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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: Quitting on rendering - 13 years agoI am running 2 Apple Cinema Display 23" ... so yes 2 * 1920x1920 and my GFX is a ATI Radeon HD 4870 with 512 Mo. could this be a starting point to resolve this ? Our days the GPU works a lot on render with all those FxPlugs... I'll give a try rendering with only one monitor and I'll let you knowby Francois - Café LA Quitting on rendering - 13 years agoOne hour timeline, DvPal, Fcp 7.0.3 on a MacPro, Snow Leopard. Every Orange portion is rendered already. I can't render all the "easy stuff" the green ones without Fcp to quit. I have to render like 3 clips at the time. Anyone familiar with this ?by Francois - Café LA Re: What Hardware do you use for Scrubbing? - 13 years agoNick Meyers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i also mapped 8 and 9 on the number pad to Mark In > and Mark out. sounds very specific... since you have " / " and " * " just above, very convenient to reach at the edge of the keyboard, for direct in & out.by Francois - Café LA Re: duplicate a shake using SmoothCam? - 13 years agowhat you want' to achieve is a breeze with Motion.by Francois - Café LA Re: working with stills and send to motion - 13 years agoMotion in Fcp Timeline is "perfect enough" for light projects. The round triping is great It's true that when it comes to heavy projects, involving long renders, specially in your case, with large stills ... (pan & scan, some Motion blur I guess, (the render killer)... that's where the problems begin. And if you modify something else in Fcp (an other layer) even unintentionby Francois - Café LA Re: Question RE: How to create a hold out matte in Motion - 13 years agohum... his shot is static... I guess what he needs his the symbol of the Mask tools ! Mask in Motionby Francois - Motion Re: sphere filter in 3D - 13 years agoDo you "see throughout a camera" ? it shouldn't be to close from the objects in that case an another possibility is a Fixed Resolution getting in the way on one of you element. search throughout your composition and un-thick any Fixed Resolution you might encounterby Francois - Motion Re: Apple Mighty Mouse vs Magic Mouse - 13 years agoDerek, is this the Kensington that will interact with the 3 wheels CC in Fcp ?by Francois - Café LA Re: Assisant Editor: Everything-you-need-to-know-books for FCP - 13 years agobuy a notebook and write down everything bad that happens to you when working it's gonna full up pretty fast, don't worryby Francois - Café LA Re: Shark Stock Footage - 13 years agoAre you from Cape Cod ? it's for Right Whale seeing. Any whale present at the time ? watch here, (real time) Listen for whale I have been doing some interviews about that project (offshore Boston) but I am looking for singing humpback whale footage right nowby Francois - Café LA Re: Mark can you tell me how to do those Kenn Burn affects on pictures - 13 years agodrop shadow ? you mean the border of the picture if it gets smaller than you composition ? for Pan & Scan on pictures ( aka Ken Burns effect) you can : - combine behaviors : Grow/shrink and throw. You'll need the "stop" parameter if you want some holding in size and pan at the end of the movement. But it will give you some brutal final steps in the animation. So you mightby Francois - Motion Re: FCP in the workplace. - 13 years agoto original poster. if that "post supervisor" is really a "friend of your's" you haven't helped him much with such a stupid point of view. you completely missed the point. it's not because all wannabes and untrained debutants tend to take the Fcp road that Fcp itself is the culprit. by making that confusion you just acted thoughtless and frantic as ... they do !by Francois - Café LA Re: get rid of image border deformation (wide lens) - 13 years agoseveral solutions. (Sapphire, Pixel Farm : both expensive) for your googling the key word will be " barrel distortion"by Francois - Café LA Re: Where's the Supermag 2010? - 13 years ago"done loaded" great issue ! still looking ?by Francois - Café LA Re: CineLook2 - 13 years agoas an alternative I would go the Nattress road ... the "Film effects" package Graeme Nattress Film Effects the smart de-interlacing is amazing. Thin lines (like cables in the sky) remain without aliasing. Magic Bullet will "breake " themby Francois - Café LA Re: Paste attributes? - 13 years agoSeveral ways : 1 - yes you can replace a media by an