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Deck Control Issue - 17 years agoHi, I did a search for "deck control" and didn't see a post that matched my particular situation. I'm working with a Panasonic DV2000 DV/mini DV combo deck. In capture mode it says VTR OK, but I am not able to control the deck in FCP. I can play and see my video if I use the deck's manual controls but FCP controls won't work, therefore cannot log clips and batch capture. I reallyby shelleyrae - Café LA Logging Info - 17 years agoHi All, Is there a way to determine the original capture date? I can't seem to find this info in "item properties." I do see "last date modified" but I need to know the date I originally loaded the footage. Thanks, Shelleyby shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Third Party Ram Wrecking Havoc? - 17 years agoI no, I no, Kevin. I reelize I mispeled and kringe when I see my mistacks. Im a stikler, two about speling and gramer, two. I will bee moor careful from now on. PF. Thanx fer the lessin.by shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Warning Message -- What does this mean? - 17 years agoThanks for the quick response. I just notice you answered that very question on Sept.5 Sorry for making you answer twice. I should have scrolled down a little before posting. :-)by shelleyrae - DVD Studio Pro Re: Warning Message -- What does this mean? - 17 years agoOh, so that happens everytime, and I just happen to notice it? That's good news. Thanks.by shelleyrae - DVD Studio Pro Warning Message -- What does this mean? - 17 years agoHi -- I got this warning message when I tried to burn a DVD. I'm not sure what this means but it didn't look good. Can anyone tell me what this is about? Here's what it said: Warning: The file ?LIMOCAR.layout? found in the VIDEO_TS or HVDVD_TS folder will not be included in the final disc. Warning: The file ?VOB_DATA.LAY? found in the VIDEO_TS or HVDVD_TS folder will not be includedby shelleyrae - DVD Studio Pro Re: may i reiterate WHY i HATE laCie... - 17 years agoThanks, Derek. I just looked at the Promax and they are pretty pricey. I know you get what you pay for and don't want to take any chances, but I did read here that OWC are good reliable drives, and are decently priced. I'm looking at a Mercury Elite-AL Pro FW800/400+USB2 Performance 7200RPM RAID 500 gig, 32 MB cache, Striped SATA-Equipped for $309. <<You should disconnect the drive'sby shelleyrae - Café LA Re: may i reiterate WHY i HATE laCie... - 17 years ago<<<common Lacie problems are overheating, noise>>> Overheating? Oh no! I never turn Lacie off because it's plugged into the Battery backup / surge protector that I never turn off. I'm getting a sick feeling that this could be contributing to my problems (besides the bad ram). I'm going to order a Graid drive but in the meantime I have to work so here's what I'm thinkingby shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Third Party Ram Wrecking Havoc? - 17 years agoThank you all so much for the very thorough instructions to help me trouble shoot. I will follow the procedures, stay optimistic and hope for the best. As I read the advice here more things come to mind that I think I should mention to help you help me. This is all I can think of for now. <<<no doubt you have a bunch of things connected to this machine while you're working that *by shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Third Party Ram Wrecking Havoc? - 17 years ago<<<Have you ever handled semiconductor assemblies? There are a few rules....>>> Is this the order of the strips positioned in the slots explained in Filmman's post? <<<Ummm. You know about the static electric grounding thing and not touching the gold and all the rest of it, right? >>> No, I do not. Please elaborate. Also, I wanted to mention thatby shelleyrae - Café LA Re: may i reiterate WHY i HATE laCie... - 17 years agoOkay, so after weeks of back and forth to Apple Store for service on my G5 Quad and recently discovering my crashes and weird tics are probably bummer third party ram, I'm now wondering if my Lacie drive is contributing to all the hell I've been through lately. Here is why I'm suspicious. The problem with the G5 is still unresolved so in order to continue working on my project I transferred mby shelleyrae - Café LA Vertical Lines at Bottom of Viewer - 17 years agoHi, I've noticed recently that sometimes when I load a clip into the viewer there are these vertical lines at the bottom like this: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | . Normally it is just a white bar. What does that mean? I know when there is a dotted pattern in the white bar that it's a clip loaded from the sequence but can't figure out what the vertical lines signify. Thanks,by shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Third Party Ram Wrecking Havoc? - 17 years agoThanks everyone. Okay, I'd like to pull the Ram out but that will leave me with only 512 MB of Apple Ram. Is that enough to run Final Cut Studio? I use all the applications in the studio, Livetype, Soundtrack Pro, DVD studio pro, etc. The guy at the Apple Store (who is not a Pro Apps specialist) is telling me that it will run fine on 512. What are the repercussions of running FCS on onlby shelleyrae - Café LA Third Party Ram Wrecking Havoc? - 17 years agoHi Everyone, I have a PowerMac G5 Quad that I purchased from the Mac Mall. In the deal they were offering they threw in 2 extra gigs of Ram so I now have 4 Gigs Ram. I have have nothing but problems with this G5 since day one. I spend more time on the phone with Apple Care trouble shooting than I do editing. I have physically taken the machine back to the Apple Store three times last week.by shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Ratty Looking Text - 17 years agoHmmm. Not sure how to do that. How can I tell the type is on absolute pixels?by shelleyrae - Café LA Re: Ratty Looking Text - 17 years agoThanks for your quick response, Wayne. Yep. My type is white so I'll tone it down some and I'll try the reference movie route. The font size is 36. Unfortunately, I do not have After Effects -- so my best option at this point is Livetype. I can manipulate the opacity in Livetype, or is it be better to do that once in the timeline? 