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Re: FCP sequence presets for Sony HXR-NX5U NXCAM? - 9 years agoDefinitely set sequence to the ProRes transcode. Or, you can drag an ingested ProRes clip into your timeline and let it match settings automatically. It's a shortcut, albeit not infallible. XDCAM, although you can edit it in FCP7, just as you can HDV and H.264, is primarily a compressed camera codec. - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selecby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Keyboard and Mouse for better ergonomics and productivity - 9 years agoIf they want to invest in their futures, they better balance the load between mouse and keyboard. Myself, I run about 75% keyboard, 20% mouse and 5% rock the tower back and forth. - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™by Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Can't import wav file....File Error: Unknown File .wav - 9 years agoRelated-- suppose I DO want to monitor true 5.1 on the desktop-- has anyone recommendations for sound cards, speakers, etc? Will these work for FCP7 and Avid 7? - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™ Power Pack. Now avby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 9 years agoSo the question is, what if I need to store with the media a small text file, or a motion tracking data file, or a CC filter list file, say 64K? 128K? Will it disappear? - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™ Power Pack.by Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 9 years agoAny recommendations for HD, Ben? - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™ Power Pack. Now available at KeyGuide Central. www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 9 years agoI'm surprised nobody in this brilliant thread has wisdom about ideal formatting block size! Doesn't it matter? And a happy 4th to all, belatedly. - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™ Power Pack. Now available at Kby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Final Cut 7 on new Mac Pro -- can't read C300 files - 9 years agoAwesome, Andrew. Much thanks. - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™ Power Pack. Now available at KeyGuide Central. www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: 29.97 vs 59.94 - 9 years agoOk, if I see this noxious stutter, I'm running back here. Thanks, Shane. - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™ Power Pack. Now available at KeyGuide Central. www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: 29.97 vs 59.94 - 9 years agoNo, in this case, not kidding at all. In reality I don't encounter a lot of mixed I and P format footage in projects. I do get a mix of 23.98 and 29.97 footage but I've never seen a stutter. I must live a sheltered life. How would you solve that? Transcode the 24P to I? Do you need a Teranex for this? - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selecby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 9 years agoTasty thread...thanks to both. Ben's table includes So, when alerted by SMART status that one-half my internal Deskstar striped 2 TB RAID 0 was going south (after 2 years steady use), I went and bought a 4TB G-RAID box-- Firewire 800 - no SATA available- hoping I could do without such disturbing events. I tested it with Blackmagic's Drive Tester and got only 60 MB's!! It was no better tby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: 29.97 vs 59.94 - 9 years agoShane writes- Agh! I thought these two rates were totally compatible, mathwise. You're saying there's a stutter risk when you mix them? How do you solve that? - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™ Power Pack. Nby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Final Cut 7 on new Mac Pro -- can't read C300 files - 9 years agoOK, I like that concept; I'll bite, how do I turn my install DVD's into a .dmg files that link up the same way as the discs? Anybody point to a procedural and tool? Best, as always, Loren S. Miller www.neotrondesign.com Home of KeyGuide Centralby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Any way to anchor a shot’s motion to another shot? - 9 years agoAfter Affects-- even a 3-year-old version, an un-metered copy-- has the tools you need to track camera-body motion and then attach the prop using the same tracking data. More recent editions include MOCA for just this purpose, also awesome. - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Coby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: The cost of editing is becoming perpetual. - 9 years agoI see both sides too, and I abhor metering of my tools. Let me install what I like, not pay for tools I won't use much at all (Flash, Adobe Air, Water, Earth, Underworld, whatever) and upgrade when I need to-- usually client-driven. Bad idea going whole hog like that. Choice is good. Ticking clock bad. Very bad. It's interesting that Adobe is offering the occasional 3-fer or 2-fer bundle. Tby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: OT: R.I.P Bob Hoskins - 9 years agoIndeed! 71 is way too young to leave us. He was great in THE QUIET EARTH. - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™ Power Pack. Now available at KeyGuide Central. www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Final Cut 7 on new Mac Pro -- can't read C300 files - 9 years agoHey, that's news on TWO fronts! 