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Re: FCP 7.0 - Nevermind... 
- 13 years ago
Scott Erickson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > NM- Didn't read about the updates online and IT > disabled our Software Update so it never showed > up. Also, couldn't find anything about it online, > my bad... A lot of people have been tripped up by the fact that Apple doesn't release individual Final Cut Pro updates anymore but instead bundlesby Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Install 2X FCP on a single machine? - 13 years ago
Final Cut Pro doesn't use CFPreferences much. If you look in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist, you'll see it doesn't save much data there. The bulk of the preference data is stored in an .fcset file which uses a proprietary binary format. There is absolutely no documentation whatsoever on this file format so we have no idea how it will behave in such a situation. It's very easby Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Still having Compressor workflow issues - efficiency - 13 years ago
See here:by Jon Chappell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Install 2X FCP on a single machine? - 13 years ago
I'd be worried about project / preference corruption from doing this. I think it's a lot safer to just wait, or render it out on another computer. Or change your workflow so you don't have to render so often.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Removing Letterbox for SD output for web - 13 years ago
You don't actually need to convert them to Flash. Just export them as H.264s from Compressor, change the file extension to .flv and Flash Player 9 and above will recognize them.by Jon Chappell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Bug with colour generator FCP 6.02 - 13 years ago
If you guys are definitely sure this is a bug, the best place to submit it is (requires a free developer account). They read every single report and will ask you for extra information if required. And the more people reporting a bug, the higher up the priority list it goes.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Dual G5 2.3 vs MBP 2.53 (Late 2008) - 13 years ago
The MacBook Pro would definitely be faster. The only reasons to consider the G5 are practical ones - it has more ports and more options for expansion and in my opinion it's more comfortable editing on a desktop machine than hunching over a laptop. But if none of these are issues for you, the MacBook Pro is a good bet.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Crashing.... ALOT - 13 years ago
10.6.3 hasn't been out for very long. You should get in contact with Blackmagic and verify that the latest drivers are compatible.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: OT: New blackmagic product - 13 years ago
Well, the nice thing about the Mac Pro is that you don't have to wait for Apple or Intel and you can just pop in a USB 3 PCI-E card when Mac-compatible ones become available.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: New Final Cut Pro user Q's - 13 years ago
It looks like an obscure proprietary format that FCP doesn't like. To prevent this happening in future, you're best off converting to a flavor of ProRes before you start editing.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: New Final Cut Pro user Q's - 13 years ago
There's definitely something strange about the format you originally shot in. When you did QuickTime Conversion, it recompressed the footage so whatever the problem was went away. But you still haven't told us the codec you were using. It's a .mov file but that's just the container - it can contain many different types of codecs. If you open one of the files in QuickTime Player and go to Windby Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Have you seen this? Apple Event at NAB on Wednesday - 13 years ago
There's just one thing I don't understand. Final Cut Pro uses ancient technology and a 64-bit port will require re-doing the entire GUI in Cocoa, as well as replacing non-64-bit APIs such as QuickDraw (which was deprecated 5 years ago). It would be a massive undertaking. But the other applications in the suite (Color excepted) are far more modern and use Cocoa for the GUI already. So why havenby Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Magic Bullet Looks Dual Mon + HDMI config - 13 years ago
Do you have the monitors hooked up to separate graphics cards? This is a big no-no for Final Cut Pro.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Re-Install of Final Cut Studio 2 aborts - 13 years ago
Looks like you have a damaged disc. You should get in contact with Apple (1-800-MY-APPLE) and see if they'll replace it for you. As for the second error, that's nothing to worry about. It just means, as you correctly reasoned, that you have newer versions of the apps on your system.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: help finding an old file - 13 years ago
derekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Of course, the project file may not have an FCP > file extension. It doesn't necessarily need it. > > I don't think that's true. The .fcp extension may > not be visible (or searchable), but it's there. > If you didn't put it there, the software would > have. FCP 7 does this but olderby Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: help finding an old file - 13 years ago
