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Re: Reconnect issue - timeline cuts out of sync.. re-renders cause jump cuts - 12 years ago
Thanks for that Nick, I think it's a similar issue. Unfortunately the truck has now moved onto another game somewhere else, so I won't be able to further diagnose, but I'll keep the workaround for future reference. - T Nick Meyers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > content shifts 2-3 frames within the boundaries of > the edits. > &by trevora - Café LA
Reconnect issue - timeline cuts out of sync.. re-renders cause jump cuts - 12 years ago
ProRes120/50i Sequence I restarted FCP to be presented with a 'media offline' message for one clip. No worries, went to locate the file, came up with a 'media start and end don't match' message. Hmmm. Click continue, check timeline cuts and everything appears to be OK. Now as I continue editing I get occasional little red bars on previously rendered material. Select clip and render - resulby trevora - Café LA
Re: GigE for Media Drives - 13 years ago
I guess you'll also be bitching that you no longer have a floppy drive.... ;-) (actually could have used one just about a week ago... those 9100's still haven't got USB)by trevora - Café LA
Re: Wildly OT, transcription software - 13 years ago
Last I tried the PPro transcription did not work well on the audio files I had (but they were in English, of course). I think the only current option (aside of finding a web based transcription service you can send audio files too) is to get the Dragon speech recognition software, train it to your voice and then repeat whatever is being said on the tape... If you do get a transcription theby trevora - Café LA
Re: OT: FCP as a Live Replay Machine - 14 years ago
Ash Vale were a company that made Slow Motion controllers for VTRs - got to be able to pick those up cheaply! I think you need PictureReady to enable VirtualVTR to play back a quicktime that is still recording. www.gallery.co.uk - Probably could be fairly cheap if you used old G5's - and no tape stock required. It's used for the Tour de France in the UK - feeds FCP stations, linear tape suiby trevora - Café LA
Re: FCP 6 install - 14 years ago
So I have a message telling me to 'Please insert the audio content 2 disc to continue installation' but it won't eject audio content 1. Tried disk utility but that won't eject saying that the disc is in use. Guess I'll go to bed and see if it has done by morning. OK... seems if I quit the installer, but leave it at the cancel/continue dialog box, I can then eject the dvd via disk utility andby trevora - Café LA
Re: DVD stuck in MacBook - 14 years ago
A quick search brings up: << You can add an eject menu item. Go to the desktop, find your harddrive icon, double click, then find and double click 'System', then 'Library', then 'CoreServices' and then 'Menu Extras'. Inside you will find an item called Eject.menu. This puts an eject icon in the menu bar. An alternative is to use some freeware called Ejector which shows all volumesby trevora - Café LA
Re: Graeme Nattress' conversion software HD to PAL - 14 years ago
AIUI the BBC (and C4) don't allow up and down conversions from VTRs or NLEs - I think they want us to use Terranex or Snell boxes or similar. I assume this is because they have done extensive comparison tests (although maybe not with Graeme's filters). However when you deliver a show they have no idea how you created it, or what the originals looked like, so as long as whatever you use doby trevora - Café LA
Re: Audio ducker? - 14 years ago
Your Decklink card may have more than 2 channels of audio... you just may need to de-embed them from the SDI signal and DAC them to feed your audio mixer. On the Avid I use the punch-in (VO) tool to then re-record the mixer output back in and cut it into the timeline. Haven't used the FCP punch-in tool so don't know if it can work in the same way, guess it would depend on IO configuration too.by trevora - Café LA
Re: Monitoring audio at -10db on FCP 5.1.4 - 14 years ago
that is a most excellent find. Have you figured out a way of using it on the same machine as FCP yet?by trevora - Café LA
Re: a British cardiac arrest scenario.... - 14 years ago
Well you know us Vance... we like a leisurely approach to the art of cutting a tease... 12 second shots with nice 75 frame dissolves. As I understand it, the photo-epilepsy debate (whereby flashing images on TV can cause epileptic seixures) got into full swing after a certain episode of Pokemon (animation) series was broadcast in Japan. After the first airing several people reported havingby trevora - Café LA
Re: a British cardiac arrest scenario.... - 14 years ago
Won't do you much good as far as the Harding test goes...by trevora - Café LA
Re: The Math of aspect ratio - 15 years ago
What is missing here is the effect the shape of the pixel has on the shape of the full image. D1 PAL is 720 : 576 rectangular pixels = 768 : 576 square pixels = 4:3 = 12:9 D1 NTSC is 720 : 486 rectangular pixels = 640 : 486 square pixels = 4:3 = 12:9 SD (full height anamorphic) widescreen is the 16:9 frame squeezed into a 12:9 (=4:3) frame, viewed on conventional 4:3 equipment everythingby trevora - Café LA
Re: OT: They what!? - 15 years ago
I assumed that the subtitles were to cater for computers without speakers.by trevora - Café LA
Re: converting 16:9 FHA to 4:3 in FCP - 15 years ago
Ben King Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > does anyone air SD in 16:9 > > All UK broadcast is 16:9 HD or 16:9 FHA SD we > don't do 4:3 anymore (unless its simulcast) and at > the end of the year we start moving over to full > digital, dropping analogue transmissions in many > parts of the country. Actually everything is simulcast - sby trevora - Café LA
Re: Apple Certification - 15 years ago
