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Re: FCP Dissolve/Slug Issue - 18 years ago
Your sequence is haunted. Fascinating. Never seen this, but I never dissolve to slug unless I need to fill a gap in prep for nesting and global timecode application. Have you tried dissolving to "air"-- that is, no slug? Have you tired dissolving to a color matt clip? Ultimately your best workaround might be to simply ramp opacity to zero. HTH - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip:by Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: FCP Dissolve/Slug Issue - 18 years ago
Bill, what happens when you try to match frame one of those irrelvant clips? Does the master come up in the viewer? I have seen this sort of behavior on a 24P-to 29.97 feature project orginally from HDCAM, started in FCP 3.x and restored in FCP 4.5. Random, unasked-for clips came in during the recapture. Drove us crazy and the only solution was hand-recapturing the right clips. FCP team wantedby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Sony DSR 20 - wierd technical problem - 18 years ago
There's another stuck tape issue that I encountered on my DSR-40, the 20's bigger brother. In this case the DVCAM tape had successfully dethreaded but was stuck in the load alley. I took off the cover and examined it. Probing with a greenie stick I pressed down on the cassette box ever so slightly, and it ejected. The cassette plastic had bowed up probably less than a millimeter-- could barelyby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Downsizing! - 18 years ago
I like Nick's method 1 except that you should include *all* active sequences requiring media if there's more than one in your project-- to list all truly unused media! - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Editing Documentary - 18 years ago
Transcripts of all interview tracks! The organzation phase should include verbatim transcripts. These will allow you to tackle expressed ideas at the speed of thought. Build a Paper Cut or a digital relative of it, from annotated transcripts and you'll sail into Final Cut. Popular annotation includes- - Camera comp in the margin, when it changes - special marks for visual values - timing dots aby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: G5 Shut Down - 18 years ago
Ah, sure sign of a veteran Avid editor. Check your Scratch Disks pane; you likely have "Capture to separate drives" checked. HDV is a strema just like DV, doesn't like being separated. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: how do you un-nest (remove nesting) a sequence? - 18 years ago
[ can I do command overwrite with the 29.97 clips over the 23.98 clips?] You need to hear from people here who do 23.98 regularly; I have limited seat time in it. I find it taxed my Dual 800 CPU pretty severely in RT, transcoding for 29.97 output on the fly. I also don't like the idea of mixing media types. One of them will probably have to be rendered for best results. There's a Cinema Tool oby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: how do you un-nest (remove nesting) a sequence? - 18 years ago
But I agree with John, RTFM!! - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: how do you un-nest (remove nesting) a sequence? - 18 years ago
To de-nest drag the nest sequence from the Browser into your timeline with Command held down. Clips should appear instead of a nest. If any or all are offline, de-nesting won't help. Yes, nesting happens easily whenever you drag one sequence to the timeline into another. To bring in the constituent clps instead, drag with Command. You can use Command with the Edit Overlay too. And the keyboardby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: G5 Shut Down - 18 years ago
Energy Saver control panel? There may be a scheduled shutdown at work. Nothing else comes to mind. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Utilities.... - 18 years ago
At the very least it should be a tiny Dock pinned to the lower right corner. It's possible you have some Dock prefs set which fight it. Checkl Dock contorl panel. I have mine set to Right, no magnification, etc. You did archive your original Dock plist, right? - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional plaby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: It's just a gradient... - 18 years ago
Would a small amount of Gaussian Blur applied at some stage help? - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Utilities.... - 18 years ago
Wayne, check for "one more thing" at the end of that article. I'm still using the solution described there and it works fine in Panther and Tiger. I max out my timeline edge to edge and along the bottom of the Cinema Display without the Dock popping over it. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: How to capture 1st 3 seconds ? - 18 years ago
[ try to educate as many camera folks as possible about WHY we need preroll. ] Mark, you bring hope to alienated offliners everywhere, working "reality" or reality. Must be a way to have both smooth VITC for capture and TOD for reference. [ In a digital setup, when's the last time anyone actually used bars?] I use 'em for the dupe house masters, if the clent still wants VHS, and cby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Utilities.... - 18 years ago
Onyx is a nice full-featured OSX housekeeping utility. FCP Rescue is *very* important for uninterrupted workflow. Great piece of scripting. Now, if rather than PC or Unix you came from Mac OS9 -- there are still a few holdouts -- and you're hurting for some of the classic interface with OSX snap and pizazz, that's another set of utilities. Check this out: www.lafcpug.org/feature_osx_tools.htmby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: FCP into LiveType = media offline and gone forever. - 18 years ago
