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Re: Thank you for the nice 6.5 upgrade - 14 years agook Jeff point taken still ... sometimes (again) there are situations in real life where you MUST work with given format in a facility real time and render are pathetic in Fcp. period (and I am a Fcp lover) now why not : 1 - admit it 2 - put some pressure on that last obstacle to happiness ?by Francois - Café LA Re: Thank you for the nice 6.5 upgrade - 14 years agowhat I know myself is that a tv facility, which I do some consulting for, is thinking about living Fcp for Avid or Edius. it's tones of XdCam Hd daily and it's a render nighmare. Their workflow is stupid, (that was before I got invited to the bal). They ingest tones of programes and every second has to be processed and rendered. Hours daily. And they do that ingest (mostly with an upscalby Francois - Café LA ProKit 5.0 beware ! (By By Localhost cluster) - 14 years agomy Localhost cluster is gone ! Still enabled in Qmaster, still showing up in Compressor but with no effect. Instead of 15 virtual cores working I have only two and no speed added. trashing compressor prefs did not do any goodby Francois - Café LA Re: Don't call it FCS 3, it's just FCS. - 14 years agosorry to be back on trails but Kevin... since you've been playing with it ... Apple site says : Optimized codec performance - Final Cut Pro 7 renders four popular formats faster than ever: XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, interlaced HDV, and interlaced XDCAM HD 422. This lets you work faster and experiment with greater freedom when you?re creating complex, multilayered sequences. all joke aside ( Gopby Francois - Café LA Scripts only affect half of targeted "clips" in Timeline - 14 years agoFcp 6.0.6 SoundtrackPro 2.0.2 Mac OS X 10.5.7 MacPro Nehalem 2009 usual workflow - I pick a clip in the Timeline that needs correction (among all my voice over recordings) - I copy it, send that copy to Stp (as Stp audio file project) - I do some EQ on that clip, save the process as an Apple script, close that Stp project, go back to Fcp, listen to it: fine ... now it's time to propaby Francois - Soundtrack Pro Re: 2nd Amsterdam SuperMeet - Who's coming? - 14 years agoI have missed London but this time I'll be there, no matter.by Francois - Café LA Re: can't send to Motion Project - 14 years ago(just to make sure) is the clip you want to send properly selected / en-lighted in the timeline ? are you trying to send with a ctrl/(or right)click on the clip in the timeline ?by Francois - Café LA Re: OT: TRAPCODE releases PARTICULAR 2 for After Effects = MUST SEE!!! - 14 years agoNo. I did not say that (read the post again). I said you can create spots LIKE THIS with Particular 2 Ok ok , but I don't need to read your post again, my reading was perfect... I just wanted to clear the ambiguity. it's done, thank you and it's not in BETA...it's released. yes, again, we understand that. It's just that, ambiguity again, if it ought