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Re: Jump To Uncompressed... - 19 years ago
>>Also, what is the rationale for adding on an additional pci firewire card to run the DSR 11 deck?<< It's thought to be better to give each firewire device it's own bus to reduce the incidence of frame skipping. This is a hot issue, with many people claiming it is imperative, and many claiming it's a waste of time and money. Personally I reckon stay away from Firewire devices if yoby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Rendered PSD Images Look Awful - Please Help - 19 years ago
It would have been helpful to know that stuff in your original post, since the question is asked at least three times a week by people who don't have an external monitor. Which Mac are you on? Which graphics card do you have? >>the image is reduced<< What does this mean - was it made smaller in Photoshop and imported at 100% or are you reducing it inside of FCP?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Repost: Unable to connect to background process - 19 years ago
Uh, this is just a vague memory and it might not be the same problem, but have you tried disconnecting your ethernet/internet when using Compressor? There was some compat issue with the two at one stage. Only throwing this in because of the lack of replies here..by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Chapter markers from a nested sequence? - 19 years ago
The red markers are in the clip, not the sequence, so they don't translate when you export them. Probably the easiest thing to do is just use the red ones as a reference and make new markers at each red marker the same way you normally do. Go to the red marker, press m twice and define it as a new chapter to get the green timeline marker. I did have a thought that moving the sequence while holdiby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Rendered PSD Images Look Awful - Please Help - 19 years ago
Maybe there needs to be a hot topic in red at the top of the forum or something about this one.. When you render graphics, essentially what you are doing is preparing the image to be displayed on a tv. Tv screens and computer screens are different. They have different pixel shapes. So an image meant for TV seen on a computer screen will look terrible because it is all crunched out of shape. It'by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: "Constant Frames" - 19 years ago
Yeah - I'm betting it's speed thing - instead of trying to figure out each frame and display it, sounds like it's going .. no change.. I'll just show this frame I prepared earlier. Clever. Thanks for the dynamic RT destruction test earlier too Nick.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Audio dropout during capture - 19 years ago
This is probably not your problem, but I just thought I'd throw it in on the off chance it helps spark some other line of enquiry. Is the audio very loud in the drop-out areas? Some digital cameras can't handle loud noise and just pretend it never happened, which means blank spaces in the audio track. We recently got a small throw-away mini-dv camera which we install in places where a possible tby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Quicktime Update - 19 years ago
>>Re-install QT 7 or 6.5 (doesn't matter.) THEN reinstall Final Cut. Forget the pro key until you get FCP << What he said. Quicktime is like central architecture for FCP, but Quicktime Pro is not essential. You probably won't even notice what's missing unless you do a lot of work with the QT Pro app itself. A few web things, like saving some movies to disk might be missing too. I tby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Black bars... - 19 years ago
Are the bars the 'top' filter? If you are applying a filter after setting down the widescreen bars, you are applying the filter to the bars as well. Try rearranging the order of application of the filters.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Motion Screen Captures from Internet - 19 years ago
Or you can go out of a laptop as if to a projector into your deck, and then do a live capture into FCP. The quality of the image seems to vary depending on the laptop, and it can sometimes be a bit 'mushy', but it's a nice quick way to get live screen action into FCP.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Quicktime Update - 19 years ago
Removes Quicktime 7 and re-installs Quicktime 6.whatever- it-was. It's supposed to only work in 10.3.9, but some people have reported it works fine in Tiger, too. I haven't personally seen any proof of this.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: CAPTURING PROBLEMS - 19 years ago
And do you have any virus checking software installed? Nortons, virex, anything that wants to check files as they come into the computer - need to be disabled or deleted. The fact that it worked for half the session is odd though. Have you tried trashing your preferences? It sounds like something went wonky there.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Soundtrack to Final Cut Express Probs - 19 years ago
You need to make the song into an aiff. You can do this from within Soundtrack by using .. from memory I think it's 'export mix'by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: avid vs FCP..pc vs apple - 19 years ago
>>FCP is about as stable as a steroid abusing crack junkie looking for methodone.<< Not my system - or any of the systems I maintain. Not sure what you're doing to yours if you feel that way about it.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Timeline Work Lagging - 19 years ago
Is the rest of the system operating OK at the time the timeline gets sticky? Or is it just FCP that runs slow?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Video Noise Plug-In? - 19 years ago
You could probably buy some good ones from a stock footage website.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Need to Capture FCP Still Image - 19 years ago
Make a freeze frame and export it as a still image. The method will be slightly different depending on your version of FCP but it goes something like this. Set up the frame you want to export. Modify > make Freeze Frame. If you have an external monitor attached, you will be able to see if the image is 'jittering'. If it is, apply a deinterlace filter. Effects > Video Filters > Videoby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Cheap prices on Cinelook? - 19 years ago
Graeme's plug-in is definitely the quickest and tidiest option at a great price. I did some work degrading a lovely pristine digibeta sequence into 1960's film a few years ago and it took me hours to get it feeling just right using the standard tools in FCP. Graemes plug does it in seconds, with much tweaking still allowed.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Stutter Stepping Video - 19 years ago
Actually, I misread that about the looping. I thought you were getting stuttering. Repeating portions of the same clip is just odd.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: CG Monsters/Vampires ect. - 19 years ago
Do you have vision of the actor and vision of the actor as a vampire? If so, you could just do a simple transition from one to the other, depending on the style of your project. If you wanted to, you could get a nice morphing plug-in from someone like CHV and do a lot more work but get a much more impressive result. If you don't have vision of the actor as a vampire, but want to create one, yby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: OT: Does Safari suck for anybody else? - 19 years ago
Capture now does work. If it doesn't work it's likely that your tape has timecode problems, or your deck or camera needs attention, or there are conflicting applications or extensions installed, or you have a corruption somewhere. Safari also works. It sounds like there is a problem with your machine. Do some maintenance like repairing permissions, running diskwarrior and running the disk utiby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: DVCPRO50 Capture / TC Crash - 19 years ago
Set your capture settings to 'Non Controllable device" instead of Firewire NTSC. You won't get accurate timecode, but you will at least get the footage in to the computer. If this doesn't work, then it's not really timecode breaks that are causing the problem.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Timeline Work Lagging - 19 years ago
Do you have dupe detection on? This in known to cause slow downs - especially in the trim window.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Stutter Stepping Video - 19 years ago
It could be that the clips had been slightly moved off centre or rotated in the canvas, or the opacity was slightly lowered. This could make them behave oddly in RT, and would be repaired by removing attributes.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Final Cut Express Question - 19 years ago
No - project capture is for rebuilding a completed (archived) project. I don't think there is a batch capture option at all in FCE.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: audio issues after export - 19 years ago
Make sure you mixdown your audio on the timeline before export. In FCP4 this is under render > only > mixdown. It prepares the audio as a single preview file. Which rainforest?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Live switching with FCP5? - 19 years ago
If you plug, say, four cameras, into a vision switcher, and then send the output of the mixer into your deck, then out of the deck via firewire to FCP, with the capture settings on 'Non-controllable device" .. I can't really see why this wouldn't work to record a live switch situation. We record a live camera out of a studio into FCP2(!) for one program - the vision switcher would just beby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: connecting powerbook to tv - 19 years ago
Or go firewire > deck or camera > rca cables > tv.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: QT7 Pro Key Install?? - 19 years ago
Yeah it's hard to tell when the pro key (in any version of Quicktime) is actually installed. Just entering the correct info and checking that you have the functionality is the best answer.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
