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Creating Hollywood Spot Lights Effect - 17 years agoHi Everyone, I have some static video of a stadium sign that I would like to add some life to by adding a Hollywood Spotlight effect. I would like to make it look as if two spotlights are moving over the sign, meeting and crossing in the middle, forming an X. Is there an easy way to create this? Thanks, ShelleyRaeby shelleyrae - Café LA Correcting overexposed tape - 17 years agoHi, One of my clients just gave me an overexposed tape to see if I could do anything to make it look better. I haven't done much work with color correction or filters yet, so I was hoping one of you could guide me to what filters and/or color correction parameters to start with to help take the curse off? I also have Graeme Nattress Film Effects filter package if there is anything in thereby shelleyrae - Café LA Bad characters - 17 years agoHi, I should know this -- just to clarify... About those weird characters like ? /, etc. Should I avoid these always or just in titles of projects? I feel a little restricted if I can't use them in my browser when I'm naming clips. Is it okay to use these characters in while organizing clips in my browser as long as I avoid using them in project file names? Thanks for the clarificby shelleyrae - Café LA Need quick access to international symbol for NO graphic - 17 years agoHi, Does anyone know if somewhere in our pack of graphic goodies with Final Cut Studio we have access to the international symbol for "No" -- you know the red circle with the red slash through it -- like you see in "No Parking" "No Smoking" etc? I don't see one in LiveType or Motion. If not, are there any free plugins that offer this graphic? I'd appreciaby shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Click option drag to duplicate clips - 17 years agoThe missing link was holding down the shift key to get the insert arrow. I just tried this and it it worked. I will also try the other methods you mentioned to see what feels easier. Thanks so much!by shelleyrae - Café LA Click option drag to duplicate clips - 17 years agoHi, I'm having a problem getting the click>option>drag to duplicate a clip. I'm trying to duplicate a clip and put it on video track 2 so that I can send it to Motion and not destroy the original clip. I also need to duplicate an audio clip that's on A1 and duplicate it to A2 to beef up the sound. I have been able to do this before but now when I try, in both cases, it just moves theby shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Motion files into FCP - 17 years agoFound the LiveType Plist and trashed it. All FCS programs seem to be working well. Which reminds me that I should back up in FCP Rescue right? By the way, when I use FCP Rescue, In never see the four files in the trash -- Just one folder with unrecognizable info - which makes me wonder if the FCP Rescue is actually trashng the preferences.by shelleyrae - Motion Re: Two Questions about manipulating motion content - 17 years agoThanks, Mark. I appreciate your help.by shelleyrae - Motion Two Questions about manipulating motion content - 17 years ago#1 I'm using the time lapsed clouds as a background in my Motion project. This is really cool but I would like to slow down the movement of the clouds, but don't see where to adjust those parameters . Do I have to save as a movie and bring into FC to slow down the movement of the clouds? #2 I've noticed that with some of the background content that are movies, i.e., with the .mov extentioby shelleyrae - Motion IMovie to Final Cut - 17 years agoGood Afternoon, I have a client that created a video in IMovie. I need to bring this video into Final Cut to do some additional editing. Usually she lays it off to Mini DV then I import it to Final Cut. Isn't there a way she could save the IMovie as a QT file so that I could just grab the file from an FTP site and save a few steps? I don't see a way to output an IMovie as a QT file.by shelleyrae - Café LA Trash Prefs Question - 17 years agoI've noticed that even though I trash my preferences (and empty the trash) FC still remembers my custom window layout settings. Isn't my custom window layout part of preferences? Another strange thing is that even though I reset my user prefs to "open last project" -- sometimes is does and sometimes it doesn't. And even when it does "open last project" -- it's not alwaysby shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Motion files into FCP - 17 years agoThanks, I'll try that. Livetype is acting screwy also. Are there prefs to trash for Livetype? If so where do I find them? Thanks,by shelleyrae - Motion Re: Round trip problem after xgrade - 17 years agoCameron, I'm having a similar problem. I've also just upgraded to crossgrade FC Studio. I've created a project in motion and saved it, but when I go to import to FC I get a message that says: "File Error: 1file(s) recognized, 0 access denied, 1 unkown." I've tried to import two ways: From the File - Import button in FC. And by grabbing the Icon in the title bar of the motionby shelleyrae - Motion Re: Motion files into FCP - 17 years agoI'm having a similar problem. I've created a project in motion and saved it, but when I go to import to FC I get a message that says: "File Error: 1file(s) recognized, 0 access denied, 1 unkown." I've tried to import two ways: From the File - Import button in FC. And by grabbing the Icon in the title bar of the motion project and dropping into FC browser bin. I have done thisby shelleyrae - Motion Re: Trashing prefs in FCP 5.1.2 - 17 years agoI shut down then restarted the system in safe boot, ran disc utility and now the AutoSave Vault is working properly. >>Let's check one more thing...are there any funky, illegal characters in your project file name?