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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: Your Opinion: after FCP, what app? - 17 years agografixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > If you use both...get both. You don't "go broke > buying both systems". You can get a software-only > Media Composer now for around $5,000 & throw it on > the same Mac as FCP. A little homework / research > goes a looooong way. You should learn Avid > yourself, filmman beforeby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Your Opinion: after FCP, what app? - 17 years agoMark, I appreciate that info, and I'm glad to hear FCP is in solid gound out there. As i said, I am a converted Avid editor, and I thought FCP was superior even at V3. It's used solidly here, too, but if one wants to work, he'd better darned well know Avid. Interestingly, I was recently privvy (sp?) to the donation of a bunch of old Avid stuff to a local university (it was unusable junk, bby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Your Opinion: after FCP, what app? - 17 years agomark raudonis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think your perception of FCP's acceptence in > the professional, broadcast market is at least a > year behind the reality that I'm observing here on > the Coast. If you don't believe me, go to the > AVID L-2 and lurk for awhile. There you'll find > plenty of evidence, anecdotal and otheby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Kona LH versus Kona 3 (or other capture cards) - 17 years agoHi, Shane, Thanks for that info. So what do you like for this? I'm also looking into a card, and can't decide which gives me the mosy bang for the buck. I don't need uncompressed, only DVCPRO HD, HD monitoring, and would like to add some realtime effects if they're actually real time and worth it. Black Magic has me interested the most (I like their website - lots of useful info); notby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Your Opinion: after FCP, what app? - 17 years agoHi, Steve, It's certainly an honest question you have posed. To answer the first question, no I don't see a decline in Avid's use at all. Schools - including the university where i used to teach - were Avid houses because of that product's concentration in the market. Every large pro post house I have been to (in the Mid Atlantic region) has used Avid. My read is that Avid seems to beby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Your Opinion: after FCP, what app? - 17 years agoI'm glad someone said AVID. It should have been the first comment. If the first poster wants to pursure editing, then definitely, Avid. Photoshop and how it fits into the video workflow, and a lot of the remaining CS2 suite are also a must for either platform. Beyond that, I think one starts getting into the art creation thing (like with AE), which is a different mentality entirely. Not bad,by bdplaid - Café LA Re: picture crawl effect - 17 years agoJude, Thanks mucho, I'll give it a try. wow, that a lot of work you did; good job, and thanks again,by bdplaid - Café LA Re: picture crawl effect - 17 years agoThanks for the info. Unfortunately, the pics are all of different sizes so the speeds will be different. I just want this folder of pics to crawl by, all at the same speed. I tried this in iPhoto, and it almost works there. But the pics stop for a bit while it does that stupid Ken Burns Effect (whoever in their right mind named simple photomation that? but i digress...). I'll try the Thby bdplaid - Café LA picture crawl effect - 17 years agoHi, I'm looking for a simple filter in FCP or Motion that will allow me to specify a bunch of pictures and do an automatic crawl (right to left) of all of them. I'm looking to avoid doing them all by hand in the motion tab. the push transition pasted between each of them works, but the timing gets a little goofy here and there. thanks,by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Setting up to digitize 300 hours of footage - 17 years agoI second Dan's suggestion. Too often we just thow all our footage onto a drive and then sift through it, when the thought process becomes sharper when we actually do our own logs and make a paper edit with the plan of making an EDL for transfer. Too bad this is denigrated as "old school," but i understand.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Very Dissappointed Mac Pro Editor - 17 years agoJay Brown Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I am running FCP 5.0. Is there an update that > would stabalize my MP. Any info would be great. FCP 5.0? you need 5.1 - the Universal binary version. I'm surprised you got 5.0 to work at all. Must be really slow... I have a MacPro 2.66/FCP5.1 and no probs at all. the worst thing was waiting forby bdplaid - Café LA Re: HD Monitoring of FCP - 17 years agoWhat about adding another video card and using that for edit preview (not for color grading)? I've always been curious about that approach.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: HD Monitoring of FCP - 17 years agowe should have a contest to see who has the biggest rat's nest. ;-)by bdplaid - Café LA Re: OT: wired lavalier mike recomendation? - 17 years agoI've gotten great results with all the audio-technica line - specifically the AT803 and the AT831. battery and phantom-powerable. These are on the large side, so if you want a smaller mic, their sub-minis are also really good. It's great bang for the buck.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Titles in Metadata? - 17 years agoHi, It's a tossup if i can clarify... <grin> I'm not talking about station IDs, and I don't know what "bugs" are (please enlighten!). Andrew has is right: My Comcast cable has this for most stations, but not all, so it seems the information must be coming from the channel itslef rather than the Cable Provider (eg, from Discovery, rather than Comcast). As an example ofby bdplaid - Café LA Titles in Metadata? - 17 years agoHi folks, My question is not about onscreen titles, but rather about the program titles that one can see on the TV screen when scanning from channel to channel - they appear on text-enabled TVs that show what program and/or station one is watching. I'm interested in including that in my DVDs. Lord knows why, but I am. I was wondering if that can be put on a DVD, and where is it done - canby bdplaid - Café LA Re: HDV, HD, DVCPRO HD, PROGRESSIVE, field-blending - Misconceptions, self-imposed limitations - just what can we do with FCP5 as far as output is concerned? - 17 years agoJude, I agree with you completely. I resent being asked questions about topics which I have spent time and money to learn by people who seem unwilling to expend their own effort to learn. I'm happy to help, but meet me halfway; learning is a 2-way street. The question now becomes: which is costlier, knowledge or ignorance. Our friend filmman need to decide.