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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: DVD AUDIO - 15 years agoThe ac3 is gonna be a larger file size to fit on dvd but larger normally means better quality. NOOOOO! Thats the issue. .ac3 is a Dolby compression that takes the .aiff down to nearly 1/10th the file size and NO noticeable loss of audio accuracies. It is the one way to get maximum content on a 4.37GB disc.by John Foley - Café LA Re: DVD AUDIO - 15 years agoEncoding the audio to .ac3 (Dolby Pro Logic) is the BEST as it's compression is designed for the DVD Specification. Take the QT files and a .aiff file into Compressor to get the outputs.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Making video look like cartoons? - 15 years agoStudio Artist is one way of doing this.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Vacation Camera - 15 years agoI believe FCP 6.03 can deal with AVCHD but no other version before that. You would just need to have a way to capture that clips from a memory card on your machine. If the camera has Firewire, then maybe a direct capture? The quality is good but not GREAT! But if this is for personal use (family, etc() then the difference will never matter.by John Foley - Café LA Re: FCP 4.5 HD to FCP 5.1.4 Help!!! - 15 years agoOne solution that is often overlooked is "Repair Disk permissions" The project file should be upgradeable and the media clips should not be any different. I have seen unstable applications after an upgade fixed by Disk Permissions. Then again, it may be something entirely different.by John Foley - Café LA Re: OT: OSX.6 - 'Snow Leopard' due next year - 15 years agoJoey, Build yourself a "hackintosh" that you can continue to upgrade. There's no need to send Apple $4K ever three years to continue running FCS.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Can anyone tell quality difference @ these bit rates? - 15 years agoEncoding MPEG-2 data is a task that you should be looking at using the lowest bit-rate that is acceptable for the application. It's kinda like putting premium gasoline in a car that runs well on regular. Not much use. The trick is that the lower the bit rate the smaller the file size of the compression. Also, consider that the term encode means that the content must be decoded on playback.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Compatability with double layer DVD9's - 15 years agoNot to deviate from the topic - I purchased a 25 pack of Ritek-Ridata DVD-R dual layer disks a few months ago and not one of them would stay in the burner on any of three Mac"s I have. Old or very new Pioneer drives would look the media over and spit it back out. I then purchase 25 Sony DVD+R's (which BTW say they are Ritek, also) and every one works in every burner. I though Apple starteby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: P2 clips won't preview with audio in FCP - 15 years agoIf this means anything - a similar issue is present when capturing off of a tape deck. The sound is still playing on the deck and will not be present in FCP until the clip is loaded. Not sure how that relates to a P2 import, but perhaps it has the same characteristics.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Leopard 10.5.3. is out... - 15 years agoJoe, Is the keyboard firmware supposed to stop dropping the first character? Which MBP do you have? I have the 2.33 Ghz 17" and I am not upgrading any firmware until it is proven. PS: I downloaded it this morning on a G4 with FCP 5.1.4 and it appears to be OK!by John Foley - Café LA Re: Dual Layer problems - 15 years agoSome piece of this is not making sense. It would appear that you are doing everything correctly, but there must be something that you have not mentioned. You mention re-compressing the assets. Does that mean you started with full rez QT (.mov) movies and turned them back into .m2v files?by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Newbie question on best set up for using Studio 2 - 15 years agoSo, MacPro 2.8 Ghz running 10.5.2 with latest version of Quicktime. Your header says Final Cut Studio 2. Is that all correct? Do you have another disk in your mac except the boot disk? You need an additional disk to use for Log and Capture. How much RAM memory does your system have? There are some problems that can cause system crashes when installing RAM cards in the MacPro. PS - savby John Foley - Café LA Re: Final Cut HD System Suggestions - 15 years agoIf you are looking at the HVX200 camera, you are making a good choice of 4:2:2 color space in DVCPRO-50 and DVCPRO100 whereas the other cameras are MPEG-2 at 4:2:0. The HVX is a different animal as you need to archive the P2 data to reuse the cards. Lots of us use a MacBook Pro to do this in the field. With an HVX200 you do not need massive RAID systems to capture clip data as the data rateby John Foley - Café LA Re: Motion Menu Madness - 15 years agoIf you choose the motion menu as a Background, then it stays independent of the Buttons. Motion menus and Photoshop are like oil and water, they do not mix. Think of menus like tracks on a CD. You can't play one track and expect it to work when switching to another track. That is the way DVD's work. The do one task at a time. Folks seem to forget that DVD specifications were created over 1by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: How many bytes to expect DVD Studio Pro to add? - 15 years agoOne can fit 4,800,000,000 on a regular DVD. That leaves me with about 125,000,000 left to spare That is a wrong assumption. Just because the media claims to have 4.7 GB of space, that doesn't mean it is exempt from the 2's complement math that computer use to calculate actual space. (1000 bytes is actually 1024 bytes of space taken up) You really have barely 4.37 GB of total space to writeby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: my 1st DVD!! - 15 years agoIf you haven't yet done one DVD on DVD Studio Pro, then I would suggest you practice. I would not be thinking of turning my first DVD in a replication project. You need to learn how to check out the end product well, before investing big money into replication. You need to learn the tricks that make a good looking DVD and what the replicator needs for successfully mastering. 