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Click HERE to register now Re: Film workflow, retrieving orginal sound file names? - 8 years agoalso, for what it's worth, these days i get the audio files to have the appropriate and correct name before i sync them, i use SyncNLink to sync, (very fast), and there is an option for the synced clips to take the name of the audio files. so much better. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Film workflow, retrieving orginal sound file names? - 8 years agohi joe. yes, there is a way. i had to figure this out when i was doing a music show, and cutting with the multitrack recordings. all the tracks had been carefully labeled after the instrument, such as kick, snare, etc, and i though it would be handy not to lose that info. there could be other approaches, but this is what i came up with: ========================================by Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: recommend places that transfer Mini DV tapes to FCP? - 8 years agofirst you should plug the deck into a tv to see if it's playing or not. but if your deck is troublesome, then 100 tapes might be too much for it. if you were plaining on capturing them yourself, i'd say rent another deck, it'll be a lot cheaper. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: FCPX export for Pro Tools - 8 years agosurely the low cost of X allows for the purchase of 3rd party plugins & apps? i thought ProTools itself won't run video unless you buy the add-on. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA - X Re: How can I add dissolves back in on FCP7 after getting the film back from my colorist? - 8 years agothat was bad advice from the colourist. i mean, how is that supposed to work? remove the dissolves, but include no handles. they probably should have asked you to put copies of the relevant shots at the end of the timeline with extensions to cover the dissolves. but seeing as how resolve can deal with dissolves, i don't understand their request. you should first talk to them about the issuby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: FCP 10.2.1 track selection broken - 8 years agomaybe the problem lies in what you are trying to do. or maybe there's some corruption in the sequence make a new sequence, and see if that acts the same. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Conforming HD scanned film to 1920x1080p - 8 years ago"If Compressor's Geometry pane is baffling" also, it allows you to preview the result. at the top right of the preview window are two small buttons, left previews the original, right previews the outcome. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Conforming HD scanned film to 1920x1080p - 8 years agocrop? well you can do that in Compressor, too cropping and padding are both in the geometry pane, the one with the geometric shapes icon nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Conforming HD scanned film to 1920x1080p - 8 years agoIf you have to work in FCP7, then i'd down-scale them first in Compressor, padding as needed. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Exporting Individual Clips from Timeline - 8 years ago1. mark in/out around the clip, export 2. copy multiple clips to new browser bin, batch export not sure about the renders in this second case, so... 3. copy your sequence, put the copy in a new bin in the copy, go thru and select rendered clips, option+C to NEST these rendered clips give them an appropriate name when you've nested all you need, gather them up in the browser, (in theby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Dupe frames when ripping VOB file from DVD - 8 years agomake sure you export from MpegStreamclip at the same frame rate as the original. that's the default in MpegStreamclip, so you're best not to add any value in the frame-rate box.by Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: 4K in FCP7 ? - 8 years agoi'm a fan of "proxies" or rather a simple off-line / on-line workflow. 4K wont get you any RT in FCP, so you'll be rendering to see even the simplest effect. ways to generate the proxies include: FCP Media Manager FCP Batch Export Resolve (would not be free for 4k media) Mpeg Streamclip Compressorby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Any service shops that can convert an old FCP Studio2 (FCP6) into an EDL for Preimeire Pro - 8 years agothis could help:by Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: How to identify project timeline - 8 years agoI also find it useful to spend some time setting up a set of Browser Columns that outline all the technical details of the clips and sequences. Compressor, Frame Size, Frame Rate, Field Order, etc, etc right click on any column header to hide it, or reveal another column. when you are done, right click again and choose "Save Layout" i find this very useful when wanting to compby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: blue bar no more - 8 years agothe bar with the "sprocket holes"? there is a setting to turn of ALL viewer and canvas overlays, you may have inadvertently enabled that. i access it via the drop-down menu at the top of the canvas & viewer, where you also find timecode overlays, etc there isn't a default shortcut for it. cheers, nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Need to provide client with an FCP file small enough to email' - 8 years ago"Compressor's H.264 encoder seems to prefer resolutions in which both numbers are divisible by 4: 192x108, 256x144, 320x180, 384x216, 448x252, etc. " is that particular to Compressor? I thought it was the nature of compression nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Need to provide client with an FCP file small enough to email' - 8 years agoexport the file as-is, take it into compressor, and away you go. forget about 1440x1080 your export will be square pixels, so you need 1920 x1080, or 1280x720 or most likely a lot smaller for email.by Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: "Out of memory" errors - 8 years agolonger sequences with lots of graphics or effects. i'm getting out of memory errors a bit working with XDCam footage with lots of subtitles. we've also got A+B cameras displaying side by side. sometime a 3rd camera which is a different codec (Prores) if i keep too many sequences open i get problems, so i close them down. closing the canvas altogether helps for a while, but eventually aby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: "Out of memory" errors - 8 years agoproject size it pretty large. too large, really. you should look into splitting it. what sort of media are you working with? how complex are your timelines? do you work with lots of sequences open? that'll contribute nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Digitized in wrong format. - 8 years agoi don't know what DC suggested, the post is not here. but you don't need to re-edit, simply re-connect to the newly captured footage. or simpler still, create an off-line version of your project using the Media Manger, and batch capture. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: What format to use? - 8 years agoMpeg Streamclip is a free app there may be problems because you have put a non-FCP friendly clip, and an-I-frame clip at that, into a sequence which is not a great codec, and is also non I-frame. i thought FCP ignored the sequence settings when one did an Export with Quicktime Conversion, but maybe not. mp4 in an HDV sequence, exporting as a third codec? too convoluted if you waby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: What format to use? - 8 years agotry exporting a section from MPeg Streamclip, see if it looks better nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: What format to use? - 8 years agoProres should not look "terrible" what is your current format? how are you creating and viewing the export? also, what is the specific problem? nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Compressor Deinterlace Blues - 8 years agoAnother approach would be to not make a deintelaced MP4 in one go, But to mKe a deinterlaced prores frosttgen strike your compressed version from that Nockby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Compressor Deinterlace Blues - 8 years ago2 suggestions. 1: the quick fix One your file in quicktikmeplayer Open... can't remember the window's name but command j will open it Select video track , Visual settings, and there's a check box or two for instant de-interlacing. 2: slower Export your file, bring it back into FCP Apply a de-interlace filter, and render. Rendering in fcp should be safer as you don't need to do the whoby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Uncomfortable situation with Client - 8 years agowell, it's not disgusting if they are green and ignorant. your email "stating that I would edit until picture lock for X amount, with designated pay periods" seems pretty clear. especially if you've reached picture lock (or the first one, anyway!) no need for the situation to get over emotional, it's in black and white. if you don't trust them, then i guess you have to be paid upby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Uncomfortable situation with Client - 9 years agothe golden get-out-of-jail card, of course, is if you've got another PAID job.by Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Uncomfortable situation with Client - 9 years agofinish the cut, but don't do the on-line. i'm not quite sure what you mean buy on-line, you mean the prep or the conform, or the whole thing? anyway, none of that is covered by the original agreement, so i'm not sure what the problem is? nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Changing playback speed with no timeline effect - 9 years agospeaking of PP: a new version is coming soon:by Nick Meyers - Café LA Re: Changing playback speed with no timeline effect - 9 years agoanother way is to change the speed in the viewer before you cut the clip in, but if you go to use that clip again from the browser (or by match-framing), and want normal speed, you need to change it back. nickby Nick Meyers - Café LA |
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