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Your 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.
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Re: Offline codec? - 15 years ago
Contract only stipulates we don't distribute full quality. They suggested using H.264 like in their web previews, we don't have to use it. The problem is playback for our users. 90% the footage is these stock clips and customers need to be able to interact with them, without rendering first. I turn off "Warn on Dropped Frames" but not everyone knows about that. Also, this needs to plby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Offline codec? - 15 years ago
We have some footage we are going to distribute as part of a training series but our contract with the stock footage provider requires us to both watermark the footage and not deliver full quality clips. They wanted us to compress to H.264 but our tests show that this is not really a playback codec. So, I'm giving up the H.264 route and figure the best thing to do is to go to an Offline-type cby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: ON SET AND FREAKIN - Why doesn't FCP 5.1 not have a project setting for 1080p 24fps? - 15 years ago
Not sure if this has been worked out or not but there is always the old Make Multi-cam Sequence trick. Best workaround for pre-FPC 6 machines. Highlight your source clip and ctrl-click, then select make multicam sequence. Open the sequence, delete the clip inside and then add your original clip. The settings will match just fine... This even works for web videos clips, etc. Real handy when youby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Streamclip, Times Select (with apologies to the New York Times) - 15 years ago
Cant you just pull a larger section than you need and then trim it in QT? Just add some handles and trim the scene as needed later... StreamClip just gets it into a managable format, and is most likely hindered by the MPEG's GOP structure, hence, lack of proper time controls. Once its QT and frame based, you should be good to go...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Trying to play captured HD files on G4 Macbook - 15 years ago
You prob know more about it than I but couldn;t you just take the HDV component from an FCP computer and put it in the Library of a non-FCP computer? I'm pretty sure ive heard of this being done for DVCPro HD at the least... Here is its location... System/Library/QuickTime/AppleHDVCodec.componentby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Trying to play captured HD files on G4 Macbook - 15 years ago
Couple things, XL-H1 does not record HD, its HDV, which is incrediable hard for computers to play. Yet i edit HDV on my G4 PowerBook all the time. Its not a computer issue. Its a codec issue. Im going to venture a guess that you dont have the most recent Final Cut on your laptop or at least not a recent enough version of Final Cut that contains the HDV codec. QuickTime sent you to their codecby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Scott and John -- thank you - 15 years ago
In the drop down menu where sync is, you can choose to just switch just video, not video and audio. Or select which tracks you want the audio to pull from in the audio dropdown. Like i said, i dont use the keypad so i cant help you there. However, the video does have to be playing in order for cuts to be made. If its paused, you are only changing the angle for the last cut. However, you can alby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Multiclip problem - 15 years ago
As much as i love keyboard shortcuts, i dont actually use them for multicams. I prefer the click method you mentioned. however, your problem is you need to synch you timeline and you multicam clip. Go to your sequence and position the playhead at the start of the multicam. Double click the clip to load it into the viewer, then twirl down the center of the three buttons at the top of the viewerby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Watermarking - What's your method? - 15 years ago
Just curious what everyone was using for their watermarking needs? We're thinking about changing our process and wanted to see what everyone else was doing... Currently we are overlaying a PNG into the final QT movie itself, right before uploading to the server. However, QT updates keep messing up our script and we are now thinking of watermarking earlier in the process. Basically, we can eithby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Recording video from computer to computer... (via scan converter) - 15 years ago
You really dont want to take Computer to Video, especially MiniDV. You could go to a larger HD format but then most computers dont have the proper aspect ratio. If you want any hint of quality, i suggest against scan converters. They are really just to get video out of laptops for projecters and the like. We use Snaps quite a bit and have never really had any lag issues. You'd know more aboutby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Exporting Flash the first time and having trouble understanding the format. - 15 years ago
There are stand alone FLV players out there tho, i think i use WimplyFLV, just google for it.by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Multiclip multicam question - 15 years ago
Multicam still requires the same frame size, it might let you mix diff flavors of codecs tho, not sure about that. What you need to do is re-capture your footage from the camera as downconverted NTSC, Cropped or Squeezed depending on your preference. It is much much much better than converting your HDV to NTSC in FCP, it will take forever to render... Additionally you can always recapture aby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: File Error on Save - 15 years ago
Yeah well we are still on 5.1.4 here, not sure when they will switch. Not sure if it is an Xsan tho you are probably right. Well, good to know im not the only one, ive got a work around i was just curious to see if there was a reason why... thanksby Scott Erickson - Café LA
File Error on Save - 15 years ago
project files are generally just text, though the sequences have lots of underscores, just to keep them web friendly. The servers here as well have lots of underscores but nothing i would deem unsafe formatting... Again i can save them to server for a while, then randomly i get the file save error when i have to go local, when i replace the server file with the local, i can save back to the seby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Locked Y position - 15 years ago
