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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Keystroke for Extend Edit with Ripple or Select behavior - 17 years agoThat's what I mostly do for the ripple situations, and it requires either mousing or more keystrokes than I'd prefer. Context: In my case, this is for documentary production where the bulk of the real work consists of fine cutting to dialog. At that stage I am cutting and rippling across tracks. But I also do the same thing in occasional dramatic production.by braker - FCP Feature Requests Re: Keystroke for Extend Edit with Ripple or Select behavior - 17 years agoAs above: move selected in or out point to current playhead position. In my case I would want to do this to shorten clips. I am much more interested in the Ripple feature though, so maybe it gets in the way to talk about "select" behavior..by braker - FCP Feature Requests Re: Extend Edit with Ripple or Select behavior - 17 years agoAh, thanks. Unfortunately, when I do use it it's because I'm looking at a frame in the particular clip - and want to shorten it to that frame!. This was really secondary to the Ripple request. I Ripple all day and have various ways to do it, but they all take more steps than I'd like.by braker - FCP Feature Requests Re: Extend Edit with Ripple or Select behavior - 17 years agoOn the Timeline, if you have the Select tool active (default behavior), then dragging a selected edit point simply changes in or out for that clip - with no effect on anything else. If it is bounded by something else it won't do the operation. It would be handy to have this simple behavior available from the keyboard as wll as the Ripple version. Understand that when I say edit point I meaby braker - FCP Feature Requests Keystroke for Extend Edit with Ripple or Select behavior - 17 years agoI was surprised when I went about "discovering" Extend Edit that it will only Roll edits. I would like the same one-stroke functionality which says to FCP: "If possible, please Ripple that selected edit to the playhead position. If you can't do it, bonk me or give me a message or do nothing, and I'll figure out what else to do. Oh, and thanks." I would also like theby braker - FCP Feature Requests Re: Logging and Public Archive Software - 15 years agoThanks again, Bouke. The 3 listed products were selected in part because they all support semiautomatic capture, analog scene detection, DV metadata import, and a bunch of other features aimed at gettiung as much useful info into the database as possible - efficiently. Your point about format compatibility is well taken. I would insist on availability of a simple, complete standard databaseby braker - Café LA Re: Logging and Public Archive Software - 15 years agoThanks, Bouke, I love your approach and your apps, but we need something that's mature right now - logging is supposed to start next week! I'll try to give you feedback down the road about what worked for us or didn't, though. Happy June, - Steveby braker - Café LA Logging and Public Archive Software - 15 years agoHi all, I'm hoping somebody out there has significant knowledge and experience creating a publicly available searchable clip archive. I have an upcoming project which involved: - input of up to 500 hours of archival video - robust clip logging - creation of a publicly available archive (kiosk and/or web) - (separately) production of several docs in FCP Obviously most of this could beby braker - Café LA Re: Audio Levels for DVCAM v. Beta - 16 years agoYou need to set your levels sanely for the digital domain, which is AT MOST -12dB average and more commonly -18 or -20dB. 0dB is the standard average level for analog audio ONLY. Ignore that, as you are not outputting analog audio - the recipient is. You are outputting digital audio, in which 0dB means you don't have a usable signal any more. I'm positive the FCP manual has very good layby braker - Café LA Re: Reveal if a clip is used or not in the timeline? - 16 years agoI'm not in FCP right now, but there is a function you can turn on for the sequence which will show a red bar under any portion of a clip which is duplicated elsewhere in the sequence. I assume it's in prefs, I keep it on all the time. Maybe this will jog somebody's memory. It's more useful than what you're asking for because it looks at the actual frames used, not just the clip name.by braker - Café LA Re: Pro-Res in the real world... - 16 years agoAnd in case it wasn't obvious enough, there's no advantage (that I can think of) in converting DVCProHD source footage to ProRes - for storage, for editing, whatever. All you'll get is an unnecessary (though mild) recompression / downgrade and a higher datarate. Keep your source media in its original native format, unless you have a good reason to convert. Such as having uncompressed materiaby braker - Café LA Re: Will Color Install on a Laptop w a Large Ext. Monitor - 16 years agoI have no idea whether or how it checked for the external monitor, but Color installed and runs just fine on my 15" PowerBook. I have a 1600 x 1200 external monitor.by braker - Café LA Re: Archive non-TC project media to tape with useful TC? - 17 years agoAndy Mees Wrote: > spherico's xml2text info notes: Yow! Thanks, Andy, and of course, thanks again, Andreas, for anticipating my needs probably years in advance. I'll be wonking on xml2text again.by braker - Café LA Re: Archive non-TC project media to tape with useful TC? - 17 years agoThanks, Nick! That's very helpful and I really appreciate your time in passing this on. Yes, it's annoying that it isn't more straightforward, but at least