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Re: What are the softwares used in hollywood movies today. - 13 years agoThe Social Network had me glued left right and center for the entire duration apart from the (often mentioned) cgi breath . all in all i thought it looked + sounded great, had me captivated to the highest degree at length since Inglourious Basterds. As for the accessibility of utilities to convey ideas in the motion-picture medium i think it all comes down to two or three things: 1- exactlby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: FCP editing on the go . . . - 13 years agoCheers Walter i'll look into that . . Many thanks, OCby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: FCP editing on the go . . . - 13 years agoHi Walter, It will only be for initial cutting and very approximate grading - the finished sequences will be fully graded and tweaked on my studio-based tower back home. I'm planning on using an additional drive alongside storing media on the Macbooks internal, for backup - making two copies of all source footage on location. Any suggestions for a robust relatively lightweight 500g-1tb dby osbourne cox - Café LA FCP editing on the go . . . - 13 years ago. . . i'm acquiring a new laptop for editing and graphic design on the go and wondered what you guys think of these perspective stats: Apple MacBook Pro Hi-Res Antiglare 15.4" Core i7 2.66GHz 4GB 500GB, Display: 15.4" Widescreen Hi-Res Anti-GlareMemory (RAM): 4GB 2 x 2GBMaximum Memory: 8GBHard Drive: 500GB HDD 5400rpmIntegrated Graphics: Intel HD Graphics DDR3 SDRAM shared with mainby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: long project file opening times - 13 years agoHi Ben - but then also, when opening it up on it's own with no other project files open - it opens up just fine, and there is a whole 1tb left on the 2tb drive too . . . OCby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: long project file opening times - 13 years agocheers - will back up immediately OCby osbourne cox - Café LA long project file opening times - 13 years ago. . . usually gets to around 49% pretty quickly then hangs for a while, up to 5-6 minutes on occasion. cutting in prores422, sequence is only 17-18minutes long, 20 layers of audio, peaking 4 or 5 of lines of video in places . . . . any thoughts? the project file size is relatively small, working off a 1tb graid external . . . OCby osbourne cox - Café LA Graphic Buttons Over Motion Menu? - 13 years agoHi guys, although it's the weekend i'm hoping there's some workaholic moderators who are also online I've been using photoshop and FCP for over ten years but this is my first dance with DVDSP. 1- So when the video file in dvdsp is in the viewer, i import the psd but those layers only appear on the menu tab, i can't seem to get the psd layers over-layed onto the video to then link up as butby osbourne cox - DVD Studio Pro Canon5D whites blow-out - 13 years agoHi - working with 5d footage, occasionally the whites blow-out and just turn black, in the hottest areas/highlights, has anyone else had this happen while editing in FCP or while grading the footage?by osbourne cox - Café LA Re: Getting Rid of Jaggy Edges. . . - 13 years agoyou could try adding a 1-3 feather in the motion-crop tab, if i understand your problem correctly this has worked for me in similar situations previously. if that doesn't work on it's own try cropping the actual clip itself by 1 or 2 on the effected edge as well as the feathering.by osbourne cox - Café LA Re: Apple Mighty Mouse vs Magic Mouse - 13 years agografixjoe - which pen and tablet do you use?by osbourne cox - Café LA Re: Sally Menke, Tarantino's editor found dead on hiking trail - 13 years agoE.I.Pby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: Scan lines during pans - 13 years agoI've noticed this while working viewing the material on the computer monitor, try burning off a short sequence to dvd then viewing it on a tv, those lines did not appear on the dvd version in my case . . . perhaps it's just a monitor-viewing issue?by osbourne cox - Café LA Re: OT: Red Giant Software releases COLORISTA II for FCP / AE / Premiere Pro... - 13 years agoHi Andy, thank you very much for your straight-forward response! awesome many thanks Osbourne Cox EF Productionsby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: OT: Red Giant Software releases COLORISTA II for FCP / AE / Premiere Pro... - 13 years agoi understand what you didn't say, although i do feel as though your answer was rather ambiguous regards answering the question - 'i have not used it that way' - is a phrase i took as 'it could be used that way but i do it this way instead' not meaning to nit-pick but since you were involved with the testing of this product (as stated) one may presume you'd be able to give an out-right yes or nby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: OT: Red Giant Software releases COLORISTA II for FCP / AE / Premiere Pro... - 13 years agoQuoteI have not used it that way...I use it in AE on Adjustment Layers and keyframe my own hand made masks. . . . so are you saying that parameters in colourista can be keyframed across the clips