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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: TITLE TOOL - 17 years agoI also vote for improvements to the title tool. I like Title 3D, but also really need to see the background video for composition.by bdplaid - FCP Feature Requests Re: FCP6 has been released! Am I Too Late? - 17 years agoi don't trust it since it trashed a media file in a project that I was saving. but I'm not sure I'd trust it again unless there was a complete revision. I still use it and generally find it OK, just that i have to verify every file that it saves. if you have a good way to automate file verification, or some other way to be sure that the files are properly saved, I'd love to hear about it.by bdplaid - FCP Feature Requests Re: FCP6 has been released! Am I Too Late? - 17 years agowell, it looks like we didn't get the improvements to Media Mangler that we all wanted. Or did we?by bdplaid - FCP Feature Requests confirmation for Media Manager. - 16 years agoI'm Still wanting a confirmation option for all items moved, copied, etc using Media Manager. As I've said in the past, I have had media ruined by Media Manager, to the point where I don't trust it without verification. An option similar to that in DVD-writing apps (Verify Data check box) might be the solution. Overall, I like media manager, I just want it to verify moved and copied mediaby bdplaid - FCP Feature Requests Re: "Collect for Output" - 16 years agoI know what Marla is looking for, and I agree. There is a command in After Effects' drop down menu that does exactly that; it's a beautiful thing. In my experience, the FCP Media Manager has, on at least 2 occasions, damaged the media that it copied. Therefore, I can't trust it. I must be meticulous in where I put things, keeping it all together. On occasions when I am forced to use Media Mby bdplaid - FCP Feature Requests Re: SCROLLING TIMELINE! - 17 years agoQuoteThis likely has been requested in the past, but it's still a cogent feature to be repeated for those who may be watching: SCROLLING TIMELINE! I'm not sure if this helps what you're after, but I have an Apple Mighty Mouse that has small scroll ball on it. This allows one to scroll both up/down and left/right. Very useful.by bdplaid - FCP Feature Requests Re: FCP: more than an editing app - 17 years agoHere, here! Of course I agree, but to address Shane's comments - What I need a lot of this for are projects like one I just completed: greenscreen interviews in front of a composited background of animated stills and animation, all of which needed to be timed to correspond with the dialog. Can be done in AE and Motion, but much, much eaiser to do in FCP. After all, what i have going hereby bdplaid - FCP Feature Requests Extensive list - 17 years agoOk, here is my extensive list. Whew! Timeline: - Multiple and mixed codecs and resolutions on a single timeline, to output to a single codec/resolution (which itself is selcteable, as it is now) - Ability to name individual clips on a timeline (even thouse derived from other clips) - Ability to change color of individual clips - Ability to reverse order (top to bottom) of track stack (by bdplaid - FCP Feature Requests Re: I need to improve Keying out in FCP - 15 years agoHave you tried stacking multiple keyers and using each minimally? I like DV Matte a lot, but there were times when one instance of it just wouldn't get the job done all on it's own. Try stacking a layer of the FCP keyer (or other keyers) in there and see what happens.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: editing w/ 16mm - 15 years agoHi, Derek, Would you mind elaborating on much of this? I have a client who is seasoned in using 16mm, but not on FCP, and i am the editor. I'm not seasoned in 16mm. The first questions are: - what is the recommended codec? in the past, we have transferred to miniDV, but I'm thinking we can get a big quality jump if we go to something else, maybe even 10bit. what about DVCPROHD?by bdplaid - Café LA Re: "film gate" plug-in? - 15 years agoI wonder if this can help. http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/fcplugins/dh_retrotv.php# Martin makes wonderful plugins.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Audio ducker? - 16 years agoThanks for the responses. I'm definitely looking for an audio ducker, not automatic duck. I'm also an audio guy (and musician and composer). i used to side chain two Urei compressors, which worked like a charm. Boy, that manual approach really seems outdated. it's the way we did it 20+ years ago. I'd think FCP would have this, since it's more or less a standard thing. I guess my table'by bdplaid - Café LA Audio ducker? - 16 years agoHi, I've looked and looked but can't find an automatic audio ducker for FCP. Any suggestions? thanks,by bdplaid - Café LA ASAP! need FCP project file version info - 16 years agohi, is there a way to find out what version in which an fcp project file was created without using FCP? my problem is that I have a file that won't open in 5.1.4, but don't know the file version with which i'm working . thanks,by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Apple the new microsoft? - 16 years agoWith all due respect, Mike, I disagree that it's nothing. Journalistic ethics and such aside, note that the site's owner, Ciarelli , is a Business and Journalism major. As such, he