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Rewritten interface in Cocoa; Behaviors from Motion into FCP; Playhead request - 17 years ago
Here's my big WISHLIST for Final Cut Pro A completely rewritten interface in Cocoa (as are all the other Pro apps) A much more robust database to track files and essentially take over most of the work from the Finder. Integrate Behaviors from Motion into FCP for simple motion work. Updating timeline where the Playhead always stops in the visible timeline.by John Foley - FCP Feature Requests
My $2.00 worth - 17 years ago
Here goes my $2.00 worth. A complete rewrite of the entire code base including turning the interface into the Cocoa like all the other applications (DVD Studio Pro, LiveType and Motion) and integrating the keyframeless modality of Motion into the FCP timeline. Much better color correction tools (maybe Silicon Color stuff?) Timeline tracking where the playhead is always centered when playby John Foley - FCP Feature Requests
Re: OT: Apple drops firewire support - 15 years ago
Have we been lied to all along that Firewire is faster and better than USB-2?by John Foley - Café LA
Re: Why no Blu-Ray - 15 years ago
Whoever's court this is in will only cause Final Cut Pro to diminish in value when others ARE using a product to author BluRay. The licensing issues are a SONY problem as always they are the invented/notinvented here.by John Foley - Café LA
Re: Why no Blu-Ray - 15 years ago
Want my opinion? I think S Jobs is a " Bag of Hurt" since he only wants consumers to rent videos from iTunes. What does he really care about making Final Cut Studio GREAT?by John Foley - Café LA
Re: When to use Motion - 16 years ago
All compositing softwares are intended to do task specific operations on small clips. Anything that can not be done in FCP can be sent to Motion for more intensive work. There was a section in one of the early Motion Apple Pro Training books about editing in Motion but I can not imagine why?by John Foley - Motion
Re: Build Location Folder - 16 years ago
When you start the build, does it ask you for a folder to use? It always does for me. Don't kow why it cares about the Video_TS files there already? Have you searched for Video_TS with Spotlight?by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro
Re: exportiing from fcp with chapter markers... - 16 years ago
Well, that's Apple's intended workflow, as I can see it. To just dropping a .mov file into DVD Studio is to much like using iDVD. No (very little) encoding compression control. But, that's just me.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro
Re: exportiing from fcp with chapter markers... - 16 years ago
Bring the Quicktime .mov file into Compressor and the markersw should show up there before encoding. After the encode, when dropping the .m2v file into the timeline of DVD Studio, the markers should show up.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro
Re: how big does an image need to be? - 16 years ago
It needs to be the full resolution size of the frame size you are using. DV is 720 x 480 pixels but using a Photoshop image needs to take into account square pixels used in video rectangular pixels.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro
Re: OT: Recommend DL DVDs? - 16 years ago
I can only say that I purchased a 25 tray of RIDATA DL-DVD-R media from supermediastore.com and when they are inserted in four different DL Pioneer capable burners, they go in and spin and come back out. (Quad G5, MacBook Pro, Firewire external. etc) I was forced to use Sony DVD+R media to burn DVD media to. ???????????????????????????? Wish I knew why??by John Foley - Café LA
Re: DVD Skipping when file larger than 4.1gb - 16 years ago
Single DVD layer (DVD-5) is like any other hard drive disk. The manufacturer states that 1 GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes while the computer uses 2's complement math that is 1-2-4-8-32-64-128...which has no even number boundaries. The correct way to tell what the media size of any device is: 4,700,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 3.47 GB of real usable data space.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro
Re: Can a dual layer DVD hold 4 hours? - 16 years ago
Hi Jennifer, The encode bit-rate (I mentioned as speed) can take a 3 hour Quicktime .mov file and compress it down to just about any size depending on the bit-rate. I have gotten 2 hours-40 minutes onto a 4.37 GB single layer disc when using a 2 pass encode of 3.5 Mbps average with 4.5 peak setting. The art of encodeing MPEG-2 is about making the file size the smallest with the most pracby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro
Re: Can a dual layer DVD hold 4 hours? - 16 years ago
You can get >2 hrs on a single layer 4.37 Gb DVD, so I would imagine a 4hr file would fit on a DVD-9. The secret is, of course, the encoding speed. Slower encodes are smaller while faster encodes are LARGER in file size.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro
Re: TIVO like software for MAC? - 16 years ago
