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When outputting uncompressed video, some clips turn black. - 3 years ago
Hello Everyone! Thank you very much to anyone reading this. I am going a bit crazy here and am already past my deadline. I am making a sort of "slideshow" to a classical music concert on FCP7. So I have a music track from the sound engineer all finished and am editing still tiff photos to this with zooms and cross fades. I am making 4 separate films like this - each its own sequenby Robert - Café LA
How to convert canon xf305 footage (50Mbps MPEG2) for working in FCP7? - 3 years ago
Hello Everyone! Thanks in advance to anyone reading this. I will be renting a Canon XF305 and a Canon XF205 for a 2 camera shoot. The camera records in 50Mbps MPEG2 codec. I have never worked with this before and am trying to figure out how to convert the footage so I can edit it in my FCP7.0.3. I am working on a MacBook Pro from 2012 with an old operating system OS10.8.4, which I know makes tby Robert - Café LA
How to work with 96kHz - 24 bit audio file in FCP7? - 4 years ago
Hello Everyone! Many thanks in advance to anyone reading this. I am making a "slideshow" for a classical music concert. So I am taking still photo tiffs and am editing them into the timeline over the music. I am setting the timeline to Apple Pro Res422HQ, 30p, 1920x1080. (Just to be clear there is no video image to sync to the music.) I am confused as to what to do with the formatby Robert - Café LA
FCP7 - Problems with preserving image color and contrasts with AppleProRes422HQ output - 4 years ago
Hello Everyone, I am using FCP7 on my MacBook Pro (mid 2012) running on Mac OS10.8.4. In the menu I go to Export>Using Quicktime Conversion and use Apple Pro Res 422 HQ. The colors and contrasts are not the same as in my edit which is also in Apple Pro Res 422HQ. It is very frustrating as I spent hours color correcting my film and the output does not look as good as the video I see in the Fby Robert - Café LA
Re: tif or jpg for photos used in video? - 4 years ago
Hi Dennis, Thank you for your reply. You are right, the jittery is only on the vertical edge/border of the photograph against the light gray background of the frame. The photo (on V2 track) does not fill the frame and I made the gray background (on V1 track) using Solid Color Matte. On some photos I go in motion from about 88% to 92%. Others are 80% to 84%. My photos are usually about 1300xby Robert - Café LA
Re: tif or jpg for photos used in video? - 4 years ago
Hi Nick, Thanks for your reply. Yes I have rendered. In my sequences I have Motion Filter Quality: Best Render 10-bit material in high precision YUV. I also tried motion filter quality in "Normal" but it is not better. The edges of the image, which is smaller than the frame, are wobbly/shaky as FCP zooms in using motion tab functions. I zoom in about 4% of the scale size.by Robert - Café LA
Re: tif or jpg for photos used in video? - 4 years ago
Hello everyone, Loren I now see what you mean with wobbles and twitters on the zooms. I made my files much smaller, about 2100px wide. I show the complete photo and when I do a 4% zoom in over 5.5 seconds, the edges of the picture wobble and jitter. Is there any way around this? Loren, you had written the following but i do not understand what you mean with adding blur nor do I know how I wby Robert - Café LA
Re: tif or jpg for photos used in video? - 4 years ago
Thank you everyone for all of your generous help!! Best regards, Robertby Robert - Café LA
Re: tif or jpg for photos used in video? - 4 years ago
Hi Nick, Thank you very much for your help! I have tiffs. I scanned old prints on a flat bed scanner. So yes, staying with tiff sounds good. A few files I have as jpegs and yes it makes no sense to convert those to tiff. You say that if the images are very large, that FCP could struggle with the downscaling to 1920x1080px. My biggest images are 5200x3600pixels. Some of them I will zoom inby Robert - Café LA
tif or jpg for photos used in video? - 4 years ago
Hello Everyone! Many thanks in advance to anyone reading this. I am making a "slideshow" video on FCP7. So I am putting photos, color and black and white, on a timeline and then exporting an HD video in apple pro res 422 HQ. The photo files are all larger than 1920x1080. >QUESTION: Is it better to use photos in tiff format for the video? (In the photo world, tiffs are better ofby Robert - Café LA
