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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: TV ad fails HARDING test...please help. - 16 years agoThis is interesting - being in the US, I'm unfamiliar with this, but i assume it's a test to ensure that viewers prone to seizures won't be affected by the flashing lights? Or am I stupid? Keep up the discussion, I'm interested!by bdplaid - Café LA Media manager, collecting files, etc (from Feature Requests) - 16 years agoOk, I'll move this over here, good idea, Nick. At any rate, I've had problems with MM and trying to simply copy entire projects from one place to another. I think MM has promise, but AE's Collect and Consolidate work better, because they are reliable. My problems have been trashed media after a copy operation. Like, when a sequence is played, the media will break up and show the dreaded gby bdplaid - Café LA Re: FCP Editors get paid less than AVID editors for the same work..... - 16 years agoQuoteJoeyIt takes a huge team of experienced people working together as a TEAM. Not "off the shelf" cut-rate department selections from Walmart. A movie is one medium that suffers intensely when the crew is short-handed. 2 friends of mine have Oscars sitting on their desks for documentary work. I think the max size of the crew was about 3, usually 2, sometimes 1 (for B-roll). They haby bdplaid - Café LA Re: FCP Editors get paid less than AVID editors for the same work..... - 16 years agoQuoteJ Corbett but i am with you on the writer althought i have seen actor/ writers before. Writers: Dead; not quite buried. Producer: We can't do drama? Let's get some idiots like two rich spoiled brats and make some "realty TV." Of course, when the writers went on strike, they shot themselves in the foot, big time. But what hasn't been said here is being undercut in the markeby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Creating chapters in FCP for iDVD - 16 years agoThis may seem stupid, but are you sure all the markers are designated to be "Chapter Markers;" ie, not another kind, or simply a marker in the timeline? They have to be specifically designated as chapter markers individually. Also, you probably know, they have to be in the sequence timeline, not in the media clip itself. good luck,by bdplaid - Café LA Re: FCP Editors get paid less than AVID editors for the same work..... - 16 years agoWell, I thought I was pretty well prepared out of school, being at the top of my class, Summa Cum Laude and having garnered some pro recognition through internships. Then, my first gig: I didn't know how to read a scope, keep an analog edit bay timed, nor even what a matched-frame edit was. Took me down a peg or three. I tried very hard to make it so my students didn't go through that. Butby bdplaid - Café LA Re: FCP Editors get paid less than AVID editors for the same work..... - 16 years agoBen, You're swimming upstream. I've been involved in academia in one form or another since 1993 (I'm also a filmmaker and producer, won a Telly this year, so don't hold the teaching against me :-) ), and the problem with the faculty is that they, first and foremost, will protect themselves and their position. Often the unfortunate result is that the residing, tenured faculty will never hireby bdplaid - Café LA Re: FCP Editors get paid less than AVID editors for the same work..... - 16 years agoI had a student in one of my production classes who took me up on a heretical off-hand statement I made in class: If you really want to learn this stuff and particularly want to work in the field, get a job in the field. Any job, and move up. You'll learn more. He was a junior and actually doing fairly well. And I have to say he was in the top 5% of motivated students I've ever had. Neverthby bdplaid - Café LA Re: FCP Editors get paid less than AVID editors for the same work..... - 16 years agoTo be clear, it isn't the young editor's fault; they don't know any better. Universities sure as hell don't teach them, because 90% of the teachers don't know themselves. I've been there and have seen it. What he have here is what should be an apprenticeship situation, and therefore, the apprentice needs to be corrected, rather than allowed to work on honest-to-God, for-real broadcast work.