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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: FCS2 5.1 sound - 16 years agoI'm hoping that ST will make 5.1 sound more intuitive for those of us used to cutting video, or working with multi-track audio tape in old days. In the meantime, I've been re-inforcing my audio library of royalty free music and FX.by Nick Baer - Soundtrack Pro Re: I got a notice this morning that FCS2 is delayed until June 15+ - 16 years agoI wish Apple would skip the glossy paper manuals, and just get us the software the PDFs. Speaking of books, I actually bought one the other day - first in a couple of years! One of the Santa Monica Press books that review an anthology of studio films, and for each title, include historic and current photos of the exterior scenes used in the film! This one was the Charlie Chaplin anthologby Nick Baer - Café LA Re: I got a notice this morning that FCS2 is delayed until June 15+ - 16 years agoI got the notice from Amazon.com. Apple's site this morning says "Ships: 2-3 weeks". I can still cancel there if LAFCPUG Store gets from different source etc. I think if Apple is delaying it, LAFCPUG should delay showing it. One of my favorite Johnny Carson jokes was (In kind of a British accent): "Archeological expedition to the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Bus stopsby Nick Baer - Café LA I got a notice this morning that FCS2 is delayed until June 15+ - 16 years agoFirst it was Leopard delayed until Summer or Fall. Now FCS2 delayed at least a month... Wonder what about the iPhone I have my hopes on for June?? Drat - I spent the last two weeks preparing for FCS2, catching up on LiveType expansion packs, Aperture and some new slideshow animators - even went to Big Box last weekend and got a SONY 5.1 surround sound system for $200. I'm usually noby Nick Baer - Café LA Re: DV footage in HDV project - 16 years agoCBS2 - even NBC4 and ABC7 - is placing SD video on an HD background - a 640x480 video centered on a HD static or animated graphic... making for left and right sidebars as opposed to more traditional top and bottom letterbox bars. Not uprezing or converting, just putting the 640x480 box on top of a 1080i graphic - and having static or animatic borders on the left and right. I addressed thiby Nick Baer - Café LA FCS2 5.1 sound - 16 years agoIn anticipation of 5.1 sound in FCS2, I did some research on 5.1 sound systems. I have a G5, iMac20 and MacBook. I wanted a speaker system that would work with all! I have a 5.1 speaker system ($50) that has the three stereo mini plugs to plus into a card. That worked on the G5 with a PCI audio card, but cannot on the iMac or MacBook. I did find some forum references (elsewhere) to aby Nick Baer - Soundtrack Pro Re: What are FCP editor,s rates and charges per hour? - 16 years agoThe Union Scale of $500/day on a 5 day guaranteed week is an interesting figure. Of course, so is the $3,100 member initiation and processing fee, after 200 demonstrated hours of work with W2s and 1099s to support that. I stopped reading before I got to the annual Union dues schedule. I heard SAG is $2,000 signup for $500/day rate, which is a better deal, in front of the camera than behindby Nick Baer - Jobs Is anyone else amuzed by the trips and stumbles CBS2 is going thru with HD? - 16 years agoI can't believe a big budget operation like CBS2 is having so much trouble with their new HD... * They've got that HUGE Best Buy showroom floor news set, and the anchors look like tiny salt and pepper shakers on a buffet table. * The "safe" area for placement of anchors (I'd use the word 'talent' but you know...) seems to be 640x480, with a whole lot of 'filler' news set clutter oby Nick Baer - News and Announcements Creatng a project of FCP resources - 17 years agoSeeing FCP Server brings up something that is bugging me about my organizing FCP resources I have a number of little self made FCP resources, Open, Close, Over The Shoulder boxes, some for graphics, some for moving videos... I keep them all on one FCP project sequance, but I still spend a lot of time dragging the playhead across them to find just the one I need this time... I there aby Nick Baer - Café LA Multiple SONY HDR cams and FCS - 17 years agoI am working on a online video Blog for an old friend who is very OUT THERE as a working voice over actor here in Hollywood. In iTunes > Podcasts search on Ben Patrick Johnson and you can get some free looks at our 3 camera HDV basement studio work. Hopefully this works --- Ben is famous voice over guy, actor, former EXTRA! host, human rights activist, and all around Scandinavianby Nick Baer - Café LA Re: Dumb question re motion tab/favorites? - 17 years agoI always do the Paste Attributes technique described above. CMD-C to copy the clip with the settings you like... then Option-V and select "Basic Motion" in the contextual menu that results to the clip(s) you want to have the same settings.by Nick Baer - Café LA Re: SONY HDR-FX1 - 17 years agoI forgot to check the "send replies via e-mail.by Nick Baer - Café LA SONY HDR-FX1 - 17 years agoI got my SONY HDR-FX1 this week. It is very well designed and rugged, where as on my Panasonic DVX100A the plastic barndoor thingy on the front broke one time, messing things up with all the exposed, pancaked pasttic part lens assembly. The only sad thing so far: I like to archive footage on a DVD recorder. So I have a DVD backup, and so I can if I want, use DVDxDV and RIP my data to hardby Nick Baer - Café LA Re: OT: Scorsese finally nails one for The Departed - 17 years agoI was mad when he was quoted as saying "(Departed) was the first movie he's done that had a plot". I especially liked The Aviator.by Nick Baer - Café LA Capture Now with SONY HD - 17 years agoI had the situation happen today where when using "Capture Now" with our brand new $3500 SONY HD cam, we got video in window, but "Searching For Media" error msg. Saw similar error posted on othr FCP forums. There should never be error messages on something so basic as trying to capture video from a SONY cam. It's not like we got the cam at WalMart!by Nick Baer - The Bug Report Searching For Media error message FCP Studio (current) - 17 years agoSo my rich and famous friend has 2 SONY HD cams, a $5000 one from a year ago, and a $3500 from last week, We shot a 3 camera newscast today. I captured the video from the $5000 cam just as I have captured any and all types of video for the past few years. I switched the firewire cable to the $3500 cam, rebooted FCP, CMD-8, Capture Now, see video in the window just fine but also the error mby Nick Baer - Café LA Re: Timecode in Multiclip? - 17 years agoI did some MultiClip work today, and it was SO frustratiing! You would think a Dual 3 Power Mac could help your day go faster. I couldn't get the archane mouse-scrolling technique to work to sync the 3 clips, so I had to manually type the Start point time in to Timing Info (couldn't even copy/paste)... Couldn't get it to cut only video (and retain main audio track), so after I was done cuby Nick Baer - Café LA Can't import .mov files - 17 years agoDon't you hate it when you do something a certain way at home, then you go to someone else's place and it doesn't work?? I've been using DVD Studio Pro since v3 for 2 years. I now have FC Studio current. I export my video from FCP as .movs, nothing fancy, import into DSP, and go. I go to my friend's studio, and open DSP, drag in a .mov, and DSP says "wrong format". I open the .moby Nick Baer - DVD Studio Pro Re: Video Bit Rate too high - 17 years agoI have received this error msg more since the most recent software update, than in the prev 2 years. What I am finding now, is that if I "build" before the encoding is finished, I will get the error. So I wait until the "encoding" has finished, then I 'build". I would prefer to drag assets to the workspace, arrange the navigation, create the menu jump to's, clickby Nick Baer - DVD Studio Pro Re: VISTA ...and other windows flavors - 17 years agoWe'll be able to thank Windows for bringing back Hollywood's Golden Age of SIlent Movies!by Nick Baer - Café LA Re: VISTA - 17 years agoRE: XP - My XP machine connected to OS X machines right out of the box... Network Neighborhood saw it right away, and vice versa OS X saw the XP machine. I don't currently have it on my network, I should to see how well it plays with the VISTA