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Re: Canon T3i DSLR. Log and Transfer with EOS plugin help needed!!! - 12 years agoFor those who stumbled across this, let me add a few points to clarify. Those directions will get the T3i working with Log & Transfer, and a big round of congratulations to Chad Soriano who posted them up on his blog. Here's what caused me troubles: 1) To Uninstall the plug-in, go to: > > > > > > > the CanonE1.RADPlug 2) Re-install the plug-in. This miby jwilliam - Café LA Re: Upgrading Mac Pro hardware? - 12 years agoI thoughts the reports were that FCP was a mixed bag on Lion? In any case, I'd most likely try to hang on to my old tower. Last time I checked, Avid would buy it back for just under $800. I thought about it, but decided against it. If I could ever get busy enough, it'd make for a battle-tested backup or overflow work system. This whole thought-exercise started when I envisioned the new Macby jwilliam - Café LA Re: Upgrading Mac Pro hardware? - 12 years agoThanks Russ, upgrading the video card isn't a bad idea either. If the new Mac Pro's come out with Lion installed, how much of a pain in the ass is it to get back to snow leopard? Has 10.6.7 been end-of-lifed like FCP 7?by jwilliam - Café LA Re: Post in LA/Burbank Area - 12 years agoI'll second Alpha Dogs. Great people. Paul can jump through rings of fire to accomodate clients. Kappa's got good people too, but they're more old-school than Alpha Dogs. I'm no spring chicken, but I felt like the baby of the bunch the last time I did a job there.by jwilliam - Café LA Upgrading Mac Pro hardware? - 12 years agoWell this has certainly been an interesting month to be an editor, hasn't it? Earlier this year, I was considering upgrading my Mac Pro hardware. My current tower is 4 years old this month - a 2x2.66 Dual-Core Xeon. It's a solid machine and generally runs trouble-free, but it is getting to the bottom end of "supported hardware" lists. The Mac Pro line is long overdue for a hardwaby jwilliam - Café LA Re: Calling all Avid experts - 12 years agoEchoing the sentiments above - access your clip through avid & export a quicktime. If you have an .mxf file, you don't need to import it, or go through the "import" dialog. That's why you're getting that error - importing is for quicktime files, the MXF is already converted to what AVID wants. Do this: Quit Media Composer (makes this easier). On your media drive, find the &by jwilliam - Avid Media Composer Re: Fascinating: Is Apple responding through David Pogue? - 12 years agoI wonder how Mr Pogue would respond if Apple suddenly declared the QWERTY keyboard obsolete? Suppose they told him that typing was obsolete, and it would be much more slick if he conjured words by waving his hands at a space-age theremin-type of interface because that's more 'modern' and 'slick'. And while you're using the new interface, don't use words with the letter "P" because iby jwilliam - Café LA - X Re: Using audio plug-ins to add some decay - 12 years agoThanks guys, both methods worked very nicely! That technique just went into my bag of tricks.by jwilliam - Café LA Re: Using audio plug-ins to add some decay - 12 years agoI tried the Reverbration filter with no luck either. The problem I'm running into is that the SFX track doesn't fade to absolute silence, it has another hit that slams in after that :02 of decay on the first hit. When I try things like reverb, it doesn't change the duration of the decay and the new hits come in too early. How easy is it to pick my way through Soundtrack Pro if I have zero expeby jwilliam - Café LA Re: Using audio plug-ins to add some decay - 12 years agoThe SFX has 2 seconds of DECAY - that nice slow fade into silence. To extend it, I was using the DELAY filter, and getting nowhere. The first use of "delay" above is a typo. What I need is to stretch out the existing decay another 15-20 frames somehow.by jwilliam - Café LA Using audio plug-ins to add some decay - 12 years agoI've got a big trailer hit sound effect that has two seconds of decay on it naturally. I really need to have another 1/2 second of delay. How can I use the audio filters to stretch it out a little more? My experimenting with AUDelay is coming up empty. Any thoughts? Jeffby jwilliam - Café LA Build, Format, Burn... how to not repeat? - 13 years agoI need an idiot check here. In DVD Studio Pro, I thought if I selected "build/format", I could then just keep burning copies of a DVD without having to do all the converting, rendering, and all of that. I have to stamp out 12 copies of a disc. To save time, I burned one disc & am using the 'disc image' function of Disk Utility to make my copies faster. How do I do this directly oby jwilliam - DVD Studio Pro Re: Best (or Fastest) Way to Sync Sound in FCP - 13 years agoA program called Plural Eyes is a popular choice around here. I just used it to sync the dailies from a short film shot with 2 cameras. It will auto-sync production audio to the reference audio on your dailies, and generally works very well. The limitation is that it works on a shot-by-shot basis, and you can't point it at your finished cut and expect magic to happen. If the film has already bby jwilliam - Café LA OT: The variable pricing of After Effects CS5 - 13 years agoI'm bowing to necessity, taking the plunge and getting After Effects CS5. Adobe sells it for $999. The majority of other reputable sites (like B&H, Adorama, etc) also sell it for $999. Amazon has it listed at $726, which looks nice but the fine print says that the vendor is a company called "Market Warehouse". Other vendors in a google shopping search turn it up at eveby jwilliam - Café LA Re: Media Manager still not working, even with reel numbers - 13 years agoI didn't trash the preferences, but as an experiment this morning, I did "Make Sequence Clips Independent" and ran the media manager again. This time, it worked like a charm. What exactly does "make sequence clips independent" do?by jwilliam - Café LA Re: Media Manager still not working, even with reel numbers - 13 years