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Re: QMaster System Preference pane is empty - 14 years ago
no they don't.by ReidCAULFIELD - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
QMaster System Preference pane is empty - 14 years ago
I decided today to set up a cluster on my late 2007 2.4GHz MBP Core2Duo. I started going through the steps and got stopped cold when I discovered that the QMaster pane in System Preferences shows up completely empty. No controls in it at all. Has anyone else seen this, and if so, how do I fix it? Thanks so much. Reidby ReidCAULFIELD - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Finding clips without filters in the timeline - 14 years ago
Is there a way in the latest version of FCP to determine which (if any) clips in a timeline do or do not have filters (including color correction) attached to them? Reid Cby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: it's time for 1080p50 and 1080p60 - 14 years ago
I was in Montreal 2 months ago shooting 3 different projects. For several of the days, I was on all 3 projects on the same day. I had an HVX200 with me. I shot 60i for one project, 30P for another and 24pN for the third. Different final objectives dictated different rates. I love the look of 24p, but unlike Shane I find that I do covet hyper-realism as well. Different tools is all.by ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Help with finding free soundtrack music for (very) quick and dirty edit - 14 years ago
lots of people out there who allow their music to be used for free as long as they get a credit. Some of it's good, too, though usually it's pretty generic.by ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: OT: Who's using Blu-ray for archiving? - 14 years ago
Many years ago (mid '90's) I was involved in high end audio restoration for a company in Burbank. The issue for us was that, with 2 audio-only restoration rooms going 16-24 hours a day, and through-putting dozens of feature length projects every month, local single mechanism tape based solutions, one attached to each system, weren't cutting it. Added to this was the reality that the most effectiby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: distorted topped-out audio crunches - 14 years ago
Hey Steve! Great to hear from you after all these years. My restoration rig is an AudioCube (German software) and the module is DeClipper. Works miracles but again doesn't do anything for the intermod. There are other packages, as noted, that get close but I haven't found anything that does as well as DeClipper. The basic routine within the module is 2 steps: Lower the level of the clip to x dB bby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: distorted topped-out audio crunches - 14 years ago
clipped waveforms can indeed be rebuilt under many circumstances. Several software packages can do it, of which I own one such. What won't get fixed is the intermodulation distortion that goes along with it. Reid Cby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Install 2X FCP on a single machine? - 14 years ago
Years ago before I came to FCP I got my feet wet using Sony's Vegas app for a PC running Windows 2000 Pro on a Dual 2.0GHz Xeon system. Back then - 2003-2005 or so - one of Vegas' claims to fame was the ability to open up multiple instances of the app so that one could work on multiple projects at the same time, and I used to do it. Running projects off the same drive or multiple drives, I'dby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: OT: Production Stages and Time Clock - 14 years ago
ditto FM Pro here, ditto not for sale, LOL. It helps that I do my own DBs, keeps development costs down. Building a new one for video production, the original was for my sound facility.by ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Again with the 60i/30p debate: but with a TWIST! - 14 years ago
I've been reading around the boards a lot re 30p looking not so great when broadcast. Also, we know that we're going to have to deliver 1080i60. I have to do an inventory of candidate footage but probably close to 50/50.by ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Again with the 60i/30p debate: but with a TWIST! - 14 years ago
forgot to mention: the material I have to work with is 720p30 and 1080 60i. Reidby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Again with the 60i/30p debate: but with a TWIST! - 14 years ago
no twist really. So I have footage that's been gathered over the last year & a half, most not by me. - some 30p, some 60i, might even be some 24p in there. All of the material I've been outputting for this project was destined for web & DVD, so it all worked out. 2 weeks ago got word that I need to pull together a new :30 piece from all this material for broadcast for a broadcaster whoseby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Installing FCP from Disc Images - 14 years ago
My mistake. All DMG files must be mounted on the desktop. Good to know re verifying.by ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Installing FCP from Disc Images - 14 years ago
Thanks so much Ben (and all) for the input. I can confirm that with FCP v7, one can NOT open the DMG files as the discs are requested, by the installer, all DMG files must be unzipped & sitting on the desktop. It was a long lunch for me with the laptop, uncompressing the files (before the install) took the longest. Thanks again! Reidby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Installing FCP from Disc Images - 14 years ago
Hi All. I'm taking the advice I've read from many here & elsewhere to create disc images of the FCP (v7_ discs & install from those. However, when I do this and put the images all in the same folder, then initiate the "Final Cut Studio Install" image, when it's done, it asks for the next physical disc ("Audio Content 1". There doesn't seem to be any way to point to theby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Clean reinstall methodology for a laptop - 14 years ago
