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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 FCP to Photoshop - 17 years agoI would like to take a freezeframe from FCP to Photoshop to work up some handouts for the next film festival. The .png file from FCP5 in Photoshop is, of course, distorted because of the difference in pixel shape. How do I correct for this or should I have selected another file type when exporting?by seeker - Café LA Re: FCP 5 won't open - 17 years agoKoz- Upgrades to me are like a moth to a flame. I can't resist them and now I know they are going to kill me. I've come to realize that everytime I go to the Cafe with a problem it is after an automatic upgrade and a perversion of my preferences and permissions. For whatever masochistic reason, I always install them and then live to regret them. I like your mantra, "Never do upgrades!&quby seeker - Café LA Re: FCP 5 won't open - 17 years agoYes, Victor. Actually there is a Dec '05 version now that I check my records. Again, thanks for the help.by seeker - Café LA Re: FCP 5 won't open - 17 years agoVictor/Koz et al. OK. What is your version of the Monday Maintenance routine with FCP5, a la Ken Stone? Any changes from earlier versions? Put anything on Automator from desktop? I did put Disk Utility there-not on Automator. 'Course it's also important to trash the correct FCP preferences in the 'other (User) Utility file'. And then reset your preferences so you aren't loading onto the wrong HD.by seeker - Café LA Re: FCP 5 won't open - 17 years agoVictor/Koz et al. OK. What is your version of the Monday Maintenance routine with FCP5, a la Ken Stone? Any changes from earlier versions? Put anything on Automator from desktop? I did put Disk Utility there-not on Automator. 'Course it's also important to trash the correct FCP preferences in the 'other (User) Utility file'. And then reset your preferences so you aren't loading onto the wroby seeker - Café LA Re: FCP 5 won't open - 17 years agoAh. You are right! I didn't trash them thinking that they would be overwritten but I have now...and things are launching perfectly. Thanks all for your help. Where is that picture of Victor? Not here.by seeker - Café LA Re: FCP 5 won't open - 17 years agoYeah. I understand and am careful on this. This one is nearly empty, a 250 with 60 on it. There are three firewire HDs and all but the one are disconnected. Or connected depending on where I am in my diagnostics. Still getting no rise.by seeker - Café LA Re: FCP 5 won't open - 17 years agoI did all but shut off for a couple of hours and no improvement. Irritating!by seeker - Café LA FCP 5 won't open - 17 years agoFCP 5 won't open when I launch it. I was getting dropped frames in log and capture in a new project so I unplugged all my external HDs except the one I was logging to. I restarted my computer and I got the message that " was missing a pathway in a previous project and I couln't get past the screen demanding that I re-establish the path. Reconnected all HDs to get around this. After a fewby seeker - Café LA Re: Losing links in FCP5 - 17 years agoI guess it was preferences as I had guessed among other things in an earlier string. Preferences were corrupted by the last update download and that's what happened a month ago. You were right. I had just scrapped them a few days ago so I didn't think of them right off or so soon. As Jordan or Stone says, don't update unless you want to spend time with the OS and not with FCP. Guess I'll shuby seeker - Café LA Re: Losing links in FCP5 - 17 years agoIt's funny. I'll do the reconnect by hand with "Search" and "Locate" or I'll re-insert the media, and it will lose the link again after a short while. Now this all started after an automatic update from Apple. Could it be that? BTW, this project was uploaded from FCP3 quite a while ago (4 months) but it didn't give me these problems until recently (1 month). And some of tby seeker - Café LA Re: Losing links in FCP5 - 17 years agoOK but still have issue of the message: " is missing in the Reconnect Files box. What happened to the file name?? And why is it losing the link? And how do I get them back? Is it anything to do with preferences? BTW what is the difference between "locate" and "search"by seeker - Café LA Re: Losing links in FCP5 - 17 years agoOk. New drive. Did the