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Re: FCP7- sub frame nudging of audio? - 9 years ago
Yes, sort of. You can slip sync of audio in sub frame increments which may suffice for your needs. It's been too long since I did this in FCP7 for me to tell you how from memory. There's this Or thisby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Import and organize for film workflow? - 9 years ago
I've been dealing with a TV arts doc shot on multiple cameras of all qualities and file formats. We evolved a way to organize the media for "watch and categorize once, find later". That's not what you need. I would suggest reading about " Focus" the feature that was cut on FCPX. There's a few articles floating around and I think a white paper for sale on Kindle. Dependby Andrew Kines - Café LA - X
Re: URGENT: Scary Message Re. Saving Project - 9 years ago
If you haven't done any consolidating, you probably don't have any hard links. I would suggest copying all important projects off of that drive as there may be an issue with the health of the drive. By the way, in FCP X consolidating means to gather all the media for one library into the folders that are chosen in the Library settings. It's a useful tool if you've had to bring in lots of mediaby Andrew Kines - Café LA - X
Re: URGENT: Scary Message Re. Saving Project - 9 years ago
If you've done any Consolidating from within FCPX, theres a very good chance you've run into one of the weird things that it does to make it's media management work. They're called hard links and they work at the OS level. Feel free to geek out here or here. For instance in the project I am working on right now, if I were to add up all the folders on the top level of the 12TB RAID I am workingby Andrew Kines - Café LA - X
Re: Does X work with RED footage natively or does it transcode? - 9 years ago
I think 10.2 was a big upgrade. Can't tell you whether all your upgrades are worth it or not. Do you need multicam? Are you finishing in the box or going to a Post House and delivering for broadcast or DCPs for projection? The steps are nothing. You can import and go. The steps I outlined are for being organized, prepared for multimodal finishing. If you want to import and edit, do that. Makby Andrew Kines - Café LA - X
Re: Does X work with RED footage natively or does it transcode? - 9 years ago
As far as I know, all RED files present to the NLE in the same manner, the only difference between Epic, Scarlet, and Dragon would be their size and the bandwidth required to play them. The ability to play them natively depends on your drive speed, bus speed and CPU/GPU capabilities. No there is no levels of proxy. Not within FCPX. The choices within FCPX are Native, Optimized and Proxy and, aby Andrew Kines - Café LA - X
Re: Does X work with RED footage natively or does it transcode? - 9 years ago
It can handle them natively. But you need fast drives and a CPU that can handle the processing. The proxy workflow in FCPX, once you get your head around how FCPX handles all forms of media, is easy to deal with. Put your RED files on the media drive you want to play them from, import using the "leave in place" option and see how well it handles the native media. If it's slow orby Andrew Kines - Café LA - X
Re: Anyway to save a corrupted project in FCP X? A slightly different issue - 9 years ago
If you've gone through the steps for a corrupted project as outlined above and you still have an issue with some clips, the 50/50 method is an old but sure way to narrow down your problematic clips. Export the first half, the export the second half. If only one of those works, take the half that didn't work and export it in two halves again. Keep cutting the sequence in two and exporting untilby Andrew Kines - Café LA - X
Re: Viewing in FCP 7 while typing in Word - 10 years ago
Word is actually the worse thing in many similar respects. Hypothetically, if you have a transcription and you're reading along, or maybe you've been given a paper edit and you've got your FCP and desktop windows arranged so you can see Word as you mark up and build to the edit in FCP, Word is the one program that won't let you hover over it and try to scroll the document while FCP plays. Turnby Andrew Kines - Café LA - X
Re: 6 channels in one track - 10 years ago
I agree that those terms are slippery, especially when you add civilian versions of the definitions into the MIX (yowza!) So to switch tracks for a minute, I mean, changing streams, no wait...uhm, moving on, yeah that's it, moving on... Are you looking for a Dolby ac3 track? Because that's 6 audio tracks in one file stream. Those can be made in Compressor. There's tutorials out there for deby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: URGENT, DEADLINE! Trying to output HD feature doc but getting "Out of Memory" error msg - 10 years ago
I still don't know what codec you are exporting to. I hope what you've chosen is something your client can play, and isn't only working on your system because you have FCP or some other package installed. Batch monitor is just that, a monitor. Just like how quitting Compressor has no effect on the jobs already submitted, Batch Monitor can show you the tasks in the render queue, and you can stoby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: URGENT, DEADLINE! Trying to output HD feature doc but getting "Out of Memory" error msg - 10 years ago
What kind of setting are you using in Compressor? Some flavour of H.264 would be your best bet. For something that size I would do a one-pass render and dial the bitrate down, WAY down. You're also in the territory that someone expecting 77 minutes at 1.5GB has to know that quality is going to suck. Therefore some alternatives might be worth proposing. Delivery in parts, upload to Vimeo Plusby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: URGENT, DEADLINE! Trying to output HD feature doc but getting "Out of Memory" error msg - 10 years ago
FCP Classic can, like all 32bit applications, adress 4.5 GB of RAM. But that's not really what you're running into or something you can fix with more RAM or system tweaks. A bunch of things to look out for: Do you have stills or graphics that are larger than 4000 pixels on any side? If so, reduce them in Photoshop or preview and reimport/replace. Are all your imported graphics RGB docuby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Canon C300 workflow for FCP 7.0 ? URGENT! - 10 years ago
I can't counsel you on anything to do with a non-purchased license. Can't remember what a clean 7.0 was like other than the first patch didn't take long to come from Apple way back in the day. If someone transcodes your footage for you, you should only encounter the problems one usually encounters with any footage. Did they slate well on the day? Was the audio op asleep at the boom? Why didn'tby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Canon C300 workflow for FCP 7.0 ? URGENT! - 10 years ago
