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Scratch Disk allocation should follow Project Files - 17 years agoLet the scratch disk follow the project files so we don't have to keep remembering to change settings every time we work on different projects.by Jamie Kelley - FCP Feature Requests underwater color filters - 16 years agoTook a first crack at using an HDV Sony CMOS camcorder underwater in the Sea of Cortez today. Had no filter attached. Any suggestions on color correcting to compensate for the green overexposure? The visibility was about 40-50 feet. I've tried various FCP color correction filters but I'm just winging it and haven't stumbled on an optimal choice. Came within 20 feet of a blue whale while inby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: Apple Cinema Display - coincidence? - 16 years agoThanks Mike...I'll give the permissions a try. When the 23" display is unplugged, the line does NOT show up on the MacBook Pro. I'll try futzing with the display prefs.by Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: Apple Cinema Display - coincidence? - 16 years agoI installed Leopard two days ago - no problemo. Today, a red pixellated vertical red line runs the length to the left of centre on my Apple 23" Cinema display. I've plugged, unplugged, withdrawn it from the Matrox box, then safe booted, install booted, shut down, restarted - nothing gets rid of the vertical pixellated red line. Is this how a display starts its death throes? Hardwareby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: HDV sequence "export using QT conversion" sync problems - 16 years agoYup, I had the HDV codec selected. Obviously changing the size (should be 640 x 360) had no effect on it. My work around was to take the result and re-compress it with QuickTime player. That worked. Next time, I'll try what you suggested. I appreciate the post, thank you.by Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: HDV sequence "export using QT conversion" sync problems - 16 years agoAny resolution to this? I'm not having sync difficulties but size issues. First, I exported using Compressor H264 and got a huge file. Couldn't find in the presets an opportunity to resize. Then I read this string of posts and gave up on Compressor. I then exported "using QT conversion", specified a custom size of 640 x 480, and it resulted in another enormous file ignoringby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: FCP 6 install - 16 years agoFWIW, I've heard that the biggest delays are with the Soundtrack file upgrades.... Jamieby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: Will Color Install on a Laptop w a Large Ext. Monitor - 16 years agoAll right, I now see what you're all getting here. Apologies, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Yes, I was in Presentation mode. I swapped out with Apple F12 and switched to Mastering mode. And no, I can't get Color to color correct on the MXO in mastering mode. The ACD is blank. I phoned Matrox in Montreal. They are newly aware of this deficiency. Jamieby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: Will Color Install on a Laptop w a Large Ext. Monitor - 16 years agoOK Shane. Yes, I can monitor my footage, view my footage on the Apple Cinema Display via the MXO. I can view what I'm are doing in Color via the MXO on the ACD. I can make color changes to my footage in Color that simultaneously change on the 23" display. I don't know why that would be a surprise. I was told by Matrox that I had the optimum setup. I make films for the web. I do not havby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: Will Color Install on a Laptop w a Large Ext. Monitor - 16 years agoShane, I'm not clear what you mean by "monitor". I believe the original question was about installing. I installed FCP 6 today and fired up Color. I viewed an HDV project on my 23" Apple display via the MXO box. Looked great. As for color correcting, I just toyed with it enough to realize I need a good tutorial to kickstart me. I calibrated the monitor to MXO settings howeveby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: Will Color Install on a Laptop w a Large Ext. Monitor - 16 years agoBoth. I have two cooling fans underneath my MacBook Pro. The MXO runs a little warm - just ensure that it's not confined.by Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: FCP 6 install - 16 years agoYeah, but when it's finally installed, the pain goes away fast. It took me 6 hours to install, but I'm home free. Opened up Color through the Matrox MXO to my 23" display. Yowsa, Steve Martin, let's get that Color tutorial online! BTW, Apple spared no expense on the application box. Thing of beauty. And I'll use the black foam packing rectangles as yoga supports too. Jamieby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: Will Color Install on a Laptop w a Large Ext. Monitor - 16 years agoTom: I'm up and running with FCP 6 and the Matrox MXO. Everything seems to be working fine. My MacBook Pro has got the MXO dvi plug running to the dvi in on the MXO and the dvi out on the MXO runs to my 23" in Apple display. I plugged my speakers into the box as well. Ensure that you have the 2.0 software uploaded. The Color GUI is not even remotely familiar to me. Very differentby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: FCP 6 install - 16 years agoDave: It has actually started to install. Waited an hour and a half after the install for the first disc to finally spit out. After the audio content 1, waited another hour for it to spit out and accept audio 2. Since the audio files, it'd been rather smooth. I have another two hours to go before it's finished. Jamieby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: FCP 6 install - 16 years agoThanks guys. I've been waiting over an hour and bupkis. I suspect a faulty install file. Apple is closed today but I'll call them tomorrow. It's like coitis interruptus.by Jamie Kelley - Café LA FCP 6 install - 16 years agoI'm installing FCP 6 to my MacBook Pro 2 Core Duo - lots of room and I'm putting all the template and sound files to an external hard