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Re: How do you reformat an external firewire drive from DOS to Mac? - 18 years agoHey Michael, very smart of you to reformat the drives before using them. An extremely important but often neglected step. I usually spend the extra time to "Write zeroes" as well -- haven't really noticed a difference in performance, though.by derekmok - Café LA Re: compressor pressure - 18 years agoI've always had problems using the "Export - Using Compressor" as well. I usually just export a full-quality QuickTime movie (I often need to output to tape anyway), then drag that into Compressor. No problems with that method.by derekmok - Café LA Re: audio into fcp - 18 years ago> this is a good example of when better gear isnt always the best decision... Well, Wayne, you could also argue that in both our cases, it's because we still haven't gotten the "best" gear -- a fully insulated studio in Woodstock, NY rather than an apartment, for example! But it's true. If your recording conditions aren't optimal, sensitive mikes will create problems. By and largby derekmok - Café LA Re: What Have I Done Wong NOW! - 18 years agoIn case you're not comfortable with shortcut keys yet, you can access the features Nick and Shane are mentioning under menus. Linked Selection Edit - Linked Selection - Linked Selection is a toggle switch. If it's off, it overrides the linking of all clips, but preserves their linking status. Break Link (or Relink) Modify - Link - If you select a clip with a link to another, this breaks the liby derekmok - Café LA Re: dvd import - 18 years agoAssuming you're not breaking copyright law, MPEG Streamclip (http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html) does conversions from DVD to FCP-compatible QuickTime movies, but when I tried it on a commercially purchased DVD just as a test, it was unable to break through the security. I've heard recently on here that Mac the Ripper (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22715) canby derekmok - Café LA Re: audio into fcp - 18 years agoOne more thing: "Good" is a relative term. For example, a dynamic mike doesn't sound nearly as good as a condenser, but for stage purposes, or if you have a person with a very loud voice who doesn't know how to distance himself from the mike, you may actually pick a dynamic over a condenser. And then there are side effects: When I switched from a $20 dynamic to a $200 condenser, I sby derekmok - Café LA Re: audio into fcp - 18 years ago> I'm not throwing rocks at you. We all went through this. My first couple of > recordings sucked greatly and it wouldn't have made the slightest different > now many dollars American I spent on the microphone. > Do as well as you can with less expensive equipment. I don't disagree with Koz, but at the same time I'd like to offer an alternate viewpoint: I did music recording for yby derekmok - Café LA Re: Burning disks w/DVD Studio Pro 4 - 18 years agoAlso, in my experience, using "Build" and then "Format" separately works better than either "Build/Format" or "Burn". I've used Sonys and Fujis and both brands work well for me.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Export on DVD...need help - 18 years agoForty-five minutes to export even a self-contained FCP movie sounds awfully long. I've been working on a 20-minute short and the export process only takes 10 minutes. Are you sure you're doing it right? Have you rendered everything -- audio, video *and* audio mixdown -- before exporting? And you should use the Export - QuickTime Movie command, not Export - Using QuickTime Conversion. The secby derekmok - Café LA Re: audio into fcp - 18 years agoI agree with Wayne, Candela -- but don't forget the very first link in any good-quality recording: The microphone. The camera option is great, but only if you have proper equipment -- sound mixer, well-positioned mikes, good quiet sound environment to shoot in. And then there's the matter of: Do you need visuals on your subjects? It sounds like you're actually trying to get voice-only. Thatby derekmok - Café LA Re: Our thoughts are with our friends in the UK today - 18 years agoGraeme, glad to know your people are okay. I was in New York on September 11, 2001, location scouting for my thesis film (which had been scheduled for Sept. 22 -- talk about bad luck) at Canal & Broadway, and witnessed the fear and anguish first-hand. Let's come together to support the people of London. Let's not forget, too, that we should only blame those responsible -- the extremists.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Anamorphic Digital Zooming - 18 years ago> I was wondering if there was anyway I could put a widescreen matte on the > track above my video, so I could manipulate my video clip independent of the > widescreen matte, the same way you can apply a matte to a piece of filler in > AVID Yes. Two methods I use: 1. Put your main Sequence into another Sequence, then apply a Widescreen filter over the nested sequence. 2. My prby derekmok - Café LA Re: Lacie vs The World. Reason for failures? - 18 years agoA sauna for all our G5s. They work so hard, they deserve relaxation. Maybe start feeding them buffalo wings.