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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: Smallest Mac Book Pro - 15 years agoOnly the 15.4" MBP is a little shy on screen real estate. I looked at that and then decided on a 17" MBP with higher resolution. You can attach the 15" to a 23" Cinema Display and use it that way.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Can you capture from Sony HDR-SR10 with FCP? - 15 years agoNone of those compressed codecs are supported in FCP. Try using iMovie as there are more consumerish codecs supported.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Quicker way to sync clips - 15 years agoCan't you select a bunch of clips in the browser and create a Multiclip? I thought that was what multicam editing was about. Especially if they were shot as TimeOFDay timecode?by John Foley - Café LA Re: Phantom Images ever 5 frames - 15 years agoI am not sure about this with the DVX100 as it does record "in camera" onto the tape as 29.97. So I am told! That means the camera takes care of the 3:2 pull-down. You should be sure of the frame rate you are using to go into DVD Studio Proby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Phantom Images ever 5 frames - 15 years agoHow did you convert 24P to 29.97, or did you?by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Installing Leopard - Any Precautions?? - 15 years agoThe best way to upgrade to Leopard is not to. Do a clean install of Leopard onto a formatted disk volume. Moving from one major version of an OS to another is never good when writing over the old with the new. Doing it the correct way is a LOT of work but you will only benefit yourself in the long run.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Mosaic Menu Video and Compressor Settings - 15 years agoI usually go with average of 5.5 and Max of 6.0 using 2 pass along with exporting audio as ac3. This is if the content is under 1 hour. Over 1 hour I would drop the average to 4.5 and max to 5.5 or less depending on the final size of the MPEG-2 file. Encode bit-rate determines the final size of the files. slower = smaller,etc. You see, the bit-rate speed doesn't always guarantee better quby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: RAID 'Critical' but no drive error. Hmm... - 15 years agoI seriously doubt that replacing a failing drive is "messing" with the warranty. So, you wouldn't mind stopping work for a couple of weeks while all you data was gone? I am sure your clients will understand! Besides, once that array is gone, there is no guarantee you will ever get it back and where can you back up 1.5 TB of data to? With RAID 5, will I lose data if Drive 3 is acby John Foley - Café LA Re: Capturing from a card - 15 years agoHi Shelley, I doubt that MP4 files are going to be any friendlier to FCE that FCP. I suspect iMovie is such a consumerish program that it will embrace just about anything out there while a program that is expected to go heads up with AVID will only address professional codecs. FCE is only supposed to do DV and HDV, so no dice for AVCHD or MP4, etc. At least my opinion since I don't have FCE.by John Foley - Motion Re: OT - printing thumbnail galleries of a folder of movies - 15 years agoWayne, You might look into Final Cut Server as I understand it does allow for printing. I do not have it, however, but have seen the demo.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Multiclip question - 15 years agoIf you are using the numerical keypad to switch the clip views, you would just get a practice marker when pushing that key. You need to use Apple + keypad number to actually make the cut. There is a card that lists all those keystrokes in the package for FCS1.by John Foley - Café LA Re: RAID 'Critical' but no drive error. Hmm... - 15 years agoBy design, a RAID 5 set is supposed to be "bulletproof" as long as one ONE (1) drive fails in the RAID set. If two drives fail, then Adios to all data. RAID 6, however allows for two failed drives to be recovered. G-Tech should know better than to relieve you of the entire RAID data while they"check it out". You paid for a disk system that was not replaceable and RAID 5,by John Foley - Café LA Re: Mackbook pro for hdv advise needed - 15 years agoHi Wayne, Well, at first I didn't think the MBP was going to be as good as the Quad G5 but as I used it more and more it is becoming my favorite editing platform. I think there might be something to the "Intel" thing with FCC2. I like the MBP so much that GULP!, I may NEVER again buy a desktop computer. While a 3.0 quad/dual quad computer will render/encode faster, I find this coby John Foley - Café LA Re: Export using Compressor crashing Motion - 15 years agoAll I know is that Compressor is very tightly tied to Quicktime. As a matter of fact Compressor is simply a GUI interface that directly controls Quicktime. I have a copy of 5.1.4 running on leopard using QT 7.4.5 and i will try this export on a G4 dual 1.0 computer.by John Foley - Motion Re: Mosaic Menu Video and Compressor Settings - 15 years agoIn my opinion, you are causing