Actually, Jon, when all is said & done, it will take longer doing it my way. Saving time on the install isn't so much the point. It's keeping this critical laptop up & running as long as possible and not taking it completely dow. For better or worse, it's really my primary system at the moment. I think I'm going to give it a shot (installing to external, cloning to system), unless anyoneby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Clean reinstall methodology for a laptop - 14 years ago
I need to completely reinstall Snow Leopard & (newly install) FCP 7, along with many other apps to my MBP 2.4GHz system. This will take some time. Well, a lot of time when everything is taken into consideration. Instead of cloning the existing Laptop system drive (already done) then installing Snow Leopard and applications to the MBP's internal system drive over the course of days and losingby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Snow Leopard revisited - 14 years ago
Not too long ago I remember Shane saying that there was no reason to upgrade to SL on a workstation that was primarily used for FCP (6/7). Has this changed at all. I have a ground-up reinstall I need to do starting this weekend and I'm not sure whether I should reinstall Leopard or upgrade to Snow Leopard. Any thoughts?by ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Multicam Scale & Rotation don'[t hold - 14 years ago
I'm on the latest version of FCP 6.x (about to move to FCP 7) and I've just come across something that I've never had to do before. I have 2 camera angles that I'm multicam'ing, and the shots need to be tidied up a bit, i.e. minimal scaling (zoom to 104%) and rotation (to about 1.25) on both angles. In the viewer, which displays both angles, I can click on one angle, set it's parameters in the Moby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Editor credits - 14 years ago
Back in the mid 1980's when I was in Canada starting my career as a sound editor & re-recording mixer, I worked under a NABET contract at a large broadcaster/cable operator/post facility. All audio guys - including me - were labeled "Operators." Most of the video editors in the building were called "Operators" as well. The only "Editors" in the place were theby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: getting FCP XML to "talk" to other App's - 14 years ago
Here's your competition. This is the current state of the art in audio project format conversion Interestingly, it was originally developed by an Australian company years ago, then bought by Solid State Logic almost immediately after Peter Gabriel took over SSL. I see that Pro-convert is now available in a Mac version. I've only used the PC version and it kicks ass. Converts anythingby ReidCAULFIELD - News and Announcements
Re: Re-install advice? - 14 years ago
what's the word on FCP v7 on Leopard? ANy issues?by ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: OT: Blu-ray on Macs soon? Don't hold your breath. - 14 years ago
Apple won't implement BR in their hardware because they believe physical delivery is outmoded and would certainly hurt their content distribution model. As far as using BR for data storage is concerned, there are other technologies on the horizon that promise more, since these things move forward without regard to current technologies. Remember, BR is what? 5 years old at this point, at least froby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re-install advice? - 14 years ago
It has become clear to me in the last few days that the time has come for a re-install of FCP & MAcOS on my MBP. I've been waiting until I'm clear of projects, and that time is this week. I have several choices and I'm looking for the sage wisdom of others on this board. Right now I'm running FCP 6.0.6 on MacOS 10.5.8 (Leopard). The MBP is a late 2007 2.4GHz Core2Duo. My options are these:by ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Can't create sequence - 14 years ago
this is my thought as well. When sending to STP, isn't a new FCP Sequence created? IF FCP can't create a new Sequence at all, then it makes sense the process would abort. WIll take this opportunity to install FCP 7 this week. Thanks again Derek.by ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Can't create sequence - 14 years ago
All of this came about because when I try to export from FCP to an STP Multitrack project for detailed audio work, I keep getting the message "Error sending selection to Soundtrack Pro." Hunting around the Internets, I came across one suggestion that the FCP Sequence I'm working in might be corrupt, and that creating a new Sequence and copy/pasting all original Sequence clips into thatby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Can't create sequence - 14 years ago
even more bizarreness: If I close all open Projects and then create a new one, which opens with a new Sequence inside it, this new project disappears (closes) when I open any other of my Projects.by ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Can't create sequence - 14 years ago
more information: - I can't create new Sequences in existing Projects; - If I create a new Project while other sequences are open, the new Project opens without a Sequence in it, and I cannot create a new Sequence within that new Project; - If I close all open Projects and then create a new Project, that Project opens with a Sequence in it.by ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
Re: Can't create sequence - 14 years ago
thanks so much for helping out Derek. When I create a new project there's no sequence within it. When I attempt to creat a new sequence, nothing happens. I should mention here that for about a week now I've been getting "General Error (34) whenever I open a project or sequence - though they open fine and I can work on them all day long - and when I render out from the timeline. Again, I getby ReidCAULFIELD - Café LA
