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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 Re: Extracting a bunch of audio tracks - 10 years agoOh, and ..."Still - why PT M-powered would be excluded from reading OMF files is beyond me." That was to sell DigiTranslator. randyby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: Extracting a bunch of audio tracks - 10 years agoI wasn't suggesting that you edit in ST or Audition, just import and export through them. PPro, for example, can be flaky exporting OMFs sometimes (hangs) but you can often get an OMF out via "Edit/Edit In Audition" and then successfully export an OMF from Audition without ever editing in it. As for needing stereo interleaved files to audio edit, I'm confused (all too common, alas...by rrotheisler - Café LA Re: Extracting a bunch of audio tracks - 10 years agoDunno Logic, but ProTools usually gives you a choice when importing OMFs of converting all your stereo tracks to 2 track mono. Is there a step or setting or setting in Logic you can invoke to try that? Both Soundtrack and Audition will also import OMFs. (Dunno about stereo conversion...) Can you use one or the other as a intermediary workaround? And, worst case, given that your first OMF exby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: Best Transcription software - 10 years agoJoe Brown Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Find a court reporter. We email an audio file and > get a text file back. Not expensive either. I > have a friend who uses this approach for CC. > > JB I second that. Normal estimate I've gotten is 4 hrs@ $25/hr to do 1 hour of audio. Mine takes somewhat less, and is so pleased to get crystal clby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: Camera and Editing System Compatibility - 11 years agoAt the risk of diverging from a slight um...sidetrack (albeit a very informative one!) and returning to the mainline of the thread, one of the advantages to the OP of doing a wholescale system upgrade to tapeless HD might be that because you're an in-house shop doing ongoing work, your footage library may be an invaluable resource. The longer you keep doing anything in DV, the more obsolete footaby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: OT-Old Day Editing Systems - 12 years agoAwhile back, I was given a 35mm upright Moviola, gang sync, squawk box, and hot splicer. I keep them in my editing room as decorations ( it's big, and I like clutter.) Mercifully, I missed ever having to actually use a Moviola- the thing looks like a real finger-eater. I did use the gang sync and hot splicer, though- having neg cut a film once. A film. Once. randyby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: OT-Old Day Editing Systems - 12 years ago"no one has mentioned the Sony video Rover system I used in high school.... model AV3400 with separate portable deck and black and white camera..." I started there, too, but have mostly managed to block it from my memory. Those were nasty, nasty things to try and edit with...redoing each edit 3-4 times to try and get a glitch-free edit was not conducive to inspiration. Steenbecks andby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: OT: Despite new CPU options, Apple reportedly questioning future of Mac Pro - 12 years agoIt kinda reminds me of a '58 Caddy, with all the fins and things... randy " Check out this badboy PC, with the i7 990"by rrotheisler - Café LA Re: Display Calibration for FCP and other uses - What's Your Approach? - 12 years agoDo be aware that there isn?t any ?one size fits all? when it comes to calibration. In calibrating for photography, what you?re trying to get is an accurate representation of what your printer?s gonna spit out. This will mean turning your brightness way down- to 120 cd/m2 or often even less. This will give you a very dull screen for everyday use- and nothing like the screen setup most viewers willby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: Fixing Jump cuts - 12 years agoI agree with Derek. Documentaries are about trust and honesty and a jump cut, for all it's faults, says: 'Yes, there's missing material here.' So long as it's been established early in the show that that's the style, it's acceptable (not preferable, but acceptable.) An alternate: 2-3 frames of black. Kinda like a blink. Just long enough to say: there's missing material here; not long enough tby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: OT: Forum for EpsonStylus Pro 7600? - 13 years agoIt's not Epson-specific, but pretty good.by rrotheisler - Café LA Re: iMovie Pro... WHY? - 13 years agoI wasn?t trying to hijack the thread and say: ?bring on touch screens?- rather, just making the point that UI isn?t just software- it?s the whole interface. If Apple is redesigning FCP in a major way they should look at that whole UI. They should build for the future, not the past. And Apple?s new devices have cast a huge new light on just how different computer interfaces can be. (I had my 87 yeby rrotheisler - Café LA - X Re: iMovie Pro... WHY? - 13 years agoThe most interesting change wouldn?t be just a software change- it would be the kind of software/human interface change exemplified in all of Apples other new devices- iPods, iPads, etc. Turf the keyboard- it?s an antiquated relic. Design a software/hardware combination that really pushes trackpad or touchscreen technology and really works. Possible? Dunno. But the whole keyboard/mouse thingby rrotheisler - Café LA - X Re: Soundtrack Pro vs. Pro Tools - 13 years agoAs above, ProTools is great. MBox system is ProTools LE (light) only, but works fine. FCP will spit out OMFs. Digitranslator used to be required to translate the OMFs to a ProTools session file, though. It's in the $8-$1200 range. (Does a buncha other timecode-related stuff, too.) There used to be a small, free, utility called OMF Tool. It did the translation from OMF to a ProTools sessiby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: File-Based Workflows and Clip/Bin Management - need some tips - 13 years agoWhen I'm shooting file-based formats, I've found it's a fairly common to be asked by the producer to turn the camera off and on during the questions. ( A quick blip, obviously) It's a bit of a PITA, especially if you're trying to re-frame at the same time, but even every second or third question is usually acceptable. Obviously no help