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Your 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.
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Re: AVCHD folder structure - 13 years ago
That's the P2 structure. AVCHD is three folders DCIM, MISC & PRIVATE. Inside PRIVATE is AVCHD, which contains two more folders, AVCHDTN and BDMV. The last contains multiple items including the STREAM folder that holds the .mts files. It's best to have the entire folder structure.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA
Re: First foray, few questions - 13 years ago
I wouldn't do it like that. I wouldn't put each camera in a separate event, but make one event for each project, and then break the event using smart collections or keywords or bins or whatever. You can also consolidate events by dragging one onto another.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: First foray, few questions - 13 years ago
Philip's utility doesn't require separate drives. It just uses project and event shuffling.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: First foray, few questions - 13 years ago
Philip Hodgetts' assisted editing has an app for that. Easily switches out the projects to been seen and not seen. If you're having issues it would probably be better to do it on a separate drive or disk image to isolate it.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: First foray, few questions - 13 years ago
"Though my point about keywords was it took a lot longer than dragging clips into a folder." I'm sorry but I just don't get this. You make a new keyword collection Shift-Cmd-K. You name it, just like a bin or folder. You drag clips into it. It is EXACTLY the same, albeit the keyboard shortcut is different. They become keyworded. So what? It just tells you what bin they're in. &quoby Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: First foray, few questions - 13 years ago
This is hard to address when there is clearly so little understanding on the application. You want it to be like the other applications you've used. It isn't. If you don't want to work with it and have to work with a track based application then you have other options. Many of things you say you can't do, you can, you just have to understand how they're done. You can add transitions to secby Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: I hate to say this but FCP X is easy ...and fast - 13 years ago
Can't reproduce that. BTW, everything is connected to the primary storyline. You can't connect clips to clips unless you make them a compound clips and that's connected to the primary.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: FCPX Feature Wish List - 13 years ago
Thanks Andy. Excellent idea. Sorry I didn't catch the meaning.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: FCPX Feature Wish List - 13 years ago
Sounds intriguing. What's a superimpose connected clip? You mean you want to be able to connect to a connected clip or to a secondary storyline?by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: Adding a dissolve to a second layer image - 13 years ago
The logo has to be made into a storyline to apply a transition, or you can open video animations (control-V) for the clip and double click opacity. There are fade handles on the start and end of every clip that you can use to ram the opacity up and down.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: Switching between ProRes Proxy & ProRes 422 - 13 years ago
That method will work. Though not sure why you would optimize and proxy to start unless you have a small system. You can always optimize on the backend when you're ready to or close to export.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: Color Grading a Source Clip - 13 years ago
You could do this in in FCP7, thought the slowness of the app meant working with it could be a pain.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: Burning blu ray - 13 years ago
Actually FCP7 and FCPX are perfect for screeners. You can spit a first play disc right out of the application, or a disc with a basic menu. FCPX may be even better because it doesn't require Compressor.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA
Re: OT- Best way to tell a story in a documentary - 13 years ago
3 is the worst I think. I and 2 each has it's place. We used to call number 2 Petaks, named after a Nightline editor. I think they can work the best in the right circumstances, but it requires the material and subjects who can carry the story. If they can't you need 1.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA
Re: Dual Mono Audio - 13 years ago
Downside of this is the new compound clip has no handles that the original clip had. It's truncated to the compound clip length.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: Shortening a clip in the storyline without rippling - 13 years ago
Ah, the position tool of course. Thanks. I was looking for a modifier key to do it.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Shortening a clip in the storyline without rippling - 13 years ago
Most of the time you want to shorten a clip and ripple the storyline, but what happens if you don't? You don't want things to move. I know you can cut out a section and replace with a gap, but is there any way to drag and replace with a gap? Thanks.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: Video only dissolve - 13 years ago
That's what I mean, three steps to fix something that shouldn't have happened in the first place, to get around a design flaw. It was right in FCP. At least you had a choice. Wrong here, and no choice, but to work around it.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: Audio only crossfade - 13 years ago
And why oh why is there a cross fade with every video transition? Every sound bite is screwed up and has to be fixed. There's so much stuff that's great and there's so much basic stuff that truly sucks.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: The Final Cut Pro X Bug List - 13 years ago
You can put anything where you like. You can put the audio on the primary, you can put it on top. Wherever.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: Briefing for professionals in London by Apple - 13 years ago
I completely don't understand this. The whole thing about the connections in FCP are only in the editor's head is such crap. It's like EDLs have not worked for decades. There's nothing in the editor's head in an EDL, just what the numbers are and where the numbers fall. Really it's inconceivable to me that that cannot be translated into FCPX storylines. I'm sure you could do it Jon, even if it'sby Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: Tip: How to make gap clips easier to find on the timeline - 13 years ago
Thanks Alex.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: The Final Cut Pro X Bug List - 13 years ago
Be very afraid. If you notice the undo function is not working, it also seems that the application save function is shutting off at the seem time. Stop working and relaunch the app because everything you're doing may not be saved.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: If Apple's lost Larry....... - 13 years ago
Then you'll love the new GarageBand Pro. I probably will too, because I'm not a musician either. Our GarageBand experience is exactly the class of video user FCPX is directed at.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: If Apple's lost Larry....... - 13 years ago
Be afraid, be very afraid, GarageBand Pro is coming.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: Steve Jobs to video pros: stop whining - 13 years ago
It's a lame joke. See Safari Pro X and others.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: LAYERING VIDEO AND TEXT - 13 years ago
You can create your own templates using Motion. I was told that no one actually knows how many layers the project can hold. They stacked them up and gave up at some point; there were too many and lost count. There's probably some limit based on your computer capabilities.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
Re: Fair and Balanced review: FCP X - great or not? - 13 years ago
"they're willing to ditch the pros because we really don't make them that much money." And we're such a pain in the butt. Whinge and whine and bitch all the time. There are a lot of great video production apps on the Mac even is Apple doesn't make them, Avid, Adobe, even Autodesk. Three As are enough.by Tom Wolsky - Café LA - X
