|
|
All the news now and in your digital future
Show all posts by user
Your 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
Can not find FCP 6.02 on Apple Upgrade page - 12 years ago
This was a non-issue, but I fixed it by upgrading with the 2008-01 Pro Apps update. Wait there is a 2008 upgrade on that page, I will try that first. This may be a non-message!! It is early here right now! My Mac G5 died last week, so I got a "new" old one. I have started to upgrade the apps either through Software upgrade or manual search. Motion is sitting at 3.by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Best format to export for imovie8 from edited mts on premiere pro cs4 on a pc - 12 years ago
The problem was that the mts was recorded in stereo, the video was fine, but the left channel was humming. As the person only had imovie8, he does not have the editing functions that Adobe Premiere CS4 or FCP 6 have. It's all sent back to the customer, it was a learning experience. Thanks for your advice. Jude Cotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >by mark@avolution - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Best format to export for imovie8 from edited mts on premiere pro cs4 on a pc - 12 years ago
This person may not have Quicktime Pro on his mac, all I know it is a laptop, circa 2010, and it has imovie 8 on it. I have QT Pro on our Mac, but FCP 6.02 does not natively read mts files like premeire pro does. I settled on exporting 1440x1080 29.97 upper field Apple mov file h264 encoded HD anamorphic, but even at 12MBs data rate, the exported mov has taken a generation loss. Thamks fby mark@avolution - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Best format to export for imovie8 from edited mts on premiere pro cs4 on a pc - 12 years ago
Someone brought in some mts files to have the right channel audio doubled. this was easy with right fill filter for audio. It was just a couple of keyclicks to do this in premiere pro and i added this audio filter to the three mts clips. No video editing is required as these clips will be edited in imovie 8 on a mac laptop. Here lies the problem, on export I outputted 1440x1080 upperby mark@avolution - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: ADR-try to make a close mike sound like a boom - 12 years ago
Thanks for the sagacious advice. derekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The problem with ADR is usually that it sounds too > close and too dead. I still hear it all the time > in even professional, big-budget TV shows and > big-screen features. On the film where I worked > with Skywalker Sound, they did such a good job > that even Iby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: ADR-try to make a close mike sound like a boom - 12 years ago
The original boom audio is trash in these situations where they re-recorded. It has all sorts of wind noise that makes it unusable. I know the lavs are a total different beast than booms, so I guess i will play with sound track pro. This movie was shot 8 years ago, and untill this point I had zero percent input into sound, vision ,or direction. But as an animator/editor/composer-doingby mark@avolution - Café LA
ADR-try to make a close mike sound like a boom - 12 years ago
I am trying to edit a hobby film, and there are parts where they re-recorded some dialog with a close mike, but the original would have had a boom. These do not sound the same at all in FCP. Are there any resources available that may help me change the close-sounding lav to sound like boom? Thanksby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Out of sync - 12 years ago
Where did you get FCP 7 so long past it's EOL? Margo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I ordered FCP7 - and there's always lynda.com! > Thanks guys. > > mdby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Maya animation frame output format? - 12 years ago
Now, if you want to go real fancy pants you could go RichPixelFormat (RPF) which supports up to 32bit colour per channel plus alpha. Plus it has extra channels, such as Z buffer, et al. I know after-effects can read this, but I am pretty sure you'd have to change it to something less "taxing" to get it into FCP.... When we go off tangent, we really go off-tangent! Ben Kingby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Maya animation frame output format? - 12 years ago
One of my all time favoourites is to output a targa sequence. Then compile into a QT movie uncompressed, millions of colours +. This maintains the original uncompressed beauty of animation, the alpha channel for keying, and plays well as an overlay for video. happy day to you! RJ Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi folks, > > I haven't workby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Freelance - Client Producers / editors.... WRONG For Creativity (rant) - 12 years ago
Sorry, it was a reply to the original post. bluey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > "Same can be said of animators. > There seems to be a floavour of the month > effect... > untill the next flavour comes along." > > > out of genuine interest - could you explain how > your comment responds in context to mine orby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Burning a DVD from DVD Studio Pro - 12 years ago
Is it DVD+R or DVD-R media. DVD+R is a no-no for playback on a tabletop DVD player. Dee Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Everyone, > I'm trying to burn a DVD from DVD Studio Pro and > can't get it to play on a Standard DVD Player. It > will play on > computers but not a player. > Can anyone help... > Thank you, > Deeby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Freelance - Client Producers / editors.... WRONG For Creativity (rant) - 12 years ago
Same can be said of animators. There seems to be a floavour of the month effect... untill the next flavour comes along. bluey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > "While we feel we "create", really our job is to > provide." > That's just sad. > > > not necessarily 'sad' at all - as editors IMO our > roleby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Exported Footage from FCP 7 wont open in Motion 4 - 12 years ago
Look a message in the Motion area! Spam though! seanpualholmes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have just joined and I hope I will learn a lot > of new information here. > I admire the valuable information you offered in > your article. Excellent submission very good > post.Keep posting thumbs up.by mark@avolution - Motion
Re: OT-Testing out Adobe Suite on a New 8 core Mac -AE kicks on it! - 12 years ago
I should have mentioned it is only Adobe Suite 5.5 on this system.by mark@avolution - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
