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Re: long export time when making a reference file - 12 years agoI've been cutting a TV hour long doc shot 90% on XDCAM HD. Once the story came together in acts it was easy to keep the 4 acts rendered in ProRes. Once a week I delete all the renders and leave it to render the whole show overnight. Reference files take a few minutes to output for a 42 minute show. Crunching the producers' H.264s from those reference QTs for Dropbox or Vimeo is still faby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Converting BPAV folder files to Sony XDCam EX files?? - 12 years agoThere is/was a Final Cut Pro installation on one of the myriad Sony pages at one time. It gave you the clip browser and the menu plug in so it shows up under import. There is nothing more convoluted that Sony's naming of their various clip viewers and plug-in installers. Their various national websites vary greatly and for a while I think it was only the Australian/NZ site that had things wellby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Converting BPAV folder files to Sony XDCam EX files?? - 12 years agoThat would mean that you don't have all the XDCAM files installed on that machine. Was this the machine and setup that you used before?by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Converting BPAV folder files to Sony XDCam EX files?? - 12 years agoXDCAM EX files don't come in through Log and Transfer. They come in through Import>XDCAM and the Sony XDCAM utility opens up and you do it through there.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Dallas area question - 12 years agoAnybody on this forum live in the Dallas area that would be willing to answer a few simple questions and maybe shoot a couple of stills for a documentary. Reply via private message. Thanksby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: End of FCP?? - 12 years agoMichael Horton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I love that! Finally some recognition for my one useful and yet financially non-viable skill - mildly humorous editing related quips. Wait till I build up some material about the compositing companies...Nuke, Alias, c'mon theres gotta be tons of material in those two alone.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: End of FCP?? - 12 years agoWhoa guys. I read the part of Evarita's post about "no tools being changed" as relating to the last big AVID screw up, which was the introduction of the "smart tool" which led to no end of griping from the AVID loyal, me included. I didn't think it had anything to do with there being no changes to AVID "the tool" as you both seem to have assumed. The trim/edit/fx mby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Multicam Help - 12 years agoI learned multicam on an AVID. Don't know how much multicam performance is tied to their hardware these days but it was a great system. They didn't have that collapse/uncollapse function, specifically the UNcollapse but, like a lot of AVID stuff the media management was rock solid. The ability to customize the colour of the workspaces is useful if say, for instance, you have a producer who can'tby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Multicam Help - 12 years agoThere are so many little toggles and switches that have to be in place for multicam to work and the UI is terrible for making toggle states clear. Here's hoping that the FCPX multicam is not as buggy as FCP7.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Multicam Help - 12 years agoIs the sequence rendered? If it is you won't see the angles.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Raw footage Frame Rate - 12 years agoCinema Tools is a separate application. It's installed in your application folder along with all the other apps that came with FCS3. Like Compressor and DVD Studio Pro.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Raw footage Frame Rate - 12 years agoThere is no Modify menu in Cinema Tools 4. QuoteCinema Tools ManualMake sure all the clips you want to conform are in the same folder. Choose File > Batch Conform. In the dialog that appears, select any clip file in the folder that contains the clips you want to conform, then click Choose. Note: You only need to select one clip file. All the clips in the folder will be conformed.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Raw footage Frame Rate - 12 years agoWhy 24? If you conform 30fps material to 24fps (29.97 to 23.976) it should appear slightly slow motion. Conform will actually change the clip, so generally the suggested workflow is to copy the original footage and conform the copy.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Raw footage Frame Rate - 12 years agoYou have two frame rates. FCP doesn't do a good real time frame rate conversion so you're left with converting to a single frame rate. Importing/Converting the the 5D footage at it's native frame rate is the first thing. Editing in one of those frame rates is your next choice. If sync is an issue I would edit at 30 (29.97 right or was it from before when they only shot integral rates?) Thatby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Slightly OT Footage Search - 12 years agoYou have a budget? AP Video for newsreel stuff. Corbis and Getty for historical and stock footage. Get a rep on the line, explain your project and make a deal. Still won't be cheap though. Pond5 for more affordable random amateur and semi-pro shot. Probably won't have newsy stuff though. I find pond5 good for twigging my