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Re: subtitles´font - 18 years agoI'm a big fan of Arial Black and Helvetica Bold for subtitles. Simple, clean, nothing fancy. One film student I saw used Papyrus (!) for subtitles on his samurai film and it kinda worked -- somewhat motivated -- but unfortunately, he also had typos and grammar errors up the culo.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Automated text insertion into FCP project - 18 years ago> directors aren't so stupid they cant cope with burnt-in timecode, are they? "What are those numbers? Is that the amount I get paid? The longer the movie, the more my salary? Let's make the movie eight hours long and I'll get $8 million!" I really hope you're dealing with a short film. If it's a feature...whoa Nelly, we're talking thousands of numbers, more if you have a cut-iby derekmok - Café LA Re: capturing audio probs - 18 years ago17GB of free space for 10GB of media to be captured just isn't enough. Free up some space on your target drive, use DiskWarrior on it, dump preferences and repair permissions, the whole shebang. See if your performance improves. Off sync doesn't sound like a cable problem, especially if your sync is off by a consistent amount from capture to capture. Sounds like a software problem.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Edit To Tape Error - 18 years agoWhat exactly are your Sequence settings? Do they match your clips' capture settings? > I did try a couple of exports in an attempt to make a quicktime small enough > to fit on a DVD(my sequence is one hour and seventeen minutes long), > without any luck. Forget the DVD for now. If you are able to create a QuickTime movie of your whole edit using one codec, put that into a brand-newby derekmok - Café LA Re: WHY does FCP drop my Audio on Export?? - 18 years agoNick's right -- audio mixdown creates very small render files and shouldn't cause you any problems. Sounds like you have other issues -- perhaps corrupt preferences, or even more likely, a Scratch Disk that's too full. Where are you sending your render files? Also, try to split your 100-minute edit into multiple sequences. Combine them later. You're trying to do 100 minutes worth of renderinby derekmok - Café LA Re: WHY does FCP drop my Audio on Export?? - 18 years agoIt's an additional audio render which optimizes playback.by derekmok - Café LA Re: WHY does FCP drop my Audio on Export?? - 18 years agoDid you mixdown your audio (OPTION-APPLE-R) before exporting? Render All takes care of audio enough for playback, but not enough for export.by derekmok - Café LA Re: missing audio files - 18 years ago> a 4gig "video optimized" raid was $6grand Ouch, ouch. My first external FireWire drive bought in 2000 was $800 for 42GB. And in the beginning on Adobe Premiere, we used SVHS decks...and JAZ disks. $100 for a mammoth 2GB of storage!by derekmok - Café LA Re: missing audio files - 18 years agoI'm just wondering: What was your original impetus for the separate video/audio captures? It just seems to be an extra step, unnecessary sync work. It's so much easier to divide the two in FCP once captured in sync, rather than try to remarry them after forcing them apart.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Dropped Frames... - 18 years agoI've never had major trouble playing clips back from the system drive. But I agree -- with the amount of data in video clips, it'd probably be safer to leave them off your system drive. I personally don't keep anything except partial render files (eg. projects I keep on my computer for a long time) and small video clips (eg. my customized bars, tone, countdown) on the system drive. As for exteby derekmok - Café LA Re: .wmv files - 18 years agoJust out of curiosity, why 240x180? My original frame size was 720x480, so mathematically speaking each dimension divided by 3 should yield 240x160. Wouldn't converting to 240x180 be distorting the shape of my frames? So if I wish to control the bit rate, eg. 500kbps, I'll need to select the CBR option? My material will be heavily action-based -- two dialogue scenes, but a lot of montage-typeby derekmok - Café LA Re: .wmv files - 18 years agoAha! Thanks for the tip, Ian -- my mindset is still stuck in film/tape/DVD modes. The length issue is probably the key. Half the size, double the quality. Is it me, or do editor's reels seem much trickier? DPs can just show off as many (or as few) great-looking shots as possible; actors can include short scenes, but editors have to show a substantial length of a scene before you get a senseby derekmok - Café LA Re: .wmv files - 18 years agoI'm using Flip4Mac WMV Studio. The original media file, a QuickTime movie exported from Final Cut Pro, is 00:07:29:00 at DV - NTSC codec. Coding was at One Pass VBR (only One Pass VBR and One Pass CBR are available here -- does that seem right?), Quality 90, 185 kbits/second, keyframe every 5.0 seconds. Input frame frame was set to Progressive, and I constrained the output frame to 240x160, atby derekmok - Café LA Re: .wmv files - 18 years agoHey Craig, Nick etc., I've just started using Flip4Mac to experiment with WMV files -- I'm prepping media for my own website -- but my first test has yielded shaky results. Quality is horrible (I tried 90 Quality, 240x160 frame size, or 1/3 of the dimensions of the original clip), and the file still seems big (25.8MB) for internet purposes. What are the best settings to use for a good quality/by derekmok - Café LA Re: Master Clip - 18 years ago> in outs are more about selecting the choiceest parts of the clip, and discarding > others. That's true. But I look at sub-clipping like logging -- leave no clip