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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: search not working? macPro and 5.0.4 - 17 years agoShane: you're usually right. it's all my own fault for putting off the 5.1 upgrade. I'm paying for it now, in time lost. It's killing me having a MacPro sitting here and not being able to edit on it!by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Letterboxing Anamorphic Video - 17 years agoJohan: I don't appreciate you devolving this sort of discussion in the manner in which you have. If you chose to do this, go hang out on the Avid forms, please. Derek: Back on topic, I'm surprised to see that FCP does this "sometimes." Every time I drag anamorphic to the canvas, it just does the magic for me. I've never had this problem happen to me, but why do you think thiby bdplaid - Café LA Re: OT: lafcpug moving to new server this weekend - 17 years agoyes, great job. i hope you drink. you deserve one.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: search not working? macPro and 5.0.4 - 17 years agoInteresting, the apple site says it won't run under rosetta, but i believe you. i'll give it a try and let you know. it has to be better than my quicksilver 2002! it's gotten very sloggy lately. thanks,by bdplaid - Café LA search not working? macPro and 5.0.4 - 17 years agoHi, I tried to search for an answer to this, but search does not seem to be working. I have a brand spanking new Macpro and just realized i didn't upgrade to 5.1. I am doing that as we speak, but is there any way that 5.0.4 will run on this new Macpro? I have not tested it yet, myself. I'm dying to use this new system!! thx mucho as always.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Best Graphic Import Resolution - 17 years agoThe short answer is, you can *scan* at any dpi or pixel dimensions as long as it's greater than 720 by 540 and do a resize in photoshop, if that's your workflow. In fact, you can scan at any size and then do a resize in FCP (under the motion/scale tab) if that's what you want. The latter is not the best course, but it does work. Heck, you can poutput tp pdf and bring that in if you choose. Lotsby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Best Graphic Import Resolution - 17 years agoKevin Monahan wrote: > > BTW, Harry. It's not 720 x 534 for square pixels, it's 720 x > 540. Cool. I've heard both. But I can't draw a perfect circle anyway. :-) Do you happen to know why/how it got changed? Because as I'm sure you know it definitely used to be published that it was 720X534 (i think that was back in the analog-to-digital CCIR601 days). To be truthful, in theby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Best Graphic Import Resolution - 17 years agoThat's a good point, Derek. And Photoshop's Image Size and Canvas Size are perfect tools for resizing and changing resolution. If you have a lot of scans, batch automate the process to resize to video and go have a cold one. but if one scans at a low res (like 72) don't expect to bring it back for print in PS by resizing to 300 dpi. Alternatively, if one scans for video only at 300 dpi, you'll hby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Best Graphic Import Resolution - 17 years agoFYI - the final version of Ampede PDF doesn't work in Tiger nor FCP5. The beta test version is supposed to.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Best Graphic Import Resolution - 17 years agoThis is all true. 72 dpi might be a nice number to get one started with a scan, but really the only relevant thing is the actual size, and to work in whatever dimensions are called for by the final output. SD DV means 720 wide by 480 high (or in some cases 720 by 534, to account for pixel aspect distortion). HD can mean 1920 X 1280, or 1280 X 720. Or you may need something else for a pan and/oby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Lacie vs The World. Revisited. - 17 years agothe Lacies - I have 2 that are fine, but don't work them that hard. and only know of one personally that has failed. i usually work from internal drives (Hitachi and Seagate, but there's the odd WD in there - the slowest, btw) and use externals for storage and transfer. still, i'd be curious to know what drives are in the problem lacies. time was, they used Hitachi, but that time has passedby bdplaid - Café LA Re: DVD printer - 17 years agoEpson R320. Output is great, no problems yet, and cost me about $100 when it was on sale. and i did a 'water test" with the ink and it actually held up for just a casual wetting. washing it is another matter, but better than you'd expect.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: DVD printer - 17 years agoEpson R320. Output is great, no problems yet, and cost me about $100 when it was on sale. and i did a 'water test" with the ink and it actually held up for just a casual wetting. washing it is another matter, but better than you'd expect. Post Edited (08-16-06 15:36)by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Best Graphic Import Resolution - 17 years agoThe Larry Jordan comments quoated above are of course correct. but also note that if you create and import in the resolution native to the sequence in which you are working, and aren't doing any motion on the GFX, no rendering will be required. Format is sometimes an issue too. I find Tiff to work best, sometime JPG works OK, but the lossy compression can make an image noisy and