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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Share to: - 14 years agoRecently I completed a project in After Effects and rendered all the clips in ProRes. I exported the project via "Share" in the file menu and created a AVCHD single layer disk that plays in a Blue-Ray player. It worked great, the client really liked it. However, I have been trying to export an XDCAM EX 1080P30 project and I keep getting a "quicktime 0" error message. I tby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Suggestions for external Blu-Ray burner - 14 years agoI read Ken Stones article about exporting Blu-Ray directly from FCP. So exciting... Anyway, has anyone done this yet and if so do you have a recommendation for a Blu-Ray burner. I think I'd prefer an external so I can use it on different systems.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Batch Rendering of sorts - 14 years agoI am currently grading some long form features, typically they have approximately 1200 clips that I can easily break up into more manageable ~300 clip segments in FCP. The question that I have is can I correct two segments during the day and combine them so they both render when I go home. I really don't want to have to wait during the day for each segment to render. Anyone have any suggesby Chuck Spaulding - Color Re: Adding Chapter Markers At Every Edit - 14 years agoThis is cool! And as with most things "Ken" another great tutorial on how to do something in FCP. Definitely worth reading.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: XDCam EX import trouble... - 14 years agoAndy Mees Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I suspect I will personally be upgrading soon. > Just a hunch. > > Heh heh ... another Brad special eh? :-) Wish > that the new Log and Transfer would work directly > with XDCAM HD disc media too and not just XDCAM > EX, and that it could import as ProRes instead of > just rewrap as per Xby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Enlarging audio file waveforms vertically - 14 years agoBy significantly enlarging the track the waveform will not get larger relative to the track but it gets much larger for viewing and working with. Dragging the track will make the waveform taller and zooming in on the timeline will make it appear bigger. In the viewer you can also use the "+" and "-" keys to zoom in and out of the waveform loaded into the viewer. Andy haby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Enlarging audio file waveforms vertically - 14 years agoI don't know the right term for it but in the buttons and controls area of the timeline, where you choose which audio or video track to use etc., just hover your curser over the line between A1 and A2 for example and when the curser switches press down on your mouse button and drag downward making the corresponding audio/waveform track as large as you want it. I hope this makes some sense...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: How to speedup the new FCP7 help file and reading it in Safari - 14 years agoI second "Thanks for that." This is cool. ~chuckby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Hardware/software upgrade - 14 years agoGraphics doesn't matter? Graphics definitely matters, especially for Motion and Color. Many of the FXPro plugins take advantage of the GPU and you can open Motion templates directly in FCP. I have the ATI HD3870 and it rocks. If the ATI HD 4870 is the upgrade of that graphics card then its definitely worth the money. You might want to check to see if the HD 3870 is still available.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Thank you for the nice 6.5 upgrade - 14 years agoSo its only a grouse session when we complain about why this release lacks improvement in multiprocessing, increased performance with native codecs other than ProRes or discuss an efficient way to turn non-native codecs into ProRes for improved workflow. But apparently ts perfectly acceptable to complain about Apple's implementation of HTTP documentation. Because you know that if Apple wouldby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Thank you for the nice 6.5 upgrade - 14 years agoOops. What I meant to say was that having to use Edius because of FCP's shortcomings sucks. If Thomson would include Bones and other applications to create a suite of tools like FCS would be great. Interestingly the reason I purchased FCS2 was for Color and Motion, although I rely a lot less on Motion. If I could figure out how to "send to" to and from Premier Pro and AE to Coloby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Final Cut Studio (2009): Frakking Documentation... - 14 years agoAndreas, could you distribute the Apple script, then the user could compile a version from their own HTML documents. That shouldn't violate copyright.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Thank you for the nice 6.5 upgrade - 14 years agoXDCAM EX is a tapeless format, not to say that you couldn't "capture" via HD-SDI out of the camera but that requires a camera and capture card. Its been a while since Ive used it but Cineform had a product very similar to ProRes that could encode in near real time. This is not noise, everything that I mentioned, Edius editing XDCAM as efficiently as FCP does ProRes and the abilityby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Thank you for the nice 6.5 upgrade - 14 years agoI don't know the statistics of people using compressed or uncompressed, but since no camera actually captures directly to ProRes for those who can't afford to work in uncompressed, then Apple has two choices. 