OT-Testing out Adobe Suite on a New 8 core Mac -AE kicks on it! - 12 years ago
I have to put a system, which is a Lion OSX, 2 x 2.4Ghz Quad Intel and 18G of Ram through it tests before it goes to the client. It has an Intensity Pro, and three drive raid with WD 2.2G drives. Full disclosure, I have always been a PC man, but this system makes me say wow! I can bring in uncompressed 1920x1080 QT from 3D Studio Max, and this system is MONSTER FAST in Adobe After Effeby mark@avolution - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 announced - 12 years ago
Then there's the old-man of the lot. Microsoft AVI (boo-hiss-smirk) Jude Cotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's old and it's already open source. You can get > the source and do what you like with it, without > having to pay a licensing fee.by mark@avolution - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: making a slide show in FCP with stills - 12 years ago
VPiccin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > DVD's are standard definition only. So when you > take your finished presentation and crunch it down > to to the file specification for a DVD (720x486 > MPEG 2) you are left with some less than appealing > looking images. > > I'd like to add a contrarian view to this- by judicioiusby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: "They call it FCP 8!" Adobe CS6 Out now! - 12 years ago
They sell it on amazon.ca Russ Blaise Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yeah, I was hoping to buy my upgrade through > amazon.com, and save a few bucks. But I guess that > is no more. I pre-ordered mine last week. Since I > ordered the Production Premium in the shrink wrap > box, and could take awhile to ship, I downloaded > the trial vby mark@avolution - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Output to Youtube - 12 years ago
Michael Horton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > thread seems so fragmented................................in time.......................... and.....................................................space............>:by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: FCP 7 and Motion 4 - bad quality text output - 12 years ago
Do you have Motion display set to "Best"? This might help. ponzzz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry my subject is less than descriptive. Here is > my problem. > > I am having difficulty getting text to not look > all "SD" when generated in Motion 4. > I generate a project file in Motion and put it on > thby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Out of Memory error - 12 years ago
Yes,large images can be a killer. If I am doing a slide show at 480i, for example, I make sure none of the images are greater than 900 horizontal (allowing for a 25% zoom-in factor). Of course there are always exceptions, such as when you are panning over a picture and then settling on a zoomed two shot, for example. But excessive resolution is an application killer. And this applies tby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 announced - 12 years ago
It's probably quite obvious but you also need a Mac as well. As Premeire runs on a PC as well. But the PC version can read ProRes via Quicktime but can not export ProRes, as Apple has decided not to allow this feature on Windows only machines. Jon Chappell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You need Final Cut Pro 7 or X installed in order > to beby mark@avolution - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Advice on Sequence Settings on old restored movie - 12 years ago
I just reloaded a movie from backup onto FCP 6 from the old FCP 4.5 HD Days. As all the render files are gone, but the sequences, reels, movies, and sound effects are all intact. I thought it might be a good time to modernize the render /and/or sequence settings. All 13 scenes are 1280x1080 Aspect Ratio 16:9 HD (1280x1080) Pixel Aspect Ratio HD (1280x1080) Fields none Editing timebase 23by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: dual format VCR question - 12 years ago
Sounds like the Sony deck you have is a world standard deck, although ours does SECAM as well. Good luck! stefangs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > mark@avolution Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > In a simplistic sense 720x480 is the domain of > > DVD, whilst 720x486 would be Betacam. > &by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: dual format VCR question - 12 years ago
In a simplistic sense 720x480 is the domain of DVD, whilst 720x486 would be Betacam. You said the DVD was both PAL in parts, and in others NTSC. Have you considered digitizing to FCP via a World Standard VHS Converter? stefangs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > why would you mess up the fields? is the field > order different in one vs. the otheby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Am looking for a thread or an article telling me what I would miss from FCP if I go to Premiere - 12 years ago
What I'll miss is we have FCP set up with a huge monitor on the left which has the timeline only, and the right screen which has the viewer, bins, and program viewer. Everything seems so compartmentalized on Premeire. However, I don't know if this makes a difference but the after effects- premeire-encore is on a PC. Maybe it looks prettier on a Mac?by mark@avolution - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: upload video - 12 years ago
And EVEN if you have super-fast Internet, doesn't mean that the other person does. Besides for some silly reason DSL is asynchronous, which means uploads to a site are about 1/8 the speed of downloads. I have downloaded from some production houses near Toronto, and it took me three hours to acquire a 720x486 h264 (which isn't even up to snuff like a ProRes) -this file was only 1.5G in siby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Importing Photoshop Alpha file into FCP 7 - 12 years ago
CMYK is for printing, and can cause all sorts of greif for FCP. Delphinus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks, Jude. That worked. I was expecting to see > it as an Alpha file in the Viewer (as I always > have), but it appeared solid. When I brought it > into the timeline as RGB 8-bit it worked great. > Thank you.by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Master Volume for FCP? - 12 years ago
I usually leave my Master Fader at 0db, and my Track fader (which is slid via timeline controls) at 0db. With a compressor app, in audio effects, you can do wonders for too loud or too soft. I use it even if the audio is considered superb, as a compressor can really bring the sound into the mix. But that is just the way I do it in FCP! danajstrom Wrote: ----------------------------by mark@avolution - Café LA
