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Re: FCPro and Pro Tools 9 - 12 years agoQuoteWill the video in FC Pro work in PT 9 like it does in ST Pro Do you mean audio? You can export from PT to anything, like AIFF 48/16 or AIFF 48/24 which will be fine in FCP. IF you want to capture in PT and use the exact same raw files in FCP you'll want to make sure they are similar file types and SR/BD as the stuff you're editing with. I would recommend though, capturing in PT and exportby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Multicam DSLR footage WITHOUT creating reference files? - 12 years agoIn the words of Tom Wolsky "this is whacked" or as I would say it, "yo, you buggin?" These workarounds are only for projects where there is no synced timecode going to all cameras and audio, an all too familiar situation in DSLR land Once you've lined up the tracks with pluraleyes you can add a secondary or "AUX" TC track to the clips and sync them by that TC tby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: You knew this was coming - Final Cut X Parody - 12 years agoAnd ya can't spell crock of sh*t without rock. Hey fogeys, pick up yer canes and hearin' aids on the way out. If it's too loud, you are too old. Ghostface Killah's Fishscale on the iTunes. Michael Rapaport's Beats Rhymes and Life was one of the best docs at Hot Docs in Toronto this year. Check it.by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X Re: fcp versus avid (again) - 12 years agoI love UNITY. It's more than just a SAN. Because AVID MC has the UNITY hooks inside the software it's a easy to get a number of editors working on the same project. Very little handholding, bin locks, easy access to new footage. It's good. And bloody expensive. But this is a feature gig? Will your greenscreen be the online/final version? or just an offline pre-vis? What resolution? If you'rby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Best method for transcoding red footage to pro res? - 12 years agoYou REALLY REALLY should be scanning the forum at reduser.net. There are subforums for FCP and workflow in general. Quick tip though: Don't expect anyone to just give you one solid answer. We've been pretty helpful to you here answering questions that are quite basic and could be learned from reading the manual. Not every forum is willing to hold your hand like that. The fact that you're embaby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: OT MacBook Updates - 12 years agoThat option is gone in my version of Snow Leopard. It's now "Go To Apple Download site" or something similar to that. That takes you to the Apple support page for the particular update. PITA if you're upgrading a bunch of things.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: OT MacBook Updates - 12 years agoOS updates or other software updates? Apple or third party? Adobe? Microsoft? Have you tried downloading the updates as a separate self contained file and running the update from there?by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Timecode breaks on client supplied tapes - 12 years agoThe reason one would stripe DV tapes before recording is that most DV cameras will only reset their TC to zero when they can't find available TC on the adjacent bits of tape. The problem arises when, with spooling and unspooling, if you take a tape out and put it back in the tape near the head will be blank. If the tape has been striped there will always be TC'd tape nearby and it will always beby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Thunderbolt question. - 12 years agoIt's been stated by all the major manufacturers that there will be NO thunderbolt add-on cards made to give older computers thunderbolt connectivity. It has to be integrated into the motherboard for it to work at full capacity. If you don't actually need a new computer right now, Thunderbolt is not going to change that. For your stated uses (FCP/PT) Thunderbolt holds little new capability tby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Smart Slate editing - 13 years agoI have used Andreas' Sequence Liner. Very helpful. He's helpful and knowledgeable as well as his software. The smart slate itself is just the slate with visual TC running on it that you see on your rushes. Whether they jam synced the camera to the master TC gen is another question. Sometimes the audio recorder is the master TC source and sometimes there is a Deneke or Ambient box that generateby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 13 years agoQuotePhilip "king of understatement" Hodgetts Oh, did I mention FCP X is built on a database for project and media management? WTF? No you most certainly did not mention this. That is AWESOME news.by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 13 years agoTape, say hello to Floppy drive. Floppy drive, say hello to tape.by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 13 years agoSorry Philip, you're going to have to fill your posts with more wild conjecture and pointless worrying and less solid concrete information full of these "facts". Only then will we listen.by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X Re: OT: Thank you Larry Jordan - 13 years agoWe could begin encouraging a policy of stating all your system stats with every question or problem. CPU: OS: FCP ver: or more detailed than that.by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X Re: Pulling 24p out of a 60p ProRes clip? - 13 years agoThe one major benefit of shooting 24 is that it is easier to go to the higher frame rates for playback. Going the other way can get pretty ugly. Pulldown is a tried and true method. It doesn't make your workflow any easier if you have to constantly add pulldown for your approval cuts or if you're mixing 24 and 30 in a sequence. (i.e. camera originals