1) FCP7 installs on the new Mac Pro!! 2) Works under Mavericks 9.2 !! And since older OSX doesn't function as an install base, everything that's needed may be included in the FCS 3 install. WHOA! That is AWESOME. Opens up a whole pro market for Apple! I think I will buy a few shares and plan for the 7:1 split coming June 6th... oh, wait, I need the 5K foby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: on-set audio recorded too low, raising volume = hiss - 9 years agoNoted! - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™ Power Pack. Now available at KeyGuide Central. www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Problem capturing footage recorded on Panasonic HVX 200 at 576i/50i in FCP 7 - 9 years agoNoted!! - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™ Power Pack. Now available at KeyGuide Central. www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: on-set audio recorded too low, raising volume = hiss - 9 years agoForgive me, Derek, I beg to differ- the Gain Adjust in FCP7 does not add anything outside the scale of the clip gain. Try it. Try it Relative, try it Absolute. You will not achieve what you describe. The Gain Adjust is useful for lifting overall gain set in the entire Timeline with respect to preserving previously set clip levels- the Relative setting. very valuable for that. Absolute will top itby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: eye dropper tool in 3-way color corrector not changing any values - 9 years agoExcellent. The only thing which comes to mind? You're applying changes to a clip that isn't actually loaded in the Viewer. Can't tell you how often my double-clicks in the timeline don't 'take" and I find myself sampling colors which change a clip I've already worked on. *DOH!* - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Opby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: eye dropper tool in 3-way color corrector not changing any values - 9 years agoHow fast, how much ram in your machine? PowerPC or Intel? A quick way to confirm changes is to lower, then raise, the opacity value of the clip you're treating. This works on less than current hardware. To quickly see if your machine can keep up with color changes, hold down Command and drag, say, the Midtones puck in the 3-way CC panel to make some quick color extremes. If your monitor updby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Problem capturing footage recorded on Panasonic HVX 200 at 576i/50i in FCP 7 - 9 years agoIt's a good question. Could be a bug. Part of the legendary culture of the FCP development was the occasional comment-- "Whoops! It works!" I would indeed. Another foolproof way to deal with correct format for shot material is to start a new sequence of any kind and drag a clip into the timeline-- it'll ask if you want to conform the sequence settings to the clip format. It'sby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Problem capturing footage recorded on Panasonic HVX 200 at 576i/50i in FCP 7 - 9 years agoPAL 50i actually IS 25 fps. But you might not want DV Pal, you want DVCPro PAL 50i. Audio sample rate is correct. You might also look at the FCP Canvas window controls-- three buttons under the title bar. Drop down the first for magnification sizes-- there is one command at the bottom: "Correct for Aspect Ratio." Maybe that'l help display image properly. HTH - Loren Todaby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Any way to set overwrite instead of insert on drag to timeline? - 9 years agoIn FCP 7, every track has a faint little spine running along its middle. This is the "magic line." Drag above-- you Insert. Drag below- you Overwrite. The changing cursor reinforces the concept. It's become so popular it's been carried over to Avid Media Composer! As I recall, just the opposite behavior- lol. But as mentioned by Derek, why drag? Park your playhead where you want iby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: Editors have you ever received this request? - 9 years agoBeyond the 2-pop plus 47 black frames before first frame of picture, another convention was to break the film down into ten minute "reels" which was very standard back in the day; mixing rooms prepared ten minute sections on split reels for easy "rock and roll" punch-ins. "Balancing" the film among reels no longer than ten minutes was also standard. Norman Holby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: on-set audio recorded too low, raising volume = hiss - 9 years agoAnother trick is to nest the low audio region, name the nest after the speaker and append "audio boost" so it appears that way in the Browser, then in the Timeline you have another 12DB you can raise on the nest clip! You can also apply an EQ filter to the nest to help reduce hiss. This has helped me time and again, and allows me to keep to my track scheme, such as voice, music, effectby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: HDV Import into FCP 7 - 9 years agoIf the decks are clean and the tape in good shape, that's all it could be, wrong capture location. It'll stutter on, for instance, slow disks or nearly full disks. - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™ Power Pack. Nowby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: HDV Import into FCP 7 - 9 years agoCLEAN THE DECK oR CAMERA HEADS-- that always helped me. - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V ! Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide™ Power Pack. Now available at KeyGuide Central. www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA Re: .wav audio files not audible when dragged to second layer - 9 years agoSound alike (ha, pun) it's something to do with how the tracks are combined for output. Check your System Settings. But first check to see that you haven't muted those tracks-- there's a Mute button for each track. - Loren Today's FCP 7 keytips: Copy clip Attributes with Command-C Paste selected Attributes with Option-V Remove selected Attributes with Command-Option-V !by Loren Miller - Café LA Re: How to rip a DVD and re-make it - 9 years ago[ The menus w/music, chapter markers, extras and so on, none of that needs to change.] And if you're working from a disk image (.img) file, they won't, and you'll save a little time, those elements should scoot right through-- as long as your newly cut program is reintroduced as an updated asset. But the addition makes for a timing change, so the entire program has to be converted to an ediby Loren Miller - Café LA |
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