>> Nothing funky in the project name but I the sequence was named :30LimoTV. Are you supposed to avoid certain characters in the clip and sequence names, too?by shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Trashing prefs in FCP 5.1.2 - 17 years agoThe auto save doesn't appear to be working at all even after trashing preferences. I have it set for to save every ten minutes and it's been an hour and there's nothing in the autosave vault. I will continue to do manual saves but does anyone know if there is a way to get the auto save functioning again?by shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Trashing prefs in FCP 5.1.2 - 17 years agoOh, that explains why I couldn't find the files. I found them and deleted them so am going back to work with fingers crossed. Thanks a bunch!by shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Trashing prefs in FCP 5.1.2 - 17 years agoRE: What files to trash: Okay, so I see TWO files in preferences that seem relative. Someone please confirm that these are the two files I need to trash as I'm reluctant to trash them until I know FOR SURE these are the right ones: com.apple.ProApps.plist and com.RegFinalCutStudio.plist. Are those the ones -- just these two? >>So what was the problem with your OWC drive?>>by shelleyrae - Café LA Trashing prefs in FCP 5.1.2 - 17 years agoHowdy -- Well I got brave and upgraded to FCPS 5.1.2 -- everything was working fine for a day or so and SURPIRSE -- now getting weird behavior -- to be specific project files are not saving properly. When I save my project and then return it's an older version(within 5.1.2). But I HAVE been backing my project files up to a hot stick and when I launch my saved project from that it returnsby shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Print EDL - 17 years agoHmmm. Not sure how to do that. When I'm in the project I don't see where I can save it as a Word or Text file. Can you take me through the steps? Thanks.by shelleyrae - Café LA Print EDL - 17 years agoHi, I would like to simply print a hard copy of an EDL. I don't need the digital file for online, I just want to see a paper copy of the EDL with the I/Os and source names for each clip in my sequence. Isn't there a way to do this? ShelleyRaeby shelleyrae - Café LA Flashframe Transition - 17 years agoHi, I've been seeing a lot of this Flashframe-type transition and wonder how to achieve that look. It looks like a variation of the Flashframe that's in the Too Much Too Soon plugin only it's more transparent at the start and end, so that you see the outgoing and incoming clip through the flash. It's like the outgoing clip starts getting blown out until it finally goes to to solid white thby shelleyrae - Café LA Accessing Livetype Textures from Motion - 17 years agoHi, I see that I have access to all the LiveType fonts in Motion but what about all the cool LiveType Textures? Seems like I should be able to have access to the Livetype textures within Motion but I'm not seeing them show up in the Motion Library. Where are on my hard drive is the LiveType Content stored? Do I need to find that folder and import into Motion from the Motion Browser? Tby shelleyrae - Motion Re: Final Cut Pro Store - 17 years agoI bought my new MacBook pro from The Final Cut Store when my G4 died. Excellent customer service! John Foley helped me get up and running again and has helped me out of quite a few jams. -- A very satisfied customer ShelleyRaeby shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Contradiction in file size info - 17 years agoI think you can upgrade your .Mac account and buy more space. I'm considering going the FTP route instead. But I'd really like to learn more about the Ichat approach Matt Murray mentioned.by shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Final Cut Studio Crossgrade Upgrade - 17 years agoI am a paid professional. >>You can log and capture without much worry; very little can go haywire by upgrading the application if your active projects are only clips in a bin.>> Two of my pending projects are just logged clips so far. I haven't started editing so these should be okay if I upgrade, correct? Another project is a wedding video I'm working on as a gift to someoby shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Final Cut Studio Crossgrade Upgrade - 17 years ago>>What you're talking about doing is probably illegal. You aren't supposed to install one set of discs onto multiple computers. It may be convenient for you, but it's a violation of your license unless you paid for a group license of some sort. >> I was told when I purchased the crossgrade that the license covered one laptop and one desktop. But I will take your advice and finisby shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Contradiction in file size info - 17 years ago>>If you are having problems with the 7 MB limit, you can Ichat larger files very easily, or, my favorite is Pando. I have sent and received files up to 980+ MB using it.>> I do have Ichat but never used it. Doesn't the receiving end have to have Ichat as well? It's very annoying being limited to 10 MB which I'm finding really translates to under 5MB as that is the largest fiby shelleyrae - Café LA Final Cut Studio Crossgrade Upgrade - 17 years agoI have a MacBook Pro with the FCS Cross grade and have just upgraded the studio software to the latest versions. I also have a G5 with FCS with the older FCP 5.1. I would like to install the crossgrade on the G5 and update to all the latest Studio software so that it's compatible with the MacBook. The problem is that I have a few projects that I'm still working on in the G5 and more workby shelleyrae - Café LA |
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