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Re: Roger Rabbit/Space Jam effect on FCP? - 19 years ago
Just export your animations with alpha channels so that they are running around on a transparent background, then import into FCP, and lay them on V2 above your real backgrounds on V1by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Speed Change Help - 19 years ago
It's a bug in FCP 4. It was repaired in FCP 4.5, which is a free online upgrade for FCP 4 users. The workaround is to reimport the part of the video you want to change the speed of. It seems to be about one in five clips that is randomly affected.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: tough Question, be challenged - 19 years ago
Mitch - this might be the worlds dumbest question, but you're not trying to run the disc on a pc are you? That sounds like a pc alert.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Shiny Boxes, lines, rames - 19 years ago
OK. Try this one instead. Very quick, but needs a bit of patience to get looking just right. Import your box into FCP. Put it on V1. Generate a circle from the 'Shape' menu under the drop down menu at the bottom right of the viewer window. Make the circle the size and softness you want your spotlight to be. Put the cirlce on V2 above your box clip. Go to the start of the clip and drag yourby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Hot audion on hand cuff clicks, door shuts, quick pops - 19 years ago
>> If I am to correct it I'll have to do a lot of razor cuts all the way down the time line<< Why not just use the pen tool to lower the audio during the nasty moments?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Anamorphic back to normal??? - 19 years ago
If you have a deck, connect your dvd player to the deck and capture the video back into FCP using non-controllable device setting in the capture settings window. If you don't have a deck that allows e to e, you will need to convert the DVD Mpeg into something that fcp can work with. If you have Toast titanium, this will make a nice .dv file out of the dvd files. If not, get Mpegstreamclip, or DVby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: LaCie Big Disc Unmounting Problem - 19 years ago
Apparently there is a firmware upgrade for the lacies that you need to install on the machines that will be using it that will help with the unmounting problem. Check the website. I don't really like the lacies either.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Shiny Boxes, lines, rames - 19 years ago
You can do this in FCP, but it's really not designed for this kind of work. A faster, better idea is to take your boxes into Livetype and just add one of the standard glows. There's plenty of adjustment available, but probably you'll find a setup that will work well right away.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Anamorphic back to normal??? - 19 years ago
Yes, but you will probably lose some resolution. Do you have black bars at the top and bottom of the screen? Do you have any black bars on the side of the screen? Are you viewing the DVD on a widescreen tv or a 4:3 one?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: filmstrip look - 19 years ago
Kind of hard to explain in a message - this would probably be a good tutorial. But here's a starter.. Make sure all your pictures are the same size and length. Put each picture on a separate layer, so clip one one V1, clip two on V2, and clip three on V3. Now offset the clips so that they are staggered in time. So, say, clip one starts at 1 second, clip two starts at 2 seconds, clip three startby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Viewer Problems - 19 years ago
>> I suppose if there had been a tool to convert .dv to .mov, this would have been easier, but after much searching I could not find any.<< Quicktime pro will convert .dv files to .mov files. But I'm not sure why you are having the problem in the first place. Like I said I can run a .dv file here without that problem. What are your machine specs? Maybe not fast enough to keep upby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: 16:9 sequence question - 19 years ago
If you are going to play it on a 16:9 tv then this isn't a problem. (Probably) what you are seeing is what 16:9 looks like when it is seen on a 4:3 tv. If you need it to play on a 4:3 tv, make a new sequence, making sure it is not an anamorphic sequence, and drag your completed sequence from the browser into the new 4:3 sequence. This will do the letterboxing for you so that it can be watched iby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Two screens on an imac, emac, laptop - 19 years ago
Interesting hack download for those people using various emacs, imacs and ibooks who want to attach a second screen to get more real estate to work in.. Screen Spanning Doctor Donationware There's a link to a list of supported macs at the top of the screen.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Wierd lines in fcp - 19 years ago
