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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: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 14 years ago
Andy Mees Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's here Marcus > > > 01,32335#msg-32335 > > Absolutely no supporting evidence for the claims > but folks seems to be taking it as an indication > that Mr Courtens is speaking from first hand > knowledge of the beta ... something he neither > confirms nor denies. > > Chby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: Color versus FCP 3-way Color Corrector? - 14 years ago
Ben Ged Low Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm looking for an opinion. I've never really used > Color. I've used FCP's 3-way Color Corrector since > the first FCP. I'm wondering if I can get a much > finer correction with Color? . > > Ben The 3 Way Color Corrector is like playing with crayons and Color is like having an entire art stby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 14 years ago
Adage12 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I think the > interesting thing would be to see how Adobe and > Avid are viewing the whole situation. I know Avid is happy that "we're not the bad guys anymore." I can tell you Avid's booth was completely swamped Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I had a great meeting with the CEO and senior executives to dby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: Supermeet tickets - 14 years ago
My guess is that Michael and Dan are making every attempt to get a bigger room. I'm just glad I got my tickets a few weeks ago and the Media Motion Ball Tickets earlier this week. From the ticket sales at both events, my feeling is attendance overall will be up at this year's convention.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: New Final Cut Pro at Supermeet, April 12 - 14 years ago
Josh B Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- and as King > Bens speech pointed out, this is a FCPug.... This is also an event that was near sold out with the agenda. One that many folks, including myself were looking forward to seeing. So if you buy a ticket to a show, you expect to see the show you purchased for right? So what if the week before the sby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: New Final Cut Pro at Supermeet, April 12 - 14 years ago
That's what I've been saying since yesterday Joey. Apple has to show us THE best Non Linear Editing application we've ever seen AND they have to have an absolutely flawless and entertaining presentation. Anything less could be the most epic fail in the history of NAB. Kind of like Apple's "presentation" last year..... Studio Daily just did a fantastic write up of the incrediblyby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: New Final Cut Pro at Supermeet, April 12 - 14 years ago
Avid was on the stage last year, as was Adobe and others. This year actually had the best lineup of speakers and I was really looking forward to the show. We pretty much all expected that the show would close with some sort of presentation by Apple but to have them take over the entire event is actually disappointing for me. Particularly losing Kevin Smith, Philip Bloom and Alexis' presentaby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: VHS for editing in FCP then compression for DVD - 14 years ago
Because VHS is so flaky during capture, I always copy the VHS to our BetaSP machine first. Then I ingest into my FCP system via our AJA Kona boards. With VHS straight in, the picture always seems to fall apart and tear during ingest. A BetaSP machine gives the FCP system a much more stable image. There is essentially zero visual or audio loss during the copy from VHS to BetaSP. The otheby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: How do you use your monitors? - 14 years ago
Did somebody say screen shots? Ok, here's my latest Blog Entry. FCP Interface: One Window Layout does not fit all.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: How do you use your monitors? - 14 years ago
We have two 24" monitors in our suites. How they are used depends on exactly what we're doing. For example I have 15 different Window presets in Final Cut Pro. For Color Correction I have a very small timeline, a very large Viewer that fills the screen vertically so I can easily grab all the controls, a separate Vectorscope, Wavform and Parade Window and a large Canvas. For audioby walterbiscardi - Café LA
OT-Look forward to seeing you all the SuperMeet - 14 years ago
Just picked up our tickets for the SuperMeet in Vegas. Looking forward to meeting some of you folks out there, should be a fun year. And the SuperMeet is certainly one of the highlights each year for us. Actually glad to see it on the Strip this year, makes it easier to get to. Don't forget, early bird specials end on March 15!by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: OT: The variable pricing of After Effects CS5 - 14 years ago
You might be seeing academic pricing which is a lot cheaper than pro pricing because you are only supposed to use those versions in school. Whenever I purchase software I only go through reputable dealers because it's not worth headaches if it does turn out something is not quite legit with the software. Then you have to deal with Adobe and the vendor to figure it out.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: RAIDS - 14 years ago
wiebetech.com has a beautiful RTX series that you can look at. Trayless SATA array that allows you to literally purchase any media from a local store to go inside the enclosure.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: OT: paint recommendations for suite? - 14 years ago
Sherwin Williams SW7071 is the way to go. Here's the full details from my blog.by walterbiscardi - Color
Re: Color and Color Correction in FCP - 14 years ago
Everything in Color. No need to do the same work twice.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Open several sequences at the same time - 14 years ago