When I got certified (!) I had the book open on the desk, FCP running on the same computer and the invigilator pointing us in the right direction for the answers. Certification means nothing. 6 months later I get an email to say my certification is for FCP5 only... I need to recertify for FCP6! Funnily enough my certification meant nothing because I went straight in on a level 2 course - soby trevora - Café LA
Re: EVS and FCP anyone? - 15 years ago
QuoteadelenaSuggestions for streamlining that workflow is what I'm thinking about right now. You might want to take a look at pictureready for the ability to be editing with a quicktime whilst it is still being recorded. Takes up another G5 per stream you want to record - but cheaper than XT2s. (Eventually Decklink and/or Kona will wake up to multiple streams per card.) (They also make a proby trevora - Café LA
Re: EVS and FCP anyone? - 15 years ago
To work with Avid in SD the XTs have to record MPEG50 (i.e. IMX). That's what we just used and it worked really well. We did also need Transfer Manager and Media Manager and couldn't run later versions than 2.2.10 on the Adrenaline, which is a pig. You need Interplay to swap files around with later versions of Avid. In HD they set the XTs to record DnxHD. Slower transfers but it does, allegedlby trevora - Café LA
Re: EVS and FCP anyone? - 15 years ago
I've just been using it with Avid in SD - works brilliantly. Files are transferred about .2x real time (i.e. 5x faster than real time) and can be streamed in. Unfortunately the version of Adrenaline that you have to use sucks (v2.2.10) big time. Would be interesting to hear the discussion FCP-EVS onlist if possible. Trevorby trevora - Café LA
Re: TV ad fails HARDING test...please help. - 15 years ago
And this is the box we have in the edit suite to alert us to images that are likely to fail PSE guidlines, but everything goes through Harding test before air too. Station managers have some discretion to allow material that fails Harding to still air. The idea that 60Hz is better than 50Hz for PSE is an interesting one - but I would have thought it just meant that edits had to be every 10 fraby trevora - Café LA
Re: TV ad fails HARDING test...please help. - 15 years ago
I guess you are referring to Professor Harding. Not sure how much cash he has made, but he certainly is the world expert on photo-sensitive epilepsy. Harding As for the nanny state - well PSE seems to have been first discovered in Japan when a few people had seizures whilst watching a pokemon episode. Rather more had seizures when the footage was rebroadcast as part of a news report thatby trevora - Café LA
Re: M/s decoder plugin for FCP? - 15 years ago
Further to step 3 (and some playing about) - the side channels should be panned left and right, NOT centre. This is done when you make them a stereo pair anyway..by trevora - Café LA
Re: TV ad fails HARDING test...please help. - 15 years ago
Well the bbc shouldn't be showing it! You need to get a copy of the Harding report for the cx itself. This should point out your problems, but it is likely to need a rethink. I've had problems before with camera moves on people where the background is a brick wall - slowing down the move seemed to be the only solution at the time. For flashing the general rule is keep high contrast cuts toby trevora - Café LA
Re: M/s decoder plugin for FCP? - 15 years ago
Well, you *should* be able to achieve this in a professional editing application. 1. Put M-S source in a sequence with 2 channel output (this will be your decoded L-R) 2. Unlink if they are a stereo pair (alt-l). Move M (mid or mono) channel (i.e. should be A1) down to A3 and pan centre. This is your mono information now going to output tracks 1 & 2. 3. Copy the S (side or stereo) cby trevora - Café LA
Re: Posted a demo movie - 16 years ago
Got any light sources? ;-) Nice work Peterby trevora - Café LA
Media connection lost in Nattress Generator bucket when Media Managed between systems - 16 years ago
I had a test timeline (with one shot repeated many times) with various filters on. One of the clips was actually a generator (Nattress frame to field) with a source clip bucket (with the same clip as the rest of the timeline dropped in it). I media managed the timeline to a usb stick and brought it home. Upon moving to my home system the clip relinked (sorry, reconnected) in the 'normby trevora - Café LA
Outputting a multi track (4 track) quicktime with 4 discrete channels - 16 years ago
Apologies if this has been asked before, I have searched the archives and read the FAQ, but can see no sign of it. Is it possible to create a 4 (or more) track quicktime movie from within FCP? (e.g. Stereo Mix on 1/2 and Stereo M&E on 3/4) If so, how? If not does anyone have a workaround for creating such a thing? Many Thanks Trevorby trevora - Café LA
Re: looking for M-S stereo plug-in - 16 years ago
In the absence of a MS decoding plug-in, and in case you didn't already know, the formula for deriving AB stereo from MidSide is A = M+S and B = M-S. So put the M signal on one track feeding two outputs (A & B) and the S signal on two tracks (one panned to A the other phase inverted and panned to B). Level of S signal will affect the 'width' of the stereo image. Good luck finding the phby trevora - Café LA
Re: convert PAL to NTSC - 16 years ago
Could it have been shot at half-speed? I know I have had miniDV tapes from consumer units that have been shot that way. Had to get in the clients camera to get pictures out. HTHby trevora - Café LA
Re: Making DVD from 16mm A & B roll tele cines - 16 years ago
Multiclip is definitely a way through this... but you will have to add every edit point. Adjusting opacity makes no sense.. you'd have to set four keyframes per edit. In a linear room we could emulate the A/B printing by using a NAM (non-additive mix) between the two reels. I only did it a couple of times, but the result always looked pretty good. Mostly when we needed to do this an EDL was prby trevora - Café LA