and archival video). In that case you can eithby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: OT: Thank you Larry Jordan - 13 years agoThat sounds more like the California I had in my mind. To paraphrase: I'm thinking California but seeing Minnesota.by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X Re: OT: Thank you Larry Jordan - 13 years agoQuoteThank you Larry for offering some sanity to the user group last night What the heck was going on at this meeting? Did birthers show up and demand to see proof that Schrödingers cat was actually a dog? Who's getting all panicky about a software package? Is life so good that this is the thing we get freaked out by? Signed A perplexed yet mellow dude.by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X Re: Archiving with a Drobo - 13 years agoI've said this before but if you peruse the REDuser forums there is a guy there from BRU who has some straight talk about archiving ( a big issue in the RED/ALEXA world). He's in favour of his product of course but he has a balanced perspective on what people need to be doing to archive all their media and what's best for one group isn't best for all. The pro's and con's of LTO is discussed and mby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Looking for good 1920s, 30s and 40s Footage ASAP - 13 years agoThere is a lot of stuff in Prelinger that, while no longer controlled by the works' creator, contains logos and trademark material that is still protected. A project I worked on a few years back ran into this using some old Coca Cola footage of the Philippines. It was ostensibly an "educational" film about the people of the Philippines but the Coke logo was everywhere on they stuff thatby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: loading footage from Canon Vixia HD30 - 13 years agoThey didn't. It can work with FCP. The catch is sometimes that the camera has more than one setting that determines what goes out down the firewire cable. And when you factor in all the possible settings in FCP it's hard to get them all lined up if you're new to it. I'll assume you went through the menu setting suggested in the manual? --SNIP-- PLAY/OUT SETUP menu option list. - and to sby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Looking for good 1920s, 30s and 40s Footage ASAP - 13 years agoarchive.org The Prelinger archives.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: OT: Red Giant Software's "Plastic Bullet" is FREE for 2 days ONLY... - 13 years agoIt's already been done... And there was that group that had a Sundance movie done entirely in iMovie a few years ago Two on the list of "Now you know that you CAN do it, decide why SHOULD you do it?"by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Freelancer Q:- Tape vs Tapeless projects . . . - 13 years agoThere's the rampant speculation about the FCP changes regarding Tape I/O and then there's the current shortage of blank tape stock. The stock shortage is temporary but it is forcing some producers to consider tapeless delivery if they haven't already. I can't imagine what it's like being an independent freelancer with your own HDCAM camera right now.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 13 years agoI would say that FCP media management is based on file name and/or path name. You reconnect to files by name and it recognizes the name. There is TC in files and FCP reads that but it's basis of media management is file name. The strength of the AVID model is that no matter the clip name or duration of the file, if you connect a sequence to it and it has sufficient length it can connect to it bby Andrew Kines - Café LA - X Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 13 years agoUntil I see an alternative this is what I hope for the most: Reel and Timecode based media management. Where Reel can stand for cards or disk images or drives of SS media. Not filename or file path or checksum hash or anything else.by Andrew Kines - Café LA - X Re: Express 34 hardware for Mac Pro? - 13 years agogets you Express34 in your Mac if you have an available slot. I couldn't find a FW800 to Express card reader either, which would be a more flexible solution for your Mac Pro and if you had a laptop that didn't have the Express34 slot.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Quickest way to export project to USB drive - 13 years agoH.264. There are numerous settings for this in Compressor. YouTube uses H.264. Also Vimeo has a guideline for uploading videos to their site that has a good tradeoff of file size and quality. The aforementioned Elgato H264Turbo stick does this well.by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: New Final Cut Pro at Supermeet, April 12 - 13 years agoJude, your badge is in that drawer to your left, under that animatronic Tribble you made for craft credit in 1994 when you were 5. seewhatididthere? BTW, kudos on your Jim Henson sig. When I get down the last thing I think before I pull myself out of the hole is that a world without Jim Henson still in it is a sucky place. Then I remember that the world is a better place because he was in it iby Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: New Final Cut Pro at Supermeet, April 12 - 13 years agoOur fearless leader, makin' the news. Go Go Go Mr. Horton!by Andrew Kines - Café LA Re: Inserting time code into quicktime - 13 years agoDerek I don't think it can. If you want to add actual TC to a QT you could always cut and paste it from another QT. It is just a formatted track in most QTs. Or even just opening it in FCP, use the "Timecode..." menu function and it will add TC right into the QT. Might even warn you that you are going to modify the file directly. No need to make a new scQT.by Andrew Kines - Café LA |
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