Is it only the scenes with the excessive white that are doing this? Have a look on your scopes and see how you are doing on the whites. Maybe a broadcast safe filter would help? Try Effects > Video Filters > Colour Correction > Broadcast Safe. Not sure if this is the problem - it almost looks like what you get when the audio is so loud that it interferes with the picture, like top fueby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Viewer Problems - 19 years ago
I happen to have a .dv file in a project I'm on at the moment, and it's playing fine in the viewer. Possibly your viewer is not set to 'Fit to window"? Click on your viewer window, then press and hold the H key for a few seconds. This should make the video fit to window.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: FCP to LT not working - 19 years ago
Is it a rendered livetype movie or a livetype project file? This from Larry Jordan's.. "If you add a LiveType project file (for example, MyProject.ipr) to the Timeline and then choose to open it in an External Editor, the file will open automatically in LiveType as a LiveType project. If you add a rendered LiveType movie file to the Timeline and then choose to open it in an External Editorby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Dealing with badly lit scenes... - 19 years ago
Also, you could use this trick. On the timeline, click the clip you want to adjust. Press Apple - L to unlink it from the audio. Then select just the video portion and, holding the option and shift keys, drag the clip up to V2. This should give you an exact copy of the clip above the original. Now control-click (or right mouse click) on the top clip. This will bring up a contextual menu. Selecby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: television effects - 19 years ago
What about a push slide between two copies of the clip. Adjust the length of the push to simulate a roll up. The angle might be good at something like 3 degrees, since the roll never seems quite straight. Repeat as much as you need.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Multi-cam or sex: a poll - 19 years ago
>it's WHAT we do WHEN we are rendering< Ohhhhh! That would be cool.. Where do I find that - is it on the install disk? Does Jessica Simpson sing? lolby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Multi-cam or sex: a poll - 19 years ago
Can you choose sex with your favourite music band/artist ever? I choose that.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: cliche "flash" transition - 19 years ago
Or (sorry Graeme just insert a Dip To Colour transition, make the colour white and reduce the duration of the transition to a few frames.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: final cut hd copy/paste problems - 19 years ago
>>I could be wrong, Jude, but it sounds like Loren is not trying to assemble the sequences back to back as nested clips, but rather trying to make one master sequence with all the individual clips, bypassing the original separate sequences altogether.<< Yeah, but if he holds the apple key as he drags each nest, this is what he will get. It's just a lot quicker and simpler.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: final cut hd copy/paste problems - 19 years ago
Every sequece that you have made is effectively a nest. To transfer your nests to a new sequence you can do this Make a new sequence for the final compile. Grab each nest (the sequences) from the browser and drop them in order on the compile sequence timeline. This will copy the whole sequences (no cuts visible) over to the new timeline. If you need the cuts visible in the new timeline, holdby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Outputting to tape - 19 years ago
A mini-dv tape recording DVCAM quality will only fit about 45(ish) minutes of footage, not 60 minutes. Which deck are you using? Check the settings on the deck and change them to be dv sp or mini-dv. This will give you 60 minutes on those tapes.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Viewing HD on an SD monitor possible? - 19 years ago
lol. I know how you feel though, Marco. I had a producer whose client tried to reneg on paying because the production didn't look good on his (chroma set to warp speed 5) plasma screen. His argument was that it was brand new and a PLASMA, and he spent a lot on it, so it must be the producers fault. Um. No.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Viewing HD on an SD monitor possible? - 19 years ago
>>With whom are you agreeing with that CRT isn't good stuff?<< I'm not. I'm saying that I haven't found the competing *formats* like plasma and LCD impressive. I still prefer CRT. But I was impressed with one very large, thin standalone DLP unit. Still not as good as good CRT, but quite nice.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: FCS Documentation and manuals up on apple site! - 19 years ago
Thanks for that Dave. Great to have the opportunity to be one step ahead of the people calling with problems the day of release!by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: titles - 19 years ago
Adam - check out this tutorial. There is section on making simple lower third bars about halfway down the page.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
