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Re: Unavailable Shortcut (?) - 14 years agoI like my deselect "cmd -shift-A" transferred to just a single keystroke !by Francois - Café LA Re: Uh Oh! Not Good... - 14 years agostrypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > wow, 300 MBs? I try to keep everything in the > region of 50 MBs. yes, 345 MB (in Fcp 6, a two hours documentary) I truncated it , just one hour sequence and nothing else in the project, (the second hour went too an other project; part 2). And it stayed that heavy with just that first hour edited, I rememby Francois - Café LA Re: Uh Oh! Not Good... - 14 years ago@Strypes you wrote about Motion: " I'm not sure how much improvements it has made in the latest incarnation. " your answer : : is has dramatically improved in version 4, from one or two crashes a day to... one a week (if any) . " The "Ozone bug" is gone... You might want to give it a new try. With shadows, reflections... and for the big projects handling inby Francois - Café LA Re: map with travel path - 14 years agouse paint in Motion. you can try with the Paint Tool itself with " write on " enabled but but it aint very convenient for that use Bezier Tool, yes... Shape Bezier Tool. create you path with some points from San Francisco to Katmandou don't close the shape, don't use " fill" but "contour". The contour will do the trick, (give it some width) add : Libraby Francois - Café LA Re: FCP 7 will not recognize alpha channel from my Photoshop tiff's. - 14 years agoI have a related question single layers tiff from PS CS2 where showing up in Fcp with no need to render to be seen properly. (I mean you needed a final render but they were in the TL with the " Dark green bar" AKA "Full" this was like broken starting with CS3 : showing up with the " light green" AKA " Preview" witch is real time also but awfull to sby Francois - Café LA Re: 1 TB Drives - 14 years agoI like to bring my Western Digital MyBook for training classes and demos because it is perfectly silent. anything else... forget it. (and everything on it is securised on an other sibling volume)by Francois - Café LA Re: Does this shortcut exist? - 14 years agomap "opt A" to "d" or "c" (close to "x" ) and it's a super-fast double key action to selectby Francois - Café LA Re: FX for smoothing reversal of scene - 14 years agothe very handy G Reverse plugin can be found @ nattress.com , yes ! with the "free" set of plugins drop the whole set in : home user/library/Application Support/FinalCut Pro System Support/Plugins and relaunch Fcp now, you can also use the included Fx to invert field order and get a smooth reverseby Francois - Café LA Re: Best sub-$2500 monitoring solution for DVCPROHD workflow? - 14 years agoI am in the market for a good Hdmi monitor with real low black levels - with matted borders not glossy all around - true 1920*1080 - 32 " size, (can you edit in a 42" in an average editing room ?) it's seems such a thing doesn't exist maybe the Sony KDL-32S5600E but I wonder about it's image quality, what about the black levels ? , it seems lower end. it doesn't carry anyby Francois - Café LA Re: OT: Name Shortening shareware? - 14 years agoI use Automator within Mac OS but there is no undoby Francois - Café LA Re: HD monitoring with MXO2+TV - 14 years agoShane, are you talking about that line of Panasonic Plasma monitors ? Panasonic ProPlasma but it's 42" minimum if you want true pixel to pixel 1920x1080, right ?by Francois - Café LA Re: Toggle filters off question - 14 years agothere is a " toggle filter enable" command (ctrl & but it only works from the viewer, for Color Corrector and Color Corrector 3-Way, when in visual tab !by Francois - Café LA DvdSp's layout - 14 years agoI "create" the Dvd folder (with Video TS and empty Audio TS) in Dvd Sp and then I burn with toast... (Data Dvd Rom Udf) Dvd Sp always leaves a specific "layout" of it's own in Video Ts. (with a DvdSp icon) I always trash it before burning with Toast, I am right to do that ?by Francois - DVD Studio Pro Film Soundtrack - 14 years agofirst time I am asked to include the soundtrack of the film in a Dvd I am authoring. 