other. With Pop up menu in media "contextual" tab (when the media itself is designed in the media tab or drag and dropping "new media" on the "old" one in project tab. A curved arrow shoes up and drop ! Same thing in the timeline. Either on media name or taking advantage of the "edit" options. Dby Francois - Motion Re: Can't Import Media from Sony EX3 - 13 years agoit's so funny in the last post I told you exactly what to do. EXACTLY. you didn't seem to care and I thought: " We gonna hear from this guy again, and ... here you are ask for .DMG of the cards and nothing else then :two solutions: (both available on Sony web site: if you can find you way in there (beware ! last time I checked outdated versions were still on line) in my expeby Francois - Café LA Re: Working with media from Sony EX 1 -- HELP - 13 years agotwo solutions: (both available on Sony web site: if you can find you way in there (beware ! last time I checked outdated versions were still on line) in my experience I prefer the internal plugin that goes right into Fcp's " Log and transfer " this is : XDCAM_EX_Log_and_Transfer_Plugin_1_0_0 over the separate app "XDCAM Transfer " tool.by Francois - Café LA Re: Working with media from Sony EX 1 - 13 years agoI always do an Image Disk ( a .dmg) from the original card, in your case an SxS card. better than drag & dropping. then back it up time to work ? Mount the .dmgs and Log & Transfer from themby Francois - Café LA Re: Magic Bullet "Instant HD" filter - opinion? - 13 years agoand extra question "MB Instant HD" works in Fcp and AE. (you tend to use it in AE) "MB Instant HD Advanced" will only work in AE. does the Advanced really make a difference ?by Francois - Café LA Re: animation in motion 4 - 13 years agothe link parameter will be your friend in that case to sync your elements in movement. (Came with Motion 4) Here is your bike ! Whats new in FinalCut Studioby Francois - Motion Re: Toggle Auto Select : why not up to 9 ? - 13 years agoyes cmd + numeric keypad on the side cmd + track numbers (audio = alt) + " 0 " (zero) it will toggle all tracks auto select on & off it's so ... handy we want the ninth track also ! (mostly for audio) when do we want it ?... NOW !by Francois - FCP Feature Requests Toggle Auto Select : why not up to 9 ? - 14 years agoMany of us like to Toggle Auto Select with keyboard. Respectively cmd + track number (numeric pad on the side) for video and opt for Audio Tracks. this works from 1 to 8. For the ninth track... no shortcuts. (either video or audio) I guess this could be easily fixed. Anybody listening ?by Francois - FCP Feature Requests Re: Does the version of Primatte RT in Motion have "lightwrap" - 14 years agoKeying is one of the last things, if not the last, where Motion still has a big catch up to do compared with its competition... The included Primatte RT keyer is very poor. If the real McCoy: the original Primatte keyer, that Jeff pointed out for you is to expensive here is something excellent and really cheap : 99$ ! dvMatte Blast from DvGarage Best bang for the buckby Francois - Café LA Re: Idea or Thought Cloud - 14 years agomaybe a friend of yours has Photoshop ? Thought Clouds, "talking bulles" ... etc are included in the software, (there is a bundled images library you can literally "draw " with the proper tool. to find a free vector clipart ready to use did you try that thing they name Google ? . Could lead you here : Clker.comby Francois - Café LA Re: using AE in FCP Studio - 14 years ago@J. (Corbett) when I said: AE = Blackberry / Motion = iPhone I was more referring to the industry wide position of AE opposed to "intuitivity" and ease of use of Motion.by Francois - Café LA Re: using AE in FCP Studio - 14 years ago- If you are starting on this today, - if it is for personal work go with Motion, more complete and powerful every version (and it's only the 4th !) of course AE is still the leader in the industry I tend to say : AE = Blackberry / Motion = iPhoneby Francois - Café LA Re: RECOVER EMPTIED TRASH - 14 years agoare you sure the Trash is empty ? (if yes, don't shut down your computer !, don't unplug the drive) It is possible that you are actually playing ... "renders". You say your playing in the canvas, right ? So ... it's from the Timeline. Timeline might be still linked to render files. (Just a guess) What about playing the clips in the viewer ? If you are playing from the Timelinby Francois - Café LA |
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