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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Workflow with FCPRO on a self funded doc - 17 years agoDoug: I think you're right, but I aso think DVCAM will be around for a few more years. I guess it depends upon the budget and hardware. I edit both doc and feature and a lot of those indies come in on DV25. A couple were SHOT that way... :-( Some clients come in with HD features dubbed down to DVCAM so they can edit 23.98 on their older home machines, or mine. Juan: Timecode on DSR-11? Hmby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Reveal Master Clip does not work - 17 years agoAnd then stack that all in one QuicKey!! - Loren Today's FCP 4/5 keytip: Do a virtual Audio Mixdown to lighten playback load with Command-Option-R! The FCP KeyGuide?: your power placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central. www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: 2944x1200 is my client totally on crack or have i missed something? - 17 years agoMaybe they want to zoom in 20:1 ?? - Loren Photo scan rates demystified! ScanGuide? Pro compact reference now at www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA OT: Apple's Everything Box - 17 years agoOmigod, Apple's recent patent application just released by the PTO. As usual it has impacts on all digital content creators... take a look at one likely near future: - Loren Today's FCP 4 / 5 keytip: Do a virtual Audio Mixdown to lighten playback load with Command-Option-R! The FCP KeyGuide?: your power placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central. www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Workflow with FCPRO on a self funded doc - 17 years agoOnly on the newest and fastest machines, Doug. DVCAM is the better choice of the DV25 codecs, in my opinion. I don't mind eating up a third of the tape to decrease potential dropouts. I like locked audio. I like a consistent lubricant. Perfect offline format, and I online for some clients who want it that way. We have even taken DVCAM onlines to Beta for deliverables! Almost all TV statioby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: exporting clips from a sequence with handles - 17 years agoI want to know who "safty" is!! LOL. Eh, okay. Full moon. Like Derek said, Media Manager. Why don't you just dive in and open MM with your sequence open, change settings, see what's described? It's very easy to use, and you'll quickly discover where the Handle lengths are set. Tip: for *real* safty, COPY, don't MOVE your media. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview efby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Exporting Video Still for Printing - 17 years agoThis topic comes up a lot. We should make a FAQ. But first, I want to try PhotoZoom Pro 2... - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: why can't I select just audio? - 17 years agoPut it in the FAQ, Derek!! - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Simple change requires re-render - 17 years agoMor einfo! Was this sequence nested? - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: using sony hdv as a deck - 17 years agoHave you got an iSight camera or other Firewire device active on the bus? Try taking it off. Just you, the camera -as-deck, FireWire connection, and your laptop. Capture Now is less relaible than Log Clip in most all cases. Allow for at least 3 seconds preroll from the head of the tape-- sounds lke you're doing everything right. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections wby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Boris Title Crawl Clip Length - 17 years agoThat's handy to know if you're coming from Avid, which allows stretching / re-rendering to change duration. I've replicated that method in Title Crawl clips and wondered why I don't get consistent results. As I recall, the last time I tried stretching a Title Crawl clip, I got a lot of space before the title began or ended but no change in speed! I can't remember if I stretched front or back. Doeby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Time of Day Code breaks - are they a problem in FCP or later in online? - 17 years agoI just discovered this thread on a search. Mark, is there still no win-win solution to this vexation? You *must* deal with TOD yet with it come necessary breaks? Is there not a way to track TOD in user bits or some aux track on camera which could be rouyted to FCP, and just let the operator work in Record Run SMPTE TC? Wouldn't that save everybody time, pun intended? - Loren Today's FCPby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Pan and Scan in FCP - 17 years agoMaybe a project originally planned as high def which turned out not to be? - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Invoke Capture Now with Shift-C ! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Keyboard shortcuts for logging clips - 17 years agoMike - You want it, you got it! Andrew- That's true! Tab is very cool in the L&C window. Check out section 3-- "Logging" in this early article Mike had me write up-- it's still useful: - Loren Today's FCP 4/5 keytip: Toggle Link Enable with Shift-L! The FCP HD KeyGuide?: your power placemat. Now available at discount at the LAFCPUG Store!by Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Ratty Looking Text - 17 years agoWayne, it's great you're a type freak. You don't like the Boris Calligraphy set? I get good results and control from Title 3D and even decent crawls from Title Crawl. