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Re: Trouble exporting Qt Reference file - 10 years agoJellyfish, sharks, crocs, spiders, snakes. We got em all. In fact, there's a series being made at a place I work right now that lists 72 deadly Australian creatures. Every one of them got in the show by actually killing someone. Welcome to Australia. Enjoy your stay.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Trouble exporting Qt Reference file - 10 years agoBecause HDV has to conform on export. FCP has to rebuild the GOP structure of the rendered material at every cut, because the format doesn't have individual frames, but rather a Group Of Frames all together, that it has to figure out and remake. If you try exporting a single clip 30 seconds long it will export way quicker than a clip 30 seconds long with fifteen cuts in it. The problem wiby Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Creative Cloud Open Letter - 10 years ago>> If you only want to pay a month or two at a time it's $30.<< Sorry, my bad. I misunderstood that. Still. Don't think it's bad. But I'm also not adverse to people having an option if they want it. And Joe, you don't have to be on the internet to use it. It's stored on your machine just like an install from disc. You just have to check in once a month, with a grace period outsby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Re: Creative Cloud Open Letter - 10 years agoAnd the thing is, if you stop working (on a monthly payment cycle) you can stop paying with no penalty, and when and if you really need the software again, you can get it for a month (I think there's also about a week of grace period) for $20. Sure, the prices will probably go up over time, as will the price of bread and milk and petrol. But if milk suddenly started being 42 bucks a bottle, pby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Re: I have a FCP 7.0.3 project that when I open it error reads: This project is unreadable or may be too new for this version of Final Cut - 10 years agoYou could try the 'Project repair' utility that is part of Digital Rebellion's "pro Maintenance Tools' pack here :by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Creative Cloud Open Letter - 10 years agoHere's the CC FAQ.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Creative Cloud Open Letter - 10 years agoAdobe posted an open letter to the creative community about the future with Creative Cloud. I've been on the CC for nearly a year now and I have to say I actually like it, but there's a lot of fear and doubt out there about it. Most of the stuff I've seen seems to be unfounded, but wow, people get scared or angry really quickly. Just wanted to say, its not that scary.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Re: Interesting things said about FCPX and NAB - 11 years agoAdobe Anywhere looks really interesting - especially the way you access the media. I was a bit worried about internet speeds impeding the workflow, but it looks like that won't be an issue. Actually, even if it was it wouldn't be too bad here in Oz once the NBN gets connected. I've been working with a very large ISP these past few weeks and they sad the first guy they connected downloaded his 600by Jude Cotter - Café LA - X Re: cant seem to convert mp4 to .mov - 11 years agoDoes it have a damaged header? Sometimes QT repair can make things work more happily in QT.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Blowing up ProRes 422 to create a CU - any way to do this without losing resolution? - 11 years agoWell I never doubt your word, D. I haven't had any trouble myself though, so maybe best if you do tests on your own gear, Kit, and see how it runs.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Blowing up ProRes 422 to create a CU - any way to do this without losing resolution? - 11 years agoReally Derek? I work with tons of 1080 these days off all sorts of drives and hardly ever get problems. What format are you talking?by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Blowing up ProRes 422 to create a CU - any way to do this without losing resolution? - 11 years agoThere's not a terrible difference in requirements between 720 and 1080. You probably won't notice much between then two in your day to day workflows. Your current drives should work fine. I do resize to 720 for stuff that has to go to YouTube, but Vimeo does 1080, so it's better to go with 1080 for them if you can.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Will a usb 3 drive with a thunderbolt adpater provide thunderbolt speeds? - 11 years agoI think they mean if you use one of their thunderbolt drives in it.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Adobe After Effects - 11 years agoAdobe TV has a lot of free tutorials : You can search for AE stuff specifically if you like. Also, Video Co-Pilot is excellent. I keep meaning to buy something from him to say thanks for all the great tutorials.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Re: Blowing up ProRes 422 to create a CU - any way to do this without losing resolution? - 11 years agoThe 1080 should resize automatically to fill the screen of a 720 sequence. If you double click a 1080 clip on the 720 timeline to load it into the viewer, then click on the motion tab, you'll see that the scale is something like 66% (can't remember exactly what it resizes to). So what you see in the canvas when playing the timeline is what you will export. If you want to reframe your 1080 shotby Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Uploading QT to IMDB - 11 years agoHe was exporting from Quicktime. So export from FCP, then open in QT (7 is the best one) to convert to something else.