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Chronology w/in bins - 18 years ago> I click on the reel column to get the order of the reels going from least to > highest numbers - then click on "media start" to get the start times going > from least to highest. FCP doesn't keep multiple user-selected arrangement parameters -- clicking on "Reel" and then "Media In" will not arrange things according to both those parameters -- just theby derekmok - Café LA Re: FCP>iDVD troubles...still - 18 years ago> when I use iDVD, I typically choose the most basic theme, which is from > version 4. It basically just adds a semi-translucent lower third of black Back when I used iDVD, I always picked the sky-blue one under "Old Themes". No translucent stuff, replaceable background, bare-bones, and you can even get rid of the heading it already has ("Your Photo Here". That would bby derekmok - Café LA Re: Isn't this impossible? - 18 years ago> they both play in either DV or NTSC timelines. > that's right, a DV clip in an NTSC timeline, and vice-versa. Nick, you mean PAL clip in an NTSC timeline, right? They must've beefed up FCP 5...? The question is, do the "crossover" clips play back well? In real time? Watch out, Graeme!by derekmok - Café LA Re: Drive Speed problems with DV footage? - 18 years agoBrief question -- you *did* re-format the drives before using them, right? Also, mixing down the sound (OPTION-APPLE-R) helps improve playback a lot.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Lacie vs The World. Reason for failures? - 18 years agoAre you friggin' kiddin' me!?!? I'm firmly in the "Lacies suck" camp, but even I have a hard time believing the cell-phone scenario. Wouldn't rule it out, though. I'm not about to spend my own money to find out. Suffice to say that my cell phone's never had any effect on my Promax drives.by derekmok - Café LA Re: "Out of Memory" Error (Rendering) - 18 years agoTen drives? Tell me they're not all hooked up at the same time. That's bad news.by derekmok - Café LA Re: problem with 16:9 - 18 years agoThe 16:9 setting on a clip in Final Cut Pro is entirely artificial -- for example, you can check the "Anamorphic" box on a regular clip and FCP won't know the difference. What the 16:9 marker on a clip means is that when the clip is edited into a timeline, it will behave differently -- if you edit a 16:9 clip into a 16:9 sequence, the clip will remain stretched height-wise. This stretby derekmok - Café LA Re: export clarity - 18 years ago> what is the consensus on the qt movie? 10 bit uncompressed? 8 bit? whats > the difference? Quality and file size. However, it depends on your footage. If your original captured clips are at DV NTSC, there is no point in exporting it as an Uncompressed 8-bit movie file. You'll just get a huge file whose quality is still limited by your original codec. And along the same lines, capturby derekmok - Café LA Re: External Video - 18 years agoAgreed. Jared, are you using the system hard drive as a capture drive? If you are, you should move all media to a non-system partition or an external drive. Do you know what might have filled up your hard drive to this extent? Also, a 75GB external drive is on the small side for digital editing. How much storage do you have total? As Koz and Ian have pointed out before, drives don't work weby derekmok - Café LA Re: ripple tool and a strange noise - 18 years ago> if i am cutting with a mask layer, though, i always blade that at the cut if > want to do a ripple edit, so as to avoid that issue. Yeah, that's what I do. But on this film I've been working on, we have back-to-back music (16 out of the 18-minute running time take place in a nightclub), and on the temp music at least, I had specific parts synced up to specific scenes where the lyrics aby derekmok - Café LA Re: scrolling text has alias - 18 years agoAnti-alias doesn't tend to fix motion in my experience -- it helps with "rainbowing" on the text. Are your render settings set to max? Also, have you tried de-interlacing? I don't think a Flicker filter would help, either, though I'd love to hear different opinions on that. One more thing -- if your titles are at maximum white, try reducing opacity to 90-95 per cent. That often makby derekmok - Café LA Re: scrolling text has alias, - 18 years agoAre you watching the scroll on your Canvas or Viewer? You can't trust those, especially after rendering (titles look *worse* in the Canvas and Viewer when you render). Play your titles on an external monitor, always.by derekmok - Café LA Re: FCP>iDVD troubles...still - 18 years agoWhat I've found on iDVD is that whenever you build the encoded files, the project file starts going awry. So you might want to back up your iDVD project every time you build -- then when you need to change things, rather than doing it to the project file that's already built, go back to the fresh unencoded project file.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Happy Independence Day USA - 18 years agoGraeme is an Englishman living in Canada.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Happy Independence Day USA - 18 years agoOooh...Mike, watch that you don't make Graeme unhappy there! No more Standards Conversion filters! |;}by derekmok - Café LA Re: FCP>iDVD troubles...still - 18 years agoiDVD does that a LOT. And like you, I couldn't find a viable explanation to it other than that it's a buggy program that doesn't tell you when something's wrong -- it lets you waste six hours (and in my case, numerous overnight burns) before it freezes, and sometimes it won't even get out of the "Burning" graph until you cancel it. Often, this happens with iDVD projects that I've suby derekmok - Café LA Re: ripple tool and a strange noise - 18 years agoI get your point, Nick. I just think that sometimes -- and for some people -- it's faster to do things the boneheaded way rather than figure out the "right" tool. The reason I don't use the Ripple tool often is that, in order to shave down a clip in the timeline, using Ripple means either going to the Tool Palette, click-holding on the tool box, selecting it (or pressing R-R), then exby derekmok - Café LA |
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