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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* - 12 years ago
I would make a plea to investigate AVID's workspaces function. When I do the work of setting up timeline views, window arrangements, keyboard shortcuts and bin views and link them all by workspaces it's seamless to switch between, say, a story/picture based set up (big viewers, small timeline tracks, no waveforms) and an Audio set up (small viewers, big audio tracks, waveforms and rubberbandingby Andrew Kines - Avid Media Composer
Re: great slo mo - 12 years ago
I know you said you didn't want to rent a Red which is understandable considering the data management you would have to add to your on set workflow, but have you considered renting any of the camera's mentioned here? Many of the rental houses have packages of DSLRs or the medium pro ENG/EFP cameras. Should be cheaper than renting a RED and you can try out the slo-mo to see if it's useful for youby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: FCP 7 - need advice for faster exports with timecode burn in - 12 years ago
One suggestion would be to export it without the TC burn-in from FCP. Use the timecode burn-in function in Compressor to make it a H.264 with burn-in in one pass. If you don't want to use compressor you can use QTSync to make a ref file with burn-in of the clean prores and then drop that into MPEGstreamclip.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Suggestion - Separate NLE Forums for LACPUG - 12 years ago
I have been on forums that use some sort of prefix like Joe is suggesting and what I have found is that most people new to the forum won't use the prefix so it gets messy very quickly and unless the prefixes are short abbreviations and VERY CONSISTENT, eventually everyone will stop using them. Really long subject lines make for very difficult skimming in either web or email clients. I donby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Suggestion - Separate NLE Forums for LACPUG - 12 years ago
Everyone can expect whatever they want. If you've watched Apple long enough you've probably learned that they do what they want, aren't easily predictable and all the prognosticating geniuses and insider rumour mongers are wrong most of the time. Other than having a CPU, at least one Thunderbolt and one USB and a power supply, all other bets are off.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Suggestion - Separate NLE Forums for LACPUG - 12 years ago
On the Mac Pro issue, one could take comfort from this It's still a rumour and yet there was Tim Cooks hint from last year about the same thing.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Can't import ProRes with 26 audio tracks into FCP7 - 12 years ago
I can't find any reference to an audio track limit on QT files. Doesn't mean there isn't one. What was the software that created the file? If this is within your systems capabilities, copy the file, open it up in QT7, delete 2 audio channels, save it. Do that until it can be imported into FCP7 without crashing. I would even consider deleting all the audio and importing the video only to ensureby Andrew Kines - Café LA - X
Re: Batch Converting DNxHD to Prores - 12 years ago
Wait, so these files were ProRes4444 to begin with? (Alexa?) What did they use to convert/sync them to DNxHD and was that a project based app? The great thing about a well managed RedCineX or Resolve sync and conversion is that you can save the projects and re-render with new output settings without too much bother. Assuming there was a well maintained project to begin with. However: I've dby Andrew Kines - Café LA
TIP: Multichannel audio sequences - 12 years ago
Sorry if this is old hat but I was fooling around and I came across this interesting behaviour. If you have to make a sequence with a high count of discrete channels (Stereo,5.1, M&E etc) It can be a pain modifying all 24 sequence track to go to the 24 different outputs. You can however, starting from a blank sequence, reduce the number of tracks to just one audio track, change the outpby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Lacie(s) stopped working - 12 years ago
I've retrieved data from a bunch of desktop and rugged drives recently, all with borked bus connectors (hey producers, don't throw them in your backpack with the cable still in the socket). I tear them apart and shove the bare SATA drive into what is commonly referred to as a toaster or SATA dock. Retrieve the data to a working drive and repurpose SATA drive for new non-mission critical tasks.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: OT: Advice on prep before cutting short film - 12 years ago
+1 for Andreas' very useful tools. If you're backing up the cards as images you don't have to drag and drop anything. Make images from originals (Disk Utility or CopyCards) Mount image Point conversion utility to Mounted image Convert etc.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: OT: Advice on prep before cutting short film - 12 years ago
5DtoRGB maintains the 7D's "TC" and if you use the Terminal/command line version you can use all your processors. I have only used it for offline conversions where the footage was reconverted somewhere else but I believe the quality to be equal to any other conversion.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: OT: Advice on prep before cutting short film - 12 years ago
There are other options, yes, but the EOS plugin is an acceptable method of conversion. Back up Organize Convert Organize Sync audio Organize Edit Organize Lock Picture Organize Export to ???by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: I have seen the future of editing - 12 years ago
I'm assuming you clicked that link and didn't think I misspelled Muphry's... hard to tell on the ol' internet.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: OT: Advice on prep before cutting short film - 12 years ago
