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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Title 3D and on screen positioning - 13 years agoSorry for not updating the question with an answer, but three years later... better late than never! Ended up making a template in Motion with the feature where you enter text in FCP, but get the Motion template every time. (I forget what this feature was called - it is not especially popular not well documented, nor well-named.) Finally was able to standardize text placement in a TV stationby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Tapeless data recovery - 13 years agoI have recovered XDCam disks, once by sending them to Japan, and later (when XDCam was more common) by using an internal menu in the F70. We were able to recover a majority of the lost clips each time, but not all. Now, with the 5DMkII, I am making a disk image of the card, plus importing the files before I re-format and continue shooting.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Installing FCP from Disc Images - 14 years agoReidCAULFIELD Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It was a long lunch for me > with the laptop, uncompressing the files (before > the install) took the longest. Thanks again! There is a quick terminal command to turn off "verify" of disk images... saves about half the time of the install. defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Need advice- from a PC CS3 to a MAcBooK. I need to know what to buy. - 14 years agoFinal Cut Pro is a consumer level software package - you buy the box and put the disks in your machine, and then you start editing. It is no AVID, where you are tricked/forced into buying specific, expensive elements that were not priced with your system, but your system will not work without. Buy the MacBook Pro that you want. Then buy FCStudio. Install the disks. Start editing. Yes, youby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: 13" MacBook Pro for video in-out? - 14 years agoI have had less trouble running media on a USB2 drive than I have daisy-chaining a firewire camera and a firewire hard drive. When daisy-chaining, it seems I'm always getting "device not found". I have edited XDCamHD, DVCProHD, HDV, and DV via USB2. I don't know what would happen with uncompressed HD - I expect it wouldn't work. For a job with a decent budget, I suggest a MBP wiby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Trailers - How To Questions? - 14 years agoGreaser Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The only reason I was asking about > the watermark was with "iStock Audio" they say > that phrase about every 10 seconds. Now how do > they expect me to get a true feel of the music > when that keeps happening? The same way they expect you to show a roughcut to a client with an epic HD shotby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Pulldown removal of a 3:3:4 pulldown? - 14 years agoNick Meyers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > you just have to figure out a way to surgically > remove frame 2, 4or5, then 7, 9or10 etc, etc. What about an export to a series of .png's, then using automator or AppleScript to do this?by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: OT: Editing advice - 14 years agoAlmost all visual aids today are computer generated... and you are editing on computer. Get a copy of the visual aids... make 2D magic.by Mike Watson - Café LA Bad Editing / Bad Pacing - 14 years agoHi, This is un-FCP related, but certainly editing related. After years of working in the biz, I was recently asked to teach a class on editing (FCP) at a local college. Things are going well, but I have encountered two problems: 1) Lack of footage to edit, 2) Lack of examples of "bad" editing. I am working on #1 (budget), but #2 is more difficult... I see bad edits all over TVby Mike Watson - Show and Tell Re: Mixing EX-3 with DVX100 footage - 14 years agoI just signed off a job after 3 years of XDCamHD, and while there were some bumps in the beginning, it's all fine now. I'd use the EX-series without hesitation. Any of the above outlined methods will get you where you need to go.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: The Ghost of Transitions Past - 14 years agoI use the strypes method... select the two neighboring clips and the offending transition, and disable and re-able. Works almost 100% - sometimes it happens in a clip (and transition) that didn't need rendering, which really stumps me. In that case (can't say I've had this happen in a long while) I'll apply a dummy filter - like a blur of "0"... to force a render.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Mixing EX-3 with DVX100 footage - 14 years agoIf you drop that HD footage, completely sans-conversion, into a DV timeline, the crappy DV colorspace will make it look pretty convincingly like DV. If you were going the other way around, and decided to edit and distribute the whole thing in HD, you would have a lot of work to do to get that DV stuff up to the level of the HD footage.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Mixing EX-3 with DVX100 footage - 14 years agoFor the most part, anytime you have the option to shoot HD or SD, shoot HD - you can always downconvert. If you shoot SD, it will never be upgradable to HD. Renting a helicopter is no small cost - someday you may want to re-use that footage in an HD production, and if it's SD - you'll have to re-shoot.