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Re: Sudden screeching Audio with headphones on - 13 years ago
Interesting idea, but the fact the original post talks about screeching in the headphones and a responder talked about having to turn his audio board off makes me doubt the UPS reason. That and my hazy memory of my own experience with it. There was something to reset....by Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Sudden screeching Audio with headphones on - 13 years ago
I have a vague memory of a post about this a year or two ago, and it happening to me, and a cause (and solution) being discovered. Isn't that handy? I did a form search for "audio screech" and got only one hit that wasn't it. Not sure how else to search. Does that tickle anyone's memory? Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: masking a small area of video - 13 years ago
You say it's a stage curtain, is there another section of the shot where the stage curtain is in the same vertical plane, but without the sign? You can mask out the sign (with feathering), and put a copy of the clip behind it, moved down to show the "good" curtain in its place. Or look at CHV's Repair Collection. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Black out screen - 13 years ago
Sometimes it's a simple as just pressing Esc.by Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Batch List Bungle - 13 years ago
My advice on this has always been: export a batch list from a real project, and see how it is formatted, then follow it exactly. FCP is monumentally picky about the format, as you know, and it may have changed its own preferences by ver 7. This technique ought to reveal the problem (but there are no promises). Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Capture Problems - simple fix?? - 13 years ago
MPEG is a free application, and worth many times the price. Get it here. It will take the video/audio right off the DVD as files, no real-time capture issues. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: FCP to Blu Ray - 13 years ago
QuoteJenFor some reason I am not receiving replies via email even if I click on the send replies to me via email? And of course, make sure you have your email address spelled right in your profile. It's always something. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Importing an Excel FCP Log - 13 years ago
I would even suspect an extra blank line at the end of the file you're trying to import. FCP is very picky about the format of batch files. Rich said it "finishes exporting" and then gives the error, so if that perception is correct it may mean everything was fine until the end. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Erasing a drive and getting back "Full" capacity - 13 years ago
Zero out or 7 pass stuff is only for security - to make sure that no one could hack that drive and extract data that had been "deleted." It has no bearing on how much free space is made available, and is a waste of time to use unless you're doing top secret stuff. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Quicktime compatibility with FCS 1 - 13 years ago
Thanks for stepping up, Jude! I have that same "vague" memory of a problem, that's what concerns me. I was hoping to hear from someone who was running that combination, successfully or unsuccessfully. If the "problem" is merely annoying, I can live with it, but I want to avoid a show-stopper. OK, I could go ahead and upgrade and see what happens, but that leads to 2 moreby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Quicktime compatibility with FCS 1 - 13 years ago
I really wish someone had at least an opinion. Is anyone here running FCP 5.1.4 with QT 7.6.4, and loving it? Or hating it? The question really goes beyond my silly iPod. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Super Mag error - 13 years ago
Yes, I had the same problem with that and the email link got me going. Apparently a lot of people had a problem, as the original email announcing it anticipated it. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Quicktime compatibility with FCS 1 - 13 years ago
I'm a little behind the times, running FCS 1 (5.1.4), Quicktime 7.6, OSX Tiger 10.4.11, all on a Mac Pro quad core. My new iPod I got for Christmas won't work with the iTunes I have (8.1.1), it wants ver 9. I hesitate to upgrade iTunes because I believe it is going to want me to upgrade QT as well, to 7.6.4. I get this impression from a recent post from someone running into this requirement whby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: can't open FCP files - 13 years ago
No problem, glad we could help you help yourself. The dot releases of FCP almost all modify format at least slightly, resulting in lack of backwards compatibility, so exact version matching is required. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: can't open FCP files - 13 years ago
There was this thread last summer about this problem, but curiously enough it was started by davko himself, and he said he solved it. And so?by Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: can't open FCP files - 13 years ago
Isn't this a known bug in a certain version of FCP? Give us your program specs and recent update history. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Monitor screen goes BLACK upon FCP start-up?!* - 13 years ago
Try pressing Escape, which will take you out of Digital Cinema Desktop if you are in it. This happens to me some times, and I still don't know how FCP got left in that state. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Missing media file - 13 years ago
