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Re: Efficiently Removing a Filter Effect - 15 years ago
Good piece of lateral thinking Jude. I could simply lay over another layer of color correction but I wanted to know if there was a way to deal with this issue in my case and on a broader scale. Programatically it would be easy for Apple developers to add layer of boolean search and replace in the timeline to deal with filters or even allow a global reordering of the filtration layers. I am surby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Efficiently Removing a Filter Effect - 15 years ago
If it was only a few edits this approach would be practical. The timeline I am talking about has over 400 edits in it with 2 camera angles. I can do a *find* on the camera angle and then apply a filter but how does one remove a filter amongst several applied throughout the timeline and do it within a minute? There must be a way.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Efficiently Removing a Filter Effect - 15 years ago
Say you have several filter effects stacked up in various clips in a timeline and you want to globally remove one. An example: You have applied filters throughout clips to adjust the levels, color correct and make broadcast safe. You decide you have gone too far with a particular color correction and you want to globally remove the filter and give it another stab rather than stacking up anotheby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Multiple Cameras Into iMac with FCP5 - 15 years ago
Run all your cameras with microphones (make sure they work!!), get them all running and then give a good "clap" of the hands before the talking starts. If you have to run more than one tape in each camera due to run time of the shoot then give a clap at the start of each new run of tape. The clap will be your reference point to align all your camera angles in FCP. You set your "inby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Apple RAID card - 15 years ago
Check here for RAID reviews. Several cards that do MUCH more for much less.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Multiclip multicam question - 15 years ago
Yes if it is something like a Sony Z1U you should simply use the onboard downconversion built into the camera. It's simple. It works and it's fast.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: YouTube Format? - 15 years ago
I have not seen anywhere a statement that YouTube is abandoning Flash Video. H.264 is being added to the mix. Check the language.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Audio input problem with HDV - 15 years ago
Could be FCP or your camera causing the problem. It would help if we knew what kind of Sony HDV camera you have and are you using the built in mic or an external mic. If an external is your mic phantom powered? If unsure please indicate. There are lots of variables. The menus in the Sony HDV cams are confusing including the audio portion. It could be a bunch of things apart from the menu selectioby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Audio Levels for DVCAM v. Beta - 15 years ago
Think of -12 dB in FCP as 0 dB. Using zero dB as the peak limit point is the way things were done in the analogue world. Unfortunately, a lot of the digital tricks are not as well known. It is actually spelled out quite well in the FCP "Editing" Manual. It talks about how to set up your audio for broadcast and film and so on. It also does a good job of explaining in short order someby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: "Silent Movie" text & decorations - 15 years ago
Some good ideas above. I would look for "hot metal type fonts" or "Art Nouveau" fonts. Richard Beatty has done some really nice reproductions of French decorative typefaces from the 1920's or thereabouts, like "Childs" and "Recherche" the idea of adding a slight amount of grey into white type against a black background is a good idea. You might want to addby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Editing HD wither laptop or tower - 15 years ago
Ultimately I figure I should be using a Mac Pro so I can eek out all the juice I can to run FCP, Motion and chew through HD material. With the new MacBook Pros on the market, the new Apple ProRez 422 codec and solutions like the Matrox MXO have I now just dodged a bullet in HAVING to move to a tower? Or should I just bite it and get the Mac Pro with a proper RAID setup and a KONA card. I kby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Which Cam to choose? - 15 years ago
Excellent post Dan. It refreshing to hear a level headed production perspective on using these cameras showing that each of them are tools sometimes better suited to different kinds of production work. Hyperbole and boosterism only helps the manufacturers of the products being lauded.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Sonnet Tempo Controller with Burly Box Raid - 15 years ago
You can buy RAID controller cards to go in your PCIe or PCIx slots depending on the kind of Mac you have that do RAID 5. They are in the $200 to $300 range. Here is one reviewed on the AMUG site.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: eSata on a MacBook Pro - 15 years ago
The firmtek one on John Foley's site is the one you want. It was reviewed on the BareFeats website a number of months ago to much praise. I use a SATA PCMCIA card on my older powerbook and I cannot live without it. Apple dropped the ball big time IMO by not including 2 port mutlitplying SATA ports on its newly refreshed MacBook Pros.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: is USB 2.0 fast enough for FCP work? - 15 years ago
Loren Miller Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > FireWire's a deliberately designed digital video > prototcol-- streaming as opposed to USB's PACKETS. Your first statement is correct but your second one is misleading to a degree but I think it is more a confusion of terminology. Every I/O protocol uses a form of packets or error correction by either wraby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: is USB 2.0 fast enough for FCP work? - 15 years ago
Some of the confusion about the perceived speed of USB 2.0 throughput maybe a result of some people seeing it in Windows configurations versus Macintosh ones. Windows laptops and boxen often have WAAAAY better USB throughput than their Mac counterparts. I've seen it evidence of this more than a few times. USB 2.0 on a Mac is generally way slower than on a windows box.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: RAID Maintnenance? - 15 years ago