working off some Motion templates that came from our graphics department and need to do some tweaking. However, they used a mask to reveal some text and animated its x-scale to unveal the text. The put the anchor point on the right part of the mask so it spreads out to the left. However it needs to be dropoed down a but the Y value on position is greyed out? no matter what i do, i can chanby Scott Erickson - Motion
File Error on Save - 15 years ago
Ive been having this weird problem where halfway through the day, when i try to save, I get a prompt that says "File Error: Unknown File" Then i have to save a local copy to my desktop and then replace the original on the server to update my work. Any one else get this? know why i get it? thanks...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Edit mixed formats using muticlip? - 15 years ago
What version of FCP are you working with? If you're using anything below 6, I dont recommend it. Multicam will def not accept diff format sizes and besides, you dont really want to mix the formats in your sequence anyway as the renders will kill you. FCP 6 and the open format timeline will make that easier but i dont know if multiclip will allow it, i havent had any multi-format multi-cam shootsby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: 720pn VS 1080 60i 24p Hard time deciding - 15 years ago
Im pretty sure this link is the video Shane's referring too. Its all HVX footage at least, and it looks great. As i recall, he said when he low light problems, the hollywood street footage, he said he overcranked the gain to get a noisy look on purpose, as he felt it looked more like film grain than most. Anyway, the HVX has 1/3" chips, there's no getting around that, larger camerasby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: 720pn VS 1080 60i 24p Hard time deciding - 15 years ago
well, yeah Joe, thats true but regardless, this is a format question and all p2 cameras have the capabilities to do both. The only question the relates to the camera capabilites is in low light and noise. I was just explaining the advantages of 720pn on a P2 camera as opposed to 1080i. Rick, If you're shooting with a $30,000+ camera, by all means disregard the noise issues as they wont be nearby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: 720pn VS 1080 60i 24p Hard time deciding - 15 years ago
He's shooting with an HVX, im assuming, as he mentioned P2 cards. And the HVX has a 1080 60i 24pa setting...you just pull it down to 24fps later However, the real reason to shoot 720pn is the variable frame rates, which you cant get at 1080i. Especially for a feature, this can be a handy handy tool to have in your bag of tricks. It looks beautiful as well. The resolution question is negligby Scott Erickson - Café LA
FCP 6 sequence to 5.1.4 project? - 15 years ago
Doing some contract work for some people but just realized they are still 5.1.4 based and ive upgraded to 6 already. Obviously I can still export the completed clips but they want to incorporate the sequences back into one master project for archiving. How can i go about integrating these two projects? ive never had to do this before so im kinda out of my element, i know it cant be too hard...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: MPEG-2 Frame size disparities... - 15 years ago
Its more than just movie player, when i take the QT into FCP, you still see the larger frame size. According to the numbers, we're doing everything right, as i understand it. Anyhow, we have a basic work around to crop the image from within the Streamclip export settings but still output at 640x480. I think the lesson learned is not work with these guys any more... Just curious what was goiby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: MPEG-2 Frame size disparities... - 15 years ago
640 x 480, we want to display it online only so square pixels all around. It should be the same image size as 720x480 with D1 pixels yeah?by Scott Erickson - Café LA
MPEG-2 Frame size disparities... - 15 years ago
OK, this is a weird one... Some people gave us screen capture training footage on DVD, mpeg-2 meant for TV DVD, not DVD-rom, how we use our screen capture training. Anyway, regardless of it looking like crap, when we use MPEG Streamclip to get QT's of the content for our use, we are seeing a larger frame than what the DVD is showing on Apple DVD player or the viewer on Streamclip itself. Thisby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Lots of Sequences? - 15 years ago
beautiful Martin, that's exactly what i was looking for. Forgot the canvas had all the tabs up there as well...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Lots of Sequences? - 15 years ago
curses, i was afraid of that... maybe Larry Jordan can add that to his interface list for tonight...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Lots of Sequences? - 15 years ago
Finding myself with more and more sequences to work with at one time, up to around a dozen or so. The problem is, when i need to close them, i have to do it one....at.....a.....time. Its kinda a pain, does any know of a hotkey to close them faster or select more at time? Keyboard layout tool was no help...and closing the window doesnt affect the tabs within, they come right back up... anyway,by Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: can't capture hdv only downres'd dv - 15 years ago
Well thats because your camera is not sending DVC-Pro HD to your computer, you're sending HDV, which is a world of difference. Make sure the settings in your camera are changed from downres to HDV and then connect to your comp thru firewire As i recall, I dont think 4.5 supported native HDV editing but im not sure on that. Look for a setting called Apple Intermediate which will transcode yourby Scott Erickson - Café LA
Re: Pro-Res in the real world... - 15 years ago
Really, ProRes is higher than DVCProHD?? I thought there tagline was HD at SD data rates or something like that. They were saying this could replace DVCPro as an online codec and all that weren't they? oh well, the dream is over...by Scott Erickson - Café LA
