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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 not burn correctly - 18 years agoYou need either iDVD or DVD Studio Pro to turn a Quicktime .mov file into a set top playable DVD.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Running FCP 4.5 and 5.0 on the same system - 18 years agoHe would be best to run one version of OS X on one disk drive and another on a second drive. By that, I mean, Tiger is the optimum version of OS X to run FCP 5 on while Panther 10.3.7 or 8 is the best to run FCP HD on. Trying to run both would require 10.3.9 and Quicktime 7.01 which might cause conflicts with 4.5-HD. Other that that would be a crap shoot.by John Foley - Café LA Re: autosave wheel - 18 years agoLearn the "force quit application" keycombinations. You should NEVER power off MacOsX with it running. Cause untold grief. Use the Force Quit option when the beash ball runs - on and on and you can't stop it.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Flash to FCP - 18 years agoYou can output Flash as a Quicktime file and then EASILY bring it into FCP.by John Foley - Café LA Re: storing original material - 18 years agoI don't believe you can trust tape for many years. You may know that many films are stored in Utah in a Salt cave with proper temperature and humidity. Perhaps when HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc's come out with 20-50 GB of storage, you can transfer those file to a plastic disc. Now, how long will that plactic disc last? Remember that television was first recorded on a 2" Ampex tape recorder in thby John Foley - Café LA Re: burning a dvd - 18 years agoYou mean you can't burn DVD's from DVD Studio Pro? It has been a very long time since I used version 1 of DVDSP, but it should compile and produce two files (Video_TS and Audio_TS) before burning a blank. I would suggest you play the Video_TS folder in DVD Player to make sure the DVD content is correct.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Exporting again (compressor) - 18 years agoOutput a Quicktime file and compress it with MP4 in Compressor. That is one way. Sorenson Squeeze is the best way to make a Quicktime file ready for the web. 25 minutes is going to be a very big file to upload and are you sure anyone will watch it on the web (25 minutes)? Make sure you have a streaming server and if you want dial up users to watch it you will want to create a small and medium anby John Foley - Café LA Re: OT: FC Studio - $40 Bucks? - 18 years agoHey Kevin, Why didn't you tell us you were going there so that we could give you our orders? :-)by John Foley - Café LA Re: bringing solarized video from bin to timeline without change - 18 years agoCan you explaing what "solarizing" is? That is a term I am not familiar with. And how are you doing it to the clip while it is in the Browser bin? Are you bringing the image into the Viewer and then applying the solarization?by John Foley - Café LA Re: TimeLine Dissappeared - 18 years agoIt has always been this way. You must have a open project for the TimeLine and Canvas to be displayed. Try closing the current project - the TL/Canvas go bye-bye!by John Foley - Café LA Re: old cinema LCD vs. new - 18 years agoMy recollection was that the plastic LCD version lasted more that 2 years. It changed with the introduction of the aluminum cased G5. Wasn't that about 2004? I purchased my system and monitor in Jan 2002! I am guessing that the new LCD is slightly improved response time for frame to frame display, since all LCD's are getting faster as time moves along.by John Foley - Café LA Re: old cinema LCD vs. new - 18 years agoThere are reports that the plastic support leg at the rear of the older plastic encased units will eventually "break" and no longer stand up. I have had my 22" Cinema Display since I purchased the G4 dual 1.0 and it has developed maybe one pixel ON, not off problem. The picture is still lovely compared to the 21" CRT next to it and I like the coloration much better than a CRT.by John Foley - Café LA Re: External Hard Drive - 18 years agoI advised another poster here that IF you buy a LaCie Firewire drive, be sure you purchase it at a place that will take it back, if you encounter problems. LaCie has had very good fortune with penetration of it's marketing as everyone seems to think LaCie when they are looking for a drive. Some of the later products have had problems and I want to, in no way demean their product, just keep thatby John Foley - Café LA Re: FCP 4.5 w/QT 7.0.1 crash when logging - help - 18 years agoMany folks have had major problems using QT 7 with FCPHD (4.5). Apple even has a QT 6.5 restorer available because of this. I assume you are still on 10.3.9 using QT 7?by John Foley - Café LA Re: Can Timeline Scroll With Playhead? - 18 years agoYeah, If it was an easy thing to do, it would have been done before now. I think they are going to have to rewite Final Cut Pro in Cocoa one of these days to implement some of the nice features we have in Motion. As a few have mentioned; the underlaying datatbase of FCP needs a rewite- BADLY MediaManager needs a complete rewite as do many other features or I fear FCP will loose it's edge in thiby John Foley - Café LA Re: hdv questions - 18 years agoHDv and DV are about the same data rate. Since HDV is really MPEG-2, and it is HIGHLY compressed, by the way; you can run it off of one internal hard drive and maybe off Firewire. It comes in over Firewire from the HDV deck or camcorder and HDV and DV/DVCAM are totally different animals. One HDV device wih a Firewire connection to your MAC running FCP 5 or FCEHD and you're there. You can't reaby John Foley - Café LA Re: Multiclip Hell - 18 years agoMy suggestion is to go through the Multiclip tutorial