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Re: Wrong roll # - 10 years ago
Add a suffix. That's a good way to fix a mistake like that without breaking the tie completely to the names given on set.by derekmok - Café LA
Re: Pause in Captured Video - 11 years ago
If the frames aren't there, the frames aren't there. Your best bet is probably to use post-production zoom, picture-in-picture, transitions and other effects to create editable points in the video.by derekmok - Café LA - X
Re: Questions for the Director - 11 years ago
> be careful how much of your talent and film making ability you put into the job without specific direction or you could literally be moulding a useless director's > career with your talent. That's not a professional attitude to take. You do your job as well as you can, regardless of the personality or perceived talent level of your collaborators. It's not your place to judge the diby derekmok - Café LA
Re: Questions for the Director - 11 years ago
> So what are some good questions to get a director to answer about a scene that will help the editor? If you ask me, I'd say that the director should drive that, not the editor. Some directors (like when I direct) like to give a briefing before editing; some directors prefer to let the editors work "raw", without any sort of preconception about the footage. I think you need toby derekmok - Café LA
Re: Modify all subtitles in a sequence FCP 7.0 - 11 years ago
There is a "dirty" way I can think of that could achieve what you're talking about without dealing with codes and XMLs, and without messing with the timing of the subtitle cards. First, backup your project file. I'm assuming you used the "Outline" Text to make your subtitles. If so: Copy all the subtitles. Paste them onto a track above your current ones. On the tby derekmok - Café LA
Re: Fade shortcut wanted - 11 years ago
> so yes, the slowest part must be my brian Life of Brian? > i saw it as a request for an audio transition that was a dip, rather than a cross fade. I would have been happy with a fade that had a better arc. The default cross fades never sound the greatest when used to fade something down. Too sharp.by derekmok - Café LA
Re: Fade shortcut wanted - 11 years ago
> i dont know, it's not an outlandish request, should be simple IMO The request isn't unreasonable, but the fact is, in the process he outlined above, the most time-consuming part is deciding where the transition starts and ends. Basically, editing decisions. There is no way to speed that up because it's brain work. If you know exactly where the transition begins on the outgoing clip, eby derekmok - Café LA
Re: Fade shortcut wanted - 11 years ago
You're practically asking the software to do your editing for you. Doesn't work that way. If you're decisive about the cut points, the operations don't take long: Set up the cut points on audio and video, COMMAND-T, OPTION-COMMAND-T twice. Done. When I do this, in fact, I often forego Fade In Fade Out and use a black/white colour matte, because it gives me control over how long to stay onby derekmok - Café LA
Re: Script Supervisor - 11 years ago
> Not really a script supervisor thing but how imperative do you feel "room tone" is? Should I insist production get some for each scene? Professional sound recordists are supposed to get this in every location. But these days they often don't, and you can talk yourself silly -- they ain't gonna listen if they didn't know to do it already. I ask for slates, verbal slates, room tby derekmok - Café LA
Re: Portable or Mini Harddrives Good for Editing with FCP? - 11 years ago
> and in my case it was fine, 1.5yrs approx traveling/commuting with the drive and editing off it, trains, subway, planes, with no problems what so ever. > Guess I got lucky (?). Just because yours lasted 18 months doesn't mean all of them will. Eighteen months is not that long for a drive, either. Not that the above is a mistake. Bus-powered drives are the only practical solutionby derekmok - Café LA
Re: Portable or Mini Harddrives Good for Editing with FCP? - 11 years ago
> i'm wondering if the newer portable or mini drives (2 TB) are a good match for editing with FCP X? > i'm looking at the lacie "rugged" portable drive and also WD mini/portable drives. They're not unworkable, but they won't perform well. They're slow and unreliable, they overheat (no fan), and anything more than one stream of ProRes and they start to choke (that's provided yby derekmok - Café LA
Re: Video image control filters not working. - 11 years ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and suspect a Software Update as the culprit: QuickTime OS ProApps Codecs Did you do any updates lately? Remember that FCP7 has now been end-of-life for two and a half years. Any Apple update would not take it into account, which means any machine running FCP7 should stop doing upgrades to the pertinent software components.by derekmok - Café LA
Re: Video image control filters not working. - 11 years ago
Sure you're not applying the clips to the master clips in the Browser? You need to apply the filters in the affiliate clips -- the actual clips in the Timeline.by derekmok - Café LA
Re: unlinking stereo pairs on clips either in the bin or viewer - 11 years ago
> log and transfer doesn't have an option to import two mono tracks. Not true. Check the "Import Settings" tab under the playback window in Log and Transfer. However, since tapeless ingest was designed so that every clip has its own audio import setting, it is not convenient at all to change. It's faster to just import as stereo and break the link in the timeline, or to enter tby derekmok - Café LA
Re: mts to fcp - 11 years ago