Re: How to combine 25p and 30p footage on same timeline? - 5 years ago
Hi Dennis and Nick, Thank you both very much for your generous help! Thank you for your experimentation Dennis. That is a very smart way to test it with the clock. I agree with Nick, that the duped 25 to 30p looks smoother than the dropped frames. Nick, I have some more questions, if I may, with regards to what you wrote. >Converting to ApplePro Res with Log and Transfer: Q> Wheby Robert - Café LA
Re: How to combine 25p and 30p footage on same timeline? - 5 years ago
Hi Nick, Thank you very much for your reply and for your generous help! I very much appreciate this. WOW, this sounds complicated. I have not written you back earlier as it has taken me some time to try to understand all of this. And I do have several questions. Sync sound is important in the film, unfortunately. The film will consist mainly of interviews, filmed both with 30p in USA andby Robert - Café LA
How to combine 25p and 30p footage on same timeline? - 5 years ago
Hello Everyone! Thanks in advance to anyone reading this and to anyone with any advice. I am working on FCP 7.0.3 on a 15" MacBook Pro (mid 2012) on OS 10.8.4. I have about 400GB of HD footage shot on a Canon EOS5D mark2, which I am about to start to edit. I have recorded audio externally with a zoomH4n at 48khz, 24 bit. (Unfortunately the client wants to me to get this down to 9 minutby Robert - Café LA
How to import .srt subtitle file into FCP7? - 5 years ago
Hello All, I have my film edited on FCP7.0.3 on a MacBook Pro with OS 10.8.4. The translator has sent me the subtitles in the form of a .srt file. I am hoping there is a way to import this .srt into my fcp and that the subtitles will be placed automatically on the timeline. How can I do this? Many thanks! Kind regards, Robertby Robert - Café LA
Re: Can Color 1.5 do more in terms of color grading than FCP7's own tools? - 6 years ago
Hi Nick and VPiccin, Thank you both for your replies and for your help. -- >I have the feeling that FCP7's own color grading tools can do just as much as color 1.5? Do you think this is true? (Also I prefer to be able to still change shots while color grading - sometimes new ideas come. So it is easier to just stay in FCP7.) -- >So can I do more with Davinci Resolve than I caby Robert - Café LA
Can Color 1.5 do more in terms of color grading than FCP7's own tools? - 6 years ago
Dear LACPUG Members! Many thanks in advance to anyone reading this and to anyone with any advice. I am about to finally color grade our 17 min documentary. I have it on FCP7 and converted all footage to apple pro res 422 HQ. Most footage is shot on a canon 5d mark2 and some on a panasonic gh3. I am editing on a MacBook Pro, mid 2012, with Mac OS10.8.4. In the past I have color graded usingby Robert - Café LA
Problems reconnection audio - "File Attribute Mismatch" - 6 years ago
Dear Everyone, Many thanks in advance to anyone reading this and to anyone with some advice. I just spent 2 hours skyping with my sound engineer but he does not know FCP7. So my co-director edited our 17min documentary on her Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2014 version I think) on her macbook pro retina. She is thousands of kilometers away and sent me an XML. I have imported the XML to my MacBookPby Robert - Café LA
Re: Cannot find fonts in FCP7 - 6 years ago
Dear Dennis, This works great!! I enabled the one Lato font I wanted and disabled all the other variants of Lato in font book. I close FCP, then reopen it and all the fonts are changed to the current lato font. Thank you so much!! I have OS 10.8.4. So I should not upgrade to 10.8.5. Best regards, Robertby Robert - Café LA
Cannot find fonts in FCP7 - 6 years ago
Hello Everyone! Thank you in advance to anyone reading this. I am working on a macbook Pro 15", mid 2012 on FCP 7. I want to use Lato font for my video. I have imported the font and have also validated in the fontbook and also eliminated duplicates. In word, photoshop and motion I see all of the many variants of Lato font. But when in FCP7 I only get one "Lato" font and can oby Robert - Café LA
Questions about Canon 5D mark2 footage going from Premiere ProCC to FCP 7. - 6 years ago
