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Show all posts by userYour 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: WAY OT: mouse out of gas... - 18 years ago"WOW, this is all good info! i just set up a friends brand new g5 with a wireless logitec mouse and the system seems a bit shakey..." Yep, I helped a friend who insisted on a wireless set up and on his system the keyboard functions you take for granted were very funky. Apple "s" wouldn't save, apple "q" wouildn't quit. He has to use "control" s or whatevby kevin - Café LA Re: stereo pair to same mono on 1 & 2 - 18 years agoNo, i wanted to end up with the same mixed audio on track 1 & 2. I did the pan to center then exported and ended up with voice and music on 1 track and voice only on the other when I exported. Wierd. Any sugestions? Kevinby kevin - Café LA stereo pair to same mono on 1 & 2 - 18 years agoI have a section of video with voice track being track 2 and the music is track 1. How do I export as a quicktime movie so I get both tracks on channel 1 and 2? Thanx, Kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: text and image jitter - 18 years agoUse Boris 3d titler that comes with FCP. That will solve many of the issues. Also, are you watching the footage on a ntsc monitor? or on your computer monitor? To see graphics correctly you need that ntsc monitor. Some of the other stuff I can't help you with. As a side note, if your working in DV some of these issues won't go away because of the limitations of the format. Good luck1 kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: HDV - 18 years agoOk... deep breath. I don't think Wayne was dumping on your HDV. There are options that come from that question. I'm outputting my HDV shows back to tape in my next show and then downconverting them to DVD for the time being. The Z1 will do that downconvert on the fly in a couple different ways. I don't believe there are HDV DVD players out there yet. This is new technology and is part of the Bluby kevin - Café LA Re: my jittery HDV clips for download - 18 years agoHeres one that you might find interesting. All shot on an FX1 with green screen background. Caught the thread about it at the Cow. kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: my jittery HDV clips for download - 18 years agoHey Wayne! I've got 3 shows on the burners right now, the HDV show is second in line to a straight DV show I'm doing with a deadline. I'll post them in a while. Kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: my jittery HDV clips for download - 18 years agoWhen I get the chance I'll post up the clips. Just as an aside I would love to have the dough to shoot HD vs HDV. I don't have that kind of cash for the camera or equipment. Is HDV a format that will replace HD? No way. Can beautiful things be done with a Z1 that look fantastic? Absolutely. Over at Creative Cow I've read threads where "Discovery Channel" experts have interspliced HDVby kevin - Café LA Re: copy title parameters - 18 years agoI don't know if I can explain it any better. Make your first set of titles as you want them all to appear, apply them to the timeline as you would normally. Select that clip in the timeline, apple c to copy it. Now set in and out points of where you want the next title to be, now apple v. You will now have 2 of the same titles on your timeline. Double click on the one you want to change in the tiby kevin - Café LA Re: FCP 4.5 Glitch - 18 years agoHow much room is on the hard drive that holds your scratch disk? How big is your scratch disk? kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: copy title parameters - 18 years agoMake your first title as you want it, select it in your timeline, press apple c, make sure the video layer you want the next title to appear on is selected, set in and out points, press apple v. Then double click on the new title clip, in the viewer change your copy and viola, new title with same parameters as first. Others may have a faster way, thats how I do it. kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: my jittery HDV clips for download - 18 years agoWayne, I don't know why you've made it a personal crusade to bash HDV a couple of times a day, but for me as with Steve I've done great stuff with the camera and love it. Fast movement and all. Right now I'm in the middle of editing something so I won't get a chance to put a couple of clips up for you. Give me a week or so and maybe you can point out in my clips what your seeing in yours. I don'by kevin - Café LA Re: FCP 4.5 Glitch - 18 years agoYou didn't give us enough info. Computer? OS? Amount of ram? Sounds like a classic case of over loaded hard drives. No hard drive should be more than 80% full including the system drive. I personally never go over 70% full and because of that I never have many of the dropped frames etc. that many others report. Your not daisey chaining external firewire drives together are you? good luck! evby kevin - Café LA Re: Jaggies and blurriness - 18 years agoWhen filming make sure you are NOT using