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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: Need help cleaning up drive before delivering project created in FCP 7 - 10 years ago> The problem is that I'll be turning over the drive to the client and I'm concerned that they will be like. WHAT THE HELL > WAS SHE THINKING? What kind of producer is she??? You'll look a lot worse if you decide to muck with the files now and something goes offline and you can't deliver on deadline. Normally, the time to fix up a project is at the start, when you devise a working syby derekmok - Café LA Re: Need help cleaning up drive before delivering project created in FCP 7 - 10 years ago> But, I am now facing the task of organizing, managing the files and deleting what isn't necessary Do not, do not delete anything until you've backed up every single bit. Bad file management results in things like duplicate file names with different content, and trigger-happy deleting is how you miss project deadlines and lose vital files. Is your project done? If not, you might wantby derekmok - Café LA Re: organizing photos in FCP 7 project - 10 years ago> The project now finds these photos without any trouble, but it seems fairly disorganized to have them scattered in different folders. Depends on how many. Twenty folders with no seeming logic -- yeah, too many. Three folders separated by, say, which stock-footage company each set comes from? Not too many. Relying on folders only to organize things is not a good idea, though. You neby derekmok - Café LA Re: Getting frame jump cutting back from still to video underneath. Any help much appreciated. - 10 years agoYou can't edit H.264 clips directly in FCP7. You'll get a lot of problems. Convert everything to ProRes first.by derekmok - Café LA Re: 4K TV's, but few 4K Cameras?? - 10 years ago> In order to perceive the resolution in 4K you need to be about one screen height from the display. I'm pretty sure it's a lot more than that. A distance of two feet is nothing. Most of us sit close to two feet away from our computer monitors. My own widescreen TV (31" ) is almost 10 feet away.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Compressor and Clusters - 10 years ago> I can't go back to .mts Why? Did you lose the files?by derekmok - Café LA Re: Compressor and Clusters - 10 years ago> Clip Wrap wont' do pro res Not true. This is what I use ClipWrap for, exclusively -- converting MTS AVCHD files to ProRes for editing. One step and it's done. "Rewrap" is only one option out of many available in ClipWrap. In the case of MTS files and FCP7, a simple rewrap isn't what you need.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Compressor and Clusters - 10 years agoWhy go through Compressor at all? Just convert to ProRes straight from ClipWrap.by derekmok - Café LA Re: "The project has been modified externally" WTF? - 10 years agoFCP7 has a substantial number of bugs when it comes to project files and permissions. Just do a Save As under a new name, quit the application, and then re-launch and re-open the new copy. There's a good chance the issue will just disappear.by derekmok - Café LA Re: BEST PHOTOSHOP FILE SIZE FOR FCP-HD - 10 years ago> The graphic artist restoring the photos is insisting that the files need to be delivered to me in 300dpi and "really big" The graphic artist is wrong, but not completely. ppi (pixels per inch) only matters at the scanning stage, when you had an image of a fixed physical dimension and you're deciding how many pixels to devote to representing each inch of image. But once the iby derekmok - Café LA Re: Re-naming / logging clips. - 10 years agoDon't ever rename the FCP clips. In fact, right now I'm in editing hell because a previous editor on a short film renamed all the FCP clips "Sync 1", "Sync 2" -- but never bothered to rename the actual audio files so that you have duplicate file names on every single day, so that Day 4 audio is now relinking to Day 1 files, and so on. I'm having to rename those and then forcby derekmok - Café LA Re: the New Mac Pro...Whatda think - 10 years agoI really think the cylinder design is style over substance. The idea of a heavy CPU having a slippery, curved outer chassis seems like a choice to go for sexy rather than practical. And when you're transporting it, you can forget about laying it on its side -- it will roll around and get damaged much more easily.by derekmok - Café LA Re: It's been six days, I'm at my wits' end... - 10 years agoHave you tried turning all the PNGs into TIFFs or JPEGs? PNGs are supposed to work fine in FCP, but I've had properly profiled RGB TIFFs fail until I resaved them as PSDs or JPEGs.by derekmok - Café LA Re: It's been six days, I'm at my wits' end... - 10 years ago> I did move just the media for the current project to that external 2TB drive, cutting off all the other media on my RAID. Did you dismount the RAID? What other peripherals do you have hooked up? Are you on a network?by derekmok - Café LA Re: It's been six days, I'm at my wits' end... - 10 years ago> would reason dictate that it has to be media that is common to all the projects? Not definitively. > If I can already render successfully in small chunks, how will I know when I've found the corrupt media? If you keep being able to export successfully piecemeal, then either there's no corrupt media, or