1. Make it so that when capturing/transferring from XDCAM EX (for example) it does it DIRECTLY to the Pro Res codec of choice. As it is right now, I have to ingest, then convert. An adby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Upgrading to FCS3/FCP7 - 14 years agoIs this a major upgrade requiring a complete install or is this more like upgrading from 6.02 to 6.06? There doesn't appear to be anything that would require a complete re-install..?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Thank you for the nice 6.5 upgrade - 14 years ago"It actually makes perfect sense. Computers are not magic. In order for Final Cut to run on a cluster, it would have to be written as a cluster application. It never has been. And for good reason; the amount of work necessary to abstract out the rendering module and replace the threading model Final Cut currently uses with a message-passing proc model would be huge, and it would provide no pby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Thank you for the nice 6.5 upgrade - 14 years agoJust as you gave me a lesson on the difference between rendering and encoding, there's also a difference between "multi-threaded" and "multi-processor." I'm hoping to take advantage of all the mac pros and Xserve's we have and use Qmaster to distribute the entire project using as many processors as I can throw at it. FCP has had the ability to Export via Compressor for somby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: FCS Upgrade Headache... - 14 years agoWell Andy what ever you decide please keep us informed. I'm sure theres a few of us sitting on the side waiting for reports from the more adventurous. Goos luck.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Thank you for the nice 6.5 upgrade - 14 years agoI'm interested in knowing more about multiprocessor rendering in FCS3. Its not clear to me, now that we can "Send to" Compressor from FCP7 does that mean that I can use Qmaster and render a FCP7 project over multiple CPU's? There's a bit of confusion about this. At least I'm confused...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Best HDV camera? - 14 years agoIt sounds like you've already made up your mind, I was going to add the XDCAM EX1 to the mix. A little pricier but a great camera and entry into XDCAM. These cameras are amazing.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: TITLES - 14 years agoI think I tried to bring in some elements from a LiveType template into Motion 3 and it didn't work. It would be nice if they killed off LT in the recent upgrade that they resolved this issue. I tried LT for about a week and just went all with Motion, but some of the templates available to purchase for LT where really quite good.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: RAID deleted by accident - 14 years agoTry Disk Warrior. it has saved me more times than I care to admit.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Is there a day for night filter in FCP 5.04? - 14 years agoActually the best day for night filter that's included with FCP is Color. There are several ways to accomplish this in Color and the results can be amazing. Just a thought.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: FCP Stutters to a complete stop - 14 years agoBecause life is what it is I have had to continue working with this system, I have just had to render at night on another system. All projects that I originate on this system where playback begins stuttering, work and render fine on any of the other systems. So that's what I've had to do as a work around. There are a lot of third party plugins installed on the system that is having a problemby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Video Card for FCP Color - 14 years agoAnd if you do, get the ATI HD3870, this card rocks with Color.by Chuck Spaulding - Color Re: Edit to tape/Writning Video - 14 years agoThat has bugged me forever! Thanks for the great tip.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: FCP edit bay set ups - 14 years agoThere's shared files systems and then theres SHARED file systems. The difference is at what level do you want to share data? I have 8-workstations connected via fiber channel sharing at the volume level which works great for editing. All of the edit bays can see all of the data all of the time, however, only one system can write to a volume at a time. Since FCP only references the data in pby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Anyone know how to export a still from a .MOV named "clip name + timecode" - 14 years agoIf this is for review purposes you can export a Quicktime with a TC window burn, open a Photoshop document with the same resolution as your clip, open your clip in Quicktime and drag and drop from the Quicktime player to the Photoshop canvas . Then export layer to a files to a folder of your choosing.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: How-to copy FCP to new installed hard drive? - 14 years agoWow, thanks Nick. Such a simple, cool feature that I had no idea was there.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: FCP Stutters to a complete stop - 14 years agoI haven't moved the project off of the SAN onto local drives but I have opened this project on two other FCP system and they work correctly. The only thing I have done to test the SAN on this machine is a read/write test where I was getting the performance I'd expect. Admittedly, that's not much trouble shooting. J, that's an interesting observation. I am experiencing many of the symptoms yby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA |
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