any of the auto settings for f stop, gain, etc. This is a known problem with the Z1 and FX1. If in auto the cameras computer will do funny things to try and compensate for what it thinks you need and gives you bad footage. good luck! Kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: multiple HDV ??s from an HD newbie - 18 years agoI've seen footage that looks great with action in it done in HDV on a sony Z1. I've filmed doves flying out of a scene and it looks great, flapping wings and all. The problem that happens with the Sony, and they warn about it, is when shooting and not setting ALL things manually but only a portion of them it can cause the camera to do wierd things trying to compensate for it. Classic is to leaveby kevin - Café LA Re: Converting HDV to SD - 18 years agoDown convert on capture from your z1. It has the ability to do the conversion to standard dv on the fly and it will provide you with matching codecs for your timeline. As far as I know, FCP doesn't allow to mix formats in the timeline. good luck! Kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: camera set ups using Sony PD 150 and a Canon XL 2 - 18 years agoThey are quite a bit different! I've had to try and match those up and what I ended up doing was to use one camera for all close ups and the other for longer shots. The Xl2 was quite a bit sharper, the pd 150 gave a better looking flesh tone IMHO. I could never get them to match perfectly, but after showing the completed video to the unknowing public the only people that noticed were me and thoseby kevin - Café LA Re: HDV video observation - 18 years agoWhoops!!!! OK, you caught me. Too much wine on a Saturday. www.handsonhdv.com Forgot the "H". Kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: HDV video observation - 18 years agoOne thing that is confusing and can cause bad footage is that the Z1 needs ALL settings to be handled in manual mode or the camera over rides what is set manually to try and give you a good image. Meaning you have to set the gain, f stop, white balance, etc, all manually. A very bizarre way to set things up but the way it works. There is a great DVD on using the Z1 or the FX 1 that covers why itby kevin - Café LA Re: "Z1 to FCP HD- Step by step for this low tech ignoramus" - 18 years agoBetter to post this on the forum, that way you can get the most help and help others. I'm definitetly not an expert! By what you have related something is amiss in your settings. I had that same problem after viewing some footage in HDV and going back to DV. I'd changed all my settings but the timeline was still "set" to HDV, so all my dv footage was having to be rendered. Close out thaby kevin - Café LA Re: "Z1 to FCP HD- Step by step for this low tech ignoramus" - 18 years agoFirst off, you need FCP 5 to edit HDV footage. That being said, since part of it was captured SD I'd downconvert the HDV footage out of the camera to dv into FCP and cut it all in standard dv. If that isn't an option I'd capture all and use compressor to "up rez" the footage that isn't HDV. It obviously isn't going to work as well but it is an option. good luck! kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: OT - i need a hug - 18 years ago"Try doing that with an obnocious in-law from New York visiting!!" P.S. That is not to say New Yorkers are bad. Please, no flaming, it read different than I mean't it. Kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: OT - i need a hug - 18 years agoI feel your pain!! I've watched the Padres get thier ass kicked twice now in the World Series. Try doing that with an obnocious in-law from New York visiting!! :0 They still had a great year. Kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: OT; what the FX1 can do in the right hands - 18 years ago"not even the XL1 in front of a green screen." oops!! Mean't the Z1. Kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: How do you output from FCP? - 18 years agoExport your finished project as a self contained movie, open in FCP, have your HDV camera hooked up via firewire in VCR mode, choose "export to tape" function in FCP, hit record on your camera. Good luck! Kevin P.S. You can take that self contained movie that is on your computor into Compressor, down convert to DV, then burn that in iDVD for an easy distribution option.by kevin - Café LA OT; what the FX1 can do in the right hands - 18 years agoSaw this thread over at the cow and the footage is beauuutiful! Shot on a FX1, not even the XL1 in front of a green screen. So much argument going on about HDV, it shows how good it can look! Kevinby kevin - Café LA Re: Tiff file GKX not importing - 18 years agoWhat he said. That probably means it is a PC made tif, or that it is greyscale or cmyk and not rgb. Open in photoshop on your mac, make sure it is rgb and do a save as. BTW, I didn't know you could save transparent layers as a tif. You may have to save it as a PSD file for that, which is fine, FCP likes those too. good luck! Kevinby kevin - Café LA |
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