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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: SyncVUEPro - 16 years agoThanks for the link Marco. Cool product This is probably more of what I'm looking for, SyncVUE is more of a real-time collaborative approval product, although very cool I'm looking for tools that can help me organize the collaborative process. Has anyone tried FCPServer? I'm not even sure its shipping yet but I'd love to hear some reviews of it.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Bottom line HDV questions - 16 years agoThere are several things you need to consider: If your delivering a standard definition DVD to the customer the easiest thing to do is shoot HDV, downcomvert directly from the camera on capture and edit SD DV. This is editing as usual, the image quality will be very good and if you decide in the future that you want an HD version you can recapture at full HDV. You can capture via firewireby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Backing up Media files - 16 years agoMedia Manager might be ok if all you want to back up is part of your FCP project file, I'm looking for something that can help me with version control more at the finder level and possibly automate some of the BU tasks. Mark, thanks for the link. I'd imagine that since OSX is Unix I could use rsync.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA SyncVUEPro - 16 years agoAnyone using SyncVuePro? If so, how well do you like it? Also, how does it compare to Adobe's Clip Notes? If it is similar to Clip Notes this is something that should be included with the FCS2 but I'd like to hear from anyone who is using or evaluated this product. Thanksby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Backing up Media files - 16 years agoWe have three FCP systems with 2 to 3TB's of fiber channel drives each, since FW800 drives have become so cheap we are beginning to back up a lot to the 1TB drives. I digress. Is there a software utility available that makes it easy to backup only files and folders that have changed since the last backup?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Need FCP Editor that knows Digital Heaven's Dropout plug-in! - 16 years agoAndy Mees Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > if your route through S.Calif takes you anywhere > near Kuala Lumpur I'll be glad to give you a hand Is that south on the 405?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Smoooooooth cam - 16 years agoWow, that smooth cam does amazing things with legos...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: DVC ProHD Render problem in FCP 6 - 16 years agoYes DVCOrHD works fine over firewire. The problem is in the definition of "true" HD... For the future I'd recommend that anytime you upgrade your pro applications that you clone your system disk prior to the upgrade and then upgrading. Then dropping back to the previous version is as simple as choosing which drive to boot from in system preferences. This is cheap insurance, of cby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: best place for transfer - 16 years agoIf your located in LA you can try IVC in Burbank.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT: MacBook Pro AND Tower Owners...I Need YOU!!! - 16 years agoI'm not well in with Adobe but I have the CS2 Production Suite running on a workstation and laptop no problems.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Problems Batch Capturing w/ The JVC GY-HD110 - 16 years agoNot altogether true, Miranda has a converter to take the component out of the JVC and convert it to SDI to go into the Kona card that works fine.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Motion text in Final cut - 16 years agoIt also depends on what you mean by distorted? In FCP are you editing 4X3 or 16x9? If you mean that it is either squished or stretched, double click on the clip in the timeline to open it in the viewer, go into the motion tab click on the distort disclosure triangle and check your aspect ratio. . If it does, it probably will no longer fit in the canvas correctly which means the sequence seby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Compressor 3 - 16 years agoHi Ray, I haven't had any problems with audio sync using Visual Hub, let me know what you find out. Its amazing how fast VH encodes, play around with the various settings, you'll be amazed with the quality and speed of this little application. Generally I take uncompressed SD quicktime files and encode them using the iTunes >>iPod Screen >> H.264 >> Advanced >>Two pby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: JVC GY-HD251E Capture problems with FCS2 - 16 years agoI recently did a test with the JY100 and had similar problems. I was getting very strange behavior in the log and capture window, buttons were sticky, camera response to controls were slow, it wouldn't capture . I have been able to capture HDV just fine from the Sony HC1 and FX1 without problems. I know that doesn't really help identify whether its the JVC or FCP but I suspect FCP. Anyoneby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Edit to tape - 16 years agoHi Phil, probably the best advice I could give is to sign up at Lynda.com and take their introduction to FCP with Larry Jordon. They also have advance tutorials available online. Its only about $20 for a month to month subscription. It will ease your frustration. It truly is the fastest way to get up to speed and provide a solid foundation of basic FCP knowledge. Also Larry Jordon hasby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Edit to tape - 16 years agoMake sure your sequence settings are correct. Can you play/view the output from FCP through the deck? Have you stirpped the tape . If you have and you can see the image passed through the deck try printing to tape, if that doesn't work crash record and then hit the space bar to play FCP and see what you get to tape.