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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 .MTS files on Mac Air - 10 years agoAt one of the facilities I am associated with a colleague came to me just now with an interesting problem. We have some source material that came to us as .mts files. On most of our Macs VLC player plays them just fine. I have done some editing with them, tho for that I used ClipWrap to transcode them. On this particular computer, a Macbook Air, VLC will not play the files camera original, shoby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Reducing Moire in Animated Stills - 10 years agoOften you can reduce this effect by slightly defocusing the image. Try a gaussian blur filter set somewhere in the range of .25 to 1.5. Another way is to use a low pass filter in your compression software if it is offered. The only one I can think of at the moment is in Eposode. In that program there is an option in the advanced setting of the resize filter to always low pass.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: steady exposure tool? - 10 years agoWow that is impressive. Thanks for the step by step.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: Waveform Monitor boo-boo forewarned - 10 years agoInteresting. Thanks for researching that.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: where did the light go in the waveform monitor? - 10 years agoThere are not a lot of samples in that highlight. Did you try turning up the waveform brightness (the little button under the word Layout in the upper left)?by VPiccin - Café LA Re: Reusing media in Motion - 10 years agoMotion is not a great editing application, but you can reuse a clip. If you duplicate the clip on a new layer you can slip to a different part of it by holding option and scrubbing the clip. That is fine if you are working with adjacent scenes, but if you need 2 seconds from 15 minutes down the clip you will have retired by the time you get there. Probably better to open the clip in quicktime andby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Any other thoughts? Maybe YouTube just really compresses the image to a terrible degree? - 10 years agoYou can try this, but it may not work. Sometimes when you heavily compress a video that is VERY sharp you get a surprising number of artifacts. In my experience this is more true with Flash and WMV files. H.264 seems better at this. However, you might try and get rid of some of the sharpness before you compress. That way you are not wasting any of your bit budget trying to compress detail thatby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Problem installing FCP7 on Mountain Lion - 10 years agoDo you have install disks for earlier versions of the OS? You could make a 10.6 partition on your drive and install there.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: Bloody question - 10 years agoHow about this. Angle a black board about 45 degrees and set a camera to shoot it straight on. Run some thick white fluid, say white latex paint, down the board from a turkey baster. Try to expose so that there is some texture to the paint, highlights and darker areas. Key that over your shot and colorize as needed.by VPiccin - Motion Re: Need help cleaning up drive before delivering project created in FCP 7 - 10 years agoelliek1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What do you all mean by "lock"? I've exported as > quicktime movie, and have timelines both with > stems separate and mixed. The term lock is a myth perpetrated by editors. It refers to the point in a project where all changes have been made, and it is safe to send elements to other departments foby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Getting frame jump cutting back from still to video underneath. Any help much appreciated. - 10 years agoDerek offers great advice. To expand a bit. The process of video editing depends on being able to choose any frame and attach it to any frame of an adjacent clip. To do this it is best if the video is encoded in a codec (short for compressor/decompressor) that treats each frame as an individual still image. h.264 is a member of a class of codecs that use compression techniques that reference oby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Getting frame jump cutting back from still to video underneath. Any help much appreciated. - 10 years agoI don't know what is causing the problem, but if a re-render fixes it there are a lot easier ways to force that. Control B will toggle clip visabilty and force a render. What codec are your source clips and timeline? As a guess if either is long GOP you may be seeing jumps caused by out of order i frames.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: 4K TV's, but few 4K Cameras?? - 10 years agojoeboo20 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > for 4K broadcasts and feature film on demand, at > what size screen will the consumer actually start > seeing a difference between 4K 4096 x 2160(or > Ultra HD 3840 x 2160) vs. a 1920x1080 monitor? I > can clearly see it at my local Sony Style with > their 84" 4K TV but I probably would never oby VPiccin - Café LA Re: expected speeds with newer macpro - 11 years agoOne of my clients has several 12 core workstations with FCP 7. We were having rendering issues the other day, so looked at the activity monitor. All 12 cores were each running a single thread. However the total CPU was just over 400%. Something like 415 to 418, so even with 12 cores FCP was only running the machine at about 1/3 power. This could, of course, be due to a lot of factors, like codec,by VPiccin - Café LA Re: Suggestion - Separate NLE Forums for LACPUG - 11 years agoMay I suggest that the Forums be named for software packages rather than just the edit application? Thus FCS Classic could include content from Compressor, Motion and the orphaned applications. Adobe Suite could also encompass After Effects, Photoshop and etc.