knowing it can be done helps. I will still discourage the idea of using tape as a significant archive for this, but this at least shows it's possible. Perhaps with P2 and other tapeless media coming in faster there will be more pressureby braker - Café LA Archive non-TC project media to tape with useful TC? - 17 years agoI'm not sure that subject line helps at all. I have a potential client with about 150 hours of mixed consumer format tapes (VHS through mini-DV). Here's what they want me to do: 1) "digitalize" (yes, that was the word), trim, and tag an estimated 10 hours of usable material 2) create a kiosk or web access library of that footage (spinoff project) 3) archive everything (the ~10by braker - Café LA Re: automatting TC information? - 17 years agoAt the risk of taking this farther from what you're actually looking for, I now remember what the device used on Amiga and then DraCo many years ago was. The concept is ingenious and cross platform. A little time code reader plugs in between the computer keyboard and the computer. It of course has an LTC input. Every time you type a hotkey, it literally types the current time code... whatevby braker - Café LA Re: automatting TC information? - 17 years agoWell, time code logging hardware/software has been around for a very very long time. RS-422 or LTC into some device attached to a computer, hit keys to insert code. I had one working on my Amiga way back when... I have one for my Palm Pilot which I can't name 'cause it's been on the shelf so long. Some softwares you can use with QTs outside of FCP: InqScribe, QTMovieNoteTaker, MovieLogger.by braker - Café LA Re: Mini DV deck - 17 years agoThis is a pretty useful item all around: In fact I have a spare...by braker - Café LA Re: Swap/shuffle edits - 17 years agoThere's another thing you have to watch out for when mousing clips. I'm not completely sure it is relevant to this type of edit. There's a horizontal line running through the track. If you let go above this line it will overwrite, and below that line it will insert.by braker - Café LA Re: pixel size question - 17 years agoAn educated guess: the first one is the true resolution of the media. The one in parentheses are the pixel dimensions it's displaying it with. In this case it's anamorphic NTSC, and it's stretching those 720 pixels over 853 screen pixels (and blurring it in the process).by braker - Café LA Re: PAL to NTSC Audio Sync + Drift - 17 years agoI say gently: .4% from 48kHz is 47.8kHz (or 48.2). I like the idea of cutting sound in a vacuum. Sync problems just wouldn't exist!by braker - Café LA Re: PAL to NTSC Audio Sync + Drift - 17 years agoKoz, I agree if you're talking about drift between cameras, or between video and video-aware audio. The way I understand it they recorded the sound wild, direct to ProTools on a computer. No mention of any video anything, or of the computer getting any reference or time code of any kind. I think it's perfectly plausible to see the .4% drift. It's better than using a cassette recorder... Inby braker - Café LA Re: PAL to NTSC Audio Sync + Drift - 17 years agoI think the issue is simply that there is no sync system between the video and audio recordings. You can't expect it to line up if they weren't locked to a common sync source, or at least one to the other. Audio doesn't have a "frame rate" because it doesn't have frames. You can have SMPTE or EBU time code attached to audio and think of it in terms of video frames. But that codeby braker - Café LA Re: Matrox MXO review - 17 years agoShane, does that mean it displays interlace signals properly (offset in time and space)? Thanks for your time and trouble!by braker - Café LA Re: Mortis vibration - 17 years agoIf this is happening on a non-interlaced display, I havfe no idea. If it's on interlaced CRT, then I'll guess you have a fairly noisy pattern in it, where individual pixels are contrasting heavily with their partners in the other field. If so a slight vertical-only gaussian blur - only on the graphic in question. If it's at scale then maybe .1-.3; heavier if it's being scaled down. If it'by braker - Café LA Re: Looking for references - 17 years agoedit: Never mind, we aren't exactly in LA... - A Midwest Hoserby braker - Café LA Re: Pasting an edited file into a new project forces render ... why? - 17 years agoI just love that Braker. Knows nigh upon everythin'.by braker - Café LA Re: Pasting an edited file into a new project forces render ... why? - 17 years agoWhat you got should be expected. You copied not the sequence, but the contents of the sequence, which is all the fiddly little parts. If you don't want to render again, you can copy the sequence to the new project. Then you're copying everything including references to render files. But as mentioned, if you have any gremlins around you may be best off to let it render again.by braker - Café LA Re: Color Correcting DV Footage - 17 years agoTo learn about monitor calibration, try searching on the word "pluge". Even the FCP manual I believe has a pretty good lay person's procedure for this. Not suggesting that word as the most important part, just the most searchable.by braker - Café LA Re: 1st time Yak sighting - 17 years agoFirst time I saw... that thing I was very new to both FCP and the Mac. And I was working under an immense looming deadline, middle of the night. I immediately thought virus, virus, virus. It made me very uncomfortable. Fortunately I didn't try to do anything about it. It was a year before I found out what it was. Not really interested in seeing it again.by braker - Café LA |
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