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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: DVD stuck in MacBook - 15 years agoQuotetrevoraAlso during startup you can... <<Press Eject, F12, or hold the mouse button Ejects any removable media, such as an optical disc.>> Right, tried that, without luck. I will look for "ejector". -MWby Mike Watson - Café LA DVD stuck in MacBook - 15 years agoHi all, I received a DVD with some media on it last night. Popped it in my MacBook to copy it over to the network. It wouldn't appear on the desktop, or in finder. I pressed eject, and nothing happens. I re-started, holding eject... nothing. I can hear the DVD "spin up" when I start the machine, but it never appears in finder, and will not eject. It's as if OS X doesn't thinkby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: World of pain for XDCam Browser??? - 16 years agoNo, we run FCP 6 and 7.4.1 on our PPC's without incident. Yes, you need 6.02 for the XDCam software to work correctly.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: having XD CAM transfer problems - 16 years agoThere's an XDCam plist file somewhere... you can try and trash it. There's a new 2.5.1 ver of the xfer software out... try that.by Mike Watson - Café LA Storing Media on a network: Gigabit? - 16 years agoHi there, I'm working on a capital improvement plan for next FY. I run three FCP stations -- a MacPro and two G5's. We shoot XDCamHD, and edit DVCProHD. I'm at broadcast TV station, so everything has to interact with a dozen other systems. The engineers have set us up with a Gigabit network between workstations, so we can transfer media from one to another. Currently, each workstation hby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: OT Skywalker Ranch photos - 16 years agoI (knock on wood) haven't had the black turns to green problem in a long time, but I've never nailed down the problem. Last time I fixed it by turning off some wonky fonts, but have no concrete reason to believe that was really the problem.by Mike Watson - Café LA Powerpoint and QT movies - 16 years agoDelivered a DVD to a client after WEEKS of work, come to find out she wants to use it in a powerpoint presentation. That's funny, the fifteen times I asked, you said "on a DVD". I sent her a .mov (which was huge), and a H.264 quicktime, I said take yer pick. She says they take "ten minutes" to load. The previews I've been sending her (straight from FCP, Export -> Quicby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Equipment insurance? - 16 years agoDo you have renters insurance? Homeowners? When I was a renter (not that long ago) you could pick up renter's insurance for $200 / yr. Easy to argue they should replace your laptop, it's a common household item. Might require a rider for a semi-pro camera...by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Weird SnapzPro issue into FCP - 16 years agoNo dice. Distortion was already at a ratio of 0. Re-recorded the thing via snapz pro at 4:3, works fine now. Frustrating, though.by Mike Watson - Café LA Weird SnapzPro issue into FCP - 16 years agoHi all, I made a Snapz Pro movie of a website earlier, and dropped it into a DV timeline. The pixel dimensions of the movie were some non-standard ratio, but it will be on top of a background, so I didn't worry about it. When I drop it into the timeline, not only is it distorted (expected -- square pixels vs non-square), FCP seems to stretch the left 20% of the vid into the right place, anby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: FCP to DVDStudioPro... audio problem - 16 years agoMy apologies -- no MP3's in the timeline, only AIFF's. I work with so many amateurs who don't know the difference between an MP3 and a WAV and an AIFF and use them interchangeably, that I've just come to nod my head when someone gets close. The audio settings for the timeline are 48Khz, 16-bit, Channel Grouped. All of the media was shot on XDCam, 35Mbit. The audio is 48Khz, 16bit. On sby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: FCP to DVDStudioPro... audio problem - 16 years agoThe audio is 5 seconds and 15 frames behind the picture, 21 minutes into the show. At the beginning of the show, the audio is dead on.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: FCP to DVDStudioPro... audio problem - 16 years agoThe stand alone quicktime exhibits the same lag, even with mixed down audio. Same with the self-contained quicktime. There are MP3 music tracks in the show, but they lag at the same rate as the rest of the audio. Out of the ordinary -- it took more than an hour to get even the self-contained quicktime. I will look at the exact numbers for the lag, and get back to you. -MWby Mike Watson - Café LA FCP to DVDStudioPro... audio problem - 16 years agoHi, I'm using a variant of the "Shane's Stock Answer" method listed in a recent post. Export -> Quicktime Movie -> Not self contained, then pull into DVDSP and make it "First Play". The quicktime movie (both on it's own and inside DVDSP) has audio lagging 3-4 seconds behind by the end of the 22 minute program. The audio at the beginning of the program is dead-onby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: hi 8 deck needed - 16 years agoDid the same, but Craigslisted it for $100. Never regretted it for a moment!by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Looking For Smash/Crash zoom transition - 16 years agoYou mentioned crash zoom in the original post, too, and nobody knew what you meant then either. If you'll explain what you're looking for, we can try and help you find it.