If they have dragged and dropped the footage, AS FAR AS I CAN TELL (<---- that's a caveat regarding my lack of deep longterm experience with this camera), you can't use the Canon utility. I tried many tricks to get it to see the footage but couldn't trick it into seeing a folder as a card. If you try to point FCP's Log and Transfer at the clip folders it should see the MXFs where the videoby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Canon C300 workflow for FCP 7.0 ? URGENT! - 10 years ago
The Canon utility is only useful dealing with actual cards or the folders it makes itself as part of the backup or virtual cards process. If your clients have done a drag and drop of the card contents or used some other method it may not be of use to you. I should say that I tried many ways to get the utility to see the finder copied folder but it only saw cards, back up folders and virtual cardby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Canon C300 workflow for FCP 7.0 ? URGENT! - 10 years ago
There is a workflow for FCP and C300. One thing you can't do is just a simple finder copy of the card contents on to a hard drive and import later. I dealt with this and somehow the subfolders that contain each clip are missing the THM files. How, and why, canon would choose to make a simple finder copy not be comprehensive is beyond me. Use the Canon utility to back up the cards onto your arcby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Conversion - 10 years ago
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/contentbrowser/fileformats This is a nice list of gotchas and notquiteenoughs to make that $20 seem like a little misleading. If you want to convert to another frame size, or convert anything for that matter, pay more... Quote*1 Rovi plug-in "Conversion Pack for Content Browser" is required, only when parameters (resolution, bit rate, frame rateby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Overlapping clips and EDL export - 10 years ago
Flatten your timeline to one layer. As you suspect, they are most likely using it to add edits to the Nuke timeline which, depending on the length of the program, can really speed up their work and eliminate missed elements. Depending on how many clips without TC and reel number you have, it shouldn't make too much of a difference whether they're included in the EDL. What the people on the othby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Make sound louder in Final Cut X - 10 years ago
There's one already in there, read this...by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X
Re: Make sound louder in Final Cut X - 10 years ago
A "Gain" plugin might do the trick. Your noise floor will also rise so you will have to do some EQ to compensate so that cutting between the two speakers is not so noticeable a difference in quality.by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X
Re: Problems capturing analog footage - 10 years ago
It's very possible, given the age of the technology involved that either deck is toast. The fact that you can see good picture in the viewfinder means that the Hi8 heads are probably OK but everything after that in the chain is suspect (jacks, cables, etc). Swap all cables and try again till you find what is malfunctioning. My suggestion would be to get ahold of a Digital8 camera or deck. Itby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: removing bad FCP "pulldown" - 10 years ago
Yeah by "bad" I meant not nice to look at and not good for broadcast. I know all the steps that led to me having this file were made intentionally but now I am left with undoing them. Thanks dcouzin I'll give your method a shot.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
removing bad FCP "pulldown" - 10 years ago
Anyone know what frame pulldown pattern FCP7 inserts into 23.976 footage dropped into 29.97 sequence? It might have been added when a 23.976 sequence was exported or rendered using a hard 29.97 export setting. It appears to be AABCDAABCD but I am not sure if it's consistent. Next, anyone ever successfully removed this pulldown? (other than by editing out the frames by hand of course)by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Final Cut 7 on new Mac Pro -- can't read C300 files - 10 years ago
With large HD mounted, insert DVD. Open disk utility Create new image from disk repeat for all disks in set When it comes time to install, mount HD. Open/Mount all images in set. Begin install from first disk image. Make tea, monitor progress.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Final Cut 7 on new Mac Pro -- can't read C300 files - 10 years ago
Yeah, once I figured out how to turn a surplus SATA drive into a repository for all the installer disk images I needed for a rebuild/full install, I started saving so much time. It really added up, the time one spent swapping out DVDs. (FCP, Logic, Adobe, Native Instruments, plug-ins etc.) This is a trick that will vanish in the sandstorms of time though...by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Editors have you ever received this request? - 10 years ago
It was still useful even in the tape playback days. In broadcast environments, you would cue up a reel to reel deck and wind back, sometimes by hand, to the cue pop. For most situations the "roll tape" command from the control room was enough time for the tape deck to get up to speed and the element to start on picture and allow for a switcher to cross or cut to the tape.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Syncing XDCAM rushes in FCP - 10 years ago
I ran into a similar situation on a documentary project. Now this is going back almost 7 years and, as Derek mentioned, timecode is much less prevalent than it used to be. Can't remember the exact conditions of this clustercuss but it came down to having enough information in the first editor's video-only cut to export an EDL ( all the audio tracks had been discarded for a mix that needed to beby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Updating ProApps QuickTime codecs 1.0.4 - 11 years ago
The following is anecdotal evidence so take from it what you will. The previous update (1.0.3) broke playback on 10.6 on a system I administer. There were some fixes out there on the web that entailed replacing codecs but it is trial and error to get it working. The best solution, if you must run the update is to back up the system drive completely (Carbon Copy Cloner, Time Machine etc.) run tby Andrew Kines - Café LA
