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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Got Leopard? Post your problems/joys/thoughts here - 16 years agoWireless problemsby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Got Leopard? Post your problems/joys/thoughts here - 16 years agoI just read this on Google news titled --Blue screen of death-- Ouch click hereby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: I am interested in this skater dolly - 16 years agoThis is what I made and it works perty good I got 3 lengths of 10 Foot X 1 1/2" PVC- Layed them next to each other- in the center tube I shoved a straight 1X2 wood board into it the whole length- the wood make the PVC very ridged -(no wiggles -) Then I screwed 3 " sheet rock screws into the PVC from the sides into the wood- many screws- both sides-- Then I made a carriagby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: .mov files in HD won't open in QT/FCP - 16 years agoTry this Select the window and hit shift W a couple of timeby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Dual monitors showing difference in color - 16 years agoI have 2 Samsung Syncmasters 930b- they match perfectly - The colors look better than any glass computer monitor that I have used-- they came with a program that is called Sync something??( can remember) it worked real good-- I am happy with the monitors except Samsung screwed me out of the $200 rebate that I was supposed to get back-- I will never buy anything from them again--Jayby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: The mighty mouse... - 16 years agoMy 89 year old father got his First computer a IMac- It came with the Mighty Mouse -- He had never touched a computer before getting this Imac-- I live a state away so I had to help him on the phone- and talk him threw using a computer -- The mighty mouse caused Hours of problems - From my father had the mouse turned Backwards -LOL to the Might Mouse is Hard to use because of Very pby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Slow timeline - 16 years agoCarlos try these things-- this is from the Tutorials section of LAFCPby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Tapeless movie -- - 16 years agoHi All -- I just worked on a crew - Zero tape used went 100 percent to Disks - FCP Studio and a new G5 intel - 55 MBs a second to 3 internal drives - San disk- Only for back up - 4.5 gigs ram - Apple -FCP --Worked Perfectly - One file -the first day of was bad - (Bad drive ) Everything else work flawless -- Cam JVC 250 HD 24p Kona card WD internal drives -by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Ghostly effect in FCP 4.5? - 16 years agoFCP 4.5 has the same Effects as Newer FCP -- You just need to play around with effects settings - Try this - put 2 video tracks of the Same clip- Then Lower the Opacity by dragging Opacity Blue Line Down on V2 Then in the Motion Tab increase the Size of V2 by 5 percent - Drag the clip V2 by few frames out of sink - Adjust to taste -Add filters ect ---Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Weird Audio Issue - 16 years agoWhen I have had audio problems in the past- trashing FCP user preferences has fixed it- this was not on FCE or Imac tho--Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Files going off line - 16 years agoHey Thanks Derek Dumping the Thumbnail Cashe seems to have fixed it-- Thanks for your Time and Help --Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Files going off line - 16 years agoHi All I am having some wacky things going on with some of my files-- I started FCP and had my external OWC 800 firewire drive shut off- FCP finished loading and many of my files wear off line- I shut down FCP turned on the FW drive and restarted FCP- Now a bunch of files show up in the browser as being Off Line- But if I click on the Offline files they- the off Line red thumbnaby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Tip of the week for editors with failing eyesight. - 16 years agoMy Eyes Thank You for that tip Jude---Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Range Select Tool - 16 years agoThanks for your help Andy- Tom -Loren you all are Awesome-- Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Range Select Tool - 16 years agoWhen using the Range Select Tool in the timeline Once I click on Anything other than the part of the clip that gets Highlighted from the Range select tool (brown) there is no markers of any type visiable-- so I can not tell where the TL was selected Is there a setting that I need to enable for Range Select markers to Stay Visible ??? Thanks for your time --Jay -- FCP 5.04by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: YOUTUBE VIDEO QUALITY - 16 years agoHi kjoski For some reason when using H264 on Youtube I get a similar gray glitch that you had at the beginning of your clip- Others have reported the same problem on YT- It dose not always happen but usually dose- and I have had it last up to the first 3 seconds of the