brain by jamming on search terms and seeing what other people thoughtby Andrew Kines - Café LA Afghanistan and FCP X - 12 years agoA simple video. All DSLR. All FCP X. It's not an argument for FCP X being ready for broadcast or other applications but it is an example of the operator being more important to the creative process than the tools used.by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X Re: Compressor question - 12 years agoNever used Toast. There must be a list of file formats it accepts, somewhere. Either Toast does it's own compressing to MPEG2 behind the scenes like iDVD in which case you throw your big movie at at and hope for the best, or you have to turn it into some kind of MPEG2 file muxed with audio. Either way you'll need to know what format it will accept. UNLESS you don't want a playable DVD thatby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Compressor question - 12 years agoNope. You should get three files. One for each setting. You don't really need the AIFF file though. The Dolby ac3 will be your audio file. If you are using DVDStudio Pro you drag both the m2v and the ac3 into the sources window and add them both to a track.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Is the other ways to Log & Transfer? - 12 years agoIn an AVID based system the producer could be using AVID's Media Log , if they even still make that available. You can also make an excel spreadsheet that can be exported to a tab delimited format that can be imported into AVID using the ALE format. Best way to do that is make a bin in AVID with your required columns (name, in, out, reel etc.) including any custom headings and export it with at lby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Is the other ways to Log & Transfer? - 12 years agoThe XDCAM browser will let you rename clips as long as the disk/card lock is off. AVID's better handling of subclips means you can import everything or just what you want, while the producer watches TC burn-in copies and makes notes or otherwise logs the footage. Then you import the log and make all the producers clips subclips of the master clips. The subclips have their names and notes and youby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Stereoscopy in fcp - 12 years agoTake a look at There are others but that's one I have tried and I know others use it.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: The Final Cut Pro X Bug List - 12 years agoOn AVID though you can shift click to add trim heads. So one could ripple extend a clip while sliding the SndFX along under it and doing any number of other simultaneous trims in one gesture.by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X Re: The Final Cut Pro X Bug List - 12 years agoTrimming was one of the hardest things to figure out when I came to FCP 2 from 8 years on AVID. I can't remember how long I have been using Cmd-7 but it is strongly in muscle memory. AVID still does complex trims far better than FCP.by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X Re: seeing canvas or viewer but not both - 12 years agoHave you tried a restart? Do you have Spaces active? I came across this once and I think it had something to do with Spaces. I believe my solution was to clear and then reassign FCP to one of the spaces.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: compressor/limiter filter out of sync - 12 years agoYou can also turn off the unrendered audio beep in preferences if you like.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Simple ProRes proxy question - 12 years agoCasey, Don't you find the export time of XDCAM HD to be longer than a ProRes export? I am working on an all XDCAM HD show and the 55 min rough cut renders are killer. I would convert all my source footage to ProRes if I had the drive space. I can see how the conversion of the Canon files to your editing format would be the longer time investment than the 10min finished product but right now I woby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: OT: Audio problems - 12 years agoI fear that Derek is right on this one. However, while the third party file recovery apps are mostly aimed at photo recovery, they can find other files. Google SD card Photo card recovery or something similar. If you are able to recover a file but it is mangled, Audacity has a Raw audio file reading function that I was able to use on a Zoom type recorder card that had become corrupted after beiby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Apple is Going to chop down the tower so you can fit it in your pocket. - 12 years agoYou're taking everything out of context. Jobs said it was the Post PC era when the iPad came out. He's right in that people, like my wife, can very easily go days without using her Mac Mini, blogging, editing magazine articles and various other creative endeavors all on her G1 iPad. He doesn't mean that all they're going to build is laptops and PodPadPhones. By 2014 it won't be a tower becauseby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Saving Favorite settings - 12 years agoCreate a project called Favourites and drag them there. Save that project. Whenever you rebuild FCP or trash your preferences you can drag them from the project to the favourites folder. They are stored in Preferences but I don't think you can extract them from there. You can use Preference Manager to keep multiple sets of preferences and back them up and do all sorts of neat tricks, like have aby Andrew Kines - Café LA |
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