this by letting the bit-rate swing WILDLY. Setting between average and max should only go 1.5 max swing. The mosaic you are talking about is some device cannot decode the MPEG stream fast enough. While you can play ANY stream on a computer, you can not do the same on a DVD Player. Lots of DVD Players will do this with content encoded above 6.0 Mbps because thby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Mackbook pro for hdv advise needed - 15 years agoI share a similar situation. I originally purchased a MBP 2.33 Ghz (2006) for capturing DVCPRO HD from an HVX200 with P2 cards, but have now been more mobile lately. Now, HDV is very low data rate, much like DV so any type of external disk drive would work. Since I believe in 4:2:2 color space instead of HDV's 4:2:0, I opted for an Express 34 eSATA card and two 500 GB drives in an external encby John Foley - Café LA Re: Mosaic Menu Video and Compressor Settings - 15 years agoWhat was you encode target bit-rate?by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Time for Assets on DVD seems rather small... - 15 years agomark@avolution Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > John Foley Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > What encode bit-rate did you use ? Did you run > > these through Compressor? > > No, these are the direct output files from Final > Cut Pro. Of course - a .mov file is Quicktime > In ordby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Export using Compressor crashing Motion - 15 years agoPerhaps QT 7.5 is not compatible with Motion 2? Since this started after you updated QT, perhaps it's time to use Pacifist to go back to the original version you used? We are talking about FCP 5.04 or FCP 5.1.4 with Motion 2 here, aren't we?by John Foley - Motion Re: Time for Assets on DVD seems rather small... - 15 years agoWhat encode bit-rate did you use ? Did you run these through Compressor? I have easily gotten 2.5 hrs of reasonably good content on a DVD-5, but my bit rate had to be LOW. Approximately 3.5 Mbps to 5.0 Mbps. That bit rate determines the total size of each MPEG-2 file. also the total size depends on the audio file used as well. Use AC3 instead of .aiff to reduce total size.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Capturing from an SD card - 15 years agoShelley, Is the reason I don't have to re-render and he does related to the different features of FC Studio and FC Express or could there be another reason? I think the reason is that FCE is DV and HDV only while FCP has a ton of codecs that Apple is constantly updating.by John Foley - Café LA Re: exporting clip from nested sequence to Motion - 15 years agoI believe you can open up that nest and choose from within the nest, what to send.by John Foley - Motion Re: Export using Compressor crashing Motion - 15 years agoDoes the export command from the menus do the same - File-Export-etc? I don't ever remember using Export to Compressor from Motion 2???by John Foley - Motion Re: Capturing from a card - 15 years agoShelley, FCP 6 has Log and Transfer (for P2 cards from panasonic DVCPro formats) feature built in much like the Log and Capture feature. You need a card reader attached to the MAC that can accomodate the P2 (PCMCIA) format as well.by John Foley - Motion Re: Export edited sequence to Quicktime file - 15 years agoWhat extension do you want the file to have? Exporting from FCP is default - .movby John Foley - Café LA Re: Speed and Mirroring - 15 years agoLoren, Using a software RAID 0+1 is about 30% slower than just a RAID 0, in my experience. Now, if you have a hardware controller, such as a Highpoint Rocketraid for SATA set up a 0+1, the transfers will only lag around 15%. Mirroring is computer intensive process of writing two data streams at the same time to two volumes. For normal computer operations this is not a problem but for streamby John Foley - Café LA Re: MacPro Early 2008 Wont Load Color but MACBOOK PRO will - 15 years agoI could be all wrong here - but i seem to remember a problem when there are two (2) video cards present. Your MacBook Pro has one video card. But then again I could be wrong!by John Foley - Color Re: LOST INSTRUMENTS IN SOUND TRACK PRO 2 - 15 years agoI take it that you mean that you re-installed STP but not the loops? There is a way to reconnect the path to those loops, but check in the STP manual for instruction n how to do this.by John Foley - Soundtrack Pro Re: Capturing from a card - 15 years agoShelley, What kind of card? P2 card from a Panasonic camera maybe?by John Foley - Motion Re: Lost. Any and all advice - I'm ears. - 15 years agoWOW! With all that spread out over several FW drives; you really can't move anything around because it would require reconnection. Problem is, you seem to be against a hard wall! Sounds like you learned a lot with your very first edit. One thing that is hindsight now, but don't let a project cross volumes, and if that is necessary, break it up into Sequences. it really sounds like you didn't uby John Foley - Café LA |
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