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Shared storage for 3 x FCP suites - 14 years agoWhat format is the video you're editing? Would a gigabit router work, keeping the media on one machine and the render files local to each?by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: [OT] Reuse Digibeta - 14 years agoI've used digibeta tapes many times, and never had a problem. In fact, outside of a deck eating one, I can't think of a time where an old tape has burned me. Contrary to derekmok - if you have decided that multiple passes on a tape is unsafe - I would not use it to output a work in progress - that's my safety net. I'd hate to go to all the trouble of putting up a safety net, then use somethiby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: What is the current YouTube format? - 14 years agoIf your native format is DV-NTSC and you have the time, I'd upload the DV-NTSC quicktime and be done with it. YouTube limit is 10 mins or 2GB, and most videos are (or should be) 2-3 minutes, which will be well under both of those limits. Also, I'll take this opportunity to disagree with Strypes - if your source material is SD, I'd export it at native resolution and upload it. When YouTube exby Mike Watson - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Speed Control as a Percentage - 17 years agoHow about an option to do speed control as a percentage, instead of by frame number? Everything else in the motion control is by percentage.by Mike Watson - FCP Feature Requests Re: SmoothCam on FCP 7.0 - 14 years agoJust got this same problem again today. Have had FCP7 installed for a month or more now, and this is with new footage and a fresh project - no "leftovers" from FCP6. Various searches don't turn up much, so this can't be a widespread issue... perhaps an XDCam thing? Transcoding to DVCProHD has the same issue. Any answers?by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Best method for importing Hi-Def tv recorded broadcasts - 14 years agoDo you have component input? Can you go HD component in? Otherwise, it looks like you're stuck with composite ("yellow" input. I believe you can do 16x9, but not true HD.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: The effect "Smoothcam" failed to render. Why not? It rendered 5 minutes ago! - 14 years agoTurn smoothcam off and back on, try again. If that doesn't work, "reveal in finder", and you will find an analysis file with the same name as your QT file. Delete it, and FCP should start freaking out. Re-rendering should trigger the smoothcam analysis.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Honest Thoughts on iMac - 14 years agoThe iMac will edit SD, DV, HDV just fine. I am editing a project involving ProRes (and small amounts of ProRes HQ - by accident) on my 13" MBP without so much as a hiccup. This is a 3 minute movie trailer, cut from hours of raw footage. I work at a client site on an octo-core Mac Pro, and yes, you can certainly tell the difference between it and the 13" MBP. But I would say theby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Wrong Macbook... Fixable? Usable? - 14 years agoIt will run FCP fine, both for SD and HD. (Ask me how I know!) Motion will be slow. Color (as Mike indicates) may not run at all -- I'm really not sure. If it does run, it'll be slooooooooooooow. If you have the cash, I'd see if it's returnable for a MBP.by Mike Watson - Café LA SmoothCam on FCP 7.0 - 14 years agoHi, Editing a :30 spot that was looking good on v6.1. Have one shot with the SmoothCam filter. Client loves it, output the spot, done. Upgrade to FCS2009. Client wants to make a change to the spot. Load the spot up, the clip with SmoothCam has terrible judder (for lack of a better term). Try everything, can't fix it. Weird thing is that before it's rendered - when I watch the clip witby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: using a white background for compositing - 14 years agoI would do a garbage matte, crank the smooth up, and bring the opacity down to half -- perhaps it's a certain effect the director is looking for. I've done similar - but I wouldn't call it a "key".by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: codec not found - 14 years agoJust fixed the same problem for me. Thanks!by Mike Watson - Café LA Disappearing render files - 14 years agoRemember the good old days, when you'd have an el-huge-o timeline, render the whole thing, then scroll through the timeline and EVERYTHING would come unrendered? I believe this was around the time of FCP 4, perhaps 5. I'm remembering these good old days because it's happening to me tonight. Luckily on a DV project that's 2 minutes long, not an hour long show, full of effects - so it only takby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: best archival output format recommendation... - 14 years agoI realize it's not long-term (and you should, too), but I archive to hard drive via Media Manager. I mean, I bump the finished product to tape for posterity, but the stuff I think I'm going to need to use again... I'd rather have it in layers than flattened.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Sony Z1U and New MBP 13" via Firewire 800 - 14 years agoI appreciate "should work" as much as the next guy, but is there anyone here who has successfully done this with a FW 800 cable?by Mike Watson - Café LA Sony Z1U and New MBP 13" via Firewire 800 - 14 years agoI got one of the new MBP 13" machines a few weeks back... overall, completely happy with the screen, the speed, and the battery life. I bought a FW 400 -> FW 800 cable with the hopes of being able to pull in video from my Z1U. Unfortunately, FCP won't recognize the Z1U via that cable, either in HDV mode, or in DV downconvert mode. I hooked the camera back up to the old machine (vby Mike Watson - Café LA |
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