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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: Send to FCP... FAIL! - 14 years ago
Not surprising to me in the least. Again, Color does not like mixed codecs in the same timeline. The fact that the first one worked is the most surprising to me actually.by walterbiscardi - Color
Re: Fastest Way to SYNC TWO MACS? - 14 years ago
I guess this begs the question. Why are you separating the video and audio onto two Macs?by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Send to FCP... FAIL! - 14 years ago
Color does not like mixed formats in one timeline. If so, your round trip will almost always fail.by walterbiscardi - Color
Re: Monitor Recommendations needed - 14 years ago
Dell UltraSharp series. We've been running Dells for two or three years now as they look almost as good as the Apples (ACDs are still amazing) but they cost a lot less.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Upgradin! - 14 years ago
There is an upgrade path from any earlier version of FCP to FCS III. Yes, you do need to upgrade from OS 10.4 to run Studio 3. 10.5 is required at least to run Studio 3 I'm pretty sure. When you do a major upgrade like this one, you are best off completely erasing your hard drive and starting over. This is what we do whenever we upgrade our OS or Studio package. Simply upgradingby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Capture card playback settings? - 14 years ago
The TV will play 60p just fine. What's probably happening is your timeline is you are not set up correctly to play the footage out. Here we just use the Easy Setup menus and choose the correct setting for whatever it is we're editing. We use the Kona's but it's the same with BMD cards.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Exporting HD footage for DVD - 14 years ago
Use any of the high quality DVD Settings. Compressor will automatically keep your project 16:9 which will play full screen on a 16:9 TV and in letterbox on a 4:3 TV. We also create BluRay discs using Compressor to create very high quality HD MPEG-2 files which we then take into Encore (Play Only discs) or DoStudio for BluRay authoring.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Is the re a need for speed or just the basics for FCS - 14 years ago
With a choice between a laptop and a 27" iMac, I would take the iMac. Max out the RAM. Sweet machine, even sweeter monitor. The only issue you really run into with both the laptop and iMac is how to feed the image to an external monitor. Your choices are limited compared to the Mac Pro.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Buying advice: Mac Pro w/ one 3.33GHz 6-core or Mac Pro w/ two 2.4GHz quad-core? - 14 years ago
joeboo20 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks Walter. Do you have the 720p or 1080p > plasmas? Also, since the difference between the > consumer and pro versions are the tuner, would the > consumer plasmas be an option assuming picture > quality will be the same as the pro models? > thanks for clearing things up! We have the 720p pby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: no color? - 14 years ago
You don't send individual clips to Color. You send Timelines. If you want to work with an individual clip you would open Color first, then from that application pull the clips directly off the Capture Scratch.by walterbiscardi - Color
Re: Matrox MXO and monitor for color grading - 14 years ago
Despite what other folks will say, I would not trust any computer monitor as my color reference monitor. Flanders Scientific 1760W is the cheapest reference monitor I trust. We have that, the 1770W and 2460W's in our shop. You can feed it with the MXO. Some folks swear by the HP DreamColor monitor and with a lot of tweaking apparently you can get a good image. I just want a true colorby walterbiscardi - Color
Re: Is the re a need for speed or just the basics for FCS - 14 years ago
Yes, the laptops still get hot, not as hot as they used to, but still get hot. I always have mine sitting on a cool pad, just a simple pad that lifts the back of it up so it's not sitting directly on the table and there is room for air to pass under the machine.. i5 / i7 iMacs are incredible machines too, particularly the 27" model if you don't need complete portability.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Transfer house for DVC-PRO 50 (PAL to NTSC) - 14 years ago
I have had a lot of PAL to NTSC and NTSC to PAL conversions done through PostWorks New York and they are outstanding. I see they have a sister company called Orbit Digital in LA. Not sure if they offer the same services, but you could always try them. Orbit Digital (West LA / Facility) 12233 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 280 Los Angeles, CA 90064 Ph: 424.298.2200 Fax: 424.298.2201by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Capture DVD footage from HDV Camera. - 14 years ago
I'm assuming you're connected to FCP via Firewire. Do you have that connection set up to downconvert? On the Sony VTRs, there is a setting in there called "iLink" which is Sony's fancy term for Firewire. That can be set up for Down-Convert or HD. This is independent of the analog video outputs on the deck. In your case, you would need to make sure the Firewire setting is forby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Have a great 2011. Happy New Year! - 14 years ago
Happy New Year to all. May you all find joy in 2011.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Buying advice: Mac Pro w/ one 3.33GHz 6-core or Mac Pro w/ two 2.4GHz quad-core? - 14 years ago