just bad lookby bdplaid - Café LA Re: What do you do for a MiniDV deck when you don't have $3,000 for a deck? Used - 17 years agoYou asked Kevin but i'll jump in with my experiences - I owned a VS30, and the school where I used to teach owned about a dozen others, VS10, VS20 and VS30. Each of them had varying levels of problems with DV tape tracking, leading to dropouts, pixellated images, failures to recognize tapes, etc. There are 2 problems, which relate to tracking : 1. The decks are very cheaply made anby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Animated powerpoint in FCP - 17 years agoI have done some very nice work in PP, but that was me - I know design, and not one thing associated with those presentations came from the stock library that ships with powerpoint. And the only things animated that I ever used were page transitions, and darned few of those, too. I have been able to make PP look really good in FCP/video, but it requires considerable work using Photoshop and Acrby bdplaid - Café LA Re: Animated powerpoint in FCP - 17 years ago> > I have a powerpoint presentation with animation in it. (Images > show up at different times, move around, etc.) Does anyone > know if I can bring in the file into FCP and still keep all > that animation? The answer is no. If the presentation just has avi or quicktime files in it, you can output the PP background as a graphics file and then import the animation separately;by bdplaid - Café LA re: HDV motion artifacts -- do solutions exist? - 17 years agoI seem to recall that xpress has a deinterlacer - in the motion menu/palette maybe? i haven't worked in avid for awhile so I can't recall. maybe look in the help file, but i'm almost certain there is one. look in system settings, or whatever they call that window; i seem to recall it was buried there, somewhere, in one of the settings - not in the effect palette where one might expect it to be (by bdplaid - Café LA Re: What do you do for a MiniDV deck when you don't have $3,000 for a deck? Used - 17 years agoI had one of those VS30 crappers. POS. stay away.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: OT: Take a sneak peak at lafcpug's new forums - 17 years agoMike: great job. Love it. need some white fonts though. maybe something different - white on white?by bdplaid - Café LA Re: good internet suppliers for RAM and hard drives? - 17 years agoI use newegg.com for a lot of things, particularly hard drives. Their prices are excellent, they have a good user rating system, fast shipping, and the customer service is good, too.by bdplaid - Café LA Re: DV broadcast? - 17 years agoI have a friend who did this regularly to get around Discovery's DV moratorium. But if the original question was proposing capturing DV via analog using a capture card (not straight from tape through firewire), then the quality will suffer. it'll go through D-A, then A-D conversion. But in some situations, this helps things (like poorly shot DV chromakey) by smoothing out the image .by bdplaid - Café LA Re: G4 vs G5 vs MacPro performance comparison? - 17 years agoYes, of course, but since the whole exercise is, at best, farting around, I am simply curious to see how much faster each geration is (or is advertised to be) than the previous. There's no question that whatever I get will be better than I have now. thx,by bdplaid - Café LA G4 vs G5 vs MacPro performance comparison? - 17 years agoThe performance graphs I always see use some flavor of G5 as a baseline. But I'd like to see a performace comparison of as many Macs as possible, over the last few years. Anyone seen this? thx,by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Mac Pro is Bad News For Cafe LA - 17 years agoI made a decision to not upgrade my machine this way, spcifically to put the money toward a G5 (now a MacPro). I use After Effects anyway, and while I'd very much like to play with Motion, I never felt the need to have it (even though I've seen it and like it).by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Mac Pro Thoughts - 17 years agoso there seem to be two unused SATA II busses internally. wow, that has definite possibilities for HD over external SATA II RAID. I'd want more info on that, but it really gets me started in the morning!by bdplaid - Café LA Re: THE NEW Mac Pro Quad Zeon - 17 years ago> why are we even discussing this? because we can. in lieu of money, it's good to dream...by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Narrated Slide shows...FCP-Powerpt? - 17 years agoHi, Diane, Thanks for the e-mail. yeah, I have experience making things in PP for university web servers. Can be very much not fun. Since you say there's a chance this will likely be viewed via internet/website, my advice would again be to edit in FCP and output to Quicktime, selecting H.264 as the Codec. Assuming the pics are decent quality, it should look great, and Quicktime self-streams (by bdplaid - Café LA Re: Narrated Slide shows...FCP-Powerpt? - 17 years agoPardon me for saying, but it sounds to me like this isn't thought through all the way. I'd be looking at this project from the back forwards - meaning, what and how will this be presented? What type of experience do you want the viewer to have? On what type of equipment, etc? That would drive what I did. If you are planning to use a computer kiosk, then either DVD or Powerpoint might give yoby bdplaid - Café LA |
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