with footage that's been shot, but a good conversation toby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: DB Differences from Music to Voice?? + - 13 years agoThe other thing that sometimes helps to cross check your mix levels is to go stand over by the door and listen to the show- without turning it up. You want to be far enough away to still be able to hear your main tracks legibly, but only just. If the background audio is too loud in spots, and interferes with your main voicetrack, you'll hear it right away. Ditto for areas where you could bump theby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: OT: Which one of you paid for your H.264? - 13 years agoThat's not news. Any of us who use FCP have already explicitly agreed to knowing about those provisions. Vide the FCP license agreement, articles 12 & 13: It applies to MPEG-2 as well. randy ------------------------ "I've suffered for my art. Now it's your turn."by rrotheisler - Café LA Pls restore Text Wrapping in Browser Columns - 17 years agoPlease restore the text wrapping in browser columns feature. (This was present in FCP 1, 2 & 3, but disappeared in the transition to OSX.) Even just being able to do this in the 'log notes' column would be immensely helpful for interviews or narration. randyby rrotheisler - FCP Feature Requests Re: Audio hookups w/FCP setup - 14 years agoThe problem isn?t ProTools, and it?s not that you need ProTools to make youe Mac ?see? your M-Box2. It?s Core Audio. This is the software that links the Macs OS and any software it may be running, to your peripherals, in this case, your M-Box2. Digi is notoriously slow with qualifying their stuff to run on whatever latest, greatest OS Mac has come up with. ( And things seem to have even sloweby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: Slo-Mo Lip Sync - 14 years agoDunno the post stuff, but the way i've seen this done, the music was playing veeerrryyy slowly, and the camera was burning through film. The singer had practiced enough he could sing (well, move his lips...) that slowly and still look (kinda sorta) in synch I think the FPS were 75fps, which would've meant the music was slowed down by a factor of 3 during playback during shooting. IE: If yoby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: OT:: CPU Monitor Color Adjustment Software - 14 years agoDo be aware all the usual provisos apply (IE money counts) Colour calibrating a cheap LCD will be roughly like like setting up bars and tone on a cheap TV- it'll be as good as it gets, but.... randyby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: OT:: CPU Monitor Color Adjustment Software - 14 years ago"The most wonderful thing about standards is there are so many to choose from..." Mackie mixer manual. There is no ?factory standard? that all new monitors are carefully calibrated to. Even if there were it would've been useless all through the era of CRTs because the phosphors in them change colour on a gradual but continual basis. IE- a ?factory calibrated? CRT will not diplay thby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: Ideal specs for making a pencil animation for projection? - 15 years agoIn addition to all the good advice offered above, I'd add one suggestion: do a 10 frame test of your workflow right from one end to the other. Scan 10 of your drawings, collate them, rename them, import them into FCP, edit them, spit them back out in whatever format you choose, etc. This'll show up the 'Gotchas' pretty quick, and save you the anguish of finding you've made a small mistake early iby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: DV titles - 15 years agoRendering and exporting your final sequence in 10 bit uncompressed 4:2:2 can really help flickering and detail on some titles. Passing through 4:2:2 bridges the gap between DV (4:1:1) and DVD (4:2:0) Obviously no good if you're going back to DV but works for DVD. randyby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: Has anyone heard of Spyder3 monitor calubration? - 15 years ago" Like I said above, it is for PRINT and print is an entirely different colorspace." and earlier: ----------------- "There are just way too many variable that the Spyder3 has no control over to calibrate for video output. Remember NTSC is short for Never The Same Color (twice). The instructions for calibrating a CRT provided here are as good as it gets. For LCD and Plasmaby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: Has anyone heard of Spyder3 monitor calubration? - 15 years agoI'm suprised. Not having used that specific calibrator, I can't quibble with your results, but my suspicion is that your dissatisfaction may be coming partly from a twist in there somewhere...(the Decklink card?) Have you tried hooking the thing up through a different configuration? Your VGA connection, for example? Dunno. My experience with a different but similar system ( EyeOne) is thatby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: Wireless Mics .. A Survey - 15 years agoAfter a number of years of using a cheaper set-up, I stepped up to a Lectro UM100 system a few years ago. Big difference in everything, but especially sound quality (no companding noise) They're great. I haven't used them myself ( I know, I know...), but I've shot with sound guys who were using the Lectro 195 system (now discontinued) Dunno about quality, but we were getting useful sound at dby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: Has anyone heard of Spyder3 monitor calibration? - 15 years agoI haven?t used Syder3 but I?ve used Eye-One Match to calibrate my Dell. Similar product. Same idea- these are hardware/software units. The hardware takes actual emitted colour readings off your screen, adjusts the monitor?s colour output via your video card through software, then takes more readings, etc, until the actual colours your monitor is emitting are dead on ( it?s a little more complby rrotheisler - Café LA Re: DVD AUDIO - 15 years ago"The ac3 is gonna be a larger file size to fit on dvd but larger normally means better quality." Mmm. I don't think so, actually- the ac3 file is gonna be much smaller than the AIFF, but roughly equal in quality (more efficient compression.) This leaves you more bandwidth for your video = slightly higher quality there. That's the point of the ac3, AFAIK. randyby rrotheisler - Café LA |
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