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Your basic troubleshooting and discussion forum for all things Final Cut Pro X. If you are having issues with FCP 7 and below, post it in Cafe LA.
Re: From FCP to AVID - your experience* - 11 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > AE is very hard to beat for price and quality. It > comes with Keylight, Mocha, CC effects, and it > works in linear light full float with color > profile management. Also, it has a very large user > base with loads of 3rd party plugins. > Production Premium is pretty much a no brainer these daysby JustinB - Avid Media Composer
Re: From FCP to AVID - your experience* - 11 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But that said, I haven't used Avid FX, so these > are just my uninformed assumptions. I haven't either. I've just heard of VFX editors using it because it's somewhat integrated with Avid. "There is no need to export shots from your timeline or import rendered files from a 3rd-party application: Avid FX woby JustinB - Avid Media Composer
Re: From FCP to AVID - your experience* - 11 years ago
True. It's an offline-focussed NLE. A finishing solution it isn't.by JustinB - Avid Media Composer
Re: From FCP to AVID - your experience* - 11 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Effects in Avid are definitely less intuitive. But that tracker sure saves me a lot of round-tripping. It's no Mocha, but for "proof of concept" temp VFX it's very handy. I hear Avid FX is actually very good. > Adjusting audio levels > is also where I kind of prefer FCP where you can > keyframe inby JustinB - Avid Media Composer
Re: From FCP to AVID - your experience* - 11 years ago
Personally, I couldn't be happier going from FCP to Media Composer. Of course, I didn't see that much value in it until I started focussing on narrative. Certainly it has it's downsides, but overall I feel like it's more story focussed. It's so much smoother -- and more robust. FCP feels like it's part After Effects. While the effects are sometime more awkward, the tracker, keying, and aggressby JustinB - Avid Media Composer
Re: Lightworks actually coming to Mac - 11 years ago
Stoked for this. Don't expect a beta anytime soon though.by JustinB - Café LA
Re: Suggestion - Separate NLE Forums for LACPUG - 11 years ago
I'm with Andrew. Trying to apply standard industry logic to Apple is a fool's game. As to the topic on hand... Might make sense. FCP7 is, for better or worse, zombie software. Just my 2¢.by JustinB - Café LA
Re: Batch Converting DNxHD to Prores - 11 years ago
Nick Meyers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > a FOLDER named A902C001_121009_R2DU. deep inside > this there is an XML file > > then > A902C001_121009_R2DU_A01.mxf > A902C001_121009_R2DU_A02.mxf > A902C001_121009_R2DU_A03.mxf > A902C001_121009_R2DU_A04.mxf > A902C001_121009_R2DU.aaf (a very small > file) >by JustinB - Café LA
Re: Batch Converting DNxHD to Prores - 11 years ago
Nick, My concern is that AFAIK, Media Composer doesn't keep DNxHD MXF audio and video in a single file. So for one clip with three audio tracks, there's four individual MXF files at the Finder level. So that would mean transcoding all that DNxHD, then bringing in the audio and re-syncing! Unless of course there's some alternate AMA workflow going on, and the DNxHD was wrapped in QTs. In that cby JustinB - Café LA
Re: large AVID project into FCP - 11 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Not true. Premiere doesn't use Avid's MXF media. > Only After Effects reads it via Automatic Duck and > you can't port that project over to PPro. > Good point. MXF is open, but there are varieties. Avid uses OP-Atom. Adobe is working on support but it's not there yet. And of course MXF is onlyby JustinB - Café LA
Re: large AVID project into FCP - 11 years ago
Nick Meyers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > there are 2 prongs to this: 1 the PROJECTS, 2. the > MEDIA Three prongs: 1) Sequences (easy), 2) Media (time-consuming) 3) Bins (problematic). Most likley, the media is synched in Media Composer. That's the really tricky part. I've heard of solutions where people have used Sebsky Tools (EOL) or some kby JustinB - Café LA
