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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 Green screen havoc - 17 years agoHey all, I'm in the middle of a stupidly small budget green screen affair! $22 (australian) and counting So I'm sure you can all imagine my issues - shots not lit properly etc etc. Now I have managed to key out the areas I want to, but the image that remains has been heavily effected by the colour correction required. What I'm wondering (and assuming is possible) is a way to use theby jusrus - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro - Owners please help - 17 years agoI have a stock 15inch MBP 1.83. 1.5 gig of RAM (essential - 512 was painful). Funny, but I reckon its about as fast as my Dual 2ghz G5 with 2 gig. Just my opinion. I've done light capturing tasks to the internal 5400 with no problems, but any large work is done from an external FW drive. I love it.by jusrus - Café LA Re: How does one rip public domain videos from Youtube? - 17 years agoWorks beautifully. Not touching the legal aspect of it though.by jusrus - Café LA Re: OT - suggest an osX friendly printer that prints ON DVDs? - 17 years agoThis is the guy I get mine from - he does a variety of different packages etc so just check his list - no affiliation with me at all either guys! I've ordered from him 3 times with no problems. My dad has ordered 2 other different types of cartridges from him. Quick, cheap and friendly. Hope posting an eBay link doesn't contravene LAFCPUG rule Justin.by jusrus - Café LA Re: OT - suggest an osX friendly printer that prints ON DVDs? - 17 years agoI have R210 - its a machine! Would estimate mine does 500 CD/DVDs a month. Its three years old now, have bought a new CD tray (Epson refused to give me one for free even inside warranty), but now does seriously good work. That combined with the fact I can get 18 cartridges from a supplier on eBay for A$52, as opposed to A$20 each at Officeworks, makes it by far the most useful and economicby jusrus - Café LA Re: HDV - PAL or NTSC? - 17 years agoOK, Think I getting a grip on this - thanks for all your input. Found quite a useful comparison here :- (Hope I'm allowed to post links?) So, a further question. I assume 50i and 60i refer to FPS? If so, if I film in 60i on an FX1, will I have issues down the track converting to anything that might be used in Australia (a PAL continent)? Has anyone done this? My impressions arby jusrus - Café LA HDV - PAL or NTSC? - 17 years agoHi all, Great to see the site looking so good - I've been MIA while O/S for a while. Currently in London, before heading to NYC next week - I have a bunch of questions for all you experienced people if you have a spare minute. I'm thinking about heading in the direction of the Sony FX1, or a similar Sony HDV camera. I know there are mixed reports, but I fairly settled this is what I'm aftby jusrus - Café LA Re: fw drive issues on macbook pro - 17 years agoHi Jazzy, I've pretty much just made exactly the same upgrade as you - Powerbook 867 to MBP 1.83. I've had no issues at all with Firewire drives yet. Did you perhaps run the software updates with the drive connected? This has been known to cause issues. It could also be that your firewire drive is on the way out - the issues you are having seem to suggest this. I would advise running TechToby jusrus - Café LA Re: DVD Authoring - 17 years agoThere is probably room for an interesting side discussion about the quality of DVD encoding by different applications within this thread My opinion is that iDVD is the worst, DVD Studio Pro is next, and Toast actually encodes better than all of them! Opinions? This is just my personal opinion, no maths, no research - just what my stuff looks like on my 51cm TV and DVD player! As for the problby jusrus - Café LA Re: FAQ Input needed : HD DVD - 17 years agoi think Aus actually are a bunch of early adopters - just ask Sony who I did a DVD for in 1999! My main television is a 51cm CRT that was $199 at Target. but I agree - everyone else has a bigger TV than me! Its all about telling a story. Hopefully well? Shot a music video clip (narrative) in 3 hours tonight - lets hope the story outweighs the single chip miniDV nature of it.... gonna edit iby jusrus - Café LA Re: Back Up (What's your Work Flow) - 17 years agoHi Shane, Do the math on the DVDs I guess - 4.2 gig a DVD, so really depends on how large your project is. My current project of 22.5 minute tv shows seem to take somewhere between 6-8 DVDs to backup. Takes about 8-9 minutes to burn full DVDs at 4x (safely), so its a process. However, for example, on the last ep I completed, the footage came from 21 different tapes/sources (yes I know), so i'by jusrus - Café LA Re: FAQ Input needed : HD DVD - 17 years agoI agree with this - I am traditionally an early adopter (just ask my partner and my MacBookPro) - but I think we are some way off jumping either way on this format. I have not sighted ANY commercial domestic products for HD downunder yet. Nick or Jude want to correct me here, cause I'd love to see it in action! J.by jusrus - Café LA Re: sony fx-1 hdv capture black screen - 17 years agoI can't wait for this FAQ Jude! going to help pro's and starters alike I think!by jusrus - Café LA Re: basic basic question - 17 years agocontrol-z is one of those - like 'n' for slipping. A quick incorrect key combination and its hell. Ironically the 'n' trick has caught me on both FCP and ProTools.by jusrus - Café LA Re: Back Up (What's your Work Flow) - 17 years agoThat was me - and no, I had no joy getting the data off the drive. I'm blaming it on the the fact the drives were set up in RAID 0 for speed, which seemed to throw off all of the backup programs - I'm happy to be corrected about this. As for point 2, I think my backup