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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: 720x486 vs 640x480 - 17 years agoI thought 640x480 was a left over of analog video. I've always used 720x547 as the square pixel verion coming from 720x486 (D1). 720x540 for DV.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: NAB: Apple VS Avid - 17 years agoI was pretty much underwhelmed by Avid's NAB presentation. I sat in on one Film Editor's talk and the "Independent Production Workflow" presentation. Neither one of them offered much new or impressive except for the DNxHD36 Codec and the software-only Media Composer. The promises of a committment to Open standards as the future of Avid was encouraging. Now that Avid is offering aby Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Can my current setup run FCS2? - 17 years agoYeah, upgrade the video card ... More memory is always a good thing. Color will run on a single monitor (that's how they were demoing it at NAB), but probably is better on a dual monitor setup. DougLby Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: FCP Related QT Brightness Problem - 17 years agoThere is no hard-and-fast rule ... Every codec does its own thing to brightness and contrast. Pretty much every time I've done a DVD comp reel it's wound up needing its own color correction to keep the VFX Sup happy. You've just got to tinker with your compressor settings until you find the color correction that works for you.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Is exporting a 4:3 project to Anamorphic 16:9 plausible? - 17 years agoI'd probably do it in Shake ... much better rendering, but that's just me. Dougby Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: television workflow - 17 years agoPersonally, I would edit at 23.98 using a compressed HD resolution and let the online finish in HD and down the final downconvert to SD. Better quality output and the resulting HD Master could be repurposed.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: From Combustion 4 to FCSP 5.1 - 17 years agoWhat is your target codec & framerate for the FCP Project? The Combustion project? Instead of outputing as Animation codec, output a QT file from Combustion using the same settings as your FCP timeline. This way you won't have to render/transcode in FCP.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Interaction Problems with Mac Pro and DSR-11 - 17 years agoI just finished working on a project that involved digitizing DVCAM tapes from a DSR-11 into FCP on a Mac Pro running FCP 5.1.1 using Firewire. No problems at all. Try checking your easy setups. Other than that ... ???by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: correcting low light reds - 17 years agoIn order to remove red, you need to add cyan. Sounds like you're pushing to hard to the green side.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Best-Cheapest places for Memory - 17 years agoI've bought RAM from Fry's for a Dual 800, G4 Powerbook, MacMini, and a Mac Book ... Never had any problems. I have always bougt memory from them that they stated was "made for Macs" (whatever that means.) I've also heard that Mac Memory Direct is also pretty good.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Post Sound Workflow - 17 years agoI've used BWF with FCP in versions under 5.1 ... It will work given the caveats above. 5.1.2 is a free upgrade if you purchased the 5.1 crossgrade to Universal Binary.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Post Sound Workflow - 17 years agoYeah, it's all doable ... I haven't checked out the new BWF support in FCP 5.1.2, which supposedly preserves the BWF metadata on import, so these comments are based on projects I've done previously. The easy way is to have the lab create QT files merging sound and picture, along with a flex file to import into FCP/Cinema Tools for generating Audio EDL. The not-so-easy way is to dig pictby Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Addressing issues before post - 17 years agoI would suggest having the HDCam Masters converted to Quicktime files using the DVCProHD codec (synched up with dual-system sound if you've got it) and delivered to you with flex files. This will save you weeks of time that would be otherwise spent digging dvcam tapes. You will love working with the uncompressed HD ... Check out Apple's whitepaper on this workflow at: "; I recentby Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: DVD Burning - 17 years agoYou probably exported it with whatever codec your project was using. Run it through compressor to get your mpeg2 for the DVD. I suspect that you are going to have to go with a very low bitrate for the compression (<5.0) if you're going to fit the whole thing on 1 single-layer dvd.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: OT - Favorite TV Show Theme Intro - 17 years ago"My Mother The Car" ... Has to be the best of the worst. Although I have a weak spot for the theme to "Fireball XL-5" as well.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: frame rate of imported graphics - 17 years agoUse Quicktime Pro to import and create a Quicktime out of an image sequence. Set the frame rate in the options dialog and use whatever codec you've been using to dig your project. Import the quicktime into FCP. If you import an image sequence directly into Final Cut Pro you won't be able to edit it.