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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: Edit to tape with 4 audio tracks on digi beta - 18 years agoCheck your deck control (RS-422) preferences. It needs to be set to 4 audio outputs. Then check your audio output settings and set it to 4 outputs (two dual mono channels) Then assign your audio tracks to the audio output. A1 to output 1, 2 to 2 and so on. I have found that it is easier to down mix your tracks into Mono Aif files when doing a long project, if not, FCP needs to render every tby Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: HD requirement in 2007? - 18 years agoHD cable boxes already have SD down-converts, and I suppose those still using bunny ears will have to buy a down-converter of sorts.by Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: Freeze Field - 18 years agoExport using quicktime conversion as a tiff, then open it in photoshop. Use the video filter "de-interlace" in PS. It ill ask, upper, lower, or blend. Save and bring it back into FCP.by Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: iTunes to FCP - 18 years agoBurn it to a disc, then reimport the file into itunes from the disc. The copy protection is in the mp4. When you burn to disc it converts to an aif, so the copy protection is lost. I only do this when I am adding temp music to a film. I know, I know, but at least I am BUYING the temp music and not downloading it for free! It never goes any further than my edit bay.by Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: Is there such thing as a quiet RAID - 18 years agoI have been lucky enough to design my last 4 FCP workrooms (all with multiple edit stations), and I know not everyone has the space, but I am a huge fan of having an equipment room (or closet). Currently, I have 3 edit bays that I have run cabling (2x USB, 2x DVI, 4x XLR, 1 component, 2 composite, 8x RCA) to a central room that houses all the decks, CPUs, and our Xserve. I cannot tell you how mby Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: chroma went away? - 18 years agoDerek... it seems your "stock" answer for everyone's problem is too dump prefs and repair permissions. I'll be honest. I've dumped prefs maybe 3 times in my 8 years using FCP. And I only repair permissions when I'm installing new software. Yeah... trashing prefs probably works.. but I'm betting it's a setting that was switched. I think it's best to find the PROBLEM and learn from iby Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: Corrupt File? - 18 years agoNot that I know of. But someone may know some way to hack into the header information using Terminal. You've reached the end of my techie dorkness! I'm going back to being an artist!by Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: Corrupt File? - 18 years agoWere you using "capture now"? When FCP gets ready to capture on the fly, it creates a "file" as a buffer before it starts to capture. If the capture then fails for any reason, it leaves this large "qt file" that is "unrecognizable" to FCP and QT. Maybe you got one of those. I'd just recapture. 14Gb file is only an hour, right?by Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: tiffs inFCP 5 - help! - 18 years agoDid you change the field dominance to none? Here's how... Select the Sequence in the Browser. In the file menu click SEQUENCE>SETTINGS (apple 0) Change "Field Dominance" to NONE I know this is extremely evident when working in uncompressed sequences. For some reason in FCP 4.5 the default "lower" is fine - as it should be, but when those projects are opened in FCP 5, theby Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: tiffs inFCP 5 - help! - 18 years agoChange your sequence setting's field dominance to none. Should do the trick.by Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: Special/Visual Effects on Film - 18 years agoYou're on the right track... They are saying don't bring us raw 35mm stock that matches the stock you shot on (we'll use our own stock and matching stock does not matter). Instead, bring us the original negative and we'll match to that. When you color correct, you will then color correct these shots as well. If that isn't an option, then bring us the color corrected final print, and we'll cby Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: Alpha Transitions for DVD Studio Pro 4 - 18 years agoyou won't be wxporting a tiff... it will be a .mov. You just ned to change the compression settings to a format that handles millions of colors+ in After Effects I always use the "animation" compressor... you can use that from FCP too. Again, the + means that it will embed an alpha channel in the video. normal DVNTSC compression does not allow for the alpha channel. If you are askingby Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: Good software to clean up my G5 - 18 years agoI'm with wayne. I've worked (built, maintaned, and cut projects) on about a dozen FCP systems and I rarely have the need for third party applications. I agree that the secret is keeping the personal stuff off your editing machine, and having a very tight discipline for file and asset management. Cleanlyness is godlyness. Also avoid downloading the latest drivers the day they come out!by Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: Alpha Transitions for DVD Studio Pro 4 - 18 years agoFile export> using quicktime conversion click "options" click "settings" change "compression type" to tiff and make sure it says "millions of colors+" the "=" means with alpha matte never tried using alpha matted video clips as transitions in DVDSP... but I hope this works for ya! Hmm... you can love me huh? I guess I have to find my way tby Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: Flash to FCP - 18 