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Re: SONY .MPG files - 13 years ago
The FAQ covers this nicely under the question: No audio from movie file (MPEG) after I import. It truly is one of the most frequently asked questions. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: import a audio track from a CD - 13 years ago
Just to complete the list of tools for this, Quicktie Pro will do this very easily too, although I don't think you can do it as a batch. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: OT: Is it me or Share has always been there? - 13 years ago
Is it me, or did anyone else first read that as "Is it me or has Shane always been there?" How could anyone miss Shane? It's probably just me....by Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: d - 13 years ago
Derek's suggestion makes for the most useful forum experience, but it's easy to search for your own posts (or anyone else's). Click on Search (in the blue header line, not the box at the top). One of the search alternatives is by author (you!). I found close to a dozen of your recent posts doing this. It's also very useful to "Turn floating threads ON" so that the threads with theby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Field Audio - 13 years ago
I have an Edirol R-09 (no "Pro" designations) and I use it like you are wanting to. Not real often, but it's never let me down. I've never had any issues like Derek describes about bumping it or short battery life. It uses an SD card so it's easy to just plug it into a card reader and copy your stuff where you want it. It has a wide variety of settings for WAV/MP3 and sample rates.by Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: merging two sill shots - 13 years ago
Since this is a still image, Photoshop would be the best tool to use to combine the best part of two (nearly) identical images, before bringing it into FCP. Do you have Photoshop? Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: how can I do this like in PREmier ? - 13 years ago
FWIW, in early versions of iMovie (where I cut my NLE teeth) adding transitions "didn't need handles" because the transition "ate up" adjacent frames to create the transition. Yes it made actual handles "automatically", but it was a destructive process and was utterly useless for serious editing. Your sequence would get shorter by the length of the handles that hadby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Wildly OT, transcription software - 13 years ago
Funny, several months ago in a thread about being able to search for certain text within markers, I wanted to ask - tongue in cheek - if there was a way to search for certain words in an audio track. I guess that's not so far-fetched after all. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: browser limitation question - 13 years ago
Yes, a long-irritating bug. I believe the "solution" is to double-click the bin you can't see all the markers in, which gives you a new window dedicated to that bin, and then the scroll limitation goes away. Or maybe it just sets the bar further out; it's hard to know where the limit might be until you reach it, but so far I've never had this solution fail me. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: FCP Studio 7 - 13 years ago
A Powerbook has a PowerPC processor in it ... FCP7 requires an Intel processor. Do you really mean "Powerbook", or do you mean MacBook/Pro? Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: New free plugin for Final Cut: Gradients with transparency control - 13 years ago
It sounds like Alex is ready to start work on that "simulated car crash" plugin that was famously asked for about a year ago. I think he can do anything! Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Marker issue - 13 years ago
I recall a Browser issue about how many items could be displayed in a Browser window, and I think it was markers. It was totally illogical but there it was, and prevented you from doing more when you reached the limit. And IIRC, the solution was to double click the bin you're working in to put it in a new browser window/tab, and then the limit was gone. Don't know if this applies at all, but wby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Matching audio taped on a speaker phone (UGH) and live - 13 years ago
If your context will allow it, another approach would be to do the best you can with the speaker phone audio, then "degrade" the "good" audio to match by cutting off high and low frequencies. That is a much easier path than trying to make a silk purse out of that sow's ear you have, but only you know if that's an acceptable approach. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: general error 41 - 13 years ago
Are you sure you performed ALL the updates to FCP after you reinstalled it? Double check that it truly says 5.1.4; it would require the original install disks plus Software Update. Error 41 is usually an indication of file format incompatibility, which almost always happens every time FCP changes versions even slightly. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: FCP footage turns into green stripes with pink - 13 years ago
So you quit and reopen FCP to make it go back to normal. I assume it comes back after a while - is there any pattern to what you are doing in FCP that corresponds with this happening? Is there any pattern to how long your computer has been on (heat-related)? Does it do this all at once, or do the images just start to deteriorate and finally wind up looking like this? I suspect Vance is righby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: start/stop detection problem - 13 years ago