I'm of the same mind, but have a couple of thoughts. If you haven't emptied the trash since your discovery, have a look in there. And Disk Warrior may help here, if the file is "missing" because it fell out of the directory for some reason. I.e., it may be still there but the file structure isn't recognizing it, and that's something Disk Warrior addresses. Still suggests a failing dby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Time & Date stamp from P2 card problem - 13 years ago
Like I said, it was a threadjack . I was talking about the general issue of DV start/stop detect, and the speculation that FCP used date/time metadata to detect it, so why can't it give us access to that metadata? Like Shane said, who knows how FCP does start/stop detect, but it sure looks like it's not from this metadata. I was surprised to learn no other NLE gives that data either, so itby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Time & Date stamp from P2 card problem - 13 years ago
A bit of a threadjack: QuoteShane saidThat is metadata that FCP simply does not see. No way to get FCP to show you that information, but how else could it do start/stop detect without it? That's always bugged me, that it apparently captures that data in some form or other but can't/won't let you work with it. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Audio from 50s 60s - 13 years ago
For the audio, Izotope's Vinyl is a free plugin that gives you lots of control over making something sound old and crappy. It was designed for music, to make it sound like it's being played on an old scratched record, but it might work just fine for your purposes. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Audio playback problem - won't play without rendering - 13 years ago
QuotejwilliamEven if they were '.dv' files, wouldn't running them through compressor and switching them to a ProRes codec resolve the problem? I would have thought so, yes. I don't work with ProRes so I have no wisdom there. Your workaround is what I would have suggested next. The fact that they had the extension .mov can be misleading, it's the actual file format inside that counts. Itby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Audio playback problem - won't play without rendering - 13 years ago
This sounds just like what happens if you bring clips that were captured in iMovie into FCP - the audio needs rendering every time you make the tiniest change. Those clips from iMovie have the extension .dv, which is DV Stream. Given the "unknown provenance" of those clips, anything is possible. I don't think it's the audio sample rate that is giving you the grief, it is more likelyby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: General Error? - 13 years ago
I'll add one more possibility: you're running out of space on one of your attached drives, and it doesn't have to be your media drive. Your system drive especially will matter here - don't let it fall to less than 10% free. The system drive does a lot of housekeeping and temporary storage during intensive operations (like rendering a big project) and it needs lots of elbow room. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Jay's Big List of Things I would like to see made Better - 15 years ago
QuoteJay begged:Also put the More and Less triangles on Both sides of the adjustment controls- there is no reason to have to be moving back and forth to Raise and lower filter adjustments - Like in the Chroma keying filter -Ouch I bet Many people do not know that you Can Click on the miniature Triangles to make adjustments Good ideas. It took me a long time to discover those microsby Scott Taylor - FCP Feature Requests
Re: search question - 13 years ago
I don't use the search enough to know if this is the case here, but I wonder if you have used an unfortunate character to search for. "*" is typically used as a wild card character in a search string, and if so I would expect searching for "***" to confuse it. Try changing a few to "+++" and see if it works better. That might also be seen as a special character, sby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Closing all Bins in Browser - 13 years ago
Then what is an "open bin", and what is the "close all bins" command supposed to do? Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Recorded Computer Monitor flicker - 13 years ago
Quoteif the DP blows it, you're hosed in post. This is priceless.by Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Zippy Mac...not so much.. - 13 years ago
Hey, Koz, nice to see your shining face again. I don't have a lot of help to offer, but I've noticed the same effect of getting "older and slower" in lower end Macs, like a couple of half-basketball iMacs I used to have. A Mini probably qualifies for this category. Restarting would usually improve performance somewhat, but not for long and not as much as I wanted. I could never beby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Problems with FCP in Canvas window - 13 years ago
Someone else described something like your second problem on this forum a few weeks ago, and it has happened to me as well. Don't know the cause, except that it seems to happen after I have brought a different application to the front for a while, then resumed my editing in FCP (I am using ver 5.1.4). You don't need to restart FCP to clear it, just close the sequence and open it again. Thisby Scott Taylor - Café LA
