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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: compressor help - 17 years agook, well here's the issue, A i Want mp3's and B im working with selected quicktimes and setting up computers that may or maynot have fcp, and/or I don't want to set up projects for this, with this all I dois go through find the clips I want of one of 8 hd. drag them into the droplet and say "GO" and bam it runs and does all it's fun things.by Aaron Zander - Café LA compressor help - 17 years agook, so here's my problem. The director I'm working for wants audio (mp3) versions of interviews from our 250+ tape db. now I can use compressor to convert them to aiff's, but do to size constraints and what not, mp3's are the choice audio format. is there a way to brute force compressor to go to mp3's right now my workflow is like this take quicktimes>compressor droplet create aiff's>goby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Slow motion... - 17 years agofinalcut is not known for it's time effects. Plugins like twixtor will be awsome for you, applications like aftereffects will also work miracles compared to finalcutby Aaron Zander - Café LA OT: Chroma key? - 17 years agook, so im going to work on some chroma keying, I have partial access to an o.k. large green screen, but im looking on setting up an apartmant chroma key set up. Im looking at green screen fabric, and I'm wondering, at realativly low (and I mean low budget) how can i set this up, I've been looking over at filmtools and seeing what they have: and other things from this store. but I was wonderinby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: OT: Good Mac repair shop in LA? - 17 years agoooh, yes a GOOD mac store in ventura sb area ould be nice, theirs like mac talk, but hell, any store that tells you that they'd recomend not going with a scratch disk or two boot drives, and just get a 500gb drive in there, doesn't know so muc abou our profession, now do they?by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Hard Drive Hotel - 17 years agojohn u left ou the major point to all of that NO LACIE sure they have a couple followers, but so does scientology, ad they still brake and erase all your databy Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Timeline & Sequence - 17 years agoya if you want them all t be one big sequence, just go up and either drag the curren sequence in from the viewer to a new timeline/sequence but why do you need it al in a singla sequence? you can export your current sequence as isby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: how t replicate this - 17 years agowow, i had a teacher that wrote for mcguiver once i don't think that they could have ever come up with that rig ok, well im gonna go discuss this with my partners and come up with something, well, more realistcly accomplishedby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: how t replicate this - 17 years agogrrrrr , wll let me just change up a little bit here's what we've come up with for the iea, it would be A girl walking infront of awhite (or keyed) area, and the socks would simpaly change on her feet. would i still need this fancy automated camera, cause thats way way way out of the price for his shot.by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Buying New G5 - Wait for Intel? - 17 years agopfff, 911's get the carrera gt, honestly, are you broke? but seriusly, the whole "intel vs quad" debate going on is well pointless, in 18 months, people are gonna have the same conversation weather or not the intel X vs intel Y is better, and peopl will have the same debate until computers are the size of a quarter and working faster than we can harness and they only cost a nickel. soby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: how t replicate this - 17 years agoaah i was fearing this, and jus changing color, is wl, not that easy, were talking some crazy crazy socks here. i was thinking of hae her walk like 8 steps in 20 odd locations, and the switch between locatons and socks wll be so abrupt it migt "mask" any leg variancesby Aaron Zander - Café LA how t replicate this - 17 years agowhat im trying to do is replicate a similer effect, except with dozens of styles of socks (yes socks) on a model, as she walks the socks change, now is this a matter of just having her walk the same path so many times it's identicle or is there something else any help is much apreciatedby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Lacie Porsche USB 2 - 17 years agoid say it's the usb, my friend doesn't do anything but use usb2 on his g5 (which lords of my g4 laptop)and i keep trying to explain he's just screwing himself, bu than again, he doesn't think you can drop footage into fcp that isn't created by fcp, so what can i say, his computer runs the sims really well. anyeways, usb CAN work in fcp, but it's more hassle than it's worth and that IS your mainby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Watermarking - 17 years agoya, also if you have itunes, download the ripplecast where it's coverd in full on how to make a nice looking watermark in fcpby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: after effectS? - 17 years agook, as some one who got into fcp like a year ago (and for that matter all digital edditng things) and taught myself it, and i fnd a.e. easier to pick up than fcp, but thats me, im still learning alot of fcp basic things that i kinda just jumped, but a.e kinda builds on o much i kinda figured those out quicker. i lik a.es's ui, and i like teh new one alot, some people are like, god damn docking tby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: **The Great Internerd