process is a little extreme, but I like it I set up FCP to save everything to one directory for each different project (ie renby jusrus - Café LA Re: Cyborg DVD - up to 50,000 gig - 17 years agoI love that this thread has now taken on a vaguely serious tone! My rule of thumb is that once the consumer stand alone market has decided, that is a good time to also jump. IE:- VHS vs BETA MiniDisc (never) DVD-R vs DVD+R etc etc. I won't be moving to Blu Ray or anything else anytime soon by my reckoning. J.by jusrus - Café LA Re: chapter markers in QT - or - something better than DVD fpr presentation - 17 years agoHey nick, guess what - my mate used Isadora....maybe give it a crack? He's still using the demo version, takes him 2 minutes to set up, only limitation is you can't save. US $350 could be well out of your budget.... Play sounds good - coming to Melbourne? As for Bad Boy Bubby, I remember it floating around, but can't remember if I ever got around to seeing it.... Good luck - let you knowby jusrus - Café LA Re: chapter markers in QT - or - something better than DVD fpr presentation - 17 years agoHey nick, This is a toughie...a mate of mine just did something like this. I prepared the FCP/QT files for him, then he imported them into a PC app (I will find out which one and get back to you) and he had it set up exactly as you wanted. All was well until his laptop HD died on opening night, but that's one of those things. I will ask and reply back! J.by jusrus - Café LA Sony HDR-HC3 HC3E? - 17 years agoReally? Excuse my possible stupidity, but is a HDV camera with a single chip lense a waste of space (and quite an expensive one at that?) Has anyone had any experiences with it?by jusrus - Café LA Re: JVC Enverio MG505 - 17 years agoI'd stay away from it from everything i've read here and elsewhere. Kinda similar to the DVD camcorders - you will have issues with file formats etc. And with all of these 'new' devices, the prices of dv cameras have dropped HEAPS - at least here in Australia. For low end family stuff, I'd still stick with a bog standard Canon miniDV My 2cby jusrus - Café LA Re: Urgent Audio pops - 17 years agoAgree with all of the above. Also (and this would definitely be the long way round), you could import the audio files into ProTools (or something similiar - this is all I know) and pencil the waveform at the pop (again depending on what the pop is). J.by jusrus - Café LA Re: Weird Melt Down - Now Can't Reinstall - 17 years agoHi Kevin, That does indeed sound pretty strange to me! Wish you'd taken a photo (with a camera!) of the machine melting! As for ideas, how about an external CD/DVD drive? Have you tried holding option on bootup to select your Tiger CD as the boot volume? Could the firmware be fried from the hard shutdown? this happened to me once on my PB 12 inch... Those just off the top of my head.... Jby jusrus - Café LA Re: noticing big trouble after accepting os X upgrade yesterday - 17 years agoYep, I agree with Jude - NOTHING plugged into the Mac when upgrading the OS. I've upped my Intel Machine, and the airport went wacky! So that's another thing to turn off too now I guess! Other than that though, FCP is flying. I haven't done the FCP upgrade yet - any reports?by jusrus - Café LA Re: MacOS X 10.4.7 shipping - 17 years agoAll fine and much better performance on MBP intel 15... G5 isn't going yet cause of protools...by jusrus - Café LA Re: Capture HVX200 to MacBook? - 17 years agoUm...15 inch MBP only has 1 firewire port.... unless you get a card.... Anyway, I can't exactly replicate your system, but I tried doing this yesterday 9ys I know you are not supposed to). It was only dv, not HDV (which the HVX200 is no?)... Anyway, camera -> icecube FW 400 250 gig drive -> MBP. Flawless. Couldn't make it fall over - opened other applications while capturing (includinby jusrus - Café LA Re: Lacie d2 Big Disk Extreme Data Recovery... - 17 years agoThanks for your tips Derek and Jude. Derek's didn't work - tried a few times with restarts in between, with no luck. Jude, I had already considered your option. There are two issues with that - the first that the company doesn't want to void there warranty (!), the second being that because there are two 3.5 inch drives configured in a RAID 0 array, I'm unsure as to whether they would work indby jusrus - Café LA Re: Lacie d2 Big Disk Extreme Data Recovery... - 17 years agoHey Steven, Thank for the tip - not sure if I have a machine with OS9 on it though! To keep all updated, TechTool is also unusable because it cannot see the volume on the drive, so looks like I might leave it going on File Salvage for 24 hours to see what it comes up with. I hope we all remember my 'vote no for LaCie' on the controversial (!) topic a month of so ago.... Any advice still appreby jusrus - Café LA Re: Lacie d2 Big Disk Extreme Data Recovery... - 17 years agoThanks for all your input. I have tried Disk Warrior, but it doesn't even see the physical drive, let alone the partition on it. I left Data Rescue II going overnight, still says 1000+ hours (and seems to be accurate given overnight reduced it by 8-9 hours), so I have stopped it and tried to recover what it had seen so far, and the files were garbaged. Going to try File Salvage now. Does anyoby jusrus - Café LA Lacie d2 Big Disk Extreme Data Recovery... - 17 years agoHi guys, I know you are all experts in data recovery, and I'm trying to help out a mate. It's a 500gig model (of course they didn't backup their data), upon plugging her in (tried FW800/400 and USB2) we get the dreaded "Mac OSX cannot recognise this volume, do you want to format/ignore/eject" message. Disk Utility shows the drive but not a formatted partition. Have tried both Data Rby jusrus - Café LA |
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