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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 Render Alert - 16 years agoSince we cannot render in the bg, how about an option to turn on an audible alert that lets us know when our render is complete.by Evan - FCP Feature Requests Getting HD Ftg in/out of My G5 Dual 2.5 (non-intel version) - 15 years agoOkay, my gear is officially outdated. I have a G5 dual 2.5 (pre-intel version), FC Studio 2, Kona 2, Firewire 800 drives. I have a client with HD Cam ftg who needs HD Cam delivery. 2 Hr interview cut down to 30 min. 1st question. If I can ingest to pro res 422, is this good enough for output back to HD Cam? 2nd question. Can I use an IO HD box to ingest and output on my computer? Thanksby Evan - Café LA Need help/advice recreating an effect please - 15 years agoI am creating an effect where my subject appears to grow within the image, highlighting him from the rest of the people in the image. I've done this many times on an avid doubling my layers and using a magic mask, what is the best way to do this in FCP? I've been trying this same technique but I can't seem to find a masking tool with beziers so that I can create a clean image. Do I need a 3rd pby Evan - Café LA Re: Got Leopard? Post your problems/joys/thoughts here - 16 years agoThis was not an archive and install. I started from scratch using my original DVDs.by Evan - Café LA Re: Got Leopard? Post your problems/joys/thoughts here - 16 years agoMichael Horton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you did an archive and install it wont work. > You have to re-install from original disks. > > Was This the answer to my previous post or someone elses?by Evan - Café LA Re: Got Leopard? Post your problems/joys/thoughts here - 16 years agoG5 Dual 2.5, Kona 2, 5.5 Gb Ram, Final Cut Studio 2. Backed up using Carbon Copy Cloner, reformatted, clean install. (OS, then FCS from discs) Test 1, everything works fine except Compressor. Program boots but when I export to compressor, nothing shows up, the program won't allow me to manually drag and drop any movie into it. Lots of grayed out menus Reinstalled FCS, Compressor Still Doesnby Evan - Café LA Re: Pleasantville Effect in FCP 6 - 16 years agoDoh, never mind. I figured it out not 10 seconds after I posted. Dohby Evan - Café LA Pleasantville Effect in FCP 6 - 16 years agoI recreated the Pleasantville effect from the LAFCPUG tutorial back when I was on FCP 4 with great results. I have a need for it again and not the time to delve into Color. Is it still possible to do this effect in FCP6 with the color corrector? I ask because I no longer see the limit effect area graphics while in visual mode. and when I select a color with the eyedropper and pull the saturatby Evan - Café LA Where have all of my plug-ins gone? - 16 years agoOK, so I upgraded to FC Studio 2 in the middle of a project only because I'm always in the middle of a project. I have used some fx at this point and of course when I cut into the middle of an effected shot, it unrenders and FCP doesn't know the path to the effect (and neither do I anymore). They used to be in Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro/Plug-ins. Where has FC Studio 2 moved themby Evan - Café LA Re: What is the shooting ratio in Hollywood films? - 16 years agoMovies can range anywhere from a 10:1 shooting ration (lean) to 1000:1. When I was assisting on a Disney feature, a movie down the hall from us shot 100,000:1. Most of it was backplates but still over 1,000,000 feet of film.by Evan - Café LA Re: Compressor problem - 16 years agoI had the same problem. I had to do a "clean" install of FC Studio to fix the problem.by Evan - Café LA Re: Help with workflow for super 16/hd finish project - 16 years agoThanks Guys, I am and I will. Cheersby Evan - Café LA Re: Help with workflow for super 16/hd finish project - 16 years agoThe Project will be finished in HD Cam.by Evan - Café LA Help with workflow for super 16/hd finish project - 16 years agoIn about a month I will be starting a project that will be shot Super 16 and finished HD Cam (not SR). I will have DV Cam offline tapes but not sure yet if I will be gettting flex files from the telecine house. What would my workflow consist of to get me from my 29.97 dailies to a 24fps edl for online, also assuming that I will be pulling negative cut lists for archival purposes. I realiizby Evan - Café LA Re: 3:2 problems. Between the Devil and the deep 0,0,255 sea. - 16 years agoIf you can figure a way to start your capture on an A frame and if you are performing any edits in this sequence to be able to do it on an A fram, you should be able to do it. As far as capturing your 3:2 sequence, do it 4 times on 4 consecutive frames. One of them will work for you.by Evan - Café LA Re: Super 16mm Telecine - 16 years agoI agree with you there. I have a ws monitor though so that won't be a problem. I also just looked it up and it seems that 1.66 works out to be 15:9. Since I am also onlining the final, I'm hoping 8 bit uncompressed is good enough or I'll have to rent a scsi array, and a 2 pass