And if you pull out a separate Canvas for each timeline, your external monitor will automatically switch the output to match your selected timeline.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Soundtrack Pro vs. Pro Tools - 14 years ago
ProTools is definitely the industry standard. That being said, if you learn SoundTrack Pro you'll have an understanding of how ProTools works. While not exactly the same, the concept is similar and you'll be able to transition from one tool to the other. Kind like learning FCP now and then transitioning over to Avid. Both are non-linear editors and if you learn one you'll have an understanby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Can I ONLINE-EDIT in Broadcast Quality with FCP? - 14 years ago
We're still delivering in the neighborhood of 100 BetaSP's per year. The format simply will not die and most of the stations don't want DigiBeta. Weird I know. And back to the original post, FCP has been broadcast quality since day one. As Shane notes, you'll need the capture card to output to and control the UVW-1800. The UVW is the only piece of equipment still left in my shop from theby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: How do you like to organize your raw footage and editing workflow? - 14 years ago
Yes, definitely pick up Shane's DVD. It's the bible of project management in Final Cut Pro. I still use it as a reference guide.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: interlacing problem - 14 years ago
But, I have to deliver in XDCAM HD422 720p 59.94 fps. So, I created a sequence with these settings, and dropped my show in, so that I could balance the acts in the proper frame rate, and create Motion graphics in 720p, which looks a lot better than in SD. I can only have no field dominance in this format. My pixels are square. You can't just drop an SD clip into an HD timeline and expect FCPby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: FCP editing on the go . . . - 14 years ago
Personally I would go for the 24" monitor to give you the maximum real estate for the interface. Especially if you plan to use Color at all for your temporary color enhancement.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: FCP editing on the go . . . - 14 years ago
osbourne cox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm planning on using an additional drive > alongside storing media on the Macbooks internal, > for backup - making two copies of all source > footage on location. Even for backup I would NEVER store media on the internal drive. This requires you to write / delete / write / delete over and over agaiby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: FCP editing on the go . . . - 14 years ago
Max out the RAM. Do you have a second display you'll connect to for editing? 15" screen is going to get very small very fast with FCP / Motion / Color interfaces. What media array are you connecting to this machine?by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: What do I charge? - 14 years ago
I don't break out different charges for different tasks. I'm one person using a workstation and the amount I charge is the same no matter the software. You need to figure how many hours / days it will take to complete the task. Multiply your rate x the hours / days and that gives you the amount. That's essentially we do here for all our estimates.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Send to FCP... FAIL! - 14 years ago
Doesn't matter how many tests you run. One uniform codec is the only way to have Color work consistently time and again. If you want to keep mixing codecs and formats, go right ahead. It might work, it might not. Just depends on how much you like getting right up against deadlines. I tend to work the proper way so I know what my results are going to be before I start the color grade andby walterbiscardi - Color
Re: Ntsc to pal conversion - 14 years ago
Compressor doesn't hold a candle to Terranex conversions. I don't know about Twixtor. We have had multiple HD shows converted from NTSC to PAL for European distribution via Terranex conversion through Postworks New York. (1080i / 29.97 to 1080i / 25) They look amazing, but on ocassion you get a little bit of a stutter in a pan or tilt. The only way to completely avoid that is go with an Aby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: photoshop - 14 years ago
I'm with Joey, what do you mean edit the file? As in you want to make changes to the layers in the graphic? You want to alter the graphic in a way that you can't do in FCP? If yes to those two questions, then yes, you will need Photoshop to make changes to it.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Outputting sequence to a .mov file - 14 years ago
Don't export the H.264 from the FCP Sequence. Export a reference file from your sequence and then take that into Compressor. From there, do an H.264 movie file but make sure you use the High Quality (dual pass) compression scheme. This will give you a very clean quicktime movie that's suitable for the web. For a 7 minute file, you really should have a file that's 50MB or small to ensure thby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: looking for suggestions on Archiving 3/4" footage - 14 years ago
I would simply capture the footage to Apple ProRes if you are editing with Final Cut Pro. It's a 10bit codec and will keep the footage looking pretty much identical to whatever the native format was. We had to capture from 3/4" tape for two of our latest documentaries and we actually upconverted them to 720p HD through the AJA Kona 3 board and the image came out incredibly well. Thenby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Ntsc to pal conversion - 14 years ago
If you're looking to do this with the Studio Suite, you can try the conversion in Compressor. It does an ok job. You can also look up Nattress Standards Converter which does a better job. If you have budget, you can have a post facility with a Terranex or Alchemist converter do the conversion in hardware. This is by far the cleanest way to do this.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
