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Re: AVI to Quicktime Movie - 10 years agoOk...Quicktime sees the movie and plays it fine. I presume the resolution will stay the same?by preditor - Café LA Re: AVI to Quicktime Movie - 10 years agoI'm not sure...it came from a Livestream Studio 50 switcher. MPEG has a problem opening it, but Quicktime player opens it...I'm currently doing a "save as" to a movie file. Will that drop into FCP 7?by preditor - Café LA AVI to Quicktime Movie - 10 years agoWhat program should I use to convert an .avi file to a quicktime movie? Compressor and MPEG Streamclip seem to not recognize the .avi. Thanks!by preditor - Café LA Importing .avi files to FCP 7 - 10 years agoI have a project from Livestream Studio that is saved as an .avi file, 1920x1080, 29.97. I can put it in the timeline with ProRes settings, but the sequence will not fully render...I get a General Error. Shorter cut sequences will render. Is there a fix for this or an another converter like MPEGStreamclip? Thanks!by preditor - Café LA FCP 10 to FCP 7 - 10 years agoIf I am sent a project file from FCPX, is there any way for FCP 7 to read that file? Thanks!by preditor - Café LA Digitizing HDV - 10 years agoHaven't digitized from a Sony HDV tape in a while...do I need a plug-in for capture, since I don't see HDV in my list in FCP 7? Thanks!by preditor - Café LA Create a PAL DVD - 11 years agoI need to create a PAL version of my DVD project, but if I bring in the assets in their NTSC form, the MPEG2's don't transfer. Is there a setting in Compressor to re-do the original full res file to make assets for a PAL DVD? Thanks!by preditor - Café LA DSLR & H.264 - 11 years agoWhat is the deal with editing the native H.264 from a Canon D5? Thought I would try to stay in the native H.264 format, since the project was for the web. Many rendering problems, video going out of sync upon Exporting the full res file...trouble in uploading. I guess I should have stayed with my first instinct...convert all to Pro-Res first. I think I'll stick with good old-fashioned broadby preditor - Café LA Re: Sawtoothing on DVD - 11 years agoThank you for your help...choosing "None" in the dominance window did reduce it a bit. I shoot a lot in 720p, which seems to be better than this project in 1080i.by preditor - Café LA Sawtoothing on DVD - 11 years agoIs there a way to minimize the "sawtoothing" I see on my SD DVDs? My project is shot 1080i, AVCHD in a ProResHQ timeline. Fullres output, then into compressor using the default 90 min SD DVD setting...burned with DVDPro. Looks great out of the edit system (FCP 7) and when the DVD is played on a large monitor, but the "sawtooth" edges really show up on flat screen TVs. Thby preditor - Café LA Go-Pro Drifts out of sync - 11 years agoJust finished a 2 hr video with a GoPro as a wide shot. With the Go-Pro .mp4 files in sync in the timeline, the audio drifts out of sync by the end of each file by about 20 frames. Since I only needed short bits of the wide shot throughout, I didn't convert it to ProRes beforehand, just let the pieces render in the timeline. The 1080p Go-Pro was in a 720p ProRes HQ timeline with 720p footage fby preditor - Café LA GoPro - 11 years agoHas anyone found an efficient way to integrate GoPro footage? The processing of the H.264 the camera creates in it's best 1080 mode to Pro Res HQ takes forever and editing it natively in a H.264 timeline won't play more than a couple of seconds without stalling. I tried loading in into Compressor first and converting to Pro Res, but 10-15 minutes or so takes over 6 hours. Let me know if you'by preditor - Café LA Creating a Blu-ray from DVD Studio Pro - 11 years agoI finally have a blu-ray burner and Toast is installed. I have successfully created a dual-layer SD DVD, directly out of DVD SP, which recognized the external blu-ray drive over my internal superdrive. Can I do the same burning a blu-ray disc? The only settings I see in Compressor are HD DVD; I presume that to be the obsolete format. I want to Compress my full res HD program properly for blu-by preditor - DVD Studio Pro Re: Blackmagic Multibridge Extreme with new Eight-Core - 11 years agoYes...I installed the drivers suggested by Blackmagic support.by preditor - Café LA Blackmagic Multibridge Extreme with new Eight-Core - 11 years agoI've just moved my Blackmagic card from my old G5 where I was running FCP 6 to the new eight-core tower where I'm running FCP7. I've downloaded the Blackmagic software 9.5 and the multibridge controls my machines, but no SDI video in or out. I noticed two slot choices inside the tower for the card, 4 and 16. I chose 4. When I choose the Blackmagic audio/video settings to match my timeline, thby preditor - Café