duration, but you simply to prefer to keyframe your own adjustment layers in AE? many thanks, Osbourne Cox EF Productionsby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: OT: Red Giant Software releases COLORISTA II for FCP / AE / Premiere Pro... - 13 years agohi joe, . . . are you able to keyframe parameters and effects throughout the duration of a shot, like keyframing a spot exposure to follow a face for example? . . (currently using Looksbuilder) many thanks, Osbourne Cox EF Productionsby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: Key framing PhotoShop graphics interlacing. - 13 years agowhile 'expectable/convincing' results can be achieved key-framing your graphics in FCP you will see results by taking the extra time using motion for the same task, the movements are smoother, also there is a slight exceleration/deceleration to the begining and end of the move/s. you could also try using separate png files instead of the layered PSDocument . . .by osbourne cox - Café LA Project file won't open, force quits - 13 years agoRunning FCP 6.06, FCP just force-quit and now i can't seem to open the project file. When opening the progress bar gets to between 47-50% and another force quit occurs. Although the project file content would take less than an hour to re-build i would of course prefer to salvage this file, does anyone have any ideas or experience with issues, a suggested fix? Many thanks, Osbourne Coxby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: distorted topped-out audio crunches - 13 years agowho's NOT having fun?by osbourne cox - Café LA Re: distorted topped-out audio crunches - 13 years agoThank you Strypes and Harry323 for your professional and mature response. As it turns out i've been able to use the audio recorded off one of the 5ds as a replacement. Many thanks, Osbourne Coxby osbourne cox - Café LA distorted topped-out audio crunches - 13 years agoHi, i'm cutting an adult feature with very loud moans, screams, yells and shouts. for this one particular scene the audio recorder was unattended hence the topping-out/crunching of the vocal. Without sending the audio to another party, does anyone know of anything that can be done in FCP Studio 2 to help tame or hide this distortion? Many thanks, Osbourne Coxby osbourne cox - Café LA Filter to fix/improve bad skin - 14 years agoHi, i'll be cutting an interview for a behind the scenes sequence and one of the subjects has very bad skin, everything else about the interview is excellent, our director would just like the skin improved. a few months ago (possibly via a link found here) i remember coming across a simple plugin/filter for this exact purpose, to give a more flattering look the the more senior subject, to hideby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: rollerball mouse question - 14 years agothank you very much for your initial responses, following debate and banter - not sure that the word CLITORIS need be stared out though? small print aside the word h*nd, leg, neck or b*ck do not demand censorship so why should the clit? regardless i do apologise for drifting slightly OT and once again thank you for the time you took to reply my post, Sincerly, Osbourne Coxby osbourne cox - Café LA rollerball mouse question - 14 years ago9hrs a day 5 days a week plus work on the weekends is taking a toll on my wrist, so i'm considering switching to a rollerball type mouse and i've come across this product > > i wonder if any other editors here have had experience with it in FCP? for extended edit/mac time rollerball type mouses seem to be the way to go - any experience response or recommendation regards the above mouse orby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: Editor credits - 14 years agoThere would be two distinctly differently ways of approaching this - For instance on a big budget film the director sits in on many if not all edit sessions working closely with his or her editor, the film has already been tightly storyboarded and in some cases cuts or transitions written into the script/screenplay. Then again some editors are given the freedom to almost act as second directoby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: Devil's Advocate asks: Why bother with Color? - 14 years agohi strypes could you expand on exactly what you mean by the 3 way color corrector having a lot of 'cross talk'? cheers.by osbourne cox - Color Re: Recommended reading / cutting first feature trailer? - 14 years agotwo or three changes in pace can work well alsoby osbourne cox - Café LA Re: map with travel path - 14 years agoimovie has sure come a long way since 1999! a quick-fix but pretty cool . . .by osbourne cox - Café LA Re: map with travel path - 14 years agoi've just finished a job doing this travel-map effect . . 1- artwork the map/place names/red line in photoshop 2- export all the elements as separate png layers 3- bring all layers into FCP and using a 4 point matt keyframe a reveal on the red line layer once complete export as a quicktime, re-import then place over your travel shots, change composite mode to screen or overlay, thenby osbourne cox - Café LA |
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