agoIt's possible. I didn't capture everything myself, but everything has valid timecode, even if it was captured via "capture now". Is there a difference between logging a clip in, and just doing 'capture now'? Is there a way to tell FCP otherwise?by jwilliam - Café LA Media Manager still not working, even with reel numbers - 13 years agoMy December nightmare is in the home stretch. After four editors, and a few midnights of fun with mixed frame rates & codecs, I'm shipping this piece out the door. What I can't figure out now is why Media Manager is acting up. I have a :30 piece. If I include handles, Media Manager wants 156 GB of free space. If I don't include handles, it wants 3 GB. All my sources are tape captures wiby jwilliam - Café LA Re: 23.98/29.97/59.94 conversion fun! - 13 years agoCurious. I tried that method this morning & still got messed up playback. I took the 23.98 sequence, cut (via APPLE-X), changed the sequence time from 23.98 to 29.97, then pasted the clips back in (via APPLE-V). Everything came back into the timeline all wonky. The video layers were pushed out of sync with each other, and the audio clips played back incorrectly, playing back the wrong partby jwilliam - Café LA Re: 23.98/29.97/59.94 conversion fun! - 13 years agoDerek - I think I was unclear in my explanation. The problem started when an editor started a new project and pasted in a sequence, there weren't any exported movie files invoved. From your description, I'm not sure now that an XML would have solved the problem. Now that I'm not racing the clock, here's the bigger picture - would love to understand the root of the problem. Pardon the long-windby jwilliam - Café LA Re: 23.98/29.97/59.94 conversion fun! - 13 years agoThanks Derek. Sorry if I was unclear - when I pounded that message out, things were a bit chaotic and brevity was my friend. I did have the source clips, everything was in-house on this problem. Now that the storm clouds have passed, the XML is an interesting idea that I didn't think of. I've only used them to pass sequences back to earlier generations of FCP, didn't know you could edit the tby jwilliam - Café LA Re: 23.98/29.97/59.94 conversion fun! - 13 years agoQuick update - in lieu of elegance, I went with brute force for a solution. Fortunately, it was a short trailer piece, and using a lot of match framing and re-cutting into a timeline at the proper timebase, I just rebuilt the cut from scratch. Inelegant, but effective.by jwilliam - Café LA 23.98/29.97/59.94 conversion fun! - 13 years agoGentlemen - I'm in the midst of a real goat rodeo this morning. The question of the day is: there an easy way to accurately edit a 23.98 sequence into a 29.97 timeline? All my source clips are 1920x1080 60i ProRes 422. I have a front half and a back half of a piece, coming from two different editors using the same source clips. The front half is golden. The back half was inadvertently cut oby jwilliam - Café LA Re: Tapeless workflow for a feature-length project - 13 years agoStrypes, that's a good point about FCP project size. This is a documentary, so some thought will have to go into how to break the material up & not create an unwieldy project. At the risk of sounding like an idiot, what are "spanned clips"?by jwilliam - Café LA Tapeless workflow for a feature-length project - 13 years agoI'm doing some research for a project I will probably jump into early next year. It's a feature-length doc that will be shot on the EX-3 in January/February. The producer is projecting about 175-250 hour of footage will be rolling in. All the tapeless projects I've worked on up until now have involved less than 30-40 hours of footage, so it's been a no-brainer to convert everything to ProRes aby jwilliam - Café LA Re: Sequences re-naming themselves? - 13 years agoThanks, Shane! Company owner ran a software update on the OS, but didn't run one after installing FCS 3. All good now.by jwilliam - Café LA Sequences re-naming themselves? - 13 years agoI'm working on a brand new Mac Pro tower, a 2.8 Quad-core w/10.6.4 and FCP 7.0.3. Everything was up and running at the end of last week, and has been working fine except for one weird glitch I haven't seen before. About 25% of the time - still not sure what triggers it - the sequence I'm working on will magically re-name itself to the name of a clip I'm editing, or pasting in from the clipby jwilliam - Café LA Re: FCP 6/FCP 7 backwards compatibility - 13 years agoThe magic of XML worked! Multiclips and all. Surprisingly, the biggest trouble I had was a failing G-RAID drive, but that's a topic for another thread. Thanks! Jeffby jwilliam - Café LA FCP 6/FCP 7 backwards compatibility - 13 years agoIs there any way to send grouped clips back from FCP 7 to FCP 6? I want to send a short film project to a friend of mine, but they only have FCP 6. The film was shot on a 5D & 7D, and the laborious task of syncing & grouping has been done in FCP 7. Nothing's been cut yet, and I want them to have my organized, multiclipped project to start with. Is this mission impossible or is there soby jwilliam - Café LA Re: New workflow question for Canon 5D/7D - 13 years agoThanks, Nick. That was pretty close to what I was thinking. I didn't mean "nesting" in my first comment. I was thinking about creating one new sequence for each pair of camera clips, aligning them both the same audio/video clap, setting inpoints on all three then creating a group from that. I like your workflow a little better. Will also look into Pluraleyes, that sounds like an iby jwilliam - Café LA New workflow question for Canon 5D/7D - 13 years agoHere's a question about the Canon 5D workflow I haven't found an answer to yet. How would the braintrust here approach this situation: Short film shot on 2 cameras, a 5D & 7D simultaneously, with audio recorded on a separate system. The first step is importing the footage and syncing the audio, obviously. The question is - is there a way to sync audio & group clips in one step? Or wby jwilliam - Café LA |
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