drive. I'm 10% into the install when the installer dialogue box pops up and tells me to "insert audio content 1 to continue installation". Problem is that the installer doesn't eject the installer disc. I've tried installing twice with the same probby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: Will Color Install on a Laptop w a Large Ext. Monitor - 16 years agoJohn: I just installed my MXO yesterday. FCP 6 arrives on the 29th and I'll report back on how Color looks on the 23" display. Jamieby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: Upgrade Issue. Very boring. Do not read. - 16 years agoI'm in Canada. After 5 phone bounces, I got to an FCP technician named Elijah in the US. I gave him all my particulars and his reponse, after putting me on hold for 5-minutes, was that since I upgraded from a retail version of 4.5, through the crossgrade 5.1, then indeed I'm eligible for the $499 upgrade that should arrive on the 29th. He took the last three digits of my 5.1 crossgrade and coby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: FCP 6 and disc space - 16 years agoNicely put, Dave, however I have not yet received the upgrade and the docs. Notwithstanding, I was anticipating some storage issues but it's good to learn that Apple has addressed this. I will dump all the templates and Soundtrack files to an external drive. I also offloaded 33G of iTunes to an external drive. I could hear my MacBook Pro breathe a sigh of relief. The software arives today.by Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: FCP 6 and disc space - 16 years agoNick: I noticed that my iTunes is 39G. Found this on the Apple support: and will try to move it all onto my external drive. John tweaked me about LiveType and sure enough, there's another 11G there to move. Relocating the iTunes should make the FCP 6 install good to go. Thanks for all the good responses, guys. Jamieby Jamie Kelley - Café LA FCP 6 and disc space - 16 years agoI'm on a 2 core Duo MacBook Pro with 23G available space. FCP 6 arrives today and I believe it's 62G. Granted, most of that is Soundtrack files, however, I trust that I'm still going to have space problems. Can I load the entire application on an external drive? And does the upgrade overwrite current files or should I blow out the old version before installing the new? Thanks, Jamieby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: Quicktime 7.1.6 is out! - 16 years agoDid you read the fine print? The 7.1.6 disables QuickTime Pro functionality and keeps it disabled until another key is purchased. Very considerate. I guess like everything else Apple, we can look forward to paying licence fees for software use every couple of years.by Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: If Anyone Cares! 2 - 17 years agoI still love Live Type. It's great for making textured backgrounds to bring into Motion. 3D will be cool though I doubt my clients will notice. I'm still reeling from the depth of this upgrade. The connectivity between programs looks intense. A little daunted by the Color program. Just recently got my head wrapped around Color Correction thanks to Ripple Training. Now those guys are going to bby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: NAB request from Down Under - 17 years agoJudester: I'm on the MacBook Pro and always find that loading the CS suite stuff - usually InDesign, PS and Illustrator - the CPU clogs up and feeds me back the occasional crash. Navigating through the various functions is also a little cumbersome. I can hardly wait for CS3 to arrive and scream through my machine. And exporting InDesign files into Dreamweaver code will be very cool. Jamiby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: linking issues - 17 years agoWacky is correct. I did all the functions you mentioned and it stil funked out. Got it resolved when I thew out the clips in the timeline, saved the project, trashed prefs, restarted FCP and redid the procedure and it worked fine. Made no sense to me. Thanks for the response.by Jamie Kelley - Café LA linking issues - 17 years agoI've ripped a DVD into a video (.m2v ) track and audio (aiff) tracks. I adjusted by 3 seconds or so the audio/video syncing in the timeline. Plays perfectly now in the timeline so I highlight the tracks and "mark in sync". However, when I now attempt to link the video and audio tracks, the link command throws both out of sync. Any ideas how to resolve this? I need the tracks nesteby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: ghosts - 17 years agoHi John: I should have posted a retraction, sorry. Feel like a bonehead. On reviewing my edits on the different layers, I noticed that the "fade out" behaviours were being clipped by adjacent layers. Tweaking the timeline position got rid of the "ghosts". Jamieby Jamie Kelley - Motion Re: export HDV to tape - 17 years agoMike: There is no doubt that you indeed are the Head Cutter. Trashing preferences solved the problem. I used FCP rescue. Sweet little program. To filmman, derek and shane, thanks for your input. Shane is correct. Printing to tape from an HDV timeline definitely worked. I also discovered that for some glitchy reason, I had to tick "on" the "automatic start recording" boxby Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: export HDV to tape - 17 years agoSorry Tim, I meant STRETCHED anamorphic ...more than 16:9. The bin does not tag the 1440 x 1080 as anamorphic. And Derek, I'm not exporting but printing to tape. Earlier Shane suggested print to tape as the only way to transfer back from the timeline to the camera.by Jamie Kelley - Café LA Re: export HDV to tape - 17 years agoHi Shane: It nearly worked. I did the print to video, waited for conform, played back. Went perfectly except for a timecode break after 30-seconds. OK, I try this same thing again. Then, everything starts to just completely f**k up. It's now exporting the sequence as anamorphic, that is when I can ever get the camera to record. I see if I can log and capture...no communication. Soby Jamie Kelley - Café LA |
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