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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 iMovie project import/relink - 11 years agoHey everybody! I have a problem importing a iMovie project in to FCP X 10.0.4. I can import the project, the timeline shos up, but I can´t reconnect the media. I go through the process of reconnecting, FCP finds the files, checks them and prompts an error saying something like the files were found, but there are to many audio tracks so it cant import. I have it in German, so I can´t reallyby hamaca - Café LA - X Re: Choosing your next editing and finishing system - 12 years agoI know smoke from the early 2000 years on octane. UI was great and coming from editbox i entered a whole new world in finishing. So I really liked it! Today - forgive me - I would feel like stepping back a decade. As mentioned smoke is a strong client tool, so it fits in best for advertising. But even in advertising 10 years ago we got a large budget project to make changes, that was after effectby hamaca - Café LA Re: OT-Old Day Editing Systems - 12 years agoeditBOX/Henry I remember pretty well I was onlining 60 minute documentaries with a 8 layer editBOX with 50000 frames dillanpack and a digi beta VTR... fun though from todays perspective.by hamaca - Café LA Re: PAL to NTSC... - 12 years agoI tried Aftereffects and twixtor was pretty happy and then I came across a little ForA Broadcast box called FA9500 "The Processor", wich does the job pretty well! using the web interface made it extremely nice to configure! Our clients often bring NTSC/non 25fps interview footage from the US to edit EPKs. But checking on teranex might be worth the time since Blackmagic bought the compaby hamaca - Café LA Re: Editshare - 12 years agoHi Sorry for answering so late, We are working with editshare since 6 months now and we are very pleased. We had 5-6 Mac Pro and 3 iMac AVID 5.5/FCP7 edit suites working parallel plus one Resolve/Adobe and two ProTools9. We decided to work local on Resolve and ProTools. The biggest project was a 600hrs footage reality show. On top of that we had several EPK, Promo, Casting and whatever editsby hamaca - Café LA Re: Should I get FCP 7? - 12 years agostrypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The > only thing I dont really like about Avid is that > when going between certain softwares (After > Effects and the DaVinci Resolve) you may want to > buy plugins that costs a few hundred dollars to be > able to send/read an AAF and DNxHD. > > Not sure if you can do renders to ProRes/DNxHby hamaca - Café LA Re: carnet? - 12 years agoYou usually need a carnet to avoid customs payment (vat) at (tax)borders. For instance inside the EU there is no need for a carnet, but if I travel from Germany to Switzerland there is! LG Fabianby hamaca - Café LA Re: Should I get FCP 7? - 12 years agoIf looked at lightworks at IBC, it´s a finishing system in my eyes! AVID will do the editing job for me! But the crossgrade to Premiere Pro is a good offer!by hamaca - Café LA Re: which server for storage and networking? - 12 years agoThanks Walter, Small tree has a 6 port copper card! That will be good for my NAS head... cheersby hamaca - Café LA Re: which server for storage and networking? - 12 years agoHi bluey There are a lot of shared storage systems on the Market! It really depends on the budget you have. EDITSHARE is what I use for shared storage. We do TV Reality shows with 600hrs plus per season. It works fine so far 100MB/s over ethernet! You will have to buy DAVE SMB on the client side since it utilises SMB protocol. I use it with AVID, pro Tools Video and Resolve but it is good forby hamaca - Café LA Re: Edit share vs. Unity - 12 years agogood point! My idea is to get the collaterals done from color corrected cleanfeed SCQT that no ungraded, unapproved material gets edited by the internet people. But I guess you are right it´s to complicated and I´ll end up shifting it all into the avid...over a weekend... Any edit share experience?by hamaca - Café LA Edit share vs. Unity - 12 years agoHi All! I don´t know where else to put it so I post it here. I have to make a decision to buy edit share or unity storage. I know Unity for 10 years now and I really like it when it comes to AVID editing, but it is pest with final cut. The edit share guys say AVID and FCP editing - even project sharing - is fine with their tool. I had a demo looked all fine, did anyone try it in production?by hamaca - Café LA Re: Rumors from an Avid dealer .. have you hear-it too. - 12 years agoHi! I just ordered two crossgrades FCP to MC5.5 for 999$ (the equivalent amount in ?). at the moment it is cheaper to buy a brand new FCS and then crossgrade it to MC5.5 instead of buying MC5.5 directly, because you get good discounts on FCS since FCPX is coming soon.by hamaca - Café LA Re: Best camera for FCP - 13 years agoHey Andrew, is perpetually imminent something like endless nameless? I would be willing to join. cheers hamacaby hamaca - Café LA Re: Multiclip 4-Up Playback from the Timeline - 13 years agoA very strange phenomenon happened to all clips in a multiclip that came with external sound. Two to four camera shoot P2 plus sounddevices to CF all TC sync. In FCP we sync sound to video of each camera, then made a multiclip. After two days of editing, sometimes even earlier the multiclips dropped wide out of sync. The work around is to generate SCQT with audio and video same length. It seemby hamaca - Café LA Re: Progressive or Interlaced? - 13 years agoJeff, I like your emotions. Interlaced is for girls.by hamaca - Café LA Re: New camera - 13 years agoThe EX1 is good no doubt. SxS is good we use them too, but the codec is not good. DVCPRO HD is iframe and has more bandwith. For me in a production value / total cost comparison the 170 is a better deal. I absolutely share the view of Shane.by hamaca - Café LA Re: Multiclip 4-Up Playback from the Timeline - 13 years agoHey! If you want audio in the clips in multiclips, you have to sync each clip separately, render a self contained QT and take these back in for editing. Otherwise your audio will always drop out of sync. I had that two years ago on a big show, no fun... btw. it´s a bug. cheers hamacaby hamaca - Café LA Re: New camera - 13 years agoHi Xander, mix Derek and Shane, buy a used Pana 170. It´s a work horse! P2 is a reliable system. I had two bad cards in three years, both user fuckups. But we send the cards to Pana and they recovered the footage within 48 hrs. I would buy a used one, since the camera is in the market for some years now and some people will sell their gear like Derek mentioned. Codecwise trust Shane xdcam iby hamaca - Café LA Re: Display card replacement advice - 13 years agoI´m working on my "how to tell my controller speech" - also in silly mode. hamacaby hamaca - Café LA Re: Display card replacement advice - 13 years agoI´m in euro land we have no inflation, we have switzerland around the corner...by hamaca - Café LA Re: Display card replacement advice - 13 years agoThanks strypes! Got your point Dave, if I was building a serious 2k4k finishing colorgrading suite I would buy it on linux. I just want nice looking rushes at low cost and some extras. 10 years ago a 12 core onyx/inferno filled a fridge. Today a 12 core mac/AE/FCP sits under your table and does the same thing. That is technology and it is not going to stop. +2 cents is 4 hamacaby hamaca - Café LA Re: Tip for editing with XDCAM or P2 - multiple clips - 13 years agoDid you try to work with a QT reference for the day reel instead of working with sequences?by hamaca - Café LA Re: Workflow advice for Panasonic-HMC150P - 13 years agoNo matter what class in the first year on film school, we had very strict rules for shooting. For a 5 minutes fictional shortfilm we were allowed to shoot 50 minutes of footage. Later in s16mm we were only allowed to copy 60% of that footage. Maybe this is old fashioned, but for us it was a good practice! We immediately started thinking of how to use our limited resources, made storyboards, planby hamaca - Café LA Re: Display card replacement advice - 13 years agoThe system I am planning is supposed to become a universal assist station for rendering, digital dailies, AE work and digital delivery. My shopping list also includes CS5 and AVID MC5. Dave is right I guess; running everything possible on one single Mac might not be a good idea. I´ll ask my ASE for demo/test and see and tell. Thanks everybody!by hamaca - Café LA Re: Display card replacement advice - 13 years agoIs it true that FCS will not run smooth with two display cards? I´m asking because I want to run FCS and a GPU powered Resolve on the same box. By the way which GPU board is the better buy GTX or Quattro?by hamaca - Café LA Re: RED and external audio - 13 years agoMy 2 cents: Use audio harddiskrecorders like sounddevices 744T/788T they have built in TC generators. Sync it to an ambient lockit and connect that little device to the TC in of your camera and TC slate. Also works fine in multicamera workflows.by hamaca - Café LA Re: Professional editing drives - 13 years agografixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Framestore" is a REALLY old school term used by > Broadcast Facilities (in my experience). In my > experience, it was an old tank of a computer (PC) > that stored stills and graphics one frame at a > time to be pulled up by the TD (Switcher > Operator). Now-a-days, they are used to propby hamaca - Café LA Re: FCP and Avid question. - 13 years agoIt´s three softwares on one Mac. Invest is probably 12-15000 ? for the editing system and 3 softwares (non SDI!). Decent table, chairs, sofa, art, shared infrastructure (network, servers, storage, aircon, cabeling, playout/ingest ...) is 15000?, plus electricity, sandwiches, soda, yearly upgrades, receptionist, ... I would recommend to equip 50% of your suites like that and split the other 50%by hamaca - Café LA |
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