Jude Cotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do you remember when you created that file, or its > name? You can use the finder search for those > parameters. You can also stack them, by hitting > the small plus icon to the right of the search > criteria, so you could search for 'created date' > is 'before august 31, 2008' and 'name' 'contaiby Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Re-Install of Final Cut Studio 2 aborts - 13 years ago
If you go to the installer log (I think it's in the Help menu) it will tell you what the error was.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: OT-creating thumbnails for Finder for QT movies? - 13 years ago
And when you do upgrade to 10.5 / 10.6, you can use the Set Poster Frame function in QuickTime Player to set a specific frame as the thumbnail.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: opening final cut - 13 years ago
Did you install the 7.0.2 update? I've heard of this message appearing erroneously after installing the latest update.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Prores test, what a suprise! - 13 years ago
AClaude Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "You do *NOT* need a raid to capture Pro-Res HQ to > a 7200 3gbs internal SATA drive. I do this all the > time and a user here, shot an entire feature film, > capturing Pro-Res HQ without a RAID - all to an > internal drive in his Mac Pro. > > The only requisite is a capture card that suppoby Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Installing FCP from Disc Images - 13 years ago
The reason for making DMGs in this scenario is to speed things up so you definitely don't want to compress them. Just choose Read-Only.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Am I better off with DPX? - 13 years ago
I understand you don't want to compromise quality in any way but you have to think realistically about this. ProRes HQ is a virtually lossless codec, meaning that it does lose information but anything it loses is imperceptible, nor will it affect any keying you plan to do. If you want to preserve every last bit of information, go with Uncompressed 422. However, the bandwidth requirements are sby Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: No Chong! - 13 years ago
Kozikowski Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wouldn't I want the un-mute buttons F11 or F12? You'd only have to do it once. Kozikowski Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If the settings are burned into OS-X, then if I > boot from an external drive (I run a development > system), then the chong should come back?by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: No Chong! - 13 years ago
OS X stores different volume levels for the internal and external speakers. If you have the internal speaker muted then you won't hear the chime. To unmute it, unplug your speakers, press the mute button and plug them back in again.by Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Clean reinstall methodology for a laptop - 13 years ago
ReidCAULFIELD Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do all OS & application installs to an external > Firewire drive, then use Carbon Copy Cloner to > clone that external drive to the internal drive of > the laptop. Won't doing this take pretty much the same amount of time as installing normally? Of course, you would have the DVD drive slowing thby Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: FCP Crashing on L&T - Best MTS Converter - 13 years ago
J.Corbett Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > FCP6.0.5 Is crashing a lot on log and transfer > with .mts files. So i downloaded iskysoft > converter but i don't believe it does the best > Job. > > For getting file from the HMC150 what would > recommend as the highest quality way to convert to > mts to .mov? What does the crash logby Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Unable to Open Project File - 13 years ago
Ben King Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > David > > Jon's FCS Maintenance pack be able to repair it. > > Please chime in Jon if you think it might help - > not sure if you pointed it out already > > > m > > There is a free-trial version available. He tried it already. It fixes metadata; it can't fix corrupt databy Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Unable to Open Project File - 13 years ago
davidblumenfeld Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Question is: If the file is corrupted, is there > any fix for that? If you can find a data recovery expert who specializes in salvaging Final Cut Pro projects, you may be in luck. However, Apple makes this very difficult by not publishing the FCP project file format publicly, so such experts will be few aby Jon Chappell - Café LA
Re: Need help preparing "uncompressed" standard definition DV files for VFX artist - 13 years ago
DV is 8-bit so there is no benefit to exporting it at 10-bit. DV is compressed so there's no benefit to exporting it uncompressed. Just export it as a DV file; it will look the same.by Jon Chappell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: THANKS NICK!!! (export settings) - 13 years ago
Non-FCP users used to need a separate decoder to read ProRes files until Apple added decoding support to QuickTime. Did they add encoding support too? Nick Meyers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > that's weird. > i didn't think ProRes came out till FCP6. > > i have used ProRes in FCP5, > as i had both versions (5+6) running on my > systeby Jon Chappell - Café LA
