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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: Installing FCP: How can I make it go faster? - 14 years agoOurs is a single serial number. Thanks for all the tips - I will certainly dmg the disks and get them loaded. I feel like I just saved hours! Thanks again. -MWby Mike Watson - Café LA Installing FCP: How can I make it go faster? - 14 years agoI teach a documentary filmmaking class, and we've recently moved to a new facility with a new Mac lab. We're big-time now; I have a new multi-seat license of FCP, and 10 machines to install it on. If I do it via DVDs, I'm afraid it will be 2010 and Studio 3 will be released before I'm finished. All the machines are networked. Has anyone tried making .dmg's out of the DVDs, and installingby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Running Compressor as a client: FlipFactory style? - 15 years agoArtificial Intelligence? I was more thinking that if I put a QT movie in a certain folder ("Inbox", Compressor would detect it there, and apply a certain pre-defined compression scheme to it. Now that I look more, perhaps a droplet is what I need.by Mike Watson - Café LA Running Compressor as a client: FlipFactory style? - 15 years agoI'm curious if you can run compressor on a server (or on any machine, really), where it would convert any file, any format, to an specified file format... but it would do it without human interaction. Thoughts?by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Canopus ADVC-110 - 15 years agoWhat kind of tape are you currently using? My ADVC-100 (previous generation) won't even power up without the power supply. I assume the 110 is the same (I can't imagine this device being bus powered). Seems to me that tape would be more reliable than quicktime -> firewire -> ADVC -> component -> projector. If you were going to go that route, why not use DVI out, or a VGA or HDby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: EMERGENCY - select video gone - 15 years agoHave a look at this thread from long ago: Before recapturing everything, I'd try a few things. First off, trashing prefs. Then try that same QT file on another computer. My gut tells me that the .mov isn't corrupted. -MWby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: OT: The New Age of Broadcast Market - 15 years agoQuoteJ.Corbett Are you honestly trying to tell me that 47% of people who see a video ad on the internet click through? Look dude, I'm on your side too -- I think broadcast and cable are both going the way of the dodo ... but let's not start lying about internet advertising quite yet.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: XDCam Transfer to FCP - 15 years agoWere the files copied (i.e. dragged over) from the XDCam disks instead of imported? You may nt have gotten everything. My F70 shows entirely different files from the U1. Weird. "Andy will know", -MWby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Can an erased XD Cam disc be restored? - 15 years agoI didn't know that was possible. Did you get your data back?by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Transition from analog tv to digital - 15 years agoDouglas Villalba Wrote: > In an economy like we have today they'll be lucky > to get ads at all. > > The system is flawed because no one cares. All > they have to do is to spend a few minutes to > create a simple pdf to tell us what it is that > they need. Read what I said again. I have a simple pdf that tells you what we need. What I was just pointing out was thby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: looking for FCP system rental in Burbank area - 15 years agoI do freelance work for a film festival down in San Diego that rents their iMacs, complete with FCP, in the offseason. E-mail me for info. -MWby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Video quality - 15 years agoI teach a summer program for high school students... they shoot DV anamorphic, and the premiere is at a film festival, on the big screen. While you wouldn't mistake it for 35mm, it's not as bad as you'd assume. It really looks quite nice.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Can an erased XD Cam disc be restored? - 15 years agoThere is an unformat option in the cameras, buried in a maintenance menu somewhere. Thankfully, I've never had to use it. From what I understand, its success depends somewhat on what firmware the deck/camera that recorded it had, what firmware the current deck/camera being used to undelete/unformat has, as well as things like how full the disk was, and whether you've recorded anything new oby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Transition from analog tv to digital - 15 years agoDouglas Villalba Wrote: > Wouldn't it be easier for them and for us to just > give them digitized material like on a Data DVD or > even better FTP it to them? You'd think so, wouldn't you? I'm in charge of this for a local station, and we do accept HD spots via data DVD. I don't keep hard numbers on this, but I'd say about 30% of the spots that come in on "data" DVDby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Best Used or Budget Displays? - 15 years agoI'm using two of the Dell 2709's, side by side. It's a 27" monitor with the same resolution as its 24" brother. (1920x1200.) Gives you a little more real-estate without a huge cost bump. Newegg has a 22" Asus for $210ea... You could get two for your budget. Don't know what the color is like, but if it's a feature-length project, you'll have a hard time with one monitor. Ifby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: CGM Effects anyone? - 