running summary** - 17 years agoit would be cool if automaticly in your post, it would add FCP version___ on a mac runnign os___ with the fallowing________ not that people would use it, and than people would bitch that it was there and they had to delete it, man, i love ignoranceby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Importing camtasia/mov exports problem in sequence - 17 years agono, i don't believe he's scaling think of it as he's capturing at 1024x768, and bringing it into a 720x480 timline (assentially playing at 70% of size, so he can than make a happy little podcast for you and me, or what ever he plans on doing it, for all i know, it could be a smut filled porncast (do they have these? and i so, are there any good free ones, after all us young college students don'by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: red cam tangible? - 17 years agohey hey, wanna know the funny part, after all that money, you still wn't beable to shoot on it right away, we're forgetting all the good stuff that makes a camera work, and cpmes on every other camera, but thats what makes the red awsome, you don't have to buy all that extra stuff, not onna use an on camera mic? well than, don't have it on there. it reminds me of kit cars.by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: red cam tangible? - 17 years agoim so depressed, i was so psyched for like 3 weeks about going, and i found out last week that we were projecting some of our work wed in a class, and now i can't be tehre, o well thats what the dvd is for, right?by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: New video tutorial by Shane Ross up at Creative Cow - 17 years agooh i have them all, and crave more, im hooked on a horrible drug, tutorial podcasts..i need my fix man, im painingby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: New video tutorial by Shane Ross up at Creative Cow - 17 years agodamn shane ros effect, they should name it after that abseball documentary guy...whats his name? also, anything new from shane going to yo podcatst. im waiting eagerlyby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: HOW MUCH RAM? - 17 years agowayne granzin wrote: > it will help a LOT in after effects though! yes for previewing, but not rendering., and after 3 gigs in a.e it's dead space where it does help, is having both open at once 3 gigs going to aftereffects, and 4 in fcpby Aaron Zander - Café LA setting up and ide raid - 17 years agook, so here's the deal, I have a coupl of identicle drives, and i was looking ino taking the drives, and ssetting up an ide raid set up. I was wondering what cases are best suited for my needs/wants. the system needs to be a max of 4 bays, and can handle atleast 1.2 tb (4 300gig drives) and ofcourse the case has to work with firewire what are your suggestions?by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: long documentary - how do I organise ? - 17 years agoya see, the project im working on currently has 280 tapes,and more are coming, all the clips are translogged and data about them are kept in filemaker pro, than when digitized, all the litle bits of data about the tapes are coppied into the comments section of each tape. each tape is than broken up into 15 min sections and dropped into projects about each person. i think the issues we're gonnaby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: MacBook and FCS - 17 years agoand for that 1 problem, i recomend a wireless keyboard/mouse setup (like the one i use made from micrsoft, it has a windows key and a alt key and confused those over thinking keyboard watchers) and bam, no more problems and you get a number pad, home and end keys, a whole bunch of programables, and your Fkeys don't get screweyby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: MacBook and FCS - 17 years agoMy thing is this. every ones like oh, this can't run that, and this new computer can't run that. I run fcp5, and ae7 on my 12 inch powerbook g4 with a 20.1 inch monitor off a mini dvi to dvi output (whcih if you didn't know is just adding onto the laptops struggle) now i'll admit, it's no quad, and ive never run motion on the thing (i prefer a.e.) but still, it runs, and does what i needby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Landscape - 17 years agohey thats not true, firing the camera man and reshooting IS fixing in post. reshoot constatutes post production if shooting isn't going on anymoreby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: after effectS? - 17 years agook, yes it worth it, but hope you don't have a fancy intel mac, cause adobe isnt' planning to release universal "updates" till 07, apple kinda screwed it's affilites hen they just "announced" their intel deal and just a few weeks later came out with computers, which was just a few weeks prior ae 7's launch. but as said above, i heart a.e. im debating my focus in my film schooby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: cheap mini dv vtr - 17 years agothanks kozikowski john, the future is expensive, and today we're broke so just go and get a camcorder and say fudge it, we're not getting any "better" quality till we hit about $1600by Aaron Zander - Café LA cheap mini dv vtr - 17 years agook, here's my issue, I've been asked to find the cheapest possible way of capturing minidv. now I'd love to get a deck, but we are looking 400 and below, ie. we are apparantly looking at cam corders. now befor you say anything, I know, Id rather throw the money out thw window over the next year than waste it on this camcorder. but none the less, what camcorder is, and it pains me to say this,by Aaron Zander - Café LA |
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