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Re: SNOW LEOPARD: Highs, Lows & Bugs [things to know before you upgrade] - 13 years agoWith all the above comments if I don't have to upgrade to FCP 7 having the latest Mac OS, should I just wait and let things get fixed? billby bill darst - Café LA Quick Time 7.6.2 - 14 years agoAny issues with the QT 7.6.2 for latest FCP? billby bill darst - Café LA Re: Apple Pro res - 15 years agoI was digitizing from my JVC deck to an external hard drive 720 60p. At first I used a firewire and where it decided to put in the artificial camera break was longer, so I thought if I switched to esata it would go away. But it just reduced the time until it put in its own break to 12 frames. The whole clip works. But there are two clips to make one whole one. Every clip it is the exact saby bill darst - Café LA Re: Apple Pro res - 15 years agoThanks, Ben Sorry, I was thinking you could read minds. JVC 720 60p was format to injest. The Drive is a LaCie 7200rpm The format was Apple ProRes 422. Play back deck is the JVC BR50 HD Not sure what the format my fellow editor was using but it wasn't the above. Just same problem. The higher the speed transfer speed, the less time the first part (the added camera stop length) iby bill darst - Café LA Apple Pro res - 15 years agoG5 8 Core latest FCP 8 GB ram When digitizing using APR, I discover after I look at the clip in the browser, each clip has a 12 frame cut, within the same clip as if the camera had paused. It continues to capture the rest of the clip, no missing frames, but each clip starts with a 12 frame segment and continues until the clip is finished until the next camera break. Others have told me of as mby bill darst - Café LA saving in Color app. dumps the program - 15 years agoG5 quad core Final Cut 6.0.2 10gb ram When I do a manual save while in Color it just dumps the program. Even auto save doesn't work. All Color files are stored on the internal hard drive, and cannot see how to assign the project files to the external drive where all my FCP Project and media files are stored. Is that a problem? There is room on all drives have room to save files. It was saby bill darst - Color Canon hv20 a digitizing set up - 16 years agoChecked with FAQ Mac 8cor 6.0.2 QT 7.3.-- Multibridge pro Trying to use Pro Res 422 like I did on the sony v1u. That took care of the pull down perfectly. The same setting does not work for the Canon hv20 a. I tried the docs.info.apple.com/article which has no relation to reality. The prores422 does not take away the 4th frame. I have 30 hours to dige and hope I don't have to go thby bill darst - Café LA Sony v1u - 16 years agoHi Ya'll Mac 8core FCP 6.0.2, QT 7.3 gb ram Are there any magic settings to digitize the Sony v1u? Video was shot at 108060i, 24pA. If I set the capture to that, every 4th frame is double. The only way to capture with out a double frame is Pro res 422. But no log and capture window, no batch capture. File sizes are getting scary. We have 60 hours to capture. Is there an optimum, or alterby bill darst - Café LA Re: V.O DeckLilnk - 16 years agoThanks for your help. Here is the page Apple gives as an answer to how to make V.O. work If this doesn't work just go to BMDesign, select Support, then type in voice over and it will bring you to this page. They say if you turn the Frames to off, in other words disconnect the DV video out to an external monitor, the DeckLink will work. I did all the other things suggested on this page but sby bill darst - Café LA V.O DeckLilnk - 16 years agoMy system is the Q8 FCP v6.0.1, QT 7.2 macOS 10.4.11 A BlackMagic tech sent me to an Apple notes page saying how to use the DeckLink audio for the V.O. in FCP. After matching the video out settings to your television monitor, then you must turn off Frames in the view menu. Of course this is kind of dumb, since your VO talent is sitting in an audio booth and needs to see the video to time hisby bill darst - Café LA Re: converting FCP aiff to mp3 - 16 years agoBut doesn't it take more time to convert the large aiff files from FCP and send the file to the desk top then drag it into iTunes than it would take to have it crunch a smaller codec ACC? Then iTunes does a very quick translation from the samller acc files into MP3. I guess I don't know how to go directly to iTunes from the export menu. I can put AIFF files on the desk top and then drag themby bill darst - Café LA converting FCP aiff to mp3 - 16 years agoHowdy ya'll I have the G5 2.0 FC 5.1.4 4GB ram, and 30 1 hour programs to convert from my time line Aiff files to MP3 files. Didn't see anything in FAQ. Looked in the compressor, and Quicktime conversions etc and MP3 not there. I need to know what will be the least amount of crunch time in the conversion process. My guess is to use Quicktime conversion to ACC files then have iTunes makby bill darst - Café LA Compressor error - 16 years agoHi ya'll I have a G5 2.0 dual 6 gb ram FCP 5.1.4 When I send a normal SD FCP time line to Compressor, as many times before, I now get a little box which says at the top 'Cannot submit batch'. Then below the title says 'Unable to connect to background process'. This box comes up when I push the Submit button. My Sequence settings are the same easy set up is dv 48 like before. Even if I sby bill darst - Café LA Random video noise - 17 years agoG5 2.0 dual processor FCP 5.1 6GB ram Every 3 to 5 minutes small white objects (looks like popcorn) maybe 10 to 20 show up in one frame only. Small in size, some I can see 3 white lines, some are like a smudge on the frame. I used the deinterlacer and of course reduced to half the number of white snow flakes on that one frame. As I have used different tapes from different projects, it sby bill darst - Café LA Universal vs non universal FCP - 17 years agoThank you for your most detailed and profound answer about the proper storage of Scratch Disk settings. That will save me hours of media tracking. I have a project edited on the standard FCP, G5 2.0 dual processor. A friend at a professional audio mixdown facility offered (free) to have sound effects