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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: Getting frame jump cutting back from still to video underneath. Any help much appreciated. - 10 years agoYes go pro res. Also sometimes that little jump happens during playback but it might not be there when you export. Try to export the section where it jumps and view it in quicktime.by mattsilfen - Café LA Re: Moviola or Video Symphony - SCAL - 10 years agoI strongly agree with Derek. I think there's a huge difference when it comes to learning a new piece of software from scratch and learning a new tip or trick. Example: I thought I'd make an easy switch from FCP to Avid by learning Avid through Lynda.com. After going through both the Avid tutorials and the "learning Avid for FCP editors" I figured I was beyond prepared for my firstby mattsilfen - Café LA Re: SCRATCH DISKS LOST - 11 years agomedellinemil , I think before you spend your money you should really listen to Derek first. When you "moved your scratch disks" what exactly did you do?by mattsilfen - Café LA Re: Best FCP to AVID Tutorial yet - 11 years agoIan, to your point about using Avid "The slow way but familiar": I recently finished my first Avid show. It was a reality show with tons of effects (nearly every broll shot had some sort of a timewarp). Coming into this show, I was made aware that the show had seen some very experienced Avid editors not able to handle the intensity of cutting such a fast paced show. Mind you,by mattsilfen - Avid Media Composer Re: Sony HDV and Snow Leopard...HELP! - 11 years agoYea, tried that. I plugged in a hard drive into the part and it works fine. Funny thing though is, if I daisy chain that camera/deck into that hard drive and boot up the mac, the mac won't mount the drive.....by mattsilfen - Café LA Re: Sony HDV and Snow Leopard...HELP! - 11 years agoYep...did all that. I've done this hundreds of times, but years ago and I'm positive my FCP settings and camera/deck settings are set up to be able to capture HDV. When I have the camera or deck plugged in, I check the firewire in the admin and it says "Warning: Unable to list fireWire devices".by mattsilfen - Café LA Sony HDV and Snow Leopard...HELP! - 11 years agoRunning Snow Leopard on a 2.66 GHz Macbook Pro with 8 GB RAM. I was unfortunately given a tape based Sony HDV camera to shoot on a current gig (Sony HVR-Z5U) and I cannot capture in Final Cut 6 or 7. I've done some research and I see that it's a Snow Leopard issue. Snow Leopard is simply not seeing the firewire for both my Sony Deck (HVR-M15U) and camera (HVR-Z5U). I'm trying to see ifby mattsilfen - Café LA Re: What to do.... - 12 years agoDerek, Thanks! Yea, I did charge him for the initial reel. However, I didn't charge him for his next update but did for the 2nd one. I totally agree to your point about his "buddy" doing something so basic, and believe me, they are VERY basic, any professional editor should easily be able to replicate what I did. Thanks again!by mattsilfen - Café LA What to do.... - 12 years agoNeed some advice and or/ feel free to share similar stories... So a couple years ago I edited an actor's demo reel and since then, I've done several updates/revisions. Today he sends me this email: "Hope all is going well with you. Just wondering: a buddy of mine owed me a favor and is recutting my reel for me right now to put some new material into it. He was wondering what programby mattsilfen - Café LA Re: Betting Everything on FCP X - 12 years agoWell said, Derek. Reality shows are constantly being re-tooled and re-edited, interview bite pick ups, etc. I have edited reality shows for MTV and similar...17 minutes? I've spent over a month cutting a 30 minute (22 minute-ish) episode. Can this be done on FCPx quicker than that? Perha---oh wait, no multi-cam...by mattsilfen - Café LA - X Re: FCP X and Motion 5 now in App Store - 12 years agoI keep reading everywhere that it does not overwrite FCP 7...can anyone confirm which is true?by mattsilfen - Café LA - X Re: OT: An Editor's Lament - 12 years agoHmmm, you clearly don't live in LA....most of my encounters have been like this... Chick at a bar: What do you do? ME: I'm an editor... Chick at a bar: Oh me too! I just edited my actor's reel. Also I'm a comedian. Also I'm a waitress...Also I want to eventually produce.... and so on....by mattsilfen - Café LA Re: Editing Actor's Reel DVD Rip to Editable Format - 13 years agoUnfortunately you'd have to encode it into an editiable forbat. Download mpegstreamclip and encode to pro res. It s very easy to use. Good luck! -Mattby mattsilfen - Café LA Re: FCP sound preview - 13 years agoDerek, I also didn't know I could do that. I'll give it a try...by mattsilfen - Café LA Re: FCP sound preview - 13 years agoWhat I do is instead of importing, I just navigate to the folder in Finder. I click on the audio file I want to