Make Disk Images (OS X Disk Utility) of every CF card, put them, tidily, on the Back up drives and the OTHER back up drives. ( you have multiple back ups, right?) I don't think you've told us what cameras were used, so the next step is to convert or copy the originals to your editing format. How you do that depends on the acquisition format and how you're planning on finishing.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: I have seen the future of editing - 12 years ago
Quotewith correct annunciation of one's words Do you mean enunciation?by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: OT: Advice on prep before cutting short film - 12 years ago
Yeah, I can't rely entirely on Plural Eyes. Best case scenario is using it to line up everything in a sequence and get it close. Insist on a slate clap. ALWAYS!! And a pox on people who give up on the slate and just do the hand clap. If there isn't a snake infested jungle or artillery warfare going on behind you, get the slate. PE can be a good organizer when you have reams of files with inscrby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: setting up fcp7 project from external drive with red footage already in the drive - 12 years ago
If it's tons of footage and you are on anything other than the latest MacBookPro (i.e. one with a Thunderbolt port along with a Thunderbolt drive), you'll probably want to do an lowres/conform workflow. You CAN do this with RedCineX (free from RED) and just make ProResLT or similar rushes of all your footage. Put them on another drive and move the RED originals somewhere safe. It's probably bestby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: setting up fcp7 project from external drive with red footage already in the drive - 12 years ago
This is nowhere near enough information to go on. What other storage do you have? Is the RED footage the whole project or just some additional footage? Is there audio on the RED files or in separate files? What kind of project is it? A short, a feature, a doc, a commercial? What system do you have? Mac version, OS version? Have you read the RED white paper on RED workflow? Did you dby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: OT: Advice on prep before cutting short film - 12 years ago
You really need to talk to the DP, Sound people, and anyone making decisions about how the film will finish. i.e. The post co-ordinator/producer. You're the middle step. You can ask the production staff what format is being shot and how the audio is being recorded and make decisions about your edit process based on that. How and what you're going to deliver to the on-line house is likely goingby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: iPad Control Console for FCP 7/X and PPro - 12 years ago
Until then, there's this... I was thinking of getting a used v1 iPad just for this purpose. I borrow my wife's iPad when i am mixing, if I can. Having "flying faders" in Logic is such a boon to efficiency and workflow.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: multitrack WAV to AIFF - 12 years ago
As far as I can see Wave Agent doesn't convert to anything. It will rename based on Metadata but that's it. I would like to be proven wrong on this because for other tasks (Organization, Sample Rate adjustments) Wave Agent is great.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: multitrack WAV to AIFF - 12 years ago
Believe me, there is NOTHING about this project that is bleeding edge. RED one, with no camera audio or sync TC/smartslate so everything synced by clapper. Amateur script super with a doctor's handwriting. I don't think the audio op knew how to use the Zaxcom Nomad because the track assignments from the machine report are all wrong. All the Lav tracks seem absent or empty. Syncing rusheby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: multitrack WAV to AIFF - 12 years ago
Yeah I Batch Export seqs all the time, never bothered on plain clips. I am going to give it a go and mix WAV and AIFF for this project. hooray?by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: multitrack WAV to AIFF - 12 years ago
Interestingly, you can export audio files, NOT sequences, using Batch Export. Doesn't help me though as the limitations of the QT settings pop up again. Even using "Quadrophonic" as the track setting, it errored out any 4 track files and turned the 2 and 3 track files into stereo files. This is why they deprecated FCP on the Old QT base. It was too limited for modern file types. Gooby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: multitrack WAV to AIFF - 12 years ago
Quotecan i ask why you need AIFFs? FCP is happy with wav The other days are all AIFF and there's more AIFFs than WAV. Was hoping to avoid having mixed formats in the timeline.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: multitrack WAV to AIFF - 12 years ago
I have 4 days of a low budget shoot. I could do it in FCP I guess. I'd have to see info could batch it. I'm surprised with all the machines out there that none of the manufacturers make a converter. I couldn't even find a paid app. Compressor doesn't have more than mono or stereo options on output of an AIFF.by Andrew Kines - Café LA
multitrack WAV to AIFF - 12 years ago
What are people using to convert polyphonic WAVs to polyphonic AIFFs? Andreas' BWF2XML used to be the thing in the BWF era. I couldn't get it to work on these DEVA files I have sitting in front of me. Anything else out there that recognizes multitrack files and maintains the tracks and freq/bit depth? thanksby Andrew Kines - Café LA
Re: Andy's Timecode Generator - 12 years ago
I use the slug method. You can save crop settings and TC Reader into your favourites for quick setup (Bottom CentreBIG, Top LeftSMALL etc) One gotcha is that FCP remembers the TC you apply to the slug and, while I haven't fully investigated this, if you add the slug to two sequences and change the TC of the slug in one sequence it will change in the other. That may be an argument for using a blby Andrew Kines - Café LA