Well, the real application is syncing two church services together with the main event (sermon) played back at a different time (maybe 1-2 minutes later than it was captured in a live stream.) That's why I said: Most likely a TIVO HD box will do the job at the least cost.by John Foley - Café LA
Re: TIVO like software for MAC? - 16 years ago
Hey, Thanks for the info about Movie recorder. I guess the hardware TVIO is still the only reasonable solution. Just thought I might be missing something.by John Foley - Café LA
Re: TIVO like software for MAC? - 16 years ago
Thanks, I understand pictureready is EXPENSIVE and uses XServes as hosts. Just wondering if anything other than a real TIVO would work? Guess a real TIVO box is the best answer. I am surprised that someone doesn't make a software to simulate a $250,00 TIVO hardware box, though.by John Foley - Café LA
TIVO like software for MAC? - 16 years ago
I ran into a situation that needs to archive a video feed for maybe 1-2 minutes and then stream it back out. You know, time shifting a bit. Is there any other solution than a TIVO box?by John Foley - Café LA
Re: I can't install the FCP 6.0.4 update... - 16 years ago
OK! What else have you tried? Is there even a 6.0.4 FCP listed in the Software Updates list? I am assuming not. Not sure what to mention next? Any other clues?by John Foley - Café LA
Re: too much... - 16 years ago
Check the data on using USB drives in the FAQ Wiki. There is good information about the problems using USB connected drives and drives not formatted for MacOS X. Personally, I use an Express 34 card and two SATA external drives in a case for capture and editing chores on my MacBook Pro 2.33 Ghz. I have learned not to trust Firewire drives all that much. (again, a personal observation)by John Foley - Café LA
Re: I can't install the FCP 6.0.4 update... - 16 years ago
Are you letting the Software Updater do this for you? There may be a Pro Apps updater in the mix that is causing this.by John Foley - Café LA
Re: too much... - 16 years ago
What are the system specs and You can not use USB drives to capture to.by John Foley - Café LA
Re: OT: HURRICANE IKE - 16 years ago
Isn't it supposed to come through Houston too?by John Foley - Café LA
Re: Timeline Playhead - 16 years ago
I don't think so, since the Playhead is following the last clip end because you placed it there on a previously last clip end? It is because FCP uses 3 point edits which take two timecode points from the incoming clip and the third point is the last frame of the current clip. Where you put the playhead is where the next clip will be placed on the timeline.by John Foley - Café LA
Re: Storage recommendations - 16 years ago
I can recommend a solution that I use on my MacBook Pro 2.33. I have a Firmtek Express34 SATA card and two SATA drives that attatch to my MBP. Firmtek has a handy 2 SATA drive enclosure that attaches to their card nicely. I can swap SATA drives around, at will and even create a 2 drive RAID 0 when necessary. Sonnet also has a similar Express 34 SATA card that I believe has port multiplicationby John Foley - Café LA
Re: OT: Shelf Life of Hard Disks... - 16 years ago
Just to have 10 terabytes of storage today is so technology thrilling, as even 1 terabyte was too much to consider ten years ago. Even back in the late 90's we were trying to imagine a 500 GB disk drive. Many people said it couldn't be done. 5 Terabyte 3.5" disk drives are going to be a reality by 2012 and how do back that up?by John Foley - Café LA
Re: Raid Drive? - 16 years ago
The question of a single volume or a RAID'ed volume that is Firewire connected is moot. You need a data bus that can sustain transfers that a RAID can supply. While there are RAID 0 with 2 internal drives available, the Firewire connection almost invalidates the value of a 2 stripe RAID. ""BTW I can't believe that you can get a Terrabyte drive for around $200-300"" Wby John Foley - Café LA
Re: OT: Shelf Life of Hard Disks... - 16 years ago
Seems to me that you are all talking about external IE: Firewire connected drives in enclosures. I am speaking about the bare drive itself. All drives within Firewire enclosures are ATA/IDE variants. Until SATA drives came out that's all there was.by John Foley - Café LA
Re: OT: Shelf Life of Hard Disks... - 16 years ago
I believe some of Larry Jordan's hardware information on disk drives is TOTALLY inaccurate. ""Read somewhere on another forum some time ago about the grease drying up over time, causing drives to fail" There is NO grease used in lubricating spindle bearings. That was many, many years ago that some cheaper drive manufactures used a form of grease on spindle bearings. Does anyoby John Foley - Café LA
Re: FCE vs FCS2, Quickstream and Blackmagic - 16 years ago
Hi, The differences between FCExpress and FCStudio are really the codecs that FCStudio support. While FCExpress does only DV and HDV, I believe FCE only has the Apple Intermediate HDV codec but FCStudio has the HDV full codec. When authoring DVD's , DVD Studio Pro has much more to offer that does iDVD. The MPEG-2 content brought into either (DVDSP or iDVD) is the same as it is your respoby John Foley - Café LA
