to feather one side with Mask Shape?by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: What's the best camera for under 10k? - 16 years agoI've been cutting a doc for the past 3 years using a DVX100, an HVX200 and a Canon HV-20. It's all good if the operator knows his/her limitations. Editors would know a lot based on the stuff that makes the cut as well as the stuff that doesn't. We also tend to do some or all of the grading, and can judge based on how to help an image pop. I guess the best scenario would be to ask both an operatorby Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: What's the best camera for under 10k? - 16 years agografixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This isn't the best forum for Camera > recommendations. There are a few shooters here but > the vast majority are Post Production peeps. > You'll get a better cross section of Camera Op > opinions if you try shooter forums: > > > > > > > > > > There's moby Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: P2 Tip - 16 years agoI didn't know this until I dumped several hours worth going through one at a time and unlocking one by one...teeth clinched that someone didn't think to make this easier. One day my web designer told me about option-empty and I saw the light.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: How do I partially color correct an image with a mask? - 16 years agoColorista will help but if it's possible to re-shoot that would be the best option. Judes option will work as well at a cheaper price point.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: Quicktime 7.4 - hidden legacy export formats - 16 years agoAfter Affects users are reporting broken renders after 10 minutes or so.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: projector as HD monitor? - 16 years agoI use a 720p Panasonic projector but to get the MXO into it I have to go YUV-RGB into Component. I don't see any difference than just going from the Mac, DVI-HDMI and using Cinema Desktop Preview. The projector can have nice advantages if your going to the silver screen as it shows every little freakin artifact. You also can't calibrate unless you go DVI out of the MXO and I can't get that to worby Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: POLL v2: Does HDV actually suck or not? - 16 years agoGot me an Canon HV20 that I'm cutting footage into a doc with DVX and HVX. The shots that don't have much movement look every bit as good as HVX200 in 720 mode. Just don't bother with moving the camera much, although subjects moving within the frame are only slightly better. editing in FCS2 with the open format timeline on a Dual 2.0ghz is nice to get realtime preview. The small form factor willby Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: QUICKTIME 7.3.1 - 16 years agoMichael Horton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This release includes the following enhancements > (from Apple's security bulletin): > > "Viewing a maliciously crafted QTL file may lead > to an unexpected application termination or > arbitrary code execution A heap buffer overflow > exists in QuickTime's handling of QTL files. Byby Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: Art of the Edit? - 16 years agoSaw W. Murch a couple of years ago at a LAFCPUG thing in SF. He said we have more choices in editing a feature, than there are molecules in the universe! How's that for choices?by Gene Brockhoff - Show and Tell Re: How can FCP6 do this to me? - 16 years agoThanks. Even if he updates, it looks like he will still have to render it. I am 75 miles from the guy who has the .mov so looks like render-time.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: How can FCP6 do this to me? - 16 years agoShane Ross Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah....is this one of those things where the clip > is a self contained QT Movie export and the > dimensions are 1280x720 instead of 960x720? That > bug plagued us from FCP 5.1.4 up until 6.0.2. > > If it was exported from a sequence that was in > that range, then no matter what you do it wilby Gene Brockhoff - Café LA How can FCP6 do this to me? - 16 years agoStarted a sequence by dropping a self-contained (HVX) DVCPro 720p/24 clip into the timeline. Menu comes up asking if I would like to make the sequence match the clip. This is open format timeline right? I click OK and the clip is added with a nice blood red render line. Huh? This is FC6.0 I believe. Is this sounding familiar?by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: ANother issue that confuses me - nested sequences don't seem to update after changes. - 16 years agoA LAFCPUG first, two Geno's in the same thread! That's what my peeps call me at least. I like working with nest's because when I have three or more video tracks, I don't want that many tracks open in the timeline for simplicity's sake. Just like I try to get by on 6 audio tracks until my post guy can take over. I noticed also that making changes in the nest's did not reflect in the master timelinby Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: Enlarging a scene in Final cut? - 16 years agoI think you also get problems when you start a sequence, copy the clips and paste them into different sequence. Did you copy and paste the clips? That method might include the attributes of the first sequence.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA I still haven't figured out match-frame - 16 years agoAt least I haven't figured out how to get an audio track to match the video back once the video has been removed from the timeline and the audio remains. Wouldn't it be great to option-shift-drag the audio track to the video track to match it up again. I'm assuming match-frame would do this but I can't figure it out. Help.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Help me solve this compression mystery - 16 years agoLong post here so bear with me. Shot some interviews with a DVX100a in 24p(n). Captured into FCP4.5. At the time the project looked destined for DVD. Next thing you know, maybe this could go to the silver screen. Decided to finish shooting interviews and b-roll with an HVX200 in 720p. Took all my 480p (with anamorphic lens) and ran it through Cinema Tools to remove pulldown and make 23.98. Upgradby Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: OMF in Final Cut 6.0 - 16 years agoI just recently exported an OMF from FCP6 and the dialogue box came up with options for levels and pan, which I checked, but when my audio guy opened it up in Logic, they were not recognized.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: RED right camera and workflow for our project? - 16 years agoActually, 60 is what I had in mind. More isn't better for broadcast. Fast moving stuff is done at 60p. I just realized that a race car slowed down from 100 to 24 would in fact look like a normal car from some points of view, but a lot depends on the shutter, angle and what's flying by. Hey they did say "We're also looking to create additional unusual, exciting, more experimental/abstract fooby Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: RED right camera and workflow for our project? - 16 years agoI'd hate to bust the party up but I have heard (might be on HDforIndies) that if ordered now, you would get a camera in 9 months. If you get one in time, shoot anything that moves fast at 2k 100 frames per second. Don't use 24p regardless of what the resolution on anything that moves quickly through the frame. 24p for the slower stuff at 4k is bliss.by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA Re: More OMF problems - 16 years agoWait a minute. I just supplied my Logic guy with an OMF, and an MPEG4 for video. I didn't apply a time-code generator in FCP. The OMF file was corrupt, but the video had time-code. Maybe that was a Logic thing?by Gene Brockhoff - Café LA |
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