Yeah, happened to me too, last month, FCP 4.5 under panther 10.3.7. I used a media file as a background in LiveType to compose lower thirds. Next thing I knew, after the round trip, the media file was offline. And dead and gone. Had to recapture it from the offline clip. Must say I'm impressed with that first edition of LiveType for its media shredding ability. :-( I knew there was a reason whby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: firewire drives ? - 18 years ago
Raid, yes, but not individual disks you can break apart and store. Still think SATA's a better idea. FireWire can be awfully funky. (And I'm a big FireWire fan.) - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Preview effects sections with Option-P or Option-Backslash! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: How to capture 1st 3 seconds ? - 18 years ago
Kevin, be aware that a lot of multicamera "reaiity" shows don't give a damn about breaks. As one studio guy here said, "just do a digital layoff." To which I reply, "HAH?? To what other 50,000-dollar deck here in my boutique studio?" Other than inexperience with camera menus, some say they need the broken TOD code for story reference, and that's surely useful. But tby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: DVD ripping (legal) - 18 years ago
I love Cinematize II. 60 bucks. Full featured, clean interface, very straightforward In-Out selection, right from your TS file on disk. Exports to QuickTime. Beautiful. I do not own stock... - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Set a Level keyframe with Command-Option K ! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: firewire drives ? - 18 years ago
Firewire 800 drives are cool and most of the D2 designs have a triple interface-- 400, 800, and USB 2.0-- which you don't use for media disks; USB slow or high is just not made for time-based media. However, I purposely avoid "Big Disks" because if/when they go south you have Big Delays. At the moment, for DVCAM work, I have three 160 GB D2's, going into two host adapter cards. I haveby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: jumpy stills and out of focus - 18 years ago
Did you thread the projector correctly? Just kididng. What format are they? The best candidates for native FCP mo-co are PSD and TIFF. Too many artifacts in JPEG compression, unless very high quality-- (and then why compress in JPEG?) Also, make sure they're RGB colorspace. As for focus, check to see if a Gaussian Blur filter has been applied. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Set a Level keby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: OT: Murch and SuperMeet NAB Podcasts Now Posted - 18 years ago
And remember, if the Pixel Core won't let you in-- there's always the BITMAP ALLIANCE!! ;-) - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Set a Level keyframe with Command-Option K ! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Final Cut V.S Avid - 18 years ago
Okay, back on topic. My pie in the sky: You will see a new version of FCP when you see a new version of the hardware. I suspect they will be intimately related as never before. This was Avid's philosophy of design, creating specific hardware added to the Mac to increase performance. Ungainly but effective. What'll happen at Apple hopefully by MacWorld 07 is probably Intel Woodcrest (big time duby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Photoshop Layers not opening - 18 years ago
I opened an imported, layered PSD recently which was oversize, about 3600 pixels wide, 1900 tall, which I needed for zoom-in. On my Dual 800 it definitely took several seconds of Spinning Beachball of Death before it revealed in the timeline. Are you allowing time? The mor elayers, the more time. Other notions: Do you have any empty layers in the file? FCP doesn't like them. Are you attemptinby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: FCP thinks it's dropframe when it's not - 18 years ago
Also, is Drp Frame really an issue? If you're going to air, you *want* to be in DF. Broadcast relies on the clock on the wall. That's what Drop Frame delivers. - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Set a Level keyframe with Command-Option K ! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Black levels for broadcast - 18 years ago
Based on this dicussion, does the Broadcast Safe filter have any value at all? - Loren Today's FCP 5 keytip: Set a Level keyframe with Command-Option K ! The FCP 5 KeyGuide?: a professional placemat. Now available at KeyGuide Central: www.neotrondesign.comby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Varicam HD Workflow - 18 years ago
DVCOPro HD was added to FCP 4.5-- that's why it's called FCP HD. It was the big news of two NABS ago. Here's what I'm in the middle of doing for my Dual 800-- just one generation behind Dan's, to run FC Studio, all apps. 1) Larger ATA hard drives. Just migrated everything to two Western Digitals, tunning great. 2) Sonnet Encore ST Duet 1.8 Ghz processor upgrade. Comes with its own fan so I'm nby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Seeking HDV Worlkflow advise - 18 years ago
Just adding my .02, this is definitely a preferred workflow for HDV. There's another, but not through JVC, as ar as know. Sony Z1U and I think Canon H1 allow live downconvert to SD -- the Sony camera offers more options-- right to DVCAM, live, over FireWire. I have seat time testing the Z1U so it impressed me. This to my thinking is a great way to finish in SD and future proof in HD. I attendeby Loren Miller - Café LA