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: FCP Editors get paid less than AVID editors for the same work..... - 16 years agoBen King Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Still, it would be good to see some of your output > and judge for myself whether I am totally off the > mark here. But how can we know? We only see the final cut, not what it could have been. As an example of how young people can ruin an edit, watch HGTV's Designed to Sell, particularly the episoby bdplaid - Café LA Re: FCP Editors get paid less than AVID editors for the same work..... - 16 years agoHi, Dan You asked for comments, so here it is: My first internship many years ago landed me the job of logging tapes. Which I thought was a really dumb thing for me to do, given that me - the student - was becoming intimately familiar with the footage with which the producer would work. I knew more about the story than they. Then there's the topic of the paper edit - which sounds reallyby bdplaid - Café LA Re: FCP Editors get paid less than AVID editors for the same work..... - 16 years agoHow the world does change. When I came in, it was all tape. Eventually I was managing a "small" million-dollar+ production facility which was multi-format tape (Beta SP, UMatic SP, S/VHS). Eventually we went AVID, systems which in those days were a bear to keep running properly. Plus, because it was integrated into the larger analog facility, had to be properly timed just like everby bdplaid - Café LA OT: P2 Genie and Win Vista - Works! - 16 years agoI just worked this out and posted it at Creative Cow, and thought I'd also post here. I have gone with a fully digital, data-oriented production workflow, using the HVX200, P2 cards, laptop and desktop-based editors (ala FCP). I was using an XP Pro laptop, which recently went belly-up, so I needed a new one. However, new ones are almost all Win Vista AND Expresscard (not PC Cardbus Type II, foby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Creating a IDVD from a 2hr long FCP fileproject - 16 years agoI agree with Koz. And iDVD is supposed to have a 90-minute limit, but I've made 2-hour DVDs with it. "Best Quality" must be selected in preferences - before you start making the project file. And it will take a long time to encode, that time depending on the speed of the machine. The source was a QT reference movie from FCP 5.1.4. The project was burned as a disc image to the haby bdplaid - Café LA Re: importing graphics at 100% - 16 years agoVery interesting, Ben - so i have actually discovered something? Big whoop, i wish it were cool :-( But at least you could duplicate it. I guess we need to press Apple on this... Or at least I do. Anyway, I went to the Photoshop method and that worked OK - it's been a whopper of a day, including having PS create some tif files that PS itself wouldn't read back into itself. That's a goby bdplaid - Café LA Re: importing graphics at 100% - 16 years agoHi, Derek, Thanks for the input, but I've done this many times before, too, and trust me, using Photoshop to make the files properly all in a batch is much, much easier than all that mucking around in FCP with color mattes, possibly keying, background layers, extra tracks, etc etc. the Photoshop approach looks better, too. Making the graphics properly ahead of time makes it a drag and drop prby bdplaid - Café LA Re: importing graphics at 100% - 16 years agoQuoteBen KingWhat I don't get is which ones are stretching. Are you saying that FCP is resizing 576 X 382 stills to 720x480 automatically? It's weirder than that. FCP upscales all 576 x 382 files by 112% - so it doesn't fill the entire screen, but increases the size to approximately action-safe size. It's nutty, but it does it. And i don't know why.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: importing graphics at 100% - 16 years agoHi, Ben, thanks for the advice. I did all of that - i've been an editor for a long time and using FCP for awhile and know my way around a bit, but this one has me stumped - as apparently it's not in there. But, since you ask: I am doing an educational video in SD (NTSC 720 x 480) with lots and lots of powerpoint slides in the edit. The biggest problem is that the slides have text and grby bdplaid - Café LA Re: importing graphics at 100% - 16 years agoYes - I'm looking to import graphics to the timeline and have them come in at 100% (eg, a 500 x 200 graphic would be 500 x 200, NOT be resized at all). As i said, my current project has files that come into the timeline that are consistently resized up (to 112%), which in this case fills the action-safe area. In other cases, FCP has resized things down to below the title-safe area. I'm notby bdplaid - Café LA Re: importing graphics at 100% - 16 years agoThanks, but it doesn't really answer the question - how can one stop this from happening at all, rather than correct it after FCP does it? I seem to recall that AVID allows one to set certain parameters for imported graphics, but is that not here in FCP? I'd expect to find it under user prefs (like setting the duration for