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Images blurred in the Canvas - 17 years agoRender. And sometimes you need to flush the render queue and rerender to make sure they are actually displaying properly. As said before, you really need an external monitor (even if it's a just a TV) to do this right. Unless you have a reason to do so (such as a motion effect), stills and pics and GFX usually work out better made to be the native sequence size - single layers will then rby bdplaid - Café LA Re: preview out while editing hdv? - 17 years agoHi, Shane, are you saying that the 2nd monitor digitial preview won't work with DVCProHD? I thought it was? this is a stopgap measure for me anyway, but I'd like to get going with HD. but it's interesting that the canvas even stops playing sometimes. I know about the stuff you're saying (color grading and such), my situation is that I'm just now getting set to work in HD. I actually don'tby bdplaid - Café LA Re: preview out while editing hdv? - 17 years agoHi, wayne, Thanks. i read that you did that in another post. the thing is - with my system, i can't get the second monitor to play the video. it'll display the parked playhead still, and it'll scrub. I've got a new Macpro 2.66Ghz, and several monitors, most recently a 20" samsung LCD and an older 19" samsung CRT. they work, but the HD won't play unless it's on the primary monby bdplaid - Café LA Re: preview out while editing hdv? - 17 years agoI'm having the same issue, only with dvcproHD on a new macpro. I know the card will solve the problem, but here are 2 questions: 1: is there any way to do a live preview without a card ( meaning that it plays while the canvas plays, like it does with DV). 2. which card? I'm leaning toward a Decklink, but am wondering what other folks experiences are with this and with the Kona. Like, whby bdplaid - Café LA MacPro memory in sets of 4 (rather than 2) - 17 years agoHi all, I found this on Blackmagic's site: "Memory speed is particularly important for demanding video work such as RT effects. Sets of four memory modules provide twice the memory speed compared with using only a single pair of memory modules. While you must install memory modules in pairs, it is even better to install in sets of four memory modules." It makes sense.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Great article on Editing - 17 years agofilmman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What's damaging to great filmmaking are the styles > that come from commercials and commercialism. I > think a line has to be drawn, so everyone learning > how to make movies can clearly see where the > profit motive ends and where art begins. I really dislike this train of thought. One often heby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Great article on Editing - 17 years agoI'd have sworn it was Kefauver. Maybe I should check my memory. Thanks for the correction.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Great article on Editing - 17 years agoDave Hardy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They > have an amusement park mentality with regard to > what they are producing fore the box office. Not to defend the mainstream studios, but they have this mentality because it's what the public wants: let's see how many explosions we can put into a scene. Our whole culture has become one theme parkby bdplaid - Café LA Re: OT: HVX200 Users might be interested in this... - 17 years agoHi, Mike, DVRack is Win XP only currently - too bad. They keep saying they're working on a Mac version, but who knows. maybe now with the Intel processors it'll be easier for them? It's HDV -capable, but not yet for DVCPro HD (also promised). I might have said I'm loking to use that instead of an FS100. I use it on a cheap XP laptop, and have to say I like it. I don't use the direct to diby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Mac Pro thoughts/ G5 to Mac Pro workflow - 17 years agoI just got a MacPro 2.66 1GHz Ram (the stock MacPro) and really like it. No problems, everything works, and it's built like a work of art (only that's useful). i've added 3 additional internal hard drives, and i swear it took less than 5 minutes to install all of them. SATA 2 speed is good - between 4-5 minutes to move a 14+GB file between non-raid drives. i'm still waiting on my version ofby bdplaid - Café LA Re: OT: HVX200 Users might be interested in this... - 17 years agoI'm forming a snipe hunt for Ben. :-) ps: Ben - you've seen the FS100, right? that thing looks pretty cool, too, but lately I'm kind of into P2 cards offloaded to laptop w/ P2 Genie. also, Serious Magic is supposed to be coming out with a version of DV Rack that supports the HVX and allows recording DVCProHD directly to the laptop's HDD. we'll see. I like DVRack, though.by bdplaid - Café LA QT export refernece movies too big - 17 years agoI've done this a thousand times, but for some reason making non-self-contained movies isn't working properly. I'm exporting several long pieces, ranging in length from 44 min to 2hr 3min. I'm exporting from FCP to Quicktime, trying to make them reference movies. I've done this many times before with no problems, but this time the movies range in size from 1.6GB (for the 2+ hr piece), to 9.5GBby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Recommended camera - 17 years agoHi, loren, Interesting about the A1U. I almost bought one; it looked like a good deal. But in the final analysis, I wasn't comfortable with HDV's MPEG compression and the 12 (or 6) frame GOP type of recording. It makes me nervous, considering I have definitely had tape trouble in the past with those little mechanisms and 1/4" tape. Doing HD on that tape is just asking too much of it.by bdplaid - Café LA |
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