Re: 23.98 in 29.97 needs reverse telecine for editing. - 11 years ago
Definitely not the not the best UI. Works really well with lab generated material though. I've actually had mixed results with Compressor reversing TK. I'll have to try AE when we have no more CT.by JustinB - Café LA
Re: 23.98 in 29.97 needs reverse telecine for editing. - 11 years ago
Yeah they're pretty cheap now. And then you can lift the BR H.264 (or MPEG2) at the native frame rate. As to Cinema Tools reverse telecine -- it has to be a proper 2:3 pulldown added. Sometimes you have to help it to identify the A frame, but usually when it doesn't work, the pulldown captured is somehow funky. I find this sometimes on stock footage that was originated on film, but has been coby JustinB - Café LA
Re: Media Composer Titles--Green Newb Question - 11 years ago
Keep moving forward with Avid. You won't regret it. I'm cutting a show in FCP now and it's killing me. Creative Cow has a ton of basic MC tutorials online now. And I highly recommend Steve Cohen's book, Avid Agility once you get comfortable with the basics.by JustinB - Avid Media Composer
Re: Issues with FCP Studio and Mountain Lion - 11 years ago
You can get to the Library by holding down Option under the Finder "Go" menu.by JustinB - Café LA
Re: R-Name gone in 10.7 - Alternatives? - 12 years ago
Ditto. I actually own Name Mangler. But I generally download Rename when I'm working away on other's machines. It does the trick just fine.by JustinB - Café LA
Re: Avid Symphony/MC 6.5 Released - 12 years ago
Some positive early feedback here. Hope he's right about IO devices working better. With AJA being the exception, they were a mess in version 6.by JustinB - Avid Media Composer
Re: If Not Media Inspector / Media info ... Then what? - 12 years ago
No problem. Yeah it's nice having them thrown in there as well. And I like the compatibility check.by JustinB - Café LA
Re: If Not Media Inspector / Media info ... Then what? - 12 years ago
I like VideoSpec.by JustinB - Café LA
Re: 5.5 to 5.5 (Media Composer to Premiere Pro) - 12 years ago
Update: It looks like Adobe is working on going Avid AAF to Premiere in their Labs. Good deal.by JustinB - Avid Media Composer
Re: FCP 7 DEATH KNELL Canon Mark III, L and T wont work. Keeps crashing, loaded EOS plugin 1.3 - 12 years ago
Good catch. Perian is handy, but it can mess with Avid AMA as well. I've uninstalled it. It's EOL anyway.by JustinB - Café LA
Re: Avid MXF Player - 12 years ago
Resolve goes right to OP-Atom DNxHD too.by JustinB - Avid Media Composer
Re: Avid MXF Player - 12 years ago
I'm somewhat amazed that Avid wouldn't want to make their own free DNxHD player. Or better yet, some kind of simple Finder integration.by JustinB - Avid Media Composer
Re: $999 FCP to Avid Symphony crossgrade offer - 12 years ago
Another good point Strypes. I'm not sure what the recent history is with the Symphony upgrades. Certainly that should be considered too.by JustinB - Avid Media Composer
Re: $999 FCP to Avid Symphony crossgrade offer - 12 years ago
It should be noted that while for many people, Symphony and Media Composer are essentially the same thing, Symphony comes with Boris Continuum Complete--something that's not bundled with MC anymore. And while I'm an effects guy, I've found BCC to be very useful. Not to be overlooked.by JustinB - Avid Media Composer
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 announced - 12 years ago
They actually have trimming now.by JustinB - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: SD codec for Shot on Film project. - 12 years ago
The neg cut sounds like a bad idea, unless that's already firm in place, I'd consider the cheap DI route. You'll have problems finding an affordable neg cutter these days anyway. As Nick suggested, you could go "Poor Man's DI", where you wouldn't go back to the negative after TK. You have it transferred to HD with a basic neutral grade with the idea that you'll finish back on that atby JustinB - Café LA