undone, because it's such a pain in the neck to go back and get them later -- you know, having to figure out what you skipped and so on. > with a clip in the viewer, control or right click in the timecode field (top right)by derekmok - Café LA Re: Where in the world is my project saving? - 18 years agoMost new users remember to rename the file but forget to put it in the right location, or vice versa. We've all been there!by derekmok - Café LA Re: Master Clip - 18 years agoYou can also use Markers -- press 'm' in the Viewer every time you hit the first frame of a clip you want as a separate piece. Once you've done your entire master clip, select all the markers (which will appear in the Browser under your master clip), then Modify - Make Subclip. Not a better method than the one above; just different. You have to use Apple-U less frequently with this marker methby derekmok - Café LA Re: Black screen when capturing... - 18 years ago> I get an error message. "Attempt to capture video without a device selcted. > Please select a device in your capture presets and try again". I check and DV > NTSC is selected. But, as stated earler in View --> Video Playback, it says > MISSING Apple Firewire Device. Anna, you're not quite looking in the right place for the settings, though what you're seeing is relby derekmok - Café LA Re: Our thoughts are with our friends in the UK today - 18 years agoTwo excellent Op-Ed articles in the New York Times on this whole issue:by derekmok - Café LA Re: little glitch in FCPHD - 18 years agoTo add to the discussion, I've actually seen cases where that happens and the window display size is *not* the culprit. On my own computer, when I export a QuickTime movie with chapter markers and then open it in FCP to check it, sometimes I get a movie file whose first frame is stuck at a display size that's double what it should be. Quitting FCP and then re-opening that same file tends to getby derekmok - Café LA Re: Black screen when capturing... - 18 years agoA couple of things to check: 1. Did you log the clips into a batch list, or are you using Capture Now? 2. Do you have Mirror on Desktop turned on? 3. Do you have timecode breaks? Timecode breaks will cause your clip durations to go batty -- for example, if your clip's Media Start is at 01:00:10:00 but timecode breaks at 01:01:00:00 and skips forward to 03:00:00:00, FCP will think the clipby derekmok - Café LA Re: exporting - 18 years ago> When I used the QT export I selected mpeg-4 as the type and set it for the > best quality. What was your footage captured as? Try exporting in DV - NTSC codec, if your footage is DV. When I used iDVD way back when, I had problems when I tried to put MPEG-4 movie files into an iDVD project. Other people in this forum have told me that iDVD doesn't like it when you try to pre-compressby derekmok - Café LA Re: My Timeline has gone - 18 years agoAre you able to open the Sequence from your Browser?by derekmok - Café LA Re: exporting - 18 years ago> I'm trying to create a DVD reel using Final Cut Express and iDVD and I've > noticed a loss of video quality in the final product. That's always going to happen -- the question is how much quality and whether you're satisfied with it. > I've noticed that when you use the Export as Quicktime option, in FCE, a > larger and presumably higher res file is created but then chapter markby derekmok - Café LA Re: great forum - 18 years agoThe archive seems to go back quite a ways (for the exact amount of time archived, Mike would probably be the one to ask), but if you have a specific issue, you can always post a new thread and ask the question again. One great thing I've found here is that Mike, Graeme, Nick, Chi-Ho and the other gurus don't ever get impatient -- they'll answer the same question several times, and this forum isby derekmok - Café LA Re: white flashes during cut Transitions? - 18 years agoIt also depends on the aesthetic you're looking for. Are you looking to simulate camera vignetting? Last time I did this look, I was shrinking VHS footage which was ultra badly saturated (taped off a TV, for cryin' out loud), so I was hiding the poor quality of the footage with effects. I dropped a shadow behind the clip, shrank it to about 80 per cent, and kept the hard edges of the Mask Shapby derekmok - Café LA Re: Render Manager issues - 18 years agoWere the 5GB of render files you had deleted actually on the same disk as your current Scratch Disk? 8GB is still pretty low -- I'd suggest freeing up some more room. Also, shut down FCP when you're done and restart it.by derekmok - Café LA Re: How do you reformat an external firewire drive from DOS to Mac? - 18 years agoYeah, I haven't noticed any case where it helped. Superstition, probably. Maybe a super-fragmented drive benefits from it? In any case, it takes something like two hours to format a 200GB drive versus just 10 seconds without Write Zeroes, so I'm guessing it's not a superstition that's worth it.by derekmok - Café LA Re: white flashes during cut Transitions? - 18 years agoWhite colour mattes with a slow fade in and a very quick fade out. Sometimes I also use a super-lightened version of the incoming frame rather than a white matte. And in some cases, even a channel invert filter can look interesting. I like this technique because it gives you complete control over how fast, how long.by derekmok - Café LA Re: Captured 24p Advanced Wrong - 18 years agoHey Graeme, just wanted to insert a post in here to get updates on this thread. A friend of mine is two weeks away from an HD shoot and it will be my first time dealing with 24 fps.by derekmok - Café LA |
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