and an audio mix done in Pro Tools. I had exported my audio mix to OMF, (not knowing at theby bill darst - Café LA Re: PP Quicktime conversions - 17 years agoHi Jude Yes, it is a normal thing to have PP run video and audio. As I said, if I open it up on my desktop it plays the audio just fine. If I email it no problem, video and audio. The first suggestion from derekmok, was to use Streamclip. That is the most amazing program. It translates everything to everything, well almost. It is free and does so many conversions that have no other waby bill darst - Café LA Re: PP Quicktime conversions - 17 years agoYup, the Streamclip did it. Amazing you have allowed me to live another day. thanks billby bill darst - Café LA PP Quicktime conversions - 17 years agoHowdy ya'll I am editing a speakers PP slides into his talk. I used PP save as to convert it to a quicktime file. All is well until I place the power point video in the FCP timeline. The problem isn't the video, but when the video is placed on the FCP timeline, no audio comes with it. I have tried most of Compressor's translations, tried all of Quicktime's export as fixes, none will bringby bill darst - Café LA Timeline bogging down - 17 years agoHi Mac 2.0. Sequence setting 29.98 fps. Normal video. Multi cam 4 cams. After laying down one of 30 one hour programs, all timelines work, even other projects on this same hard drive. Only one program, after leaving the computer to sleep for a hafe hour, will now after about 1 minute of playing starts jerking and within 15 seconds finally stops. If I start playing it will again repeat theby bill darst - Café LA Re: mixing formats on the timeline - 17 years agoSo now I use the Streamcllip convert the 640 to 720, but now there is a small size different. The Stream clip is a little shorter than the FCP orig. Perhaps I'm not using the right formats for Cinimatize and Stream cllip. Are there different sizes of 720? I've tried 'Force video' auto adjust, so now my head is spining as there seems to be 8 million combinations between the two progams. Is therby bill darst - Café LA mixing formats on the timeline - 17 years agoHowdy ya'll After having a hard drive blow up, I was left with two media formats. One was the actual FCP project and all that went with it to my friend at Universal Studios. I also sent the OMF files, (only to find out FCP isn't grown up enough to provide the Importing of OMF files). Thanks. Since the time we sent the project to US for audio mix we did some minor visual changes, and then mby bill darst - Café LA Re: Render time w/timecode - 17 years agosorry, the story was in another post, which I guess didn't get posted. We are using the DSR40 to digitize and put back out to the DVCAM format. the DSR1500 and the Sony2000 do not have firewire. Does it make any difference to out put back to a DVCAM tape by using the DSR40 or the 1500, or the Sony 2000? If the electronics inside are all the same as far as resolution etc, then it won't makeby bill darst - Café LA Re: Render time w/timecode - 17 years agoOk, it is a 2.0 so kinda slow huh. Time for the Quad processor. Are the video specs the same for the DSR40 all the way up to the DSR2000. Will it benifit me to but a card and put it into a 1500 or 2000 because the electronics are some how higher or better? thanks billby bill darst - Café LA Render time w/timecode - 17 years agoAfter doing much color correction on a multiclilp show, I collapsed my video line, nested it so I could put a Timecode filter to make a DVD so my client could make any correction to content by looking at burn in time code. So all was well until I sent it to compressor, and yes I shouldn't have used best quality and could have made it single pass. . . but it is taking 7 and one half hours to rendby bill darst - Café LA Deck specs - 17 years agoMy Indiana Jones client is behind me with his whip asking me if I know about... We are currently using a DSR40 to digitize. He also has a DSR 1500 and Sony 2000. Do all machines input and out put the same quality signal?), and if they are all the same then why did he pay so much money for the DSR 2000. The question then becomes if there is a difference, should he buy the firewire card for tby bill darst - Café LA Re: Saving color corrections - 17 years agoOnce again, thanks. Yeah, I realized I can't have all projects go to one dirve as I am using 5 different drives to store all this stuff. So I the way I have it structured now is about 4 projects on 4 or 5 drives. I just do 2 sequences per projecct, one hour each, and all the massive color corrections. What I wasn't expecting is the huge giggage the render of just one of those projects.by bill darst - Café LA Re: Saving color corrections - 17 years agoHi derek & thank you so much for your replies. This phorum thing is really great. The reason I have so many project files. Each speaker has 2 one hour sessions, so that's like 30 hours. So it won't get bogged down having 15 2hour sequences with loads of mulit cam color corrections? If not than that's the way I will do it. Thank you, thank you all for your help. Such a deal isby bill darst - Café LA Saving color corrections - 17 years agoI'm using multicam with 3 cams that have 3 different color settings. Like cam 1 has CU, Med, and wide shot color corrections. Can I store them somewhere and apply them as I go along the time line? I tried putting cam 1 on the time line, correct it, make it an independant clip, putting it back up in the browser, rename it, then assemble it in the Multiclilp mode. But it comes back as if neveby bill darst - Café LA Re: getting ST back on the timeline - 18 years agoHi Eamon . .thanks for your note Yeah it shouldn't matter a clilp or entire program. When I select any audio cllip and send it to a ST project, it will save the changed file in the folder I assigned it, but with pre-meditated malace aforthought, it will not update the audio track from which it was sent, mainly the timeline. What we are forced to do is put a sound beep at the beginning of theby bill darst - Soundtrack Pro |
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