machine. BTW - I still canNOT connect from OS X to VISTA, but I CAN from VISTA to OS X. Thank You Bill Gates, and the millions you are spendingby Nick Baer - Café LA VISTA - 17 years agoI have a 5 yr old Windows machine on my network, primarily used for e-mail and web browsing. I had Staples put VISTA on it, and of course VISTA is still waaaaaay behind OSX. The purpose of my post is to share an experience with you all, so hopefully you won't have to go thru 3 hours of headbanging that I just did: I recently installed VISTA (by Staples Easy Tech). My network includesby Nick Baer - Café LA FOR SALE - Apple Studio Display, Gateway XP - 17 years agoHI I did well in October moving surplus gear on EBAY. I still have for sale: * my nice Apple Studio Display monitor (ca 2000), It was attached to a G3, then to a G4. I already sold the power adaptor that makes it work with a G5. * Gateway media Center XP machine. Bought at Best Buy in Fall 2005. CD drive works fine. DVD drive never shows up when you put any disc in it. I never craby Nick Baer - lafcpug Market Re: General Error 41! - 17 years agoI hit some of these errors tonight with FCP (5.1.2), after a miserable day with DSP (4.1.1) having compile errors. I think the cause for both was that I breeched the 90% full range for the Applications drive - as discussed earlier in these phorums. (I more fully documented my experience tonight in the DVD Studio Pro phorums). Installing the FCP Universal Binaries discs, followed immediatelyby Nick Baer - Café LA Re: Invalid Video Asset in DSP4 (Universal Binaries) - 17 years agoIn reviewing other posts on the related topics of "General Error" and "Operation Not Permitted" errors in FCP that started happening around the time as these weird DSP error messages... I determined that my Applications drive was creeping over the 90% full area... so I might have been corrupting the Preferences files, because there was <10% drive space available on the Aby Nick Baer - DVD Studio Pro Re: Invalid Video Asset in DSP4 (Universal Binaries) - 17 years agoI got it back working by basically "trashing prefs". This is an old FCP trick that I have never - or almost never - have done. With DSP 4.1.1 , Prefs are not readily apparant. I trashed the whole /user/Library/Application Support/DVD Studio Pro folder (by replacing it with a backup copy)... DSP 3 and 4 stored the same folder in a different path -- /bootdrive/Library/Applicationby Nick Baer - DVD Studio Pro No Bitrate too high - 17 years agoI am becoming very weary of DSP 4.1.1. After 18 months of authoring 2-3 DVDs per week, I upgrade to 4.1.1 and I am now on my 5th export (from FCP) and encoding (in DSP 4.1.1), and each time I get "Bitrate too high" error. Apple DSP programmers may get paid by the hour or salary commesurate with work performed, but I don't get paid for blindly tring to figure out what is suddenly wby Nick Baer - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD Studio Pro FEATURE REQUESTS: Post them HERE - 17 years agoThe error messages "Bitrate too high" and "Invalid Video Asset" need to be more verbose, in giving us results of the conditions that led to the program giving us the error message.by Nick Baer - DVD Studio Pro Re: Invalid Video Asset in DSP4 (Universal Binaries) - 17 years agoPart of me is wondering if this new "Invalid Video Asset" error in 4.1.1 is our old friend "Bit Rate Too High" error from previous DSPs wearing a new hat. I re-exported my feature, re-set the DSP4>Preferences>Encoding> at 7.0 (max 9.8) , and re-encoded old and new files alike at this setting, and the error went away. I'm also going to create separate root directby Nick Baer - DVD Studio Pro Invalid Video Asset in DSP4 (Universal Binaries) - 17 years agoI am just now getting this new error message - 2 years into using DVD Studio Pro (DSP4). Last week I upgraded to the Universal Binaries version of FC Studio, including DSP 4.1.1 . (PowerMac G5), OSX 10.4.8. I open a DSP project used previously (pre 4.1.1) and reuse some of the items, and add new items. Older items made in FC Pro (pre 5.1.2) and some new 5.1.2. My FC sequence settings are tby Nick Baer - DVD Studio Pro |
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