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: ProRes422 "standard" vs HQ - 16 years agoThis is not a comparison between Cineform and ProRes: Cineform has a a Medium Quality and a High Quality setting much the same way that ProRes does. I used to use Cineform HQ all the time even though support kept telling me that since I was writing out to film I didn't need to. I believe ProRes lower quality is 145Mb/s and Sony SR is 140Mb/s. If your not mastering to film I think you'll fby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Compressor 3 - 16 years agoI have not used Compressor3 much but I found that I often had unexplained weirdness doing this sort of thing with Compressor2. Someone on this forum recommended using a little application called VisualHub to encode just about every format below uncompressed. Now I just output everything from FCP as an uncompressed quicktime and use VisualHub for all my web, ipod and streaming video. Its fastby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Converting HDV to ProRess - 16 years agoWhat's the most efficient way to convert HDV clips to the ProRes codec? Can I convert HDV to ProRes during firewire capture?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT: The End of Run and Gun? - 16 years agoSure and JFK was shot by a second gunman. It gives law enforcement officials plausible deniability to stop and ask people taking pictures, potentially survailling secure or what they consider high risk targets. If your a legitimate tourists, student producing a student project, news crew they are not interested in you. The supreme court in this country has always sided with the conceptby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT: Editor relocating to L.A. area - 16 years agoI liked it much better when an Avid was $125K and a Flame was still $1M. It meant that I could make $250K a year. Yes there are a ton more people claiming to be editors and even more lame ass producers who are willing to hire them because their cheap. It has little to do with how good an editor is and more with how willing they are to bend over. Don't get me wrong, I get paid more fixinby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: SmoothCam - 16 years agoSmoothcam must first calculate the motion vectors, this is the ridiculously long analysis, from a contiguous stream of data. If you want to add handles, add them when you render the clip from the FCP timeline. Once the motion vectors are resolved you can use any part of the clip you'd like without having the re-analyze.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT: Editor relocating to L.A. area - 16 years agoThe cool thing about the sky falling in LA, you can see it. Since the barrier to entry has become so low there are thousands of people who purchase FCP and claim to be editors. They all work in the same way, on the same projects and the only differentiation is the price. It all depends how you position yourself. If your knowledgeable about production you might find a home at a smaller comby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: FCP Studio 2 vs. Adobe Premiere CS3 - 16 years agoI have the CS2 production bundle and love it, I will love it that much more when I get CS3 on the Mac. My opinion is that the Adobe production bundle is integrated much better than FCS2. Too many people confuse the integration between application to the ability to dynamic link, and it is so much more than that. Regarding PPro, its probably the weakest link in the chain however having saby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Subclips in FCP6 - 16 years agoIs there a way to automate placing the markers in the timeline to make subclips? Basically all I want is a marker at the in and out point of each clip, that should be pretty easy to automate. derekmok, I will try the match frame approach. If I match frame does that pull the entire clip into the viewer or just the in to the out? If you highlight a clip in a FCP timeline and then send to Moby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Subclips in FCP6 - 16 years agoThanks for the quick reply. I suspect something has changed in FCP6 and I'm no longer making the subclips correctly. The manual refers to having to place markers where you want the subclip boundaries. I don't remember having to do that in 5.1.4. Your suggestion about batch exporting is a great work around.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Subclips in FCP6 - 16 years agoI'm sending clips, about 20 [10 second]cuts from a long [20 minute] single clip, to Motion to build an open. The problem is that when I tried to optically re-time one of the clips it analyzed the entire original [20 minute] clip. I wanted it to analyze and re-time just the part of the clip in the edit. So I thought I would subclp in FCP6 and then make the subclip master clips. I have done tby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT - Flash overtaking Quicktime? - 16 years agoSorry for taking this a bit off topic. Marco are you familiar with Adobe's Clip Notes that is part of PPro2? Can Media Batch be used in a similar way?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Pro-Res in the real world... - 16 years agoThere are two curves that are very important to editors/producers, quality and efficiency. Simply put this codec provides a better quality image with a lower data footprint. However efficiency, especially in HD can be measured on a per frame cost. Sure if you purchase the Aja card/box then digitize everything coming into your facility then you would probably see an improvement in efficiency.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: FCP 6 install - 16 years agoI find myself in one of those rare times defending Apple, I believe it has something to do with the drivers and model of superdrive you have. I have two optical drives, a Pioneer DVR-111D and I don't remember the other model that originally came with the system. But whichever it was it was dog slow and reading some install disks. I complained to Apple and they replaced it with a second 1by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA |
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