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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: I wanted to use FCP on new mackbook but cd wont load - 13 years ago
You're SOL trying to run that old of software on a brand new Laptop I'm afraid. You can purchase FCP Studio 3 by calling 1-800-My-Apple and that will run but I'm pretty certain there is no upgrade pricing so you'll be stuck paying the full $999 price tag. My suggestion would be to purchase one of the cross-grades to Adobe or Avid instead, much better use of your money.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Adobe Purchases IRIDAS - 13 years ago
Cool, someone who is actually there!!!! I'm loving this purchase but I also hope they continue to talk to FilmLight about the BaseLight plug-in. Would love to have the option to use both. But the new CS6 package is looking mighty strong now with all the hints I keep getting from Adobe and now we have the answer to our missing Apple Color. Add the Tangent Design Element Control surface reby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: OT (RT): It's here!!! FCP X to After Effects! - 13 years ago
ClayC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cool trick, but why not just edit in PPro CS5.5 in > the first place? > > Could be useful in a hand-off situation, although > I've yet to see anything from X yet from any of > our clients. Au contraire. Seems to be a big > migration going on to PPro and MC. And now there's this.... Adobe buyby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Adobe Purchases IRIDAS - 13 years ago
I believe Adobe has just answered the "Apple Color" question. Wowee wow. Once this gets integrated into the suite, there will be even less of a reason to migrate back to FCP in the future.by walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: OT (RT): It's here!!! FCP X to After Effects! - 13 years ago
craig seeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > walterbiscardi Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > If you own After Effects you most likely own > > Premiere Pro as part of a bundle. > > And now it will be very easy for Premiere Pro > users to move back to FCPX when it comes of ageby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: OT (RT): It's here!!! FCP X to After Effects! - 13 years ago
so this guy had sone what others have said is impossible. cool nick Going from FCP X to After Effects? I don't know anyone who said that was impossible. As for Automatic Duck, I've been saying for a while the easy way to go from FCP 7 to After Effects is XML from FCP 7 to Premiere Pro and then open that Premiere Pro project in AE. That brings your entire FCP 7 timeline into After Effby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: FC Studio back on sale. True or False? - 13 years ago
That's essentially the same workflow as AJA, though in our case, we leave the Player Settings set to Adobe for the time being as setting that to AJA makes playback very sluggish when trying to view material in the Source monitor. AJA is working on updating their plug-in right now to solve that issue. Glad you found the solution!by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: FC Studio back on sale. True or False? - 13 years ago
Russ Blaise Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- First problem I ran into is that with the > Matrox box... external monitoring is not there. > There is no way to do a Video Preview through the > Matrox. (It will work fine using AE). There is a > workaround for PP 5.5, but it's very complicated > and no guarantees it will work. So Adobe is out of &gby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Breaking News: Say Hello Again to FCP 7. #FCP7 - 13 years ago
Jon Chappell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > FCP would have needed to be completely rewritten > sooner or later anyway. I can't see the old > technologies it uses being around for much longer. Of course it needed to be re-written for true 64 bit and to keep up with the newer technologies, but Adobe and Avid were both able to do this without destroyby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Breaking News: Say Hello Again to FCP 7. #FCP7 - 13 years ago
bluey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > . . . right . . . although i don't see why Apple > wouldn't just keep the FCP structure the same and > run it (a little while longer anyway) with a small > development team keeping it trim with changing > requirements, shame, damn shame. > > ce-la-vie, > Bluey No the real shame of it all iby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Breaking News: Say Hello Again to FCP 7. #FCP7 - 13 years ago
If they had dropped the price, that might have been a good incentive for folks to really buy in. But it's still $999 for old software that's outdated for today's digital workflow. It's also still EOL. Personally I would take that money and apply it towards one of the cross grade promotions and move on. Move forward, not back.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: 8bit or 10bit ProRes ??? - 13 years ago
ProRes is 10bit. Doesn't matter if it's HQ or not. HQ is really only necessary for 2k or larger. We use ProRes for all our HD work here, 720 and 1080.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: HDV=quality loss - 13 years ago
No, you're not losing any quality at all, it's a lossless digital transfer if you're bringing in HDV My guess is that you're looking at the footage in the FCP Viewer / Canvas instead of on a proper external monitor via a capture card. Those are proxy displays and not full quality. Also, understand that HDV is 25:1 compression with 4:2:0 color space so it's already a very noisy and lousy siby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: What TV shows are being shot on what equipment? - 13 years ago
I've heard more and more folks doing a color grade on set. Especially with a Davinci system and an FSI monitor, pretty darn easy to set up a high quality color grade suite anywhere.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: What TV shows are being shot on what equipment? - 13 years ago