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: Dragging a slug into timeline - 11 years agoDragging to the time line is just one of a bunch of different ways to edit a shot into your sequence. Try using the overwrite or insert button just below the canvas. They are yellow and red icons. Or try functions keys F10 and F11. Or drag the image over the canvas window and drop it over the edit icons that will appear.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: New iMac vs. Mac Pro - 11 years agoMy biggest concern about purchasing an iMac, or any integrated system, is that computer technology changes so much faster than display technology. When an iMac's processors and video hardware are old and useless, the display section will be perfectly usable. You will need to ditch the whole box, beautiful display and all, to move on to new technologies.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: Hinge/folding text effect filter? - 11 years agoI just went to have a bit of play with this. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to change the anchor point with the basic 3D filter. The anchor point is the place you want an image to pivot around. There is such a setting in the basic motion tab, but the 3D filter does not recognize it. If you have access to Motion or After Effects this is a pretty simple thing to build. Without a thirby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Filter Instance versus Filter Copy - 11 years agoA somewhat manual approach is to export your project as an XML. Using a word processor find the first occurrence of the parameter you need to change. Make the change then use the find and replace feature of the word processor to chug though the rest of the file. Finally re-import the XML. This can be a little daunting, especially finding that first string that needs to be changed, however it workby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Photoshop video = AE Lite - 11 years agoWhat advantages do you see in working with video in Photoshop? I have often been tempted to play with it, but with other mograph apps available like AE and Motion I can't see what would cause me to choose Photoshop.by VPiccin - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Re: Graphics card compatible with FCP7 and CS6? - 11 years agoI am not completely current on the state of graphic cards, so I don't have any specific recommendations. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind, however. Generally no graphics cards will be of much assistance with rendering in FCP7. With the exception of FXPlug plugins, most of Final Cut renders in software on the main processors. Motion & Color do use the GPU, so a better card WIby VPiccin - Café LA Re: iPad Control Console for FCP 7/X and PPro - 11 years agoI have played with a couple of iPad apps that do this sort of thing. The problem for me is the iPad is a flat featureless surface that was designed to be seen as you operate it. It is difficult to land your fingers in the right place without looking away from the interface. With a keyboard you do very little looking at your hands as you can feel the edges of the keys. Perhaps with constant useby VPiccin - Café LA Re: aja io and deck control with FCP 6.03 - 11 years agoI just took a quick look at the back of one of those via Google images. The port is labeled RS-422A. Make sure the machine templet that you are using supports Sony RS-422.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: aja io and deck control with FCP 6.03 - 11 years agoAre you sure about the RS-232? While I know there are a few machines that use this protocol, RS-422 is far more popular for controlling VTR's.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: Why does ProRes choke my machine? - 11 years agochad haberstroh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm mainly working off of a terabyte ethernet > server That would be my first look. Ethernet works fine as a way to transport video to editing systems, IF... Can you run something like AJA system test on the network attached drive. What is the average speed, and if you graph it, is the data delivery sby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Watch Folders in FCP - 11 years ago5 years ago I was trying to find a programmer who was able to write a tool to do exactly this. Very cool.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: Help - FCP-3 is not seeing timecode anymore - 11 years agoDoes the computer still control the deck? When you mark in, does that timecode window update? Have you tried dumping preferences?by VPiccin - Café LA Re: FCP and Sony DSR-11 Deck (tape stops) - 11 years agoSound like the cable is a possibility. Actually could be any of 5 things: The tape, the deck, the cable, the computer, or FCP. I would start at one end of the chain and start swapping things till I found the guilty party. -Vby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Manually syncing audio and video - 11 years agoDoes your footage include any dynamic, noisy action? Hand claps or objects dropping for example? Parking on the frame were the contact occurs and looking for a spike on the waveform is always handy. P's at the end of words with pursed lips are not bad either. Humans have a remarkable ability to force sync. After all, in nature light and sound travel at radically different rates. It is very harby VPiccin - Café LA Re: FCP7 Process/Workflow Redux - 11 years agoBen- Thanks for the tips. I'll keep them in mind the next time I have an XDCam job. Fortunately the problem child job was a one off. 4 days and done. I do have a client that uses XDCam in EX and Optical on FCP with LHi cards. They don't seem to experience the crashes I had. I found that the machine tripped most often when I was flogging the timeline, jumping around by mouse dragging or triplby VPiccin - Café LA |
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