Dear LAFCPUG! I hope I can make the following clear as i am still trying to figure things out myself. Many thanks to anyone in advance for reading this. So my co-director edited our 17min documentary on her Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2014 version I think) on her macbook pro retina. She is thousands of kilometers away and sent me an XML. I have imported the XML to my MacBookPro( 15"-mid 201by Robert - Café LA
EX-3 footage in FCP 7. - 8 years ago
Hello All! Thank you in advance to anyone reading this. I have shot on an EX-3 in 1080p25 format (I am in Europe). I am using FCP 7.0 on a MacBook Pro (OS 10.8.4). I downloaded the sony "xd cam ex log and transfer plug-in" (PDZK-LT1). I have 2 questions: 1> When I set up the project in Easy Setup I selected Format: XDCAM HD. Then my question is do I use CBR or VBR? I.e. XDby Robert - Café LA
Re: Unwanted sound in quicktime output. - 8 years ago
Hi Derek, No, there were no unwanted items in the timeline. Also I had marked the complete 2min38sec edit with in and out points. With the quicktime compressor out of fcp it was always about 360MB. It must be my compressor settings. By the way I tried exporting to QTconversion again, after have done the audio mix down and it worked! Since doing the audio mix down the end marking points of tby Robert - Café LA
Re: Unwanted sound in quicktime output. - 8 years ago
Hi Derek, It worked! I did the mixdown and then sent it directly to compressor. BUT now the file is too big. It is 2.16GB for 2min38sec. I need to transfer this by internet, eg wetransfer. In compressor I just picked the default h.264 option.by Robert - Café LA
Re: Unwanted sound in quicktime output. - 8 years ago
Hi Derek, Thanks again. You are teaching me a lot here. I did not know about Audio mix down and I just did that. Now I am sending it directly to compressor. Excuse my ignorance but I do not even know how to set the bitrate for h.264, and what the ideal bitrates are. I am sure this is another huge topic. When I used the quicktime conversion I used the default key frame rate of 24. My film isby Robert - Café LA
Re: Unwanted sound in quicktime output. - 8 years ago
Thanks Derek. I will try these ideas. Or how about just directly outputting the sequence via Compressor? It will be for a website so I am compressing to h.264, 1920x1080 HD, 48K sound. I know this is another subject, but is h.264 a good format? Could this be causing the problems? The video is about 3 minutes long. It has 20 audio tracks. Thanks again!! Robertby Robert - Café LA
Re: Unwanted sound in quicktime output. - 8 years ago
Hi Derek, I tried all of this but sadly it did not work. I first rerendered as you said and it did not work. Then I made that clip offline, reconnected and again deleted render files and rerendered. I had also tried cutting the sound in once again into the edit. When I played it in fcp i heard the same spike. Then when I played it again it was gone. And still when I play it in FCP it soundsby Robert - Café LA
Re: Unwanted sound in quicktime output. - 8 years ago
Hi Derek, I will try all of this. Thank you so much for your help! Best, Robertby Robert - Café LA
Unwanted sound in quicktime output. - 8 years ago
Hello everyone, I have never experienced this before and have been spending hours trying to solve this. Many thanks in advance to anyone with a solution. I am editing an HD film on FCP 7.0.3 on a MacBook Pro with OS 10.8.4. I am outputting using the File -> Export -> Using quicktime conversion I am using the setting h.264, 1920x1080. So the problem is in the quicktime movie, oby Robert - Café LA
Re: AVCHD - how to extract single files in AVCHD format. - 8 years ago
Nope, the screenshots did not come in. How do I do this? Dragging and dropping them in did not work.by Robert - Café LA
Re: AVCHD - how to extract single files in AVCHD format. - 8 years ago
Hi Derek, Thanks for your reply. It is all in just one file called AVCHD. Here is a screen shot (hope this works - not sure if you will see a pic - just drag and dropped into here). /Users/robertpittman/Desktop/Screen Shot 2014-08-08 at 11.13.19 PM.png Then when I double click on the file I get this opening up in quicktime. I can open up individual clips to view in quicktime but cannoby Robert - Café LA