the problem will resurface at some point when you put back in a specific chuby derekmok - Café LA Re: It's been six days, I'm at my wits' end... - 10 years agoAlso, try a simple Media Manager trim (create new media). That may create new media that doesn't contain the corruption. Corruptions often carry over to resaved versions, but this would be a fast, relatively painless test that has a chance of vaulting you over the deadline. If it works, you can get the show out and figure out the underlying problem later.by derekmok - Café LA Re: It's been six days, I'm at my wits' end... - 10 years agoDeb, you haven't given us the specs for your media. The fact that you were having problems across multiple applications, multiple software reinstalls, multiple editing systems and even multiple media drives -- added to the fact that the system was working just fine prior to this -- suggests to me that there's something inherently wrong with your media. Have you performed surgery on the media?by derekmok - Café LA Re: Moviola or Video Symphony - SCAL - 10 years ago> The difference between tutorials and the "tips and tricks" or some troubleshooting steps on the internet is that you will > very likely end up with crucial knowledge gaps about the functionality of the software. Not just that, but you miss out on the philosophy of why certain things are done. I had an assistant one time who was doing "stringouts" of dailies, but sby derekmok - Café LA Re: Moviola or Video Symphony - SCAL - 10 years agoInternet tutorials are no substitute for real in-person instruction. If you can afford the classes, take the classes. Blind reliance on internet resources is one big reason why so many beginner editors don't know what they're doing.by derekmok - Café LA Re: matching clips to sequence settings - 10 years ago> but it won't auto-match the clip fps, just the size? Not true. That function matches all the parameters. However, your real problem is that you're trying to use a clip that's completely unviable. 15fps is not a frame rate available in FCP. You need to use Compressor, MPEG Streamclip or something similar to convert clips with that spec.by derekmok - Café LA Re: matching clips to sequence settings - 10 years ago> FCP7 here, in the generals i can't see that option. User Preferences - Editing - Auto conform sequence.by derekmok - Café LA Re: How to convert .mts MPEG-1 to Quicktime or other compatible with FCP - 10 years agoRead the posts above.by derekmok - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: How to convert .mts MPEG-1 to Quicktime or other compatible with FCP - 10 years agoBrorsoft is spamware developed by an unethical company, which creates false identities to give its own products glowing reviews. Don't touch it. Read this:by derekmok - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: Multiclip Workflow - 10 years ago> I recall Panasonuc had a quirky naming convention, where 24p meant 29.976 with a standard pulldown. Panasonic has 24p (23.976fps with 2:3 pulldown added to make 29.97fps), 24pN (actual 23.976fps) and if I remember right, it also has 24pA (23.976fps with advanced 2:3:3:2 pulldown). Very confusing.by derekmok - Café LA Re: How to convert .mts MPEG-1 to Quicktime or other compatible with FCP - 10 years agoMTS files are usually AVCHD, which should show up in FCP7's Log and Transfer unless you -- or somebody else -- messed with the original file structure. I'm not sure if your FCP6 does AVCHD, however. You may need ClipWrap (www.divergentmedia.com) or Voltaic (www.shedworx.com). In my opinion, ClipWrap is definitely the superior of the two. At $50, it's really a pretty good deal.by derekmok - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: Handwritten effect... possible in FCP 7 ? - 10 years agoI'm no effects expert, so the editor in me almost wants to just suggest that you write on a whiteboard/sketchbook and then scan it or shoot it. If it's black on white, you can process the image to make it higher in contrast (and therefore more manipulatable). That means you'll get your customized human handwriting. Then you can animate it with masks.by derekmok - Café LA Re: I edited a sequence in mp4. Help!??? - 10 years agoConvert only the clips used in the Sequence, then conform manually using the dummy timecode.by derekmok - Café LA Re: In and Out Points - Handles - 10 years agoWhen you set In and Out points in Log and Transfer, you're telling FCP not to ingest anything outside of those points. So of course when your clips are created, those become the media limitations. If you want the whole clip to be available to you in editing, don't hit any In and Out points while ingesting.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Cool Feature ;-) - 11 years agoThat's FCPX, isn't it? "Something doesn't work. Just shut up about it."by derekmok - Café LA - X Re: Having trouble with FCP and Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3 - 11 years ago> When I bring the footage into FCP 7.0.3 it's playing down at what seems to be normal speed. If I bring the same footage > into After Effects it plays down at the correct (slow motion) speed. 59.94fps isn't "slow-motion" at "normal speed". 59.94fps at "normal speed" simply means more frames per second. What you're looking for is "overcranking"by derekmok - Café LA |
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