preview and press the space bar. Finder will open a preview window and play the clip. You can use the arrow keys to go up and down each audio file and preview them just as you described. Press space bar to close the preview window and just drag the file you like into your bin in FCPby mattsilfen - Café LA Re: This transition - 14 years agoIt also looks very similar to FX Factory Pro's Glow Dissolve, just toned down a few notches.by mattsilfen - Café LA Re: making red hair "more red" - 14 years agoJoe, You're right. It IS an option. Just not the option they're gonna want to hearby mattsilfen - Café LA Re: making red hair "more red" - 14 years agoThanks everyone for all your help. This is a music video and it's A LOT to CC for the hair and reshooting is certainly not an option. I've talked to the producer about hiring a professional colorist to fix this but that's up to the client. My own personal opinion is that all these girls clearly have red hair...but I'm not the one paying for this. You know how that goes... What makes it staby mattsilfen - Café LA making red hair "more red" - 14 years agoOyyyy. So a bunch of red haired actresses were shot and the client feels like their red hair isn't "red enough and that they look brunette." It iis actually important to the story that they have red hair. I've bumped up the saturation a lot which helps, but is there anything else I can do? I know there's the limit effect in color correction but I've never really played with it much.by mattsilfen - Café LA Re: Idea or Thought Cloud - 14 years agoOr use photoshop. 2 small circles (one bigger than the other) and then 3 bigger circles overlapping to make a cloud. Save as a .psd and you can reveal the layers to animate the thought bubble appearing. Very simple.by mattsilfen - Café LA Re: Pan and Zooming in on RED footage - 14 years agoIs the proxy the file with the underscore _P?by mattsilfen - Café LA Re: Pan and Zooming in on RED footage - 14 years agoYeah, the footage is not at native resolution, it's been scaled down. I have access to all the R3D files. It's really only one or 2 shots that need a zoom in. So should I go ahead and edit normally and once I'm done, use redcinex to go back to the original files which will bring in those selected shots at full resolution?by mattsilfen - Café LA Re: Pan and Zooming in on RED footage - 14 years agoThanks Jeff, that makes sense. They shot at 23.976. I'll make sure the settings match. Thanks again! -Mattby mattsilfen - Café LA Re: Pan and Zooming in on RED footage - 14 years agoJeff, I went to the shoot today to just be there as "Hey this guy is the editor." I didn't know much about the shoot other than the concept. I was expecting them to shoot on DV and saw the footage on the monitor and my jaw literally dropped that they were using the RED. Obviously it looked amazing...though it would've been nice to have a heads up. They had a red rocket card on sby mattsilfen - Café LA Pan and Zooming in on RED footage - 14 years agoI'm starting my first RED project and I've read up on the workflow and such but can't seem to find an answer to this. I'm editing in ProRes 422. This is only being finished for web use, so no film or going back to the R3D files or anything. There's a shot where I need to zoom into the subject and it's my understanding that Red footage allows you to do this without losing much resolution. Whby mattsilfen - Café LA Re: text looks poor? - 14 years agoAlso, are you judging from an external monitor or from the canvas? You can't go by the canvas. Try exporting a quicktime of the text and see if it looks as bad as it does on the canvas.by mattsilfen - Café LA Production Music - 14 years agoI currently do not own any production music libraries and recently I'm getting more and more freelance work, so I have a couple questions. 1. What's the rule of thumb - Do you charge clients for the production music you use? Or is that "charge" usually part of your rate/budget that you've worked out beforehand? 2. Can someone recommend any music libraries out there? In the pasby mattsilfen - Café LA Re: script notes and resetting timecode - 14 years agoThanks Tom and Derek! I'm still figuring out how long the project is going to be and how bad the tapes are (I still haven't seen exactly what the timecode issues are or how extensive they are) Thanks so much for the input!by mattsilfen - Café LA script notes and resetting timecode - 14 years agoA client of mine shot about 8 hours of footage on a consumer mini-dv camera. The client somehow set the camera up so that every time the camera was turned off, the timecode restarts to 00:00:00:00. Now she would like to be able to watch the footage back and log and make script notes. I'm trying to decide the best way to make this easy/fast for the client to make notes and to have them make sensby mattsilfen - Café LA |
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