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Click HERE to register now Re: is 5.1 common yet? - 18 years agoif you need to get it to them just save it out as an xmlby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Disk Utility Stuck - 18 years agoit should always be available, just click erase and set it to macos exteneded (unjournled unless it's going to be a boot drive)by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Disk Utility Stuck - 18 years agook, for starters, was teh drive empty second, erase the drive first, than partition. if that doesnt work, well i have no ideaby Aaron Zander - Café LA disk images - 18 years agook, kinda random question, but my lead editor wants me to change the disk images on all our externals to a spray can i created with alpha, how do i creat this as our image and not have a backgroudn like all the fancy mac ones, or applications etc. right nowi have the image and an ugly black backgroundby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: How many sequences have you used? - 18 years agoya thats what i figuredby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: THIS GROUP ROCKS - 18 years agohe thats very globalist scott, what you should say is "you should evaluate this on a properly calibrated viewing device" as they might be using pal, or hd for a feature...by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Audio keyframe fade too short? - 18 years agook, first off, excuse this comment if im just completely wronghere but aren't the audio keyframes highly curved like that do to the fact that it's basicly an exponential curve, in the same amount of spacet aht that audio drops from oto -4 db it will go from -4 to -12 than -12 to like -24 than to like -60 which to me is a straight line, but it has to be curved to represent all the large numbersby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: How many sequences have you used? - 18 years agoive done i believe 8 in 10 min on mini dv about a montha go no problems, but everyonce and a while, ill do things like that and ill loose audio for a portion (like over a singal clip inside a sequence that is then nested) and i have to replace the clip, which is very odd, considering the audio wasn't teh clips, and it played inside fcp but not in the exported quicktime.by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: freelancing with desktop/laptop - 18 years agoit's odd, ive beenw working on my g4 laptop for, basicly all my edditing life (admitadly like a year), i just got a keyboard and mouse going, theres someting about haveing the trackpad right there under the keyboard that sped me up a tad...but im getting used to it. it's funny, it's a keyboard made by microsoft for both systems, so i don't have apple keys, but i have a windows key and an alt keyby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Greenscreen shooting and FCP, quick and easy? - 18 years agoalso, if you can get your hands of adobe after effetcts there's a new traning dvd from this guy andrew kramer, and he goes over EXACTLY how to do it, in multiple different fashions etc. it takes about 30 min max per person as long as they are shot decently. the dvd is 50 bucks and is available at www.videocopilot.netby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Arriflex 416 workflow - 18 years agoi.e they can give you drives now (thats if ur in the la area)by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: CRAZY OT - MPAA ratings image - 18 years agoit would be quicker to autotrace (if you have cs2 illustrator)by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: sharing external drives? - 18 years agoyes but teh problem is what if he wants to share files?by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: sharing external drives? - 18 years agojust wear protection... just kidding but serusly there is no way to share a standard hdd between 2 comps, and especialy share the same qt files on a standard hd. you need a network, what you could do is take an older computer, loard it down with drives and plug it through a gigabit eathernet cord into a router and plug the 2 comps into that way (they also make ethernet hdd's, i found one onceby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Arriflex 416 workflow - 18 years agowell, ill let you know in about a month, I fianlly get to shoot film, unfortunatly on a bolex, but hey, it's how they make us do it., but being that super 16 is greater resolution than hdby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: fcp user manual - 18 years agogracias, i was just looking for something to drag into my dock for easy acces in class so i can read up on my fcpby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Lost drive - 18 years agook, ok, so me=not so smart, my general disliking of os help files hindered me, i did a quikc search for read write permission and found out that though you may be the admin on your particalar machine, there is still 1 level up, THE ROOT USER "play space oddesey music here" to get this, you must be the admin (or logged into the account, every one knows the boss uses his wife's name as tby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Lost drive - 18 years agook, so befor i shut down here's the deal 1) it's my computer so i am the admin, which is what bugs me! 2) diskutility can see the harddrive, and the content show up if i search, they are just un openable do to the read/write, the disk mounts and everything, there is just no image to click on to get it. ill post results later im going to sut downby Aaron Zander - Café LA Lost drive - 18 years agook, so fallowing a tip from some tutorial somewhere, i disabled read/write on a drive to check that all my media tranfered to another drive for backup now heres the problem, one thing lead to another and my director, well ejected the drive before i could resotre permissions, now i can't even see the drive (outside of disk utility) to unlock it any one have any ideas?!by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: Apple 23" Cine HD Display? - 18 years agook, several things 1 from multiple sources: del makes the apple cinema displays (or the same company that makes dells makes apples) and than i believe apple than goes and gets their glass for the front of their screan from another source, this is where the price differeance is, the glass helps crispen/sharpen the image and protect the display. but for all intensive purposes dell and apple displby Aaron Zander - Café LA fcp user manual - 18 years agook, ive ben trying to locate the fcp users manual pdf on the computer. Where is it?ive searched and searched and searched and searched i feal like indiana jones, just no girls, gold, or gods. oh and i dont have a hat, or a whip any one know where it is?by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: weird cropping - 18 years agoyou would do well by the first podcast -wow, i think i just came off as some sort of early 1900 oil barron?by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: AFTER EFFECTS FCP WORKFLOW - 18 years agook, there are 2 more option, one deals with java scripting and one deals with 500 dollars. the java scripting one can be found on creativecow.net, search the aftereffects forum for java and final cut, the other is automatic duck, it can take your timeline and transfer it into aftereffects, but like i said it's 500 bucks! (p.s. they make one for avid too)by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: inside finalcut pro 5 - 18 years agosounds good to me, as long as my computer can do both im happy!by Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: flip 4 mac and FCP???? - 18 years agoyes i use it as well, and the only problem is it DOESN"T work inside fcp, i.e. you can't bring in wmv's to fcp, but it's a good tool, as you can than export a differnt codec and bring it in so no it doesn't interfear with fcp, but it's nice to use when surfing the netby Aaron Zander - Café LA Re: digitize xdcam - 18 years agoi don't know if your a member over at creativecow.net, but their new magazine that just came out covers alot about xdcam, im not sure if it covers all of that, but it might, it's available as a pdf heres the link check it out if it's not there also check on the sony websiteby Aaron Zander - Café LA inside finalcut pro 5 - 18 years agook so here's the deal, first off, big pat on the back first post here, ive been reading for a while and needed to step in after finally biting the bullet and buying an fcp training dvd im looking at the dmts inside finalcut, now my probelm is im on a powerbook g4, and from what i can establish, it's a dvd rom, i.e. i can't run it off my dvd player, this info makes me sad because, as im on a laptby Aaron Zander - Café LA |
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