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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Audio needs rendering but render files are still online - 18 years agohi, kate, tom. i'd say give up on those render files.. if fcp doesnt find them itself, you'll never be able to re-connect to them. sure try an autosave, but that doesnt function while fcp is rendering, so you might be out of luck if fcp itself had crashed it would make more sense.. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: television effects - 18 years agoi've also used a blend of tv snow filmed off the tv, and a vid clip. or maybe it was fcp's noise generator plus clip? i think it was then i put the same fcp "distortion / ripplie" flter on both to give them a momentary wobble. for a frame or 2 it's convincing enough... (just) but speaking of filming off a bad tv... why not just do it for real with your source / bg clip? nmby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: television effects - 18 years agofor FCP, have a look at cameraPOV from profound: and "digital interferance" from Buena: nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: final cut hd copy/paste problems - 18 years ago"however, Im still getting some wierd problems when I nest.. for one sequence atleast.. I nest it.. and its like the time is thrown off or something. any ideas on that?" which TC? all the new sequences will have their TC starting at 1hr, unless you've changed that. nmby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: final cut hd copy/paste problems - 18 years agohey, loren. are you changing frame rates between the 2 sequnces? (that could cause problems) or are they exactly the same? it sounds like you should trash your prefs, perhaps. i just did.. it feels good! read all about it here: nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: workflow from Betacam SP PAL to DVD - 18 years agohey, Dan, sounds like an interesting show to put together going to DV might not be a great link in the chain here. if you want to work with higher res, or rather less compressed, footage, you might be able to get the dub-house to capture to FCP for you. one it goes down to DV, it gets compressed, and that's that you cant capture it over FW as uncompressed, anyway, not that DV is terrible, ofby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: EDL for other purposes... ?? try XML2Text - 18 years agoand of course ther is this very ahnd looking tool from Spherico: nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: using an EDL for other purposes... ?? - 18 years agoEDLs are for machines primarily. the layout is fairly simple: reading from left to right you have - event # - reel # - code for which tracks are enabled (V, AAV, etc) - code for type of edit, cut or disolve (C, or D) - source time in - source time out - record time in - record time out it gets complicated around disolves, as the disolve is writen up as a separate edit. if you include clip nameby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Outputting to tape - 18 years agothat's right. and one time when i DID record DVCAM to miniDV tapes, i had some unfortunate dropouts. i was told it want a good idea to do that, so i try not to. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Outputting to tape - 18 years agoto be precise, while the image quality is identical (it's all just DV codec on the tape), the real quality of DVCam is in it's stability: less chance of dropouts, and probably longer shelf life. much better for mastering out to.by Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: FCS Documentation and manuals up on apple site! - 18 years agohere ya go, joe: cheers nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: powerbook to tv - 18 years agosure it's possible. after you conect the 2, open system preferences: displays, and run "detect displays" you can set the TV's frame size, and go to the "Colour" tab, and select the appropriate setting. you should understand, though, that it's not like going through a camera, or other converter. it's using the TV like a computer monitor. you'll the whole DV frame, with surounby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: A New Puzzle - 18 years agoboth devices can capture both those formats, cant they? maybe you need a patching (hardware) solution? nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: FCS Documentation and manuals up on apple site! - 18 years agoyes, thanks, dave. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: FCS Documentation and manuals up on apple site! - 18 years agoloving it! p253 - multiclip uses a new window to sync p255 - aux TC is now usefull: it can be used to sync multiclips i'm going to take this to kinkos and print it out! nick (and it looks like there's a new tutorial at last, for the multiclipping!)by Nick Meyers - Café LA re: How to get around discrepancy in titles on computer and in external video - 18 years agoso you;re going for the best RT solution, there, i suppose. there are other ways of creating a plain scroll, too. if you keep everythiing simple in PS, you can move pretty fast, and then you can keyframe in RT in FCP. you can stay in FCP, too: scrolling text is ok, and title 3D can give you multiple fonts / siszes. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA re: How to get around discrepancy in titles on computer and in external video - 18 years agowel he doesnt HAVE to like it! i'm not getting a compositional shift on my canvas after rendering, just the usual bluriness (i';m in PAL, though. i tried to check in NTSC, but my DSR11 is freaking out a bit about that.) i think the FCP canvas behaviour is pretty flakey. yes, we DO get used to it after a while, and accept that that's the way it should be! is the other app the same? maybe therby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Green snow - 18 years agoyou may have cracked this, but going off on another tangent... the render setting comment was intersting, it could have been the cause oif some of the blockyness nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: DAT Recorders!@!!?!?!%**$*$ - 18 years agowell Koz is the one railing against dat. Koz, would you trust a hard-disk recorder more, or less, than dat? Alden, i love your s-8 weddings, what a great idea. are you using a cannon 1014? that was the one i was using way back when. had the fisheye adapter those head-set microphones wont be too usefull when your head's up-side a S8 camera, though nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: FCP 3.0 Log and Capture Challenge - 18 years agowe like to make people happy! cheers, nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Digibeta files on Ibook G4 - 18 years agoi captured an edited seqeunce as 10bit uncompressed, and have been playing it without a hic-up from my 1.5G powerbook / 500gig LaCie drive. well, actualy it's on 2x250 gig FW800 drives software raided, which is pretty much the same thing. the drive is the governing factor here, but for FCP5, i think it needs a 1G processor nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: basic render question - 18 years agobill black wrote: > I get that but say that I keep trying a series of layers and > effects and render each one. Thereis a new files for each > experiment and only one is used. Are you saying that if I Save > Project as it will create a new render folder and copy over > just the render files it used? if you do some experiments, and render, and tweak, and render and tweak, you DONby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: MD Recorders!@!!?!?!%**$*$ - 18 years agoYow! what a drag! no wonder i;ve been eyeing off these 2 recorders: (and these microphones: ) nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: TV output - 18 years ago??? i dont think a TV's been made in the last 15years that didnt have a video input. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: DigiBeta to Some Place Else - 18 years agoFWIW... exported DV files from FCP4.5 today as Blackmagic 8+10bit. .mov on the end opend them in Edit Box, no worries. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Audio Cue Sheet? - 18 years agohave a look at the tools over at Spherico: in particular XML to Text: "Print a list of Markers from the sequence, with time stamp (Timecode)" is one feature. and there's a 30day free trial. cheers, nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: DAT Recorders!@!!?!?!%**$*$ - 18 years ago"The only way you get Sony MD even the USB equipped NetMD to play sound into a Mac is by plugging into the Headphone socket!" so what DOES come out of that USB socket? nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Animating images - 18 years agoanother cure for the jaggies is FCPs flicker filter, or the free "Blend Fileds" filter from Too Much Too Soon this does soften the image slightly, but gets rid of a lot of shimmering in fine detail areas. (and is fast to render) it might not be the one for you as you say your issue is when the image is moving. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Animating images - 18 years agoa touch of gaussian blur can help there. if you apply it to the photo itself, rendering wont be so time consuming inFCP, but you have to commit to it. (unless you copy the layer in PS, and blur that) if you add the blur in FCP, then you can control when to use it and when not to. so you can keyframe it during your move. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA |
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