program- The same exact file uploaded to Google video have always worked fine- no glitch-- Dose anyone else gby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Go Daddy? - 16 years agoI used Go Daddy and gave them my real cell phone number and got slammed with calls from people trying to sell me crap the next day Not godaddy stuff I had to call godaddy and threaten them to get it to stop- so keep this in mind--Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Cost effective miniDV camcorder based firewire FCP library capture/migration. - 16 years agoHi All the station I work for we have 20 DV cams that are run perty much 24x7 for 5 years and we had Very little problem with head ware- The hand straps are frayed and the control markings are worn off and the cams just keep chugging along- The main problem we have had is from the use of mixed brands of tape clogging the heads but this is not such a issue now - If I shot the tape Iby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Becoming an OSX expert..... - 16 years agoLynda.com has OSX training ONLine - I think it was 8 hours long - I watched it and I learned alot-- Lynda.com has bunches of online classes and Many of them are Very Good- Larry Jordan dose the FCP classes-40 plus hours - $25 a month -Sweet- --Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: OT: YouTube and "user-generated" (amateur) content - 16 years agoBelly Laff -- Thanksby Jay Beeson 1 - Show and Tell Re: Each clip is a nest!!!?? - 16 years agoOOOPs you hold down the Option Key not the command keyby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Each clip is a nest!!!?? - 16 years agoHi All this is how to return nests to clips --- Highlight nest in timeline - (or in bowser browser ? --) then drag on the nest - (move short distance -) Then While you are dragging nest-- Hold Down Apple key and drag to Viewer -- If you hit Apple key before starting to move nest -- - It Wont work - -- Jay -by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Mac Book Pro - 16 years agoThanks Michael -- You told me what I needed to know = I guess I should have asked When the last Mac Books came out-- Thanks --Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Mac Book Pro - 16 years agoHi All A friend of mine is going to get a Mac Book Pro --17 inch for FCP Do you know if there are any features that may be added soon-(3months) to the Mac Book Pro that would be better to wait for -- Several different screens are offered -- which one do you Like ? -- Thanks--Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: External Drive won't mount - 16 years agoHey Harry Have you tried unpluging FW drive from Mac- unplug power to drive also- shut down mac - wait 5 minutes and hook drive back up and reboot -- Clicking sound like others have said is likely to be drive dying - But I have seen the unplug drive thing work - Worth a try ---Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: FCP2 and Sound Track Pro2 Interface - 16 years agothe first time you highlight audio and right click and choose- -Send To --STP after fixing audio you do a-- Save -- then any changes you made in STP will be Updated in your FCP project need to make more changes More changes -- use-- Open in Editor --from this point forward and your audio will be opened in STP automatically - Make changes and Save and audio file updates in FCP -- Jay-by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: YouTube Format? - 16 years agoLast week I read that YouTube is switching to H264 -- All of there previous videos are going to be switched to H264 also - they must keep a copy of organial file sent to them before converting to Flash-- 3 months or so ago H264 did not work on YouTube-- since then YouTube has become Much more H264 friendly - YT plays H264 perty good now-- In a post about 2 months ago I wrote aboutby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Spring Cleaning -- - 16 years agoHi ALL Its that time of year again -- Hot --Time for Spring Cleaning- My G5 was making Lots of fan noise so I did dust removal and now my Mac is Quiet again --AAhhhhhh I had not looked around that much in my G5 -- Size of heat sink surprised me - its huge Small amounts of dust make a big difference --Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: way OT iTunes issue - 16 years agoHi Sean Firefox has been crashing on me after upgrade to 2 plus-- Today FF released a upgrade --Maybe the fixed problems--Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: approprieatte codec - 16 years agoIt is important to test the codec you use-- Dont take it for granted that the Video sites you use will work well with H264 -- Many Dont -- Some problems that happen when the site is not Happy with H264-- Blocky Gray artifacting -- Really Bad -- usually at first of video -3-5 sec. then it usually clears -- not always tho -- Really wacky audio glitches -hard to discribe - audio speedsby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA |
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