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Set Audio Keyframes from the Audio Mixer - 16 years agoBeing able to set audio keyframes from the audio mixer (tool-bench)....by James T - FCP Feature Requests Media-Manage Effects - 16 years agoMedia-Manage Effects.... When you are forced to take your project or sequence to another system(and most of have to at least once)?bringing over your effects have been quite the pain the a**. Wouldn't it be nice if we could bring the fx and/or plugins that have been rendered into the timeline over, as well? Now, as far as some of the auxiliary files that go along with these fx/plugins,by James T - FCP Feature Requests Re: Tool to "Slip" clips over other clips - 16 years agofantastic* I knew there was a reason why i didn't make post to this thread. thanks derekby James T - FCP Feature Requests Tool to "Slip" clips over other clips - 16 years agoA NEW "TOOL" OR "FEATURE" This option would act somewhat like a slip or roll edit only it would slip through the clips in the timeline: Lets say I wanted to move the insert shot (highlighted clip 85-1) forward or backward within the time line but did not want to have to trim the master shot (85A-2). As I selected the "new tool" the master clip(85-2) would sby James T - FCP Feature Requests Linking multiple VIDEO and/or audio clips together in the timeline - 16 years agoSHIFT+APPLE+L Linking multiple video and/or audio clips together in the timeline.....by James T - FCP Feature Requests HPX-3000 - 16 years agoHey Guys, I have some footage shot on the pannasonic hpx-3000. The footage was shot on 24p, the p2 data brought in to FCP 6 is DVCPro 60. I was told the camera is strictly 24p but the footage is comming in interlaced. I think the tech on set imported the footage with an advanced pulldowon remocal,only speculation, if so is there any way to get those frames back without the original p2by James T - Café LA Re-link w/ 24bit audio - 16 years agohey guys, So we shot our feature and recorded 24-bit production audio. We mastered to DVcam that only holds 16-bit audio. We have reached picture lock and need to re-sync the 24-bit audio. I tried re-syncing by merging the clips, exporting out a multi track audio file and re-linking but doesn't seem to work because the new 24-bit audio doesn't drop in to the timeline. any help? J-by James T - Café LA compressor update - 16 years agoHey guys, I dont know about you, but EVERYDAY i get an update for compressor 3.0.2. I update, and still everyday I get the same update. Anyone ever see this as well? Running Leopard on dual G5. Thanks guys.by James T - Café LA Re: Best way get rid of flicker in scrolling text? - 16 years agocreate your text in Illustrator(w/ transparent BG).... bring your AI file into AE....place a black solid in the BG with a 1-2 percent of noise. keyframe your text with the position...add motion blur and reduce flicker blur. Now your good to go... pretty simple. J-by James T - Café LA P2 QT ERROR - 16 years agoHey Guys, "INVALID PUBLIC MOVIE ATOM WAS FOUND IN THE MOVIE" anyone ever had this error? Just got some P2 footage from set that, get this, the GAFFER handled. Lost my lastclip.txt file and all the QT movies from the firestore have this error, with the exception of 2 clips. any guesses? thanks again J-by James T - Café LA Re: re-link render files - 16 years agoThank Derek.... So i had already started the render at 11am this morning.....just read your message and so i decided to cancel and save with six hours remaining before i left.... can you say "CRASH" as i cancel.... FCP6 is the worst experience i have had yet...(this includes compressor 3 which will not open)!!! "DO-OVER" J-by James T - Café LA re-link render files - 16 years agohey guys, Had a 12 hour render last night... Get back into the bay and the comp is shut down *yikes* reopen FCP2 and my render is inexistent... ...however my render file is in the render folder...complete(same duration). tried the standard reconnect media...doesn't find any offline media any suggs on how to re-link this render file... thanks again, J-by James T - Café LA Re: Compressor problem - 16 years agoHaving the same prob right now?numerous re-installs and still wont open.... j-by James T - Café LA Re: TARGA Cine YUV to ProRes - 16 years agoHere is something that may help: ProRes422 whitepaperby James T - Café LA Re: TARGA Cine YUV to ProRes - 16 years agoI hope I'm not speaking too soon... Went HQ and it's RENDERING!!!! does anyone know the difference between these two...?by James T - Café LA TARGA Cine YUV to ProRes - 16 years agoHey Guys, Trying to render a 600gb TARGA Cine YUV HD movie to a little smaller(file not res) sized Pro Res format. Except every time i goto render FCP crashes...I even tried to let it auto-render itself, still crashes. trashed prefs and everything short of re-install. is something wrong with TARGA format? Thanks again guysby James T - Café LA Render RGB vs. 8-bit YUV - 16 years agoHey Guys, Curious to know why/when you should render each of these settings. RGB v.s. 8-bit YUV Currently going DV-anamorphic to Uncompressed 8-bit (final DVD release) may or may not go for broadcast.by James T - Café LA Re: Insert or Overwrite from Viewer VIDEO ONLY? - 16 years agoYou can also set shortcut keys in the keyboard layout in the "Tools" menu to clear audio in/out.... ?the same goes for video, if you just want to bring down the audio. and set ONLY audio or video in/out pointsby James T - Café LA Partial OMF - 16 years agoHey guys, Had a slight mix up and needed to change some video and already sent everything to sound guys. Need to send a new OMF but not for the entire show (just the opening credits) Tried to set an outpoint but the OMF export doesn't recognize it. Is there anything short of making a new sequence to get a partial export of the OMF? thanks again, J-by James T - Café LA Re: FCP express on macBook - 16 years agoWOW...just called the kid up told him to fire it up and press esc....AND IT WORKED!!! nice job Tom! thanks again.by James T - Café LA Re: FCP express on macBook - 16 years agoI'm not sure, but it is an intel based mac He's running 2.0 Ghz, 1gb ram with a GMA graphics crad (which support is supported by 3.5)by James T - Café LA FCP express on macBook - 16 years agoSo a buddy of mine's son has a MacBook that I have just tried to load FCP express HD 3.5 on, but i get an error message "needs GDP graphix card". Now I am not in anyway familiar with the express version, but isn't that the point of Express, to be able to run on smaller, non-pro systems. He's running: 2.0 intel. 1GB ram wouldn't think this to be a prob.by James T - Café LA Re: changing KEY-CODE - 16 years agoLIKE A CHARM.... Nick you are one sexy beast...!!!by James T - Café LA Re: changing KEY-CODE - 16 years agomore or less, Nick, yes. thanks for the new trick?that should work perfect?i'm assuming.by James T - Café LA Re: changing KEY-CODE - 16 years agoHey Andreas, As you can see the clip in the bin (highlighted blue) has a key code of 5045+01 now the actuall window burn is 5045+17 (true key code) the key code in FCP is technically irrelevant due to the EDL coming from CT. I am just curious if i can change the keycode in the FCP browser (highlighted in blue)?by James T - Café LA changing KEY-CODE - 16 years agoHey guys, So we had to change a few scene/take logs due to faulty slate starts (not really sure what happened on set) Every shot is connected and logged properly in CT (to our likening) except when we changed certain take #'s the key-code in FCP is still linked to the metadata in the source clip. Is there anyway to change the key info in the prefs pane? Now this will probably not bby James T - Café LA Re: Reconnect File means timecode change in FCP 6 - 16 years agoThis maybe a little laymen, but i have had the same error come up with reconnecting media: I have been under the impression that this was due to in and out points set in the logged clip in FCP. So when It does re-link, it has a "different duration" due to the in/out points. this was just my impression of the error. but who knows for sure?everything always stays in sync within theby James T - Café LA |
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