provided with Studio or FCP 5. It has both media and instruction for learning Multiclip editing. A Multiclip is a psudo clip of the real clips in the browser. The Multiclip doesn't really exist except as a concept shown in the timeline. If each clip can play in the Viewer then I doubt your media is corrupted. The "Operation Not Alowed&by John Foley - Café LA Re: Storage recommendations????? - 18 years agoLike I said earlier, you can currently add up 1.6 Terabytes of RAID inside a G5. You could also choose to mount these drives in an external chassis but each drive needs it's own cable back to the MAC. If you can justify spending $10K up for a Fiberchannel RAID array, it could conceivably connect to more than one computer in the future. A SATA internal RAID will do SD with plenty of headroom - sby John Foley - Café LA Re: PIONEER A-109 - 18 years agoHe means a 4 Gigabyte data file - One file that will virtually fill up the DVD for a test burn of that full duration. As long as it says "xx-109" then you know you have a Pioneer 109 dual layer DVD-/+ burner. And don't confuse burning a DVD blank and playing a DVD movie. The burner uses different lasers to play and record.by John Foley - Café LA Re: PIONEER A-109 - 18 years agoI have installed a Pioneer A09 dual layer burner in an external enclosure and it works fine with 8x DVD-R media. Has the drive EVER worked yet? Does Toast SEE the drive as a Pioneer A09 or 109? If you are using Toast to make a "disk image" with a .toast extension then you need to burn it as DATA not a Video.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Storage recommendations????? - 18 years agoJoe, Will be traveling! That means a Powerbook or what? SATA is todays storage darling and you can get up to 1.6 Terabytes inside a G5. Serial ATA is very fast and way more reliable that Firewire. SCSI is old tech and the drives are very expensive compared to IDE or SATA. Fibrechannel is the BIG thing if you are doing HD uncompressed, but a RAIDed SATA setup can do limited amounts of HD uncompby John Foley - Café LA Re: Studio set-up advice... - 18 years agoChris, Yes those Sony deck prices are WAY OUT THERE. Traditionally, when you can't afford to own one, you can rent one to capture tapes into your MAC with an SDI capture card and downconvert to DV for edit -offline. After the edit is completed- rent the deck for onlining the content and printing to tape for delivery. If you are working in this arena, you will eventually make enough to own yourby John Foley - Café LA Re: Day for Night Shoot - 18 years agoIt has always been necessary to shoot film in bright lights or daylight and colorcorrect for night. Film emulsions can not record at low light. A few movies - have been successfully shot at night using highdef digital cameras and are convincingly good night shots. You really need to turn the sky black and then color correct for ground lighting. This is very tough to simulate.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Anti piracy software - 18 years agoNot to be a pessimist here about anti-copying DVD's; but download mactheripper which is a FREE tool to deconstruct CSS and Macrovision encoding for DVD's. This is to say that there are many ways to copy, copy protected DVD content and the reason that DVD's are under $20.00 is that it is cheaper to buy the DVD than copy it. The best copy protection mechanisms for CD and DVD have all been crackeby John Foley - Café LA Re: microphone into the G5? - 18 years agoKate, THe standard input to your MAC is a Line Level and any normal microphone is mic level which is much lower voltage and therefore won't plug "directly" into your MAC. There are a couple of very nice USB connected devices that can connect your microphone to your MAC. They are in the $200 - $250 range for very good quality sound. There are probably some cheaper ways to get sound intby John Foley - Café LA Re: FCP Studio and MAC OS - 18 years agoHere is my system and what I did: Quicksilver 2002 dual 1.0 GHz - 1.5 GB Ram - 80 GB boot disk. I removed the 80 GB boot disk to save the Panther install that has FCP HD and all those older versions of DVDSP and Motion. I am planning on putting it into a Firewire enclosure for boot backup to Panther. I replaced that disk with a 120 GB disk (which is the biggest disk that can be used natively oby John Foley - Café LA Re: FCP Studio and MAC OS - 18 years agoI have upgraded my Quicksilver 2002 dual 1.0 GHz MAC to Tiger 10.4.2 and Final Cut Studio. I can't speak for ProTools, but Digital Performer 4.6 works great!by John Foley - Café LA Re: FCP4 & Soundtrack 1.0.1 - 18 years agoSountrack Pro is well suited for sound cleanup and could be used for tracking but it is not intended to replace a true audio production system like ProTools. Actually, GarageBand could be used as a tracking application if the limitations are not a negative. Eight audio tracks, loops - a great starting place.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Beyond terabytes - 18 years agoYeah, with 500 GB drives starting to appear and those vertically stacked bytes Hitachi is talking up, we could conceivably see a one terabyte 3.5" disk drive in a few years. Unimaginable only 5 years ago.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Upgrade to 5 in middle of project? - 18 years agoFirst off, you don't mention which computer and operating system version you are on at the moment. FCP 5 requires, AT Least - 10.3.9 but I think it really is best to jump to Tiger for FCP 5. FCP 5 needs Quicktime 7 and there are people with mixed results on 10.3.9 and QT 7. If you have a need to move to FCP 5 while you are still working on an FCP HD project, I would suggest it is best to eitherby John Foley - Café LA |
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