telecine is out of the $$ question. Do you think we should just letterbox the digi betas as well?by Evan - Café LA Re: Super 16mm Telecine - 16 years agoThanks Shane. And I am assuming but I would think that the anamorphic (squeezed) image would be best?by Evan - Café LA Re: Super 16mm Telecine - 16 years agoHence my original question. My producers do not want any kind of burn-in on our master dailies. They would prefer to online from a completely clean source.by Evan - Café LA Re: Super 16mm Telecine - 16 years agoIt's not my project, I am the editor, yes but they require multiple formats for the festival circuit. I believe their plan is to online and submit, then depending upon funds available and interest, cut negative or cut negative at a later date for archival purposes.by Evan - Café LA Super 16mm Telecine - 16 years agoI am embarking a new project that will be shot on super 16mm. Our plan is to do a simul transfer to Digi Beta (clean) and DV Cam with burn ins. I am going to offline the project from the DV Cam tapes, spit out my neg cut lists and chase cassettes or DVDs and then online the digibetas. Is there any kind of problem I may expect in this work flow? Should we telecine everything letterboxed or 1by Evan - Café LA Kona 2 or 3 card and FCP 6.0.1 Testing a theory - 16 years agoIF anyone out there has a Kona 2 or 3 and is running FCP 6 and also happens to have a firewire deck set up, I am wondering if you can help me test a theory (short of tearing my machine apart to test it). Can you perform and "edit to tape" and in the process, check the audio track pulldown menu in the "edit to tape" tool. Are your tracks greyed out? Are you able to send audiby Evan - Café LA Re: FCP 6.0.1 No Audio During Edit to Tape - 16 years agoI'd say. I'm sure there will be a fix soon enough.by Evan - Café LA Re: FCP6 Audio Problem - 16 years agoFrancisco, I experienced a similar problem a while back although I was cutting 8bit uncompressed in FCP 5.xxx. Here's what I figured out. My internal drive needed to have plenty of free space 10 Gb or more. My media drives (G-Raid 2 500 Gb FW 800x4 not chained) each needed to be no more than 2/3 full. Whenever I exceeded this, I experienced constant dropped frames, audio sync slippage whilby Evan - Café LA Re: FCP 6.0.1 No Audio During Edit to Tape - 16 years agoOK, bringing us back on topic, I've checked all of my settings and everything is set to stereo outputs/monitor stereo, etc. For some reason, people think I'm insert editing in the "Edit to Tape" tool. I'm not, I am assemble editing. Regardless of how I'm going out, I am not able to send out or choose to send out audio tracks through this tool. Apple tech support has recreated this pby Evan - Café LA FCP 6.0.1 No Audio During Edit to Tape - 16 years agoI am cutting in a DV NTSC project created in FCP 6 and when I try to either print to video or edit to tape (my preference) I am not getting any audio output. In my "Edit to Tape" tool, all of my audio tracks are greyed out. My settings and device controls across the board are DV firewire NTSC 48Khz. I am able to play audio and video through my DSR 25. Any ideas?by Evan - Café LA Upgrading to HD client monitor - 16 years agoI've been cutting more and more HDV (I capture it through my Kona 2 card as DVC Pro HD). But the way things are looking, what with the new compression ratios available in FCP Studio 2 I'm sure I'll end up on a project that is 1080P before long. Is it necessary for my client monitor to support 1080P (also for color correction purposes) or would a good quality 720P monitor suffice? LCD or Plasmaby Evan - Café LA F9 Insert/View All Windows Key - 17 years agoPerhaps I am setting something up incorrectly, but for a few years now I have found that every time I restart or startup my computer in the morning, I have to go into the system prefs/keyboard menu and either turn off F9 (view windows) in order for my F9 key to be able to perform it's FCP insert function. The last thing I tried was changing the "view all windows" to "shift+F9"by Evan - Café LA Re: Sound Ideas SFX library in SoundtrackPro - 18 years agoAlong with the searchable database that you can get from Sound Ideas, many of the sound ideas libraries have been logged and their databases uploaded through iTunes. I have found that most of the Sound Ideas CDs I have put into my computer query this database and all of the appropriate info shows up in the track names.by Evan - Soundtrack Pro Re: Sound Ideas SFX library in SoundtrackPro - 18 years agoThere is a searchable database (runs on Filemaker Runtime) It's called "Supersearch" and it contains most of the Sound Ideas libraries. I think it's available from Sound Ideas. Post Edited (08-24-05 19:12)by Evan - Soundtrack Pro FCP 5 Multi-clips made from Merged clips Crashes FCP5 - 18 years agoI've noticed that when I synch my dailies by merging clips and then create multi-clips using these merged clips, FCP 5 crashes. I then need to delete these multiclips before I can even edit anything or I just keep crashing.by Evan - The Bug Report |
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