'm not really having a problem with the type flickeringby shelleyrae - Café LA Ratty Looking Text - 17 years agoHi, I created some titles in Livetype that looked great on the computer but once I burned the DVD the titles are ratty and it looks like the leading was compressed. I have "use lower field first" selected in both DVD Studio Pro and Livetype. I exported as a QT movie then made a MPEG2 in compressor and brought it into DVDSP (One of the forum's recommended processes for compression).by shelleyrae - Café LA LiveType Help - 17 years agoHi, I created a title utilizing the "Cat's Eye Glow" which is a really cool effect except after the words glow on and the type settles, it really needs a drop shadow to help readability. I have tried adding a drop shadow by selecting the type and checking the enable shadow box under the "style" menu in the Livetype inspector and then adjusting the offset and opacity. Nothby shelleyrae - Café LA Saving a selection to a new file/Audio repair tips - 17 years agoHi everyone, This is actually a two part question: Part one: I'm working on an audio file project in the waveform editor that needs major repair and clarification. The file is an hour long with many segments. For easier management, I want to create smaller separate files and work on them individually. Yesterday, I swear I saw an option under the "save as" menu that allowed you toby shelleyrae - Soundtrack Pro adding ambient noise - 18 years agoI want to take ambient noise from one audio file and add it to different audio file. I tried setting the ambient print and went to the other audio file to "add ambient" noise and it won't let me. That option was grayed out. Also I need to add reverb. How do I do that? Thanks. I'm pretty new at ST.by shelleyrae - Soundtrack Pro Sound Track Pro Noise Reduction - 18 years agoWhen I use the noise reducer it does a good job of cleaning up background hums, etc, but I get a "waterfall" sound as a result. Is there any way to get rid of the water sound like maybe EQ or something?by shelleyrae - Soundtrack Pro Changing Chapter Titles in Index - 17 years agoI imported my sequence with chapter marks into DVDSP and created a nice index in the menu using the "Create index using chapter marks" feature. Now I need to change two titles in the index. Is there a way to change them without having to go back into Final cut, change the chapter marker titles and reimport? Can't I just change them right in the DVDSP menu somehow?by shelleyrae - DVD Studio Pro Re: Import template from IDVD to DVDSP - 17 years agoReally what I'm looking for are other choices for templates. I liked some of the templates in IDVD. Are there any free downloadable templates for DVDSP?by shelleyrae - DVD Studio Pro Import template from IDVD to DVDSP - 18 years agoHowdy, Is it possible to import a templete from IDVD to DVDSP? If so, what are the steps to take? Thanks, Shelleyraeby shelleyrae - DVD Studio Pro Re: IMAGES IN MENU DISAPPEARED - 18 years agoJohn, Thanks for the reply. I was working with one of the templates. I set a background with a jpeg photo. I also set six video with audio tracks. They show up and play fine in simulator but when I go back to the menu I dont see anything but a blank screen. The images are showing up in the assets areas as well.by shelleyrae - DVD Studio Pro IMAGES IN MENU DISAPPEARED - 18 years agoHi All, For some reason I can no longer see images in I built in my Menu. Everything shows up fine in simulator but when I go back to the menu tab it's blank. I can click on sections and see an outline of where images are supposed to be but that's it. I've looked through pages and pages on this forum but haven't found a similar problem posted. Has anyone experience this? If so, how to I getby shelleyrae - DVD Studio Pro Getting back to main menu quicker - 18 years agoI have six videos on my menu. After selecting one and playing it it takes about three minutes to get return to the main menu. I would like it to return to the main menu immediately after playing each selected video. Also, I can't seem to find where to change the inactive button text color. The default is black and it doesn't read well. I was able to change the color of the highlighted buttonby shelleyrae - DVD Studio Pro Can't Burn DVD - 18 years agoHi, DVDSP application quits every time I try to burn a DVD. I've tried rebooting but that didn't work. Also the project is not showing up in the "recently opened" menu which is suspicious to me. I have to find the file to open it. It opens fine but when I put a DVD in and close the tray it quits shortly after I hit the burn button. It gives me an option to retry which I have witby shelleyrae - DVD Studio Pro Re: Crappy Quality - 18 years agoYes. Makes perfect sense. I will try that. Thanks so much!by shelleyrae - DVD Studio Pro |
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