knows the value of his site, and that simply "closing it down" is a huge loss of revenue, as it can be sold. Therefore, Apple paid him off. The real issue, though, has to do with appearance and expectatioby bdplaid - Café LA Apple the new microsoft? - 16 years agoI don't mean to stir things up, but after I saw this article i thought I'd make a mention of it here: Apple's forcing the closure of ThinkSecret. I wonder if MacRumors is next? I've been reading several articles that have been likening not only Leopard to Vista, but Apple to Microsoft. This article adds credence to that thought. Personally, i think anyone with a stable production maby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Got Leopard? Post your problems/joys/thoughts here - 16 years agoUnless someone can show me how Leopard will enrich my life, I'm skipping it. Too many problems being discussed here and online. Time will tell, but 10.4 is quite solid, just like Win XP. Leopard is bring compared to Windows Vista for very good reasons. IMO, Apple bit off more than it could chew - iPhone and Leopard both at once. Greed and Hubris are terrible things.by bdplaid - Café LA Helvetica and Leopard - 16 years agofrom MacWorld. Unbelievable. "Yes, if you want to pull Apple?s version of the font and replace it with your older Type 1 versions of Helvetica, you can?t?the OS won?t let you."by bdplaid - Café LA PC Mag: Leopard is the new Vista - 16 years agoInteresting: "Leopard is Vista. And Tiger is better than both of them!"by bdplaid - Café LA Re: FCP 4 and earlier not supported in Leopard - 16 years agoNo, It's not a shock . But having used FCP 3, 4, and 5.0.x, They are all viable products. If all you need is FCP 3 (which I liked a lot because of its simplicity), then you're orphaned by this move. The thing that troubles me is: what's up with FCP 5.0.x? That looks to be unsupported as well, since the document cites no support for anything prior to FCP 5.1.x. Again, lots of us still use 5.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: again with the SUBTITLES! - 16 years agoWell, I don't have an answer, but this got me thinking: Would it be possible for FCP to use the subtitle text as some form of metadata, that could travel with the project or media? Or maybe it would be done within Quicktime? Is this a feature request? Some models I'm thinking of here are lyrics that become part of an mp3 file (in the ID tag), that later can be used as (pardon me) karaoke.by bdplaid - Café LA "Verify" for media copied in Media Manager - 16 years agoI like the idea of MM, but it's failed me often - trashed media that i was trying to archive. I think I would have more confidence in it if MM would verify all files after a copy/move. Maybe this could be selectable, such as DVD copy/burn apps have. I don't care how long it takes - I want to have confidence in the media and files that I move. thxz,by bdplaid - Café LA Re: 8 bit versus 10 bit - 16 years agoInteresting, thanks. Another thought: I wonder if ingesting 8bit 4:2:2 footage into a 10-bit sequence or otherwise converting it to 10 bit, then playing with it in COLOR will improve things in the shadow area? I don't yet have FCS2 so i can't test, but I wonder if this will give the desired results? thanks,by bdplaid - Café LA Re: 8 bit versus 10 bit - 16 years agoRight, I know all that. What i'm wondering is - if the file becomes 10 bit after originating as 8-bit, will the 10-bit processing in post smooth things out more than keeping it 8 bit all the way through? Will it add gradations (from 256 to 1024 levels) making shadow-range pixellation less likely when going to MPEG DVD?by bdplaid - Café LA Re: 8 bit versus 10 bit - 16 years agoA tangential question: In the past, using dv (8-bit, SD) I've had trouble with pixellation in dark areas when going to dvd. Will going to 10-bit alleviate this problem? I recall trying it once and the output was identical, but didn't look into it after that. Just wondering if there's some way to stretch out the dark/shadow gamut in 8-bit-originated work. thanks, hdby bdplaid - Café LA Nevermind... Re: Wild Interlacing probs - 16 years agoIn stepping through the file trying to count the cadence, I discovered that the darned thing is 15 fps. I don't know how I missed that, but there it is. So all bets are off. thanks for the time, I'll try to have the first knucklehead output another file (wish me luck). thx,by bdplaid - Café LA Wild Interlacing probs - 16 years agoI have inherited a quicktime file that had deinterlacing artifacts all over the place, that any normal, man-made deinterlacer will not fix. On closer inspection (using nattress G Detect Cadence, thank you Graham), it seems that the interlacing cadence actually changes throughout each shot of the clip, not just within the clip itself. The work originated on film, was transferred to miniDV,by bdplaid - Café LA Re: TV ad fails HARDING test...please help. - 16 years agoPSE = Photosensitive Epilepsy, caused by flashes of red/blue and luminance, and certain bar patterns. Lots of interesting stuff about it - It may be that TV viewing accounts for the onset of most of it, and that up to 75% of individuals remain photosensitive for life. Suspected to affect 95000 people in the EU. The following article summarizes the the technical requirements in the UK for PSE:by bdplaid - Café LA |
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