15 years agoI'm with Wayne. I use them, every day. About as many as he does. You almost have to delete the other 50 from the menu, so some over-zealous producer doesn't say, "Hmm, Super-spin-in... let's try that one!"by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Rename source with PDWU1 XDCAM? - 15 years agoJude... those 1500's are SD only, yes?by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Rename source with PDWU1 XDCAM? - 15 years agoU1's are read-only machines. Changing the name of the disk would be a write operation, and you can't do it. However, if you have access to the camera (or an F70, which is less of a drive, more of a deck-type machine), you can plug those in via firewire (operate them in FAM mode -- just like the U1) and re-name that way. Some shops (mine) have one F70 for deck-type things, and many U1's... oneby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Long export, Quicktime Self Contained - 15 years agoI don't know if you know the answer to this, but here's what I want to know. I thought a self-contained quicktime (which I use all the time, although usually on 30 sec sequences) was a pointer to video files and render files. I thought the whole idea was it was a quickie export technique with a tiny file size, for temporary needs (like burning a DVD). Why on earth would it take 1+ hours tby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Long export, Quicktime Self Contained - 15 years agoWe're acquiring in XDCam and editing in XDCam with ProRes renders. We play out through a Kona LHe, and it is recorded into an on-air server of some sort, from which it plays OTA. We do archive it back onto XDCam, but mostly for posterity - once it airs from the aforementioned server, it sits in a closet somewhere in perpetuity. I need to make a few DVDs of the show. Right now, it's taking 1by Mike Watson - Café LA Long export, Quicktime Self Contained - 15 years agoI'm exporting a self-contained QT movie of a 30-minute program I just completed. It's jumping between one and two hours to complete this task. I've had the same thing happen before, and can't figure out why it would take so long. I'm on a brand-new Mac Pro with the latest FCP 6.xx. The project is in XDCamHD 29.97. Each segment was edited in it's own sequence, then the sequences were dropby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: unreadable projects - 15 years agoWe have had that problem here, as well. I have never been able to track it down. I will say that it only occurs to our users with poor workflow (media on desktop, media scattered, bad sequence management, needlessly long sequences), and that almost always (and perhaps just "always", we're able to recover to an autosave version from not too far in the past. Someone from LAFCPUG recby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: FCP 6.04 and BiCoastal Post Workflow - 15 years agoAt this point, you all have drives with the same media, but different render files. Editor 1 started the edit, and did much rendering. Not all at once, but in many pieces, as he edited. When he rendered, FCP generated Render-File-0001 thru Render-File-0009. Editor 1 was proud of his work, and sent it to editor 2, who couldn't watch it without rendering. Editor 2 rendered (all at onceby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: quicktime plugin to play XDCam quicktimes. - 15 years agosony.com/xdcamhd ... click "dowwloads". Macs need to install the FCP package.by Mike Watson - Café LA Output to AVI - 15 years agoHi, I have a client asking for output in an AVI file. AVI, of course, is a container format. The client, of course, doesn't know that. They want something they can play on a Windows PC without installing quicktime. MPEG Streamclip can convert to AVI... but most of the codecs look like QT codecs. The default is DIVX, which the client says only comes across as audio, no video. What codby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: OT - printing thumbnail galleries of a folder of movies - 15 years agoI have previously opened QT files in Photoshop CS3 using "Make Tearsheet" under automation... but then tried it last week and it didn't work. Not sure why. There is a slick little command line tool called "QT_Tools" ... see this thread for more: -MWby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: New FCP Monitors: Suggestions? - 15 years agoIf it were between one 30" and two 24"s, which would you do?by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: RAID 'Critical' but no drive error. Hmm... - 15 years agoI'm with Joe. I'd be sweating bullets if my RAID came up "critical" and then went back to normal. IMHO, it's worse than losing a drive... it's a problem I can't identify. I'd cobble together enough spare drives to backup your 2TB, and send in the RAID as soon as you can manage it.by Mike Watson - Café LA New FCP Monitors: Suggestions? - 15 years agoHi all, I'm spec-ing out a new FCP system, from the ground up. It'll be a dual 3.0 Quad-Core, with the NVidia GeForce 8800 GT graphics card. I'm now onto displays. I was considering getting two of the Dell 24" displays (we have several in use right now and are happy with them), but I find a Dell 27" display for $100 more. (The Dell 2707WFP.) I haven't really had my ear toby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Adding RAM to Mac Pro - 15 years agoThis 4GB kit from newegg is $130. With 8 slots available and RAM at $$260 for 8GB, especially for one with an octocore machine... why the fret about where to put the 512 chips? Mine are in the bottom of a desk drawer.by Mike Watson - Café LA |
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