importing still files). But I find nada. Even worse, the still imageby bdplaid - Café LA importing graphics at 100% - 16 years agoHi, FCP is resizing my graphics to fill the action-safe box, but I have them pre-sized to what I need them to be. I've checked preferences and setings and can't find any specific controls. Other than using Copy Attributes (a pain) to scale them back down, is there a way to specify that all graphics dragged to the timeline will come in at 100% only? thanks,by bdplaid - Café LA Re: NAB: Apple VS Avid - 17 years agoShane, I used be both an Avid and FCP editor, and agree with everything you say. In fact, Avid has been quite far ahead of FCP in many little details that just make life eaiser (eg, integrated audio normalize, for one). And for one to work in the industry, s/he'd better know his way around an Avid. However, I have always despised Avid's mode-based editing, and was the main reason I switchedby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Recomendation for Final cut users looking to purchase storage devices for their HD cameras, - 17 years agoJohn, Right, I've used it and it works fine - and is the root of the question. I was looking for a way to do it over USB. The reason I ask about USB and the HVX is because of the USB OTG Drives. These drives contain their own host controller and many also have a rechargeable battery. They work by having a button on the drive that, when pushed, performs an automatic media copy from compatiblby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Recomendation for Final cut users looking to purchase storage devices for their HD cameras, - 17 years agoThis thread reminded me (and sorry to steal it, but...) - I use an HVX200 and have recently started playing with the host feature in the camera - the ability to save files directly to disk without using a computer. The question is: can the HVX200 use one of the new USB OTG (on the Go) drives for this? even though it wouldn't be monitored, it might be a neat solution for extra storage.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Farewell, DV Rack: Despising Adobe more and more... - 17 years agoNick: that's a very interesting idea; thanks! hby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Farewell, DV Rack: Despising Adobe more and more... - 17 years agoWayne: You're quite right. I'm just whining about this, hoping that Adobe somehow magically makes OnLocation available as standalone. Not likely, I know. I really hate buying software that's perfectly serviceable, then one of the parties involved (usually the OS maker, as is true in this case with Windows Vista) decides to update things and bingo - my software won't work. I recall back iby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Farewell, DV Rack: Despising Adobe more and more... - 17 years agoThanks for the heads-up, but have you seen the price? $499. Too expensive, especially since I use a PC in the field and can't/won't buy a MacBook for that. For that price (MacBookPro+HDMonitor Pro=$2500) I might as well get the Adobe Production Pack CS3. See, my whine is about already having HD Rack 2, but I want it to run on a new laptop, which means Windows Vista. So the current plan is tby bdplaid - Café LA Farewell, DV Rack: Despising Adobe more and more... - 17 years agoRant du jour: Well, the upgrade pricing to get Photoshop CS3 is looking steep to me, but to top it off, Adobe - having bought Serious Magic some time ago - is changing DV Rack to be Adobe OnLocation, which make it more or less go away for me, From Adobe: "DV Rack HD 2 is currently available as a standalone product. By July 2007, DV Rack will become Adobe® OnLocation? CS3 and will beby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Mac OS X v10.5 ?Leopard? won?t be released until October - 17 years agoBut back to the OS... This may make great sense for Apple, but it's not good for me as an editor using a MacPro. I am looking forward to 10.5 to speed things up on the Intel-macs. Now I have to wait more. On top of it, I have to navigate the mess Microsoft has caused with Vista. I use a PC laptop with DV Rack, but Adobe/Serious magic says DV Rack won't run on Vista. Hosed, for now.by bdplaid - Café LA OT: for Koz - Human Vision, 1080p, and All That Jazz - 17 years agoI read a blurb by John Martellaro that reminded me of Koz and thought I'd pass it along. Food for thought in production. "It may be questionable whether one can actually perceive the difference between a 720p and 1080p display at typical TV viewing distances, according to Audioholics. " http://www.ipodobserver.com/story/31018by bdplaid - Café LA |
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