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Re: Upside Down Noise Gate - 17 years agoOops, I misunderstood what you were looking for. I thought you were looking for something in a high frequency range to get rid of. I should just read more carefully. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: Upside Down Noise Gate - 17 years agoCould you maybe use the High Shelf Filter for that? Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: More blur for already blurry areas - 17 years agoYou can also do it by creating a gradient matte. Use the Generators - Render - Custom Gradient and placing it on V2 above your original V1 track. Copy the V1 track to V3 and apply the blur to the V3 clip. Select V3 and rt click, choosing: composite mode - Travel Matte Luma. Go down to V2 and use the controls on the custom gradient to manipulate the gradient to the look you want. Render and vby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: Audio Mixer Fader Lock - 17 years agoHow about when the keyfame button is off? Even if it doesn't move, does the clip register a change? Offhand it sounds like some kind of redraw error. Or else the playhead is not sitting on the audio track when you're trying to move it. If the playhead is playing through a section and there is no audio on a particular track, it's slider won't move. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA re: HDV motion artifacts -- do solutions exist? - 17 years agoCould you deinterlace in AE for example? You could do an AAF export to AE using OMF files which AE can read so you're not changing the footage exporting from Avid. Do the deinterlacing in AE and then render and import back to Avid? Not an informed suggestion (I've not worked in HDV either), just a suggestion. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: Render Bar Colors - 17 years agoWell, it could be the color of already rendered material. I think it's blue, but Apple calls it "steel gray". Yeah right. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: Shake? Is it any good? - 17 years agoShake works in 3D space and FCP doesn't. Shake rotoscopes, FCP doesn't. Shake is format and resolution independant, FCP isn't. Shake has wire and rig removal, FCP doesn't. Shake has tracking and motion stabilizing abilities, FCP doesn't (I know FCP has a motion stabilizer, but it's rudimentary and barely works). That's just scratching the surface, but of all the things they can both do, Shby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: converting mxf to quicktime - 17 years agoMXF from P2 cards or MXF from XDCam discs? Flip4Mac makes a converter for XDCam footage, but it's more expensive than upgrading FCP. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: Subclips - 17 years agoYou could always merge your audio to your video and create standalone clips without the need of subclipping. That'd be even easier. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: Render Bar Colors - 17 years agoBlue is a weird one that hardly ever comes up. It means that a video card or something has enabled a real time effect that isn't supported or recognized by FCP. It'll try to play it real time, but may drop frames as a result. I don't know that I've ever come across that one more than once, and I forget why. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: Basic audio boosting crisis - 17 years agoSarah Said: Thank you so very much, Andy, for the excellent tip. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain it. Two quick questions -- first, FCP wouldn't let me choose "Soundtrack Pro Audio File". It would let me choose "Soundtrack Pro Multitrack Project" only. Not sure why... So I went ahead and chose STP Multitrack Project just to see if I could do it thatby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: REAAAALLLLY old project - 17 years agoActually the irony is that we were reading the error message wrong. It said: "The file format is newer than this version". I took that to mean that FCP's version was too new, but in reality, it was saying that the project file was too new. Must be a kinda ambiguous message if you and I both read it wrong. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: Converting from FC to QT,WMP and RPM for the web - 17 years agoYou need a converter program. Flip4Mac, or Cleaner or something like that. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: REAAAALLLLY old project - 17 years agoThis is hillarious, but apparently, the root of all my problems was a faulty premise. My friend told me the file was from FCP 2.0 (actually he said 2.1) and in fact the file was named as such. But there never was a version 2.1 of FCP. When I handed the file to Jude and Patrick (from Apple forums), they both were able to open the file in 5, but not 4. Conclusion: The project wasn't REEEEAAAby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: Basic audio boosting crisis - 17 years agoYou can solve the volume problem and the possible noise to signal ratio by sending your clip to Soundtrack Pro. Here's how it works. Right click your clip and choose: Send To: Soundtrack Pro Audio File. Choose a save name and then STP will open. Make sure nothing is highlighted in the waveform and choose: Normalize from the process menu. That will boost your audio considerably. However, asby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: REAAAALLLLY old project - 17 years agoOh dear, Jude. Don't wreck your computer tyring to get that open. I have the 5.1.1 version which is more than I expected. Thanks again for your help. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: number of clips in timeline? - 17 years agoThanks everyone. The caveat is as Mike pointed out, that it only works in sequences larger than 100 clips. Still, it'll work for "talkingeyes" since he/she said s/he had over 1000 pics. Trust me to use FCP error messages to my advantage. :-) Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: number of clips in timeline? - 17 years agoThis may sound silly, but if you select all (CMD+A) and then hit CMD+9 you'll get an error message saying: "Too many clips selected. Only the first 100 of XXX will be displayed." Well, if you have more than 100 clips, the second number (the XXX) will be the number of clips in your sequence. And you don't even have to worry about the transitions as the Item Properties dialog ignoresby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: Cross Dressing Transitions - 17 years agoThere are lots of transitions that you can create by combining different effects together. Most really cool transitions are a combo of a bunch of different things. I'm not familliar with the mosaic transition in DVDSP, but I bet you can mimic it in FCP with the effects you have right now. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: REAAAALLLLY old project - 17 years agoThanks for all the help. Jude: Thanks for the offer. If you don't mind, I'd like to zip it up and email it to you, if only to cover my bases. I was running 2.0 and 2.02 in OS 9.2.2, not classic. My old G4 had both OS 9 and OS X (Jaquar) installed on it. When I tried with FCP 3, I tried first in OS 9. When that didn't work, I uninstalled FCP and reinstalled it in OS X (not technically neceby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: REAAAALLLLY old project - 17 years agoThanks, Jude. Personally, I can't remember one way or the other, but Jerry Hoffman agrees with you over at the apple site. I wonder how you found that link because I searched on Apple's site and came up with nothing. Regardless, I tried it, at it still doesn't work. I'm kinda stumped. If I attempt to open it in 4.5, I get the following message: (approximately) Final Cut version is too newby Andy Neil - Café LA REAAAALLLLY old project - 17 years agoA friend of mine gave me some drives and an FCP project file supposedly created on FCP 2.1. He's been trying to bring it up to date or at least export the finished sequence. He gave it to me because he hasn't been able to read the project files. So far, neither can I. I pulled out my moth-balled G4 400mHz with OS 9.2 and tried opening it in FCP 3 which I have installed on it. No joy. I huntby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: having problems with the trim tool - 17 years agoIt's possible that it's a display problem, not a tool problem. Next time it happens, hit CMD+7 even though it looks as if it's not selected. I seem to remember this happening to me before, but it was just looking like it wasn't selected. It actually was. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: OT: What NOT to do with FCP - 17 years agoPersonally I thought it was hillarious! I think most of you are over thinking it. After all, it's APPALACHIAN State University. I bet the video was made by the Professor of their Film/Video major. I'm gonna have that song in my head all day. "Even when the weather is cold cold cold. Appalachian State is Hot Hot Hot!!!" Priceless Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: XDCAM .MXF Flip4Mac problems - 17 years agoI don't think you did enough research. The cheapest/easiest option is to use the Sony Transfer software for FCP. It's free on the sony website: (it's on the bottom of the page) There is also a white paper on that same page regarding it's use. You need to have FCP 5.1.1 to make it work, but if you just have 5.0 it's only a $49 upgrade fee so it's still cheaper than Flip4Mac. As far as yourby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: Waveform Cache files - 17 years agoWaveform cache is simply the graphical representations of the audio tracks when you have waveforms selected in your sequence settings (CMD+OPT+W). FCP has to draw those and update them when you make changes to them. Those files are saved in the waveform cache folder in the same directory as your capture scratch. Essentially they are the audio version of thumbnails for video. In short, to ansby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: XDCAM HD, Native 23.976, Multicam - 17 years agoIt sounds very frustrating. Why is it that it takes a post-production person to notice that pre-production testing would be helpful? Sounds like someone blew the wad on the new toys, but didn't consider that you might have to work differently to get it done correctly. I don't know if you knew about this, but Apple and Sony have been going around the country touring and going over the workfloby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: XDCAM HD, Native 23.976, Multicam - 17 years agoThere's a merge clip function that might help you. It allows you to combine 1 video track and up to 24 audio tracks. It's meant for workflows where audio is recorded on sources separate to the video source. Could you not then combine all your audio sources to one angle? 3 camera angles with 4 trks audio each plus 4 trks audio each from 2 separate audio units would equal 20 audio tracks totalby Andy Neil - Café LA Re: Color Correction 20 years ago? - 17 years agoKoz, I work for the Fox affiliate in San Diego, and we have a camera shader for our studio cameras. Some things are worth doing right and you really do need a person who can match the 4-5 cameras for live tv. Even with good solid lighting, live video contains a whole host of variables as you well know. The talent might not be exactly on their mark, the camera might not be. The camera op mightby Andy Neil - Café LA |
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