15 separate tracks of music. If I create a separate audio track for each in DvdSP, I have to include a video track with each, (at least a graphic) as long as the audio, and it's heavy when multiplexing. I wonder what would be the lightest method ? One track, with one video and 15 audio of different lengthby Francois - DVD Studio Pro Re: "my book" westerndigital externaldrive - 14 years agoI use one "my book" WD for bringing non critical data to training session... because it the quietest FW drive I know in that range. besides thats...by Francois - Café LA Searchables Markers - 16 years agosearchables Markers (with command f) all along the project (currently it only work if the disclosure triangle of the clip is "open" in the Browser)by Francois - FCP Feature Requests Re: How do you secure & archive when working with native MXF ? - 14 years agowell this thread is about precisely that People want to edit from the cards, (with what ever solution). at least from MXF copied on hard drive For anything else than fast delivery needed ... isn't there something childish about it ? (it might not be the right word but you see what I mean) I like my clips with same name in storage and browser (not esoteric numbers...) and easy to reby Francois - Café LA How do you secure & archive when working with native MXF ? - 14 years agoKinda survey thread (this goes for any native editing with hard media shooting) okay... many people want's to bypass converting to ProRes, many people want's P2 (or SxS) directly in the Timeline ! (or a copy of it) - be it for time saving, simplicity ... . how do you archive it when project is over ? . how do you relink to browser and sequence when re-editing the project one year afterby Francois - Café LA Re: SD to HD - 14 years agoBoris Continuum 6 suite has an uprez plug and Red Giant sells Instant HD (Fcp & AE) and Instant HD Advanced ( AE) anybody compared Instant HD Advanced with Topaz ? I assume Teranex is a hardware box ? I mean you buy some gear ... right ?by Francois - Café LA Re: SxS drivers update for Snow Leopard in September. - 14 years agoI have been confirmed by a Sony official (Europe) that new drivers are on their way. in the meantime you would need a SBAC ?US10 (USB) or use the camera, or wait to upgrade... Quelqu'un n'a pas fait ses devoirs...by Francois - Café LA Re: Wildly OT, transcription software - 14 years agoMister Joe How do you archive the images you've edited from the hard media ? like if you'd like to modify the sequence a few months later ? can you make a copy of the flash card, keep it on a drive, re-open project and relink ? does this work fine ?by Francois - Café LA Re: Getting rid of letters from video - 14 years agoSend to Motion "Draw" a mask around the sign you want rid off (first frame) go to Library/Behaviors/ Shape and drop the "Track Points " behaviors on the mask Analyze... voilà ! you can also draw a shape and color it same red with the color picker from the Apple wheel (same "Track Points " procedure)by Francois - Café LA Re: re: Voltaic blues - 14 years agosince you ask... Voltaic is a good friend to have if dealing with AvcProHD in case of problems. I would not base any workflow upon himby Francois - Café LA Re: Another free plugin! Alex4D Crop - 14 years agojust... great did you ever think about FxPlugs for Motion ? there we need a mask for edge softening, and it can't be center dissolving. but again bravo for all that you are doingby Francois - Café LA Re: Thank you for the nice 6.5 upgrade - 14 years agowell that thread seems to be going somewhere after all... (it's called debate) ? yes it would be nice to ingest XDCam EX (and the whole Sony Gop family on hard media) as ProRes, why can't we ? when it's possible with ... AVCHD. AJA KiPro is nice, I have tested it. Perfect for studio/tripod situation. I can't wait to add it under my EX1 next time I film in Sahara desert ! ? rendering sby Francois - Café LA Re: Thank you for the nice 6.5 upgrade - 14 years agopatronizing never seemed like a very professional attitude to me. I am talking about a given situation, periodby Francois - Café LA Re: Thank you for the nice 6.5 upgrade - 14 years agoyes but again there are situations in real life where you MUST work with given format, idiots have decided. you won't change it do you suggest I should ask them to change all the investment they made ? like ... the media port of the omneon which are Gop only ? they just won't anyway... DvcPro HD or ProRes are not that fast either, compared with what I can see elsewhere. For my personaby Francois - Café LA |
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