Here's the whole family of Panny Pro Plasmas. The only difference between the Pro and the Consumer is the consumer has a TV Tuner with fixed inputs while the Pro does not have a TV Tuner and has modular input so you can change your inputs as you need to. We run both the 50" and 42" models in our shop.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Time code problem - 14 years ago
DV and HDV are notorious for creating what I call "phantom" timecode breaks. For a situation like yours, I would simply go to your User Preferences and change "On Timecode Break" to "Warn After Capture." This way FCP will ignore what it thinks it a timecode break and simply give you a warning after the capture. But at least you get your footage captured in one shoby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Does Color 1.5 run on an iMac? - 14 years ago
You have to connect a broadcast monitor in order to use Color correctly. An AJA IoHD does work with Color but in SD only. This is a limitation of Color, not the IoHD. Color can only send SD out via Firewire so you can't use that box for HD playback from Color. We tried a Matrox MXO rig at one point but could not get it to work on our iMac correctly. So the best I can suggest is to go ahby walterbiscardi - Color
Re: Buying advice: Mac Pro w/ one 3.33GHz 6-core or Mac Pro w/ two 2.4GHz quad-core? - 14 years ago
Sony Bravia has been the most impressive for me in terms of LCD screens. My favorite HDTV is still the Panasonic Vieras plasmas though. That's what we have in our home as well as our the Pro version in the edit suites. LCD is just no substitute for plasma in terms of color reproduction and viewing angle. I'll take the higher electric bill and "thick 3" screen" for the superioby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Buying advice: Mac Pro w/ one 3.33GHz 6-core or Mac Pro w/ two 2.4GHz quad-core? - 14 years ago
I always say purchase the most Mac you can afford. This will give you the longest useful operational life. Saving a few bucks today might force you to purchase a newer machine sooner than you would like to. At our shop we run all our Macs a minimum of three years before they are replaced. I'm able to do this by purchasing the top or near top of the line Mac Pro each time. Even three yeaby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Editing Actor's Reel DVD Rip to Editable Format - 14 years ago
Michael Horton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Walter! Thanks for stopping by the Cafe and > sharing your knowledge with us. Honored! No, I'm honored to hang out here quite honestly. You are legendary in the FCP world. Besides now I can talk to you more than just once a year in April.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Relinking media after bringing in project from Color from a different system - 14 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What Shane said about the Color workflow. Speaking > of which, a while ago, I tried going the typical > post route on an indie setup- offline-> Color for > TC -> AE for comps, then render out a final master > to sync back up with the audio in Final Cut. > > One issue I had was that when Iby walterbiscardi - Color
Re: Does Color 1.5 run on an iMac? - 14 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi, Walter, good to see you here. The issue with > running Color on non-optimized graphics cards is > the immense lag when you are stacking on color > correction layers. Well most of the new iMacs do come with very good ATI graphics cards. On our 27" iMacs the performance of Color is similar to theby walterbiscardi - Color
Re: Editing Actor's Reel DVD Rip to Editable Format - 14 years ago
Note that in MPEG Streamclip you can set an In and Out Point so you don't have to rip entire films if that's all they gave you. Very handy not to have to recompress the entire film and I agree with the earlier suggestions to go with ProRes for the editing format.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Relinking media after bringing in project from Color from a different system - 14 years ago
It's important to note that when you archive your project, you save not only the original media files but the newly graded files as well. This way you have your original cuts and the final master. It is a little confusing at first because in the timeline you'll still see the original names of the clips, but if you do look at the item properties of the clip, you'll see that it is linked to theby walterbiscardi - Color
Re: Gamma all over the place - Color to FCP - 14 years ago
There is no gamma shift between FCP and Color. What I'm guessing is you do not have a proper external monitor connected to your system. Even for delivering to the internet, you need a proper external monitor to properly see what your colors will look like when they go back to FCP. The Preview display in Color is not designed for color enhancement, its real purpose is to simply show you the mby walterbiscardi - Color
Re: Does Color 1.5 run on an iMac? - 14 years ago
Color will run just fine on that iMac. It might render a bit slow and your choices are limited in how you can output to an external monitor, but the actual functionality will be fine on there. Always remember, you cannot trust that little Preview window inside Color for actual color grading. It's not an accurate image. In lieu of a three button mouse, I'd recommend a Wacom Tablet for use wiby walterbiscardi - Color