years agoIts been a while, but I did this a couple of times. From flash you can export a QT movie, but I think I remember that it couldn't be anything with actionscripts or nested graphics. in other words, if you use flash to draw and animate objects, you can export them as QT movies. I did this for a video that had animated characters. The animator created the animations in flash and export QT moviesby Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: Moving Windows - 18 years agoEasy there guys... I am sure he just means that if your window happens to get stuck under the file menu, or off screen, or for whatever reason... that you can move it by clicking on any part of the window by holding down option and command. And I remember that a couple of LAFCPUG meetings back, when they launched FCP 5 and talked about its "advancements" they mentioned this feature. Aby Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: 35mm telecined to DVCam workflow - 18 years agoYup... Take you ALE or Flex File from your Telecine and import it into CT, then use CT to create your batch list. Import your batch list in FCP. Digitize at 29.97. Reverse telecine in CT to 23.98. Reconnect your clips in FCP. Sync your sound (conform for correct rate) and your good to go.by Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: 24fps to 29.97 VHS approval - 18 years agoSo I did a little test. I sent my 24fps timeline to Soundtrack as a multiple clip project. After a couple minutes of processing, soundtrack opened. My video came over as one track, all my audio came over in it's corresponding tracks. After changing the settings, I could PLAY BACK THE SEQUENCE TO MY MONITOR! FCP can't even do that! After I rejoiced, I called the director "we have to hby Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: 24fps to 29.97 VHS approval - 18 years agoYeah, my first attempt, I made a new sequence that was 23.98, then nested the entire 24fps project into it. After a little rendering, it played out to the monitor. Out of sync! So I exported thee audio, and adjusted the speed to 99.9% which worked.. but again.. seems like so much work... especially since now I need to break it down into reels... and this director is the type to keep tinkeringby Rick Sebeck - Café LA 24fps to 29.97 VHS approval - 18 years agoI've posted this on some other boards, and haven't gotten any responses.. so come on guys don't let me down here! I'm cutting a feature shot on 35mm, telecined to DVcam, captured 29.97, reverse telecined to 24fps (not 23.98 - I was involved in that decision!), sound imported at 48khz (no time change since we are working in 24fps instead of 23.98) and been cutting in a 24 fps sequence. All isby Rick Sebeck - Café LA timecode on audio track - 18 years agoHow can I get timecode from FCP on an audio track of a VHS? Do I need to edit to tape on my DigiBeta and patch the TC out of the digibeta into the VHS input? Is there an aif file that is "timecode" (created by an audio program) that I can lay into my sequence? Thanks, Rickby Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: idisk? - 18 years agoI make MP4 files (or sorenson .mov if I know the client is on a PC) and drop them into the .movies folder. Then I just send them the link.... which I figured out is - homepage.mac.com/yourdotmacacountname/.movies/nameofmovie If you use .macs "movie" page - it will always squeeze it doesn't to 320x240.. but if you just give them the link.. it plays whatever size you make it. Plus noby Rick Sebeck - Café LA OT : Anyon know a FAST camera repair shop. - 18 years agoI have an old Canon Elura 50 that has the typical Elura cassette tray wont close problem. I've sent another one to Canon and they fixed it. But - I need this camera to go on a shoot in Hawaii by Friday. Anyone know of a good shop I can take it in to? Thanks.by Rick Sebeck - Café LA *cool tip for graphics in FCP* - 18 years agoI'm hardly the tip guy around here, but I discovered a cool little tip, I thought I'd share with you all. Do you build a lot of graphics in FCP like me? Isn't it annoying that the clip gets labeled "text" or "text 3D" or whatever generator your using. And Mattes that you apply filters to to make them fancy shapes and designs just say "color" Highlight the clip inby Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: Slightly OT iDVD Problem - 18 years agoI had the same problem... Believe it or not, it ended up being the RAM. Buy from Crucial.com, or get Trancend brand RAM only!by Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: panning audio in FCP -- how to disable when all I want to change are levels? - 18 years agoOr press "P" for the pen tool, and click on the pink line to add keyframes.by Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: panning audio in FCP -- how to disable when all I want to change are levels? - 18 years agoThe pink line is volume, the purple is panning? Are you saying that when you keyframe the pink line, it affects the pan?by Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: v1 to V1 - a1 to A3????? - 18 years agobut that inserts video and audio tracks... any more ideas?by Rick Sebeck - Café LA Re: v1 to V1 - a1 to A3????? - 18 years agoAHHH.... superimpose... F12... does the the trick!by Rick Sebeck - Café LA v1 to V1 - a1 to A3????? - 18 years agoIn the millions of features FCP has, I know this is such a small detail to complain about... It seems that FCP has some master default that thinks that all clips should have two audio tracks. I am working with a ton of clips that only have one video and one audio track. When I start editing, I start stacking clips (a-roll b-roll style with sometimes up to d,e,f,ect!). Now I know I can set thby Rick Sebeck - Café LA |
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