Many consumer video camcorders claim to shoot "24p", but in reality they are shooting 29.97fps, often with a 24p "simulator" added in. I have a Canon HF S10 that does exactly that. In those cases, you shoot 29.97fps, straight, no in-camera simulation. 24p simulation is always better in post-production and gives more control. > The files end up being huge in ProresLT,by derekmok - Café LA
Re: Questions about editing with canon 5dmark ii footage on FCP7 - 11 years ago
> As I said I had started editing with the h.264 clips. Is there some way to replace these easily with the pro res clips? Or do I need to start from scratch? Easily, no. H.264 clips are unstable and have no timecode, so an automatic reconnect to the ProRes versions may not retain your actual editing decisions. You may need to conform these by hand. H.264 clips should all have 00:00:00:00by derekmok - Café LA
Re: Questions about editing with canon 5dmark ii footage on FCP7 - 11 years ago
> I finally just found canon e1 v1.5 and it seems to work!!. It is transferring them and I can open them in fcp. So do you think this will be okay? Try it. Wrong editing methods don't reveal their issues right away. A stable system takes weeks, even months to field-test. Edit with the media, test the system with multiple projects and learn what you can about how the system behaves. Filmby derekmok - Café LA
Re: Questions about editing with canon 5dmark ii footage on FCP7 - 11 years ago
> So when I open log and transfer in a new project in fcp7.0.3, I try to import the volume, ie the folder with the .mov and .thm files. But it then tells. me Another extremely common amateur mistake. You probably copied only the .MOV files. First rule of shooting tapeless: You don't mess with the original folders, even when they appear empty or useless. When you back up the cards, youby derekmok - Café LA
Re: Questions about editing with canon 5dmark ii footage on FCP7 - 11 years ago
> I already started editing by just dragging and dropping my 5D .mov H.264 files into FCP. Big no-no. FCP7 can't edit H.264 files properly, and you'll run into a lot of trouble doing it this way. Convert all footage to ProRes QuickTime movies first. The Canon E1 plugin will allow FCP7's Log and Transfer function to batch-convert the footage, and add timecode. > I seem some people jby derekmok - Café LA
Re: Apple pro res sequence jumping - 11 years ago
> Anything I am missing? Yeah. What storage drive are you using? When I edit ProRes 422 1920x1080, I use at least a FireWire 800 RAID0 configuration with 7200rpm drives.by derekmok - Café LA
Re: GOOGLE's competing 4K codec (VP9) could replace H.265... - 11 years ago
They should change the name, though. I can just imagine, "Can you give me Hep C?"by derekmok - Café LA
Re: Getting an FCP7 project file open in FCP6.6 . . - 11 years ago
Export an XML.by derekmok - Café LA
Re: Re-Opening multiple projects - settings - 11 years ago
> I was never taught how to maintain stored scratch disk destination info within a given file It's not possible to do that. FCP Legacy simply did not function that way. Those particular preferences are not linked to files. Everybody who used it had to switch that preference every time. Some people used a method of choosing one Scratch Disk for all projects ( - Capture Scratch). When FCby derekmok - Café LA
Re: Capturing DVD i - 11 years ago
> But some paid software like Leawo DVD Ripper, Aiseesoft DVD Ripper Both of these pieces of software look like Chinese-based spamware (the awkward names are dead giveaways), the kind made by companies that write glowing reviews for their own products under false names and send out blind spam advertising for their product. The online reviews are abysmal.by derekmok - Café LA
Re: Non internet connected edit systems - 11 years ago
> No idea what I said all those years ago, but it must have been scary. It did use to be an issue. But the internet-conflict thing has disappeared a long time ago. It used to be a problem having more than four real-time audio tracks, using JPEGs instead of TIFFs, and using subclips. As far as I can remember all these issues disappeared by the time FCP4 was out.by derekmok - Café LA - X
Re: Non internet connected edit systems - 11 years ago
Hey, if they're ready to shell out the bucks for the added work time, no problem from me. It's the producer's right to be as secretive as s/he wants. It's when they ask for everything in 20 minutes that the problem gets sticky. But then it's our job to say, "It'll take two hours because of the system in place."by derekmok - Café LA - X
Re: Anyone like the FCP X update? - 11 years ago
Short-sightedness will forever run rampant in post-production. Save $100 now, waste $5000 later in troubleshooting, hiring technicians to fix the gaps, missed deadlines, and lost time and prestige. Couldn't hook up to the internet -- holy Stone Age.by derekmok - Café LA - X
Re: Re-Opening multiple projects - settings - 11 years ago
> how on earth do I find out what my audio/video settings were from project to project if FCP won't store the info? Final Cut Pro - Audio/Video Settings. These are not stored on a project-by-project basis. They are software preferences. That means FCP will operate on the last set of settings chosen, regardless of how many project files are accessed. If you switch projects a lot andby derekmok - Café LA
Re: AME CS6 vs Compressor for DVD compression - 11 years ago
> Then selected the MPEG2-DVD match attributes preset in AME. But in its default settings, I'm left with 2 horizontal black bars on the side, to remedy this, > I have to select "Scale to Fill". If you're making a DVD, then your frame size shouldn't be wide in the first place -- even widescreen DVDs have to use an anamorphic file at 720x480. So my first guess is that you're noby derekmok - Café LA