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Dont Buy From Foto Connection At ALL - 16 years agoThis is what is widely termed "Greymarket". When you check prices on an item, check the big boys first -- B&H, Amazon, whatever. If you can find it 5% less than that, you might consider buying it there, if you check their ratings first. If you find someone selling something for 20% less than a major, national reseller... something is fishy. Now you know why.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Bad Results with Smooth Cam - 16 years ago1) I notice it works better in HD than in SD -- more pixels to stretch. This is especially effective in a project shot in HD, delivered in SD. 2) Export just the part of the clip you want to smooth as a self-contained QT, and then smoothcam the new clip. Smoothcam will take the jerkiest part of the video and match everything to that, when often, you don't want to use the jerkiest part to begby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: External DVD burner to Mac - 16 years agoI didn't see a price, but that thing looks expensive. Any DVD recorder (standalone, think settop style) with a DV (firewire) input will record a standard-def sequence from FCP. Just hook it up like you would hook up a camera to record back from FCP. The downside is no authoring, but at least you'll be able to see your work on DVD. :-)by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: FCP > Express? - 16 years agoHi Daniel, I think we hit a language barrier here. Can you clarify your question for us? -MWby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: O.T. New Monitors - 16 years agoWait, Mike him or Mike me? I'm confused. How come everyone gets one of those big flashy LAFCPUG sigs except Mike Horton, Mr. LAFCPUG himself?by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: PhotoShop For Dummies - 16 years agoTry the white dropshadow anyhow. Save the color dodge for low-budget magazine ads and ... I don't know, I'm out of simile.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: O.T. New Monitors - 16 years agoWithout noticing, I went into the thread below this one and made a glancing mention of soft-core porn. What's my deal today? Did someone switch my coffee with new Folgers crystals? I'm usually so well balanced!by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: PhotoShop For Dummies - 16 years agoGive the text a white dropshadow. Save color dodge for low-budget TV commercials and softcore porn.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: O.T. New Monitors - 16 years agoMan, I come up with something funny to say in the forum twice a year, and wouldntcha know, it gets censored by the man. Sigh. :-) Yeah Mike, our graphic designer uses a 20" as a second monitor for his MBP. I've not used one side-by-side with the 24's, but they're similar. The shame is that it is (or was) about the same price as the 22". The 20", as I recall, has more inpuby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: O.T. New Monitors - 16 years agoThe Dell's are less expensive, and similar to the Apple monitors. The 24's are a nice balance between size and cost, especially when buying two. I use a 20" and a 24" for one of my machines, and it works pretty well for me. Folks with a few bucks more than I do use the 30" -- it's a real status symbol. EDITED BY MODERATOR You might have trouble loading them in your Hummerby Mike Watson - Café LA Re: purchasing an FCP keyboard? - 16 years agoI have the logic keyboard, which is essentially the apple keyboard with keycaps -- in fact, you can buy the keycaps separately. I highly recommend it -- it helped me learn the layout... also gives your computer that "edit bay" feel. :-)by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: Equipment question: MacBook or Macbook Pro when money's an issue - 16 years agoBack on topic... New MacBooks (and MBPs) yesterday in the apple store. A new vid card in the MB. I bet the 2.2Ghz MacBook is a screamer, for the money. Not as much as the 2.6Ghz (!!) MBP, but still... that's a lot of editing power for $1200.by Mike Watson - Café LA Re: MacBook or MacBook Pro? - 16 years agoI'm still editing DV (and HDV) on my MacBook 2Ghz. If I had it to do over again -- Macbook vs Macbook Pro -- I'd make the same choice. FCS2 runs fine. Motion runs well, but not nearly as well as on the G5. I've not used Color. You need to weigh how much income the mobile editing stream will bring you, and how much you're going to use it. For what I'm doing on it, I love it.by Mike Watson - Café LA |
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