LA Re: Compressor won't Submit - 12 years agoThanks...I got it working with a reinstall.by preditor - Café LA Compressor won't Submit - 12 years agoI recently installed FCP 7 Studio Upgrade in a new 8-core, standard install with no previous version. FCP and the other programs run fine, but Compressor runs to the point of "Submit" and then "Submit" on the second menu (where you name the batch) is greyed out. Any suggestions?by preditor - Café LA Re: Output to DVCProHD - 12 years agoThank you. It will do Edit to Tape from my Macbook Pro laptop with FCP 6, though. Funny that it doesn't work with FCP 7.by preditor - Café LA Output to DVCProHD - 12 years agoContinuing to have problems outputting to DVCProHD...timeline is DVCProHD 1080i/60. I can "Print to Video" but using "Edit to Tape", it will only output black and no audio. Am I missing a setting? 8-core tower, via Firewire. Thanks!by preditor - Café LA Live Type - 12 years agoIs Live Type dead in FCP 7? I finally upgraded to 7.0.3, but there is no Live Type. FCP 6 was never installed on this new machine...Can I install Live Type from my FCP 5 or 6 disks? Also cannot install my old Photoshop 7 on the new 8-core intel machine...I presume it's too old. I thought I could load it and then upgrade, but it says it lacks the "classic environment". It runs on myby preditor - Café LA Time code in Log and Transfer - 12 years agoUsing log and transfer for my footage from my Sony NXCam, but all of my transcoded clips start at 00:00:00:00, instead of the free-run preset time code. Playback directly on the NXCam shows the correct time code and my .mov files from my JVC camera imported directly to FCP contain the correct timecode. Still on FCP 6...do I have a wrong setting in log & transfer? Thanks!by preditor - Café LA Media Drives - 12 years agoTime to buy a couple of more working drives...I have several GRaids...very reliable, but now taken over by Hitachi, as I understand it. What's the running favorite now, in the same price range? Looking for 4TB, not minis...should Thunderbolt be a consideration? Thanks!by preditor - Café LA Copyright Symbol - 12 years agoHere's a stupid question...is there a Copyright symbol anywhere in FCP text?by preditor - Café LA Re: Which camera is most FCP-friendly: Sony PMWEX1R or HXRNX5U? - 12 years agoI own a Sony NX5U and a JVC GYHM100U. Both cameras are great, since I was able to buy two cameras for less than one EX. The JVC produces FCP-ready Quicktime files, or Avid ready files with no transcoding. The Sony is AVCHD, an industry standard. Remember, the EX needs transcoding as well. I've used a lot of EX footage, mixed with my cameras. The EX is, of course, a sharper picture...a $7k cby preditor - Café LA Re: Mixing Media - 12 years agoThe most common mix is DVCam with my NXCam...DV video with 720p/60. The DV frame rate is 29.97 vs 59.97. I usually pillar-box the DV, for better quality or blow it up and aspect it slightly. Haven't noticed any problem with the change in frame rate. Would it be worth running my DVCam footage through Compressor to transcode to ProResHQ? Thanks!by preditor - Café LA Re: Mixing Media - 12 years agoto J. Corbett: So, technically, if there's a small amount of extra media in my project and I don't mind the delay, rendering in the timeline will produce better quality than running it through Compressor first. Right? Thanks for your input.by preditor - Café LA Prep for DVD Pro - 12 years agoI have an older project, 4:3, that I would like to play in it's correct aspect on a 16:9 TV, in other words, pillar-boxed. The DVD project is 4:3 and plays correctly on a 4:3 television, but the DVD player stretches the picture on my widescreen TV. One solution I have tested is to put the 4:3 video in a 16:9 timeline in FCP, output and create a 16:9 project in DVD Pro. This plays correctly onby preditor - Café LA Processing for DVD - 12 years agoI'm using an older G5 tower, dual processor, to compress for DVD. A 1hr 30min program in HD 720p takes almost 11 hours to process to SD DVD, the "best quality-90min" setting. Is this normal? My Macbook Pro also takes about that long to process. I'm using 800 firewire Graids for the media. Sure seems like a lot of processing time. Thanks!by preditor - Café LA Mixing Media - 12 years agoWhat is the best workflow for mixing media...I've always edited in a timeline with a setting that matches the majority of my media, mostly ProResHQ, so the video from my Sony NX or JVC needs no rendering. The other video in the timeline that requires constant rendering, I just deal with as I edit. Many editors like to convert the non-native video to ProRes with Compressor before editing to avoiby preditor - Café LA |
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