Not trying to be too flippant. RAID 0 to me is like riding a 1000 cc sportbike riding stoopid fast wearing on shorts, a t-shirt and flip flops just praying that you aren't going to wipe out. I ride such a bike and wear leathers. I would suggest that RAID 5 be a minimum form of protection with a backup scheme in your near future. Hardrive and RAID boxes are cheap now when you are using SATA solutiby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: What Control Surface Do You Use? - 15 years ago
No not the BCF2000. I have heard it is good bang for the buck. I seem to recall the product is end of life meaning they will be blowing them out. I could be wrong on that but something tells me I heard this a couple of weeks ago. Sure looks like a good unit. Behringer gets slagged a lot by some musicians as being low brow product but the reality is that some of their stuff is really high qualby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Control Surface - Novation Remote 0 SL - 15 years ago
Daryl, I got a reply of yours to an older thread and gave you a detailed response. Rather than pastebombing the reply here. You can read it here towards the bottom of the thread. In summary I would say that the ReMOTE 0 SL is more than enough for your needs. Ableton Live is where you are really going to use it. The Mackie is overkill and takes up serious desk space. You can use the extra coinby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Control Surface - An opportunity... - 15 years ago
I haven't seen the related thread that you reference but have you checked out The Lemer by Jazz Mutant? It's half way between your price extremes of 1K and 5K but it may fit the bill and has serious geek chic attached to it.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: What Control Surface Do You Use? - 15 years ago
daryl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone use the Novation Remote SL 0? > > It would be good to know if thias works as a much > cheaper alternative to the Mackie Control. Daryl, if you are talking about the recently released version of the Mackie Control unit, the base unit costs over a grand and the add on modules, I believe, are in tby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Will Color Install on a Laptop w a Large Ext. Monitor - 15 years ago
Jamie Kelley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Color GUI is not even remotely familiar to me. > Very different from Apple's interface. Note that > Color only accepts FCP sequences, not clips. That's too bad. Makes sense if you are a big production house where a colorist would work on a sequence or an entire movie. There are a lot of people usinby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: FCP editing using external SATA drive & SATA PCMCIA card - 15 years ago
So the portmultipling PCMCIA SATA card is located on [ this ] page. You will see it towards the bottom of the page -- second from the bottom. If you want to get a cheap and nasty RAID setup or a box to run a set of unRAIDed disks, commoned referred to as a JBOD (Just a bunch of disks) setup, you should jones around the AMUG reviews section. It's a bit overwhelming at first due to all the technby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: FCP editing using external SATA drive & SATA PCMCIA card - 15 years ago
willrho Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does any one currently edit FCP using an external > SATA drive & SATA PMCIA card? If so, what are the > pros/cons? I have that exact setup of a PB G4 1.5Ghz with a SATA PCMCIA card with 2 external SATA drives hooked up. I got the card from wiebetech.com. It is great for the reason that Shane has alreaby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Will Color Install on a Laptop w a Large Ext. Monitor - 15 years ago
braker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have no idea whether or how it checked for the > external monitor, but Color installed and runs > just fine on my 15" PowerBook. I have a 1600 x > 1200 external monitor. That is good, very good. I have a similar setup. Do you notice any subjective performance increase or decrease in general FCP useby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Will Color Install on a Laptop w a Large Ext. Monitor - 15 years ago
Has anyone attempted to install FCS 2 on a laptop other than a 17" MacBook Pro using a large external monitor that meets the requirements for Color to install? Apple is vague as to whether or not an external monitor will *make* Color install or not. -Andrew Stoneby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Upgrade Issue. Very boring. Do not read. - 15 years ago
I hope you are correct Mike... I have updated the page with screenshots and PDFs of the "buy pages" for FCS 2. If you need them to bolster your case with Apple you can find them [ here ].by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Upgrade Issue. Very boring. Do not read. - 15 years ago
Jamie Kelley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > FWIW, I expect that Apple just wants to see a > retail version of the FCP gene in your pedigree. Jamie, If that is true then that sounds fair but it sure sounds like it isn't. From what I recall about the crossgrade offer owning FCP 4.5 was the lowest entry point into the crossgrade offer in terms of eby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Upgrade Issue. Very boring. Do not read. - 15 years ago
Apple is going will be eating crow on this one. It may take a few weeks but it all starts here. The influential blogs like TUAW and Engadget need to be informed. Here is a link to a webpage that contains a screenshot of the Apple "buy page" with the copy that incriminates Apple should they chose to be hard assed about it. I suggest you download this image. I have also made a PDF ofby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Stereo tracks in FCP & Sound Soap - 15 years ago
SoundSoap 2 is amazing. As suggested try out the noise reduction stuff in Soundtrack Pro and if you feel it's not doing it for you try SoundSoap. It's cheap in the scheme of things and requires almost no time to figure out.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
