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Re: FCP seems sluggish - 13 years ago
Lisha Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are some instances where islayer shows FCP > at 128%. Is that something I should be concerned > about? There are two ways of expressing CPU utilization, total system or by CPU. Activity monitor uses both... 128% is 64% of the total available cycles (2 CPUs X 100%)by Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: DV Matte Pro vs. Veescope - 13 years ago
Keylight is also available in Shake 4.1, but if you're not up for AE, you may find Shake a bit tricky... and Shake is EOL...by Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: Optimum Configuration for MacPro? - 13 years ago
Faster is always better, but there are (expense) limits... I'm also on a venerable 2.5GHz G5 dualie, so I've considered this question for some time now. Maybe the difference is that an associate asked me to "babysit" an 8X 3.2GHz MacPro with 10GB RAM and 2.5TB of hard drives, so I got an opportunity to form an objective opinion. That and I've been on Macs for over 20 years, so not muby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: AVCHD files and FCP - 14 years ago
Alexander: play dumb, it works for me... I have great respect for the other advisers here, but since they never told me that I couldn't do this kinda stuff, I've been doing it for a couple of years on a G5 dualie. From a "efficient workflow" standpoint they're right, of course, but I didn't see about "major project" or "serious production" in your post. You'lby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: Progressive to interlaced - 14 years ago
Göran Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When I shoot with the RED camera this doesn´t > occur... ------------------------------------------------------- What are you shooting with the rest of the time?by Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: bad dvd copies, why? - 14 years ago
The first and most important thing is start using DVD Studio Pro. iDVD is NOT your friend. You should be outputting a QuickTime Movie (first export option) from the time line. Your problems will not go away (but may get worse) with avi or mgeg4. Then you should be using Compressor to transcode the clip into MPEG-2 (m2v) and Dolby Digital (ac3) files for authoring. If you author correctly iby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: Rendering SD clips within HD timeline - 14 years ago
I can't tell you what is a "good idea" or "bad idea", but I have faced several projects with the same kind of a problem except we were combining HDV and DV. A couple of things... Thing one: Convert your .mod footage, don't just re-name it. I believe MPEG Streamclip will help you with this, output as an Apple DV/DVCPRO - NTSC quicktime file at highest quality. Thing twoby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: FCP 4.5 and QT 7.6 - 14 years ago
FCP 4.5 will work quite nicely on a Dual 1.25GHz G4 PowerMac running OS X Tiger (10.4.11) and QuickTime 7.1.6. I know this as a certain fact. After QT 7.1.6, you're on your own...by Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: FCP Gamma vs Color Gamma strange who do i trust??? - 14 years ago
Trust a calibrated broadcast monitor. Anything else is just a guess.by Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: Can I import movies from Itunes into FCP? - 14 years ago
Katrin1980 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But I don't have ppl around me who'd be willing to > act (I'm not at Film Academy) and make a short > movie or something like that. So I'm on my > own...what am I supposed to shoot if there's no > one around to act? If you really want to learn, go shoot an event and make something besides a documby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: getting Mac Pro -How to configure the drives? - 14 years ago
Jeff Harrell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But After Effects is a special case. When it > renders, it can allocate something like three > gigabytes of memory per processor. Final Cut > doesn't work like that. Yes, for an edit system, > 16 GB is overkill. Eight would be plenty. I > wouldn't even recommend going less than 1 GB of > RAMby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: Dropped frames in FCP 5 when tweaking a filter - 14 years ago
You don't mention what model of Mac, what version of MacOS, or how RT is set up. What I can tell you is that no, your disk numbers are not dismal for DV. You need to sustain a bit less than 4MB/sec to play back a DV stream. You could open Activity Monitor and observe the sustained rates during playback to verify. As an aside, I haven't had to trash prefs as a routine procedure since FCP4. Aby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: HDV multiclip- Does it work? - 15 years ago
Disclaimer: I'm not one of the "hard hitters" so consider the source... On the other hand, I've been around a bit and I think I know what the machines are doing. Multiclip and HDV sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. "Native" HDV wants a lot of horsepower, so does Multiclip. But if you have access to a fast hard drive array, I'm betting you could cut a ProRes 422 multiby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: "This Operation Could Not Be Completed As There Is No Video" - 15 years ago
I've been dealing with this issue off and on fora couple of years, it started with FCP 5.0 as I recall. I capture from a JVC deck, so it'd not just a Canon thing. I think it has more to do with FCP/OSX interaction than anything strictly within FCP. My work-around is to disconnect/reconnect the FireWire cable at the deck. This "jump-starts" FCP's recognition and I can capture withoby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: Dual 2.5 G5 with ProRes 422 HQ - 15 years ago