clone. But also got some interesting information from disk manufacturer-EZ Quest-both off their site and from tech support. According to them, older drives, that is, more than 6 months old, are being damaged by the new updates to the OSX (10.4.5). Apparently, external drives are quieried when updates are downloaded and damage can occur to the HD bridgeboard and chipsetsby seeker - Café LA Losing links in FCP5 - 17 years agoAll of a sudden the dreaded "Media off line" message is showing up a lot and I suspect that my external Lacie HD is going to crash, if it hasn't already. It has been working fine for years until this. (As the old saying goes: It's not if the HD crashes, rather, when) Couple of questions: First, I expect that there is not chance it is my main HD since everything else is working fine.by seeker - Café LA Re: Jumpy Still Graphics- FCP5 Bug? - 18 years agoJay Did you get this resolved? I have been having the same problem. Started when I went from FCP3 to FCP5. My stills jump and go out of focus, briefly. Had to go in and recut all my stills to get rid of it! I posted this question in late Nov or early Dec and got no response that would correct so I am curious if you were able to fix. Is it a FCP5 bug?? Gby seeker - Café LA Re: Ken's "Using Match Hue in FCP5" - 18 years agoYeah, that did it. Had to mess around a little bit but it did show. Thanks. Brilliant! Why didn't they just put it in there and not give it as an option? That way I would have known something was amiss and may have guessed it was resolution!!! (Retorical!)by seeker - Café LA Re: Ken's "Using Match Hue in FCP5" - 18 years agoDual Monitors. Should I have another setting? The only options I get are: Custom Layout 1 Custom Layout 2, both unavailable then: Audio Mixing Color Correction Dual Screen-color correction Dual Screen-editing Standard Two Up and then two save options. No Multiple Edits option is available. This is FCP5, G4, Dual processorby seeker - Café LA Ken's "Using Match Hue in FCP5" - 18 years agoI'm using match hue in FCP5 using Ken Stone's (Andrew Balls') monograph of Sept, '05. The first instruction is to go to Window then to Arrange then to Multiple Edits; I can't find this option. Have I missed a step? I get Dual Screen and other options but nothing about Multiple Edits which it seems like you need to do this properly.by seeker - Café LA Re: Morph plugin question - 18 years agoZIA I asked the same question earlier this week. You might want to check out the reply(s) to my post (Sunday/Monday). They were very helpful. Like you, I got dead silence-at first! Guess nobody using this much. So here is my experience, for what it is worth: There are two kinds of morphs-video and still. One option for me was to use a PC still version and bring its result to Mac with a flasby seeker - Café LA Re: jumpy stills and out of focus - 18 years agoYou know, I keep forgetting this! But you are right. I'll try another burn, to see what happens. Thanks all.by seeker - Café LA jumpy stills and out of focus - 18 years agoNow this!! I have been working on a documentary project for over year. A mix of stills and video. I'm really at the end. Just cleaning up some last minute issues with the quality of my some of my graphics; small stuff. Today, on my last run through I notice a few of my stills suddenly show small jumps and going slightly in and out of focus as I play back. Almost like an overdone Gaussian bby seeker - Café LA Re: Morphing - 18 years agoHey, Andy. The photofile is fine in FCP when I use it by itself, say in a track in front of the sartfire.mov file. No box. It just appears in this morph program so I suspect that it is just that the program, Morpheus, is not compatable with Photoshop. Again, what I would really, really, really like to accomplish is to take the "fire" movie clip and shape it down into the lion grapby seeker - Café LA Morphing - 18 years agoI am still stuck on my morphing problem. Anyone that can help? Again, FCP5 G-4. Want to morph from a video of a fire (ideally "Pyromania" from Visual Concept Entertainment, Startfire.mov) into a still of stylized lion graphic (jpeg). To date: Went to PC and generated a morph that went from a still (flame) to a still (lion graphic) using "Morpheus" PC freeware. Transfered vby seeker - Café LA |
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