The little battery that keeps the date/time setting alive may be dead.by Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: looking for the trick of the week: replace a L3 psd without loosing transitions - 13 years ago
There's another way to accomplish a fade in or fade out without touching the clip at all - put a slug on a higher V track, and ramp its opacity from 100 to 0 (for a fade in) or 0 to 100 for a fade out. This is also a good way to do a fade in/out on a whole group of layered clips at once. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: OT: Math - Calculating Anchor Center - 13 years ago
You might ask this question in the Motion forum, as Mark hangs out there.by Scott Taylor - Motion
Re: Weird FCP black screen - finally solved - 13 years ago
I realize that my Video Playback was set to DCDP, and tends to stay that way until changed, but this had to be ALSO a case of External Video being set to All Frames, and my experience is that that gets reset to None just by coughing sometimes. I'm always having to set it back to All Frames. Except this time.... Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Weird FCP black screen - finally solved - 13 years ago
I had a very peculiar thing happen in FCP 5.1.4 yesterday, and I was getting ready to post a frantic question until I stumbled on the solution. This is bound to happen to someone else (probably already has) so I'll offer my workflow. I had been using FCP but had switched to other applications, while FCP was still open. When I switched back to FCP I got an utterly black screen. The dock wasby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Is that the Contrast? No, its the Gamma. - 13 years ago
Nice description, Jeff. I was able to visualize what you were talking about without seeing your scopes, but it occurs to me that this discussion would make a great tutorial with the relevant illustrations. Got time? Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Installing FCP: How can I make it go faster? - 13 years ago
Quotea couple of comments:Volume License. Ours is a single serial number. If that works, fine. But 2 machines on the same network trying to run the same S/N of FCP doesn't work under ordinary circumstances. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Fade out problem HELP - 13 years ago
Be sure to do that mixdown on your finished sequence as I described just before exporting. There was a debate here a few weeks ago on the merits of "recompress", but in general there is no good reason to do it, and good reasons not to - it just adds another compression hit. I doubt it has any bearing on your audio problem. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Installing FCP: How can I make it go faster? - 13 years ago
I'm not sure the system drive image approach is very practical - the same serial number would be on all machines, and I don't know of any way to change FCP's registration on a machine after it's been installed. For pure simplicity, how about put all the DMGs on a portable FW drive and take it to each machine? If you can get the install to look there for all of the "disks" you're inby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Fade out problem HELP - 13 years ago
Are you doing an "audio mixdown" before you export from FCP? The consequences of NOT doing it can be peculiar and unpredictable. Sequence > Render Only > Mixdown, or Cmd-Opt-R. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: OT: Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7 out now... - 13 years ago
QuoteBen!!Your link Takes me to the 10.5.6 KB page. Might this be part of the problem? It's not an upgrade at all (bwa ha ha ha and so forth). Or something. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Question about upgrading to Final Cut Studio 2 - 13 years ago
QuoteMark saidI won't be able to use some of my older programs ( Photoshop CS and After Effect 7) with this OS . Wait, what? These versions of these programs won't run on Leopard? Can you provide a reference? I'm using the Adobe Creative Suite 2 on a Mac Pro with Tiger; not the best performance since they aren't Intel-native apps, but they're perfectly adequate. Might they fail to work atby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Bin Sort Order Error - 13 years ago
"...that should only matter if I was sorting by clip name." Oh, duh! I missed that part. On the other hand, maybe you can force the sort you want by sorting by clip name (in this case, anyway), since you are carefully making them follow that order. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Capturing using camera cuts - 13 years ago
Well, it's easier than that; you can deal with them as separate clips right out of the Browser. Double click any of those markers in the Browser, and it will load just that subclip into the Viewer and you can edit it into the Timeline from there. You can go so far as to convert each of those marked clips to real independent subclips with Modify>Make Subclips or just Cmd-U. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
Re: Capturing using camera cuts - 13 years ago
I know of no way to do this during capture, but after you've captured a clip with camera cuts, use Mark>DV Start/Stop Detect to automatically generate markers at each cut. Scottby Scott Taylor - Café LA