I did a 1080i ProRes 422 project on my 2.5GHz G5 dualie a couple of months ago. Yes, a dualie with 5GB of RAM worked fine but to get reliable playback you want to be on a "clean" SATA drive or (preferrably) a RAID. While a FireWire drive has the specs, most FW400 drives peak at around 19-20 MB/sec sustained speed which is barely enough. I was on a striped 2TB four-drive box that I buby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: Progressivly slowing timeline performance - 15 years ago
This is basic, but... Check that the system prefs don't allow anything to go to sleep (or nap) ever. I worked recently on a Quad that had some sleep items on and it'd stall out from time to time for no reason.by Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: Time Machine or SuperDuper or What to backup? - 15 years ago
I think you'll find Time Machine "problematic" for backing up video. It's more suited for all the little stuff that changes day-to-day on a "normal" system. What you want is an incremental back-up program that can run at a specific time each day and selectively back-up. I believe many people use Retrospect for this and there are many others. I played with ProSoft's Data Bacby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: EFFECTS question. Can i squish an image? - 15 years ago
Carolyn: There is another option: Image Sequencing in Pshop. You can export the clip as an Image Sequence and then work each frame in Pshop. I have done short clips both ways (I'm a freelance post guy, so anything can happen here...) and neither is as much fun as a good root canal if you're under a deadline. Image Sequencing can be relatively fast if you have a fairly flat background tby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: POLL : Which version of FCP do you use? - 15 years ago
Actually, I have 4.5, 5.0, and 6.0 up on various machines but 4.5 and 5 are only for roughing, so I'll call it 6. Right now, I'm pondering TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) and John's apparent need to break the three letter standard... are we headed for trouble?by Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: Best way to get a 2 hr HD project (shot on a HVX200, 720pn) onto a SD DVD - 16 years ago
Try outputting the timeline as 16:9 SD (downconverting in Quicktime) and submit that to Compressor for output as MPEG-2 & AC-3.by Tom Mitchell - DVD Studio Pro
Re: Primatte keyer problems - 16 years ago
Everything goes better in 4:2:2, but a decent key can be gotten in FCP if you use the Color Smoothing 4:1:1 filter. And this may be the very reason you're having problems with 4:1:1 in Motion - I'm not aware of such a filter there. I recently evaluated all my keying assets (FCP, Motion, Shake, Boris) on some (good) 4:1:1 bluescreen footage and found that the key in Boris RED was faster and cleby Tom Mitchell - Motion
Re: Write on Titles - 16 years ago
Taeloe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hello, > I'm wondering if any one knows an easy way to have > a particular font look like it's being written > from the first letter to the last for an opening > title for a feature. Maybe a way to turn a custom > font into a LiveFont? > Thanks everyone. > Taylor This can be done in Borisby Tom Mitchell - Motion
Re: Playback oddity in DVDSP - 16 years ago
Thanks for the response, Bob. This isn't a cry for help, it's an oddity I observed that I couldn't explain but could duplicate within the project. Because of time constraints and being "on the clock" at a customer site, I didn't try an build or a new project. I routinely break longer sequences into several shorter segments so that rework is minimized if there are any issues with tby Tom Mitchell - DVD Studio Pro
Re: 5.1.2 or wait for 6? - 16 years ago
I am running both 5.0.4 and 5.1.2 (don't ask...), both perform just great. 5.1.2 has greater functionality. I was worried when I brought up 5.1.2 since I had issues with 5.1.1; my concerns were unwarranted. My only problem is with Boris Continuum Complete not understanding my "duplicity"...by Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: RAID 1 on SATA MAX - 16 years ago
unamalatesta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We've got two SATA RAIDs that are 2.5TB per > enclosure, so 5TB. Each enclosure contains five > 500 GB drives. We're wanting to RAID 1, so that > we can mirror one tower, and have everything > backed up. > > ProMax says that it cannot be done, that we can > mirror one drive but not fiby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: Start/stop recognition on Capture Now - 16 years ago
Tom Wolsky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Converting all the segments into clips is > laborious???? > > Select the segment markers in list mode and press > Cmd-U. Done. The poster stated "I DON'T want to use the Start/Stop Detect function afterwards because I want separate clips not subclips." I took this to mean Cmd-U (Makeby Tom Mitchell - Café LA
Re: Photoshop overlay won't align with background buttons - 16 years ago
If you're trying to make a layered menu, then I'm with the guys above... But if all you're trying to do is an overlay, then the alignment should be very close if you output the image correctly. "All wacky" isn't much to work with from an advice standpoint, so all I can say is that when I do this, I export both the background and the overlay from the file in the same PS session by expby Tom Mitchell - DVD Studio Pro
Re: how to keep rich blacks when doing "build" in DVDSP3 ? - 16 years ago
To the best of my knowledge, Build compiles the menus but only muxes the audio and video clips so there shouldn't be any change in color (at least to the m2v files.) Unless you're able to view the m2v on a monitor, it's hard to say where the shift originates.by Tom Mitchell - DVD Studio Pro
Playback oddity in DVDSP - 16 years ago
In a recent project, I ran across something I've not seen before: Three clips were identically encoded and laid into Track 1 in their order. Individually, each clip was fine, but end-to-end the "following" clip would fail to fade in. Stopping playback brought the clip back to normal, when played it from its start it would fade in, but when played through from the previous clip it wouldby Tom Mitchell - DVD Studio Pro
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