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Where can you rent 24 T Bytes for feature film conform? - 17 years agoStorage? You can get that anywhere. Sounds like you need more than storage: X-san running over multiple X-Serve RAIDS 1 XServe as a MetaData controller (an additional as backup is recommended) 1 Fibrechannel controller 1 Ethernet router 4 fibrechannel cards for workstations (plus additional for RAIDS) Kona3 or DeckLink multibridge cards that will handle 2k Some pretty spiffy cinema disby Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: HELP-HAVING PROBLEMS with IMAGE STABILIZER - 17 years agoShake hasn't made it's way into most cutting rooms yet. I recently suggested it to a Post Supervisor on a film I was doing that had a ton of monitor inserts and other tracking shots. It's my weapon of choice for any compositing jobs. Thought the guy was going to have an aneurism on the spot, even though I told him about the price drop. If you're in a "We paid for FCP and we'll get everby Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Do I need an X-server to digitize DVCAM into HD? - 17 years agoCapture your DVCAM footage into a DV project in FCP, export quicktimes and take to post house. A firewire drive is basically all you need.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: HELP-HAVING PROBLEMS with IMAGE STABILIZER - 17 years agoFCP's Image Stabilizer has never worked properly. It's not you. I'd spend the $49 bucks and get Lyric's motion plugins (in fact I have and have use the corner-pinning plugin a lot) ... You get a lot of value for the money.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Do I need an X-server to digitize DVCAM into HD? - 17 years agoAs the others are pointing out, the quality is not going to be good, but if this is what you've got to do, it's what you've got to do. A suggestion would be to not do it yourself, but take it to a digital lab that has experience doing this kind of stuff, after you've completed your offline ... EFILM, Laser Pacific, TDI and Pac Title come to mind. Bring money with and don't expect miracles. Aby Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: FCP 5 weirdness - importing DVCPRO HD - 17 years agoShane: It was my understanding that the varicam, as well as quicktimes encoded with the DVCProHD codec all run at 59.94 and that the variable frame rates are achieved by the camera/encoder "flagging" specific frames falling within the desired rate. At least that's the way all of the DVCProHD work that I've been doing has worked.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: FCP 5 weirdness - importing DVCPRO HD - 17 years agoIt looks like your capture settings were incorrect and also changed a couple of times. Your capture presets should always be 59.94, and the size 1248x702. You get to the right editing frame rate by setting the editing timebase in your sequence settings to 23.98. Your sequence settings should also be set for 960x720 (720p over 60). I haven't worked with the varicam, but used the DVCProHD tby Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: how to extract DVD content for editing in FCP - 17 years agoI'd recommend DVDxDV, available from the LAFCPUG store ... I've been using it for about a year for feature and VFX work. It rocks. Won't remove copy protection though ... Mac the Knife works well for that.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: HD editing suite - 17 years agoYah ... I was thinking likewise about the nVidia Quadro FX 4500 being a bit overkill. I'd go Radeon and put the saved cash into some Apple Cinema Display monitors.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Xserve storage capacity - 17 years agoXserve ... I assume we're talking about an XServe RAID and not XSan. Many factors come in to play, including how many partitions you are using, what RAID level you're using, etc. and what kind of after-market software you are running with it. Going no higher than 85% is a good rule of thumb, as others have mentioned, but I believe you will start seeing performance degradation as early as 50by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: DVCPROHD -> RAW HD TRANSCODING!? - 17 years agoThe Meridien Codec doesn't support anything larger than 720x486 ... Best you can do for a client with an old Meridien is down convert the HD footage to 720x486 letterboxed so they can an offline.by Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Black Slug turning green in timeline - 17 years agoI've had this happen to me on a system with an AJA Kona LH. In my case the video framebuffer in the card had gotten whacked. A re-boot solved the problem. Doug Lubertsby Doug Luberts - Café LA Re: Workflow with FCPRO on a self funded doc - 17 years agoLoren: I was talking about being a waste of money & time relative to editing using compressed HD ... It's a much better workflow, IMO. DVCam is good for a lot of stuff, especially broadcast related offlines, but for HD Editing I don't think it's the way to go. Especially on Features.by Doug Luberts - Café LA |
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