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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Audio keyframe fade too short? - 17 years agoThe physical controls that control voltage (called "potentiometers", whether rotary or sliders) are made with a "taper", either linear or logarithmic, depending on the application. For audio purposes, they have a logarithmic (aka exponential) taper, to more closely emulate the response of the human ear, which is what we're all adjusting for. With a linear taper, put the dialby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: THIS GROUP ROCKS - 17 years agoNo, the answer is "you should be evaluating this on an NTSC monitor." Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Audio keyframe fade too short? - 17 years agoA lot of people complain about the "curvy" audio keyframe ramp, and they want a "straight" one. Keep in mind that the reason it is "curvy" is that it represents a logarithmic effect on the sound, which sounds to anyone's ear as though it is a "straight" line fade. That's the nature of sound and human ears. FCP is being "truthful" about how theby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Software tool for drop out - 17 years agoYou might be thinking of Digital Heaven's $10 plugins, one of which will fix pixel dropouts, not sure if that applies to your problem. Check them out at . Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: fcp gets stuck allocating space on external disk for capture - 17 years ago<<the internal drive 2, but it's full...>> It had better not be "full" in any sense, with less than 10% space free. FCP needs ALL the connected drives to be running cool and relaxed, as in not close to maxed out. Especially the system drive, which is busy with virtual memory and its own scratch space while FCP is doing the very intensive task of capturing video. Shane'sby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Stuck CD/DVD door - 17 years agoMy Powerbook did that occasionally before the drive gave up entirely. I would "eject" the drive from Finder, the drive would disappear from Finder, but the disk didn't come out, and like you I wondered how to tell the computer to eject it when it didn't recognize that there was a disk in. The solution turned out to be to simply reboot, and when the computer came back up it recognizedby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Optical port - 17 years agoIf that works, does that mean I can plug my camera into the headphone jack? IDTS... Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Can't delete media - 17 years agoDid you run out of room on the external drive while you were converting, and that's probably why FCP crashed? If so, try to free up a lot (10 GB) of space and try emptying trash again, using standard and exotic methods. You would have to be sure to do a "delete without going to trash" method to clear the space, otherwise you won't gain anything. Unfortunately, I don't know the commanby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: "Shimmering" pixels with TIFF files w/"Ken Burns" effect - 17 years agoDe-interlace won't accomplish anything on images from a still camera because they were never interlaced in the first place (as a freeze frame from video would be). Sometimes the "Flicker" filter will help your problem. Daniel's advice is good but it can be render intensive. What I've found to be very effictive is to use the "deflickerator" action in Photoshop on the imagesby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Can't find movie file. - 17 years agoIf you are in the habit of Quitting FCP without closing all open projects first, it will try to open the last project when you start it up. Looks like the last project you worked on was one of the ones you cleared out. You might be able to "Forget" the missing file in the dialog, but mainly try to Close Project until the slate is clean and then Quit FCP. Next time you start, it shoulby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Photoshop Buttons to DVD SP 3 - 17 years agoWhen you are importing a PS file that has layer effects (such as drop shadow, bevel & emboss, etc.) into applications like FCP, and I suspect DVDSP, you must take a special step first before saving in PS. Put a blank layer below the layer you have the effect on, then highlight that effect layer and do Merge Down. The net result would seem to be the same as you had before, but now the layerby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: new to mac - 17 years agoI don't think you can run a Mac laptop with the lid down - it puts the OS to sleep. But I would highly recommend an external keyboard and mouse anyway, so you can park the computer out of your way if you like. However, many Macs (don't know about Macbook Pro) allow you to split screen real estate among different monitors, so you might be able to have some FCP windows on the Mac and others on thby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Formula for Flash Frame - 18 years agoGood free plugins at includes Flash Frame, a great little transition that is easily controlled. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: to upgrade or not to upgrade... - 18 years agoPaul, I'm glad you chimed in. I can't make use of this deal right now, but I'd hate to have it be discontinued before I got a chance to take advantage of it. How long will this offer be open? I would have to go the expensive way, upgrading from FCP 3, and I'd hate to find it suddenly even more expensive. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: IMPORTING MUSIC FROM ITUNES - 18 years agoI think the trick here is to make sure you burn to CD as AIFF. In your burning preferences in iTunes, make sure the Disk Format is "Audio CD". Then burn it again and it should show on the CD in Finder as yoursong.aif. Now it should work in FCP, although I prefer to convert it to 48 kHz first. Be sure you copy the file from the CD to a logical place on your hard drive before importinby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: HELP! Capture problem AGAIN never solved - 18 years agoThere is a "reset" of FCP available, and it's called "trash your preferences". Worth trying. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Crashed Drive Emergency and Advice - 18 years agoThere are so many different things it could be with so many different ways to go, but I'd try Disk Warrior first. It recovered a drive that had gone useless on me without a hitch. All other remedies are expensive both to your wallet and to the data on the drive, and you might as well begin with the simple solution. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Stills - 18 years agoThanks, Loren! We're on the right track. I'd love to see your analysis of optimum digital photo handling. FYI, my Nikon Coolpix 5700 (5 MP) gives me 2560 x 1920 pixels @ 300 dpi in "Fine" JPEG mode, which is what I use most often. I've had good luck using them in video, but probably not as efficiently as I could. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: rendering - 18 years ago<<Also, would runnining low on space on both the external and internal drives cause the seq to drop frames?>> Run like the wind away from this situation. As Derek says, no less than 10% free on ALL connected drives. Insufficient room on a media drive causes headaches, like you're having, running out of room on the system drive can cause catastrophes that can be very hard to recoverby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Stills - 18 years agoLoren, I believe the discussion was about images from a digital still camera, so the starting point in terms of pixels and dpi is fixed from the beginning. Scanning gives you a whole different set of choices and decisions, but the requirements for the final outcome are the same. I almost never scan for the purposes of creating still images myself, but it does bring up the question of where scaby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: external drive - 18 years ago<<Going off of the 1 gig/minute,...>> Where did you get that figure? For DV, it's more like 13 GB/hr, so 90 minutes of DV will take about 20 GB. However, that doesn't mean you're good to go with your internal drive. You never want to fill a drive more than 90%, especially the boot drive, and your renders will eat up a lot of space beyond that 20 GB in no time. And trying to serviby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: What is a GENERAL ERROR - 18 years agoIt sounds like you have a corrupted clip or sequence. Try taking the problem clip offline, then recapture it. Or even before that, make a new sequence and do a copy/paste of the clips in your old sequence into the new one, and see if that makes a difference. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Partitioning - 18 years agoHaving your media directed to a separate partition on your boot drive does NOT qualify as having it on a separate drive for the reasons of splitting the disk access load - it's the same physical platter, using the same read head, they have to take turns for access, no benefit. In fact, as you're finding, it becomes a liability. Direct your media to a completely separate drive, and don't botherby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: dissolving stills - 18 years agoShane, I'm not having any luck accessing that web site - says the page doesn't exist. Any clues? Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Stills - 18 years agoIt should have the extension ".atn", identifying it as a Photoshop Action. Have Photoshop running and double-click the file you downloaded (unstuff it first if necessary) and it will install itself. Open the Actions tab (Window -> Actions) and you should find Deflickerator there. Finish all of your still image machinations (size, color, etc.) then highlight Deflickerator and pressby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Stills - 18 years agoTony, I've never been too strict about my picture dimemensions. You're trying to not waste FCP's resources, but exact precision is not necessary. To double the dimensions of video 720 -> 1440 wide, 480 -> 960 high gives you room to zoom in somewhat and do a little panning left-right or up-down without losing resolution, but there's no need to hit those numbers exactly. On a vertical imaby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: Stills - 18 years ago<<.I entered in 1440in x 1080in and it froze my system. >> Not inches, pixels. You'll have to type in "px" after each dimension, it defaults to "in". Photoshop was trying to make a truly gigantic picture. Make this dimension a Preset and you'll be in business. Howeer, there's no need to make the shape of your oversized image the exact same shape as the video fby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: hassles while shooting! - 18 years agoThe complete spiel: "Hi, I'm Alan Smithee and we're shooting a mayonnaise commercial." Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: unable to export - 18 years ago<<Can you feel the love in the room???>> *Blush* I'm feeling all fuzzy.... Well, good. With my now crystal clear hindsight, that was obviously the first thing to try. So same project, just new sequence. As I said, if this was a more visible thread, someone else would probably have hit on that suggestion much earlier. But I'll be happy to take the credit, with my THE MAN badge.by Scott Taylor - Café LA Re: unable to export - 18 years ago<<I see that you are truly intrigued.>> I am easily amused.... <<progress dialog box ALMOST appears, I can see it flicker, then it's done.>> Oh. That would have been good to know from the beginning, would have headed off speculation about your timeline not having any content. General error when FCP tries to play it? Probably reacting to the fact that it's an incompleby Scott Taylor - Café LA |
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