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Shortcut for linking clips - 11 years agoWere they unlinked by hand? If not, you could just switch on the 'linking' button at the top right of your timeline - it looks like a small pair of chain links.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: DVD Menu - It is Pixels for me & the LA DVD SP Studio forum :-( - 11 years agoOh right - the photoshop setup thing? It is really annoying. And now apparently there's HD versions of the same thing. Wish they'd just simplify for once!by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: opacity and layers? - 11 years agoOh, I missed that it was the same image over and over, sorry. To use composite modes, right click on each clip and choose modes from the dropdown menu. You'll need to experiment a lot because result vary depending on your image. 'Overlay' might be the ticket though.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: DVD Menu - It is Pixels for me & the LA DVD SP Studio forum :-( - 11 years agoAre you sure you're working in PAL? Once you switch form NTSC to PAL you have to start a new project in order for the change to occur. Lots of people get done in by this on their first DVD because the default is NTSC.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: *** SOLVED*** THANKS!! FCP7 Suddenly Stuttering Video - 11 years agoOh, sadly we've suspected that for a long time, but no-one managed to connect the symptoms to your issue. It's in the FAQ, but I think the FAQ has gone a bit busted lately - and NAB time is not a good time to get stuff fixed. Thanks for posting the solution.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Spreading media across multiple external hard drives - 11 years agoAnd do the complete backup of all your media as these guys suggested. If a drive dies on you, even if you've got tapes on the shelf with the originals, it's a lot of extra work to get up and working again.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Autosaves - do you archive them? - 11 years agoYeah, I archive ten or so of the last ones, just to be safe. The one time I tossed a whole bunch of them of course I had a corruption on a redo months later and had to recut from the self contained reference. Doh!by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Final Cut Pro X Review for booklet research Pros and Cons on the software - 11 years agoAs I said, they were things that annoyed me, which was the way it functioned on release. After all the screaming things apparently got changed for the better, if they don't work that way now. I still have to deliver on tape for several television stations, and deliver specific audio on specific tracks. If you don't work in broadcast, this is probably different, but large facilities move veryby Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Final Cut Pro X Review for booklet research Pros and Cons on the software - 11 years agoSome of the other functionality that was very annoying, in my opinion - no way to export a part of a timeline without having to duplicate the entire timeline and delete what you didn't want to export, or go through a second application. - in - out markers were not retained on clips - the lack of two up windows (now fixed, I believe?) You can't make shot to shot comparisons with one windby Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Final Cut Pro X Review for booklet research Pros and Cons on the software - 11 years agoAgree. The social side of the shift was handled abysmally and drove many (almost all the ones I know, anyway) away from the brand. I think a lot of people would have given it a fair chance if - it was not called FCP. It is not FCP, it's a completely new product with different functionality, different keysets and different workflows. - they did not immediately pull support and sales for aby Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Can a project file size get too large? - 11 years agoI have seen large project files get ansty. I'm not sure about a rule of thumb as to size - what I normally did was make changes if things got wobbly. So if a project is getting very large and unwieldy, split off parts that are completed, or start up new projects for sections you're working on.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: opacity and layers? - 11 years agoBut it's still going to be influenced by the content of the vision, so maths is not really the answer. If you have a large bright object in one layer covering a small dark object in the same part of the frame on another layer, your mileage will vary.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: Display Unavailable - 11 years agoFat32 drives have a 2gb (or is it 4GB, can't remember) on mac file size limit. It could be that the clips that don't work are spanned, or too big to work correctly. Try copying one of the dodgy clips to your main hard drive to see if it works better.by Jude Cotter - Café LA Re: trouble rendering - 11 years agoAre there any large stills in the project? Or any that may be CMYK? This can often cause problems. If not, try going to sequence > Settings > Video Processing tab > and checking 'render in 8 bit'.by Jude Cotter - Café LA |
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