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: mac audio gone - 17 years agoI have my G4 tower out going Mini-phono to RCA In on the little Behreinger box I use. I noticed at one point audio droppng out-- it was the cable. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Pan and Scan in FCP - 17 years agoNice tutorial, Shane! For tools, several solutions, from expensive to inexpensive: After Effects MovingPicture Photo to Movie FCP native controls I like MovingPicture but I'm going to examine PtM, I like the timeline layout and Ease control I see there. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a pby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: producer-director wants me to shoot and edit a feature film in HD-which camera shall I use? - 17 years agoIt bears repeating: if you shoot HDV for broadcast, e-projection, or film release, plan to get it the hell out of HDV as your first post workflow step!!! HDV properly lit looks great on any screen less than 42"-- bigger, as pro's have discovered, it begins to fall apart. Acquisition only! Better to shoot DVCO Pro 720 or HDCAM 1080i if you can afford it. And take the time to learn the cameby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: HD CRT Monitor Suggestions Wanted - 17 years agoI wonder when SMPTE will put its stamp of approval on a flatscreen calbrated to its specs? That will surely be an engineering event. It has to come soon. Even the stations are looking to dump the bottles. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: wwwby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Keyboard shortcuts for logging clips - 17 years agoTake advantage of the powerful labeling feaures in the Log and Capture window. You can increment not only the Name field but the Scene and Take fields, and if checked they will increment by one after every F2 tap. In this case, uncheck the Log Prompt checkbox and F2 will simply deposit your auto-incremented clip into your chosen Logging Bin. Nothing faster, other than importing a prelogged liby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: How do you remove markers from clips? - 17 years agoJust for completeness, you can also navigate to markers using Shift-M and Option-M. Believe it or not, since several functions using Shift-Option for next-prev (example: keyframes), I find myself using this over the arrow keys. Go fgure!! - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now avaby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: OT- Site Favicon - 17 years agoI think it's great. What's a favicon? - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Toggle Link Enable with Shift-L! The FCP HD KeyGuide?: your power placemat. Now available at discount at the LAFCPUG Store!by Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Log, Capture, Drag to Timeline, Audio turns to White Noise - 17 years agoAlso, any spike in power could conceivably short a FireWire cable. You say right up top "it happens in every tape after that." CHANGE THE CABLE. Remove that from the equation. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesignby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: FCP won't import / open any file: "File error: unknown file" - 17 years agoI'm thinking-- "weird filename punctuation?" <>/{}[], when only an underscore_ should be used, or a dot should be used, and only one... - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: sound files sticking together - 17 years agoAnd you can do that by highlighting individual tracks and using the Control <,> and / keys to Pan Left, Center or Right, as needed. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Oh how the mighty fall - 17 years agoI'minterested in the 4400 pixel thng-- that's definitly over the old QuickTiem Graphic Import "G world" limit of days gone by-- and long overde, now that HD is accessible and popular. But what is the new FCP/QuickTime import limit? Moton only a 2K world??? Wow. At what point must we go to StageTools' MovingPicture, or Boris RED or After effects to do MoCo? Paul from Apple? - Loby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Log, Capture, Drag to Timeline, Audio turns to White Noise - 17 years agoGood problem. At first I was going to suggest testing your audio playback with Viewer>External Video set to OFF-- assumingit's on ALL FRAMES. But now I wonder, have you tried changing the FireWire cable? - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central:by Loren Miller - Café LA Re: FCP is a revolution in editing for the indie filmmaker, but are movies the better for it? - 17 years agoIn my opinon, Eisenstein is a vastly overrated poster artist with one brilliant work, POTEMKIN. I generally sit more firmly with Pudovkin. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Old Old request - Next Tab keystroke - 17 years agoShift-Option-Z fits any selection in the timeline to the width of the window. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: FCP is a revolution in editing for the indie filmmaker, but are movies the better for it? - 17 years agoLove this discussion, with such a variety of valid viewpoints. I focus on this: I would never isolate picture entirely from the show's gestalt. There are basic rules which come with the craft, these are learned on the job or in school. And then there is the step beyond-- those rules which sensitive editors derive from the heartbeat of the story, usually driven by lead players adoptingby Loren Miller - Café LA |
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