No he didn't, but a discussion about just the equipment always leaves out the artist behind the equipment. That was my point. And making 16mm look like VHS is a very talented person indeed......by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: What TV shows are being shot on what equipment? - 13 years ago
Deadliest Catch still uses Sony HDV Z1's Tyler Perry Studios uses all P2 Panasonic Cameras. Dirty Jobs looks like they're still using Panasonic P2 cameras along with a Sony Z1 HDV when the camera might get killed. Of course, threads like this always amuse me because they ignore the artist behind the equipment. I've seen MUCH more bad and I mean VERY BAD video come from the Sony Z1's andby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Apple is Going to chop down the tower so you can fit it in your pocket. - 13 years ago
It's no secret the towers are going to get smaller and potentially just disappear altogether. The next release of the Mac Pro is supposed to be about the same size / design as what we all know today. Jobs is talking about the home consumer for sure when he says the PC is going away and people want the iPad for their main computer. Mac Pros are considered an "enterprise" machine theby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Saving Favorite settings - 13 years ago
Here's a tutorial I put up on Vimeo for this exact thing....by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: can FCP properly interlace progressive material? - 13 years ago
These guys are some of the best and they're in your neck of the woods.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: can FCP properly interlace progressive material? - 13 years ago
Well for one thing the DP of House did a ton of tests before they ever committed to doing the episode. For another, I'm guessing it was all hardware compression that was used to convert the Canon footage to something useable for edit. 1080p30 is going to have issue when converted for interlacing if you use something like Compressor, which is a decent tool but not the best. So many peopleby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: 'noisy' capture in Premiere - 13 years ago
Jude Cotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hmm. Interesting. A friend of mine just told me > that Premiere an not show a full resolution > preview of your cut. I'm assuming you can get > pretty close, but apparently not all the way to > full res during cutting. What?! Sure it can. I've been looking at full resolution 720p and 1080i HD viby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: A great review of history and the future - 13 years ago
Andy Field Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Apple could have avoided this heartburn by not > killing FCP studio -- offering some kind of > translation (as the presenter indicates IS > possible) and showing pros how to make it work. > Real Time audio mixing is essential too What he says is that someone like Wes Plate might be able to creaby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: A great review of history and the future - 13 years ago
He did the same presentation at our Atlanta Cutters events, though he had to shorten it quite a bit to fit into the 20 minute alloted time. He's a very nice guy, awesome presenter, and with 100 seats of FCP, he definitely has a lot to gain by waiting out Apple to see where they go from here. His presentation did nothing to change my mind about FCPX or Apple. But we actually want to bringby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: Converting Apple Pro Res 422 LT to iPad format and then some... - 13 years ago
Put the file into Compressor. Apple Devices Choose an iPhone, AppleTV or if they now include iPad, choose that.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Looking for recomendations for a alternative to a mouse - 13 years ago
Fry's Electronics, MacMall.com, BestBuy.com pretty much anywhere you buy a computer, you can buy a Wacom. Yes, you can draw, paint, cut, mask, pretty much anything and use it to replace the mouse. I even have one at home so I don't have to use a mouse with my iMac.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Looking for recomendations for a alternative to a mouse - 13 years ago
Been using WACOM tablets since 1996. Can hardly work without one. Intuos 4 is the latest and greatest version of them. Small or medium sized will do you fine.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Just curious about Avid/Adobe switchers and color correction. - 13 years ago
Actually now that I've figured out the color correction UI, it's much MUCH better than I originally thought. It's essentially a 9 way color corrector that's extremely clean and very useable. The UI sucks right now, and Adobe even told me straight up it's weak, but they were right when they said the engine behind it is very very good. Took me two days of really poking around in it to reallby walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer
Re: AVCHD folder structure - 13 years ago
I believe that still requires the XML code which we did not have either. We only had the clip folders that are supposed to be inside the CLPR folder. The Sony XDCAM Viewer could not read the files either.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: AVCHD folder structure - 13 years ago
Should be a PRIVATE folder, then another folder inside along with the LASTCLIP.txt file. That is the most important file of everything as that contains all the database information that FCP requires to read the files. We ran into this and an XDCAM project where the shooter totally messed up and didn't give us the correct folder structure. That's when we discovered Premiere Pro CS 5.5 can reaby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: The cost of plug-ins - 13 years ago
So far the cost of plug-ins has been pretty minimal because the Adobe Suite works pretty seamlessly with Dynamic Link so we can round trip to AE and such quite easily. And our nice package of AE plug-ins now work with our really nice NLE (Premiere Pro) so I have not had to purchase any specific plug-ins just for Premiere Pro. We were going to make our first major switch to Premiere Pro in theby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