1- Should Iby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Keyboard command to cycle through recent clips in The Viewer - 15 years agoWhat's the advantage of doing it from the keyboard?by John Foley - Café LA Re: Project footage picker - 15 years agoOne thing that media manager does well is delete unused media from a project. That doesn't however, delete it from your hard drive. Since every file loaded into the browser is a link to the actual media in the Capture Scratch folder (usually), you can reuse clips over and over without duplicating them in the project. Any Final Cut Pro book will talk about using media manager.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Batch Capture Efficiency - 15 years agoBatch Capturing clips insures that they can be re-captured later on, if necessary. 1. how is it that any editor with full project license (preditor) know what they need and what they don't? Generally, capturing by timecode allows the editor to select good clips from the reel and ignore the bad takes so they don't all get loaded onto you hard drive. This is historically done by the Assistantby John Foley - Café LA Re: Swap and Go Hard Drive - 15 years agoBy definition, a RAID enclosure requires all the drive to be the same size if RAIDed. If using then as JBOD, then that is not RAID, rather just a bunch of unrelated disk drives in the enclosure. RAID's need to be able to evenly split up the bytes of a computer word across several disks to increase speed of a transfer. Loose one of the disks and you loose the RAID capability. Most of the siby John Foley - Café LA Re: Re-installing FCP Studio 2 - 15 years agoWhy not have the person missing FCS2 Disk#1 call Apple and since he/she has the license serial number and hopefully the packaging; they could ask Apple (for a fee) to provide them another Disk#1.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Working with a Macphobe - 15 years agoWhy not do as YouTube does? Convert Quicktime to Flash. Most every browser has a flash player built itby John Foley - Café LA Re: Timecode Countdown? - 15 years agoWhat about the Timecode overlay in Final Cut Po?by John Foley - Café LA Re: AVCHD vs. HDV vs. DV: Which workflow to choose when buying Camcorders? - 15 years agoI am not aware that Final Cut 6.0 will work with AVCHD?I don't see a codec in it for editing.by John Foley - Café LA Re: AIFF audio level too high on DVD - 15 years agoI have not used an .aiff file in DVD Studio for years, since I learned that Dolby .ac3 is such a much better asset for a DVD. Why fight the obvious? Other than pulling down the levels in Final Cut before encoding, there doesn't seem to be another fix.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Why is my default top Menu button blinking?? - 15 years agoLoren, Sorry you were talking to yourself, but I had never seen that before. O'course, I have never used the Timeout function before either. Not that I wouldn't have but could never figure out a good use for it. Seems like a "don't do that": feature. eh?by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Animated buttons - 15 years agoMotion menus are just one step above fixed (Photoshop) menus and do not support navigation animations. A DVD plays one frame at a time. If the frame changes, the disc address changes which takes a second or so to reposition. That is why flying buttons and the like will not work in this DVD Specification. Perhaps if we ever get BLURay Java authoring, things will change.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Video Menu/Button Activation Problem - 15 years agoThe DVD Specification does not allow for "invisible" buttons since it relies on the remote to make button navigation. Using a mouse to test the navigation of a new DVD is asking for problems. There is a reason that the Apple DVD Player uses a remote type icon as the mode of navigation. Use it instead of a mouse and you will get a better product.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Newbie questions for Motion - 15 years agoAs Mark says, the video card used in Motion is critical. Motion and other Apple software use GPU power as well as CPU power to perform graphical tasks. If you plan to use Motion or Color, then you need a BIG BAD video card! I am not sure about the 8800 issues but I have heard the X1900 is faster in Motion than the top of the line card Apple sells today.by John Foley - Motion Re: Motion VS. After Effects - 15 years agoEither way will be helpful. If you choose to learn After effects first, what you learn will be somewhat applicably to Motion. Since most employers ask for someone who is expert in After Effects, this might be a best way to start out. All compositing tools are similar; layers - keyframes,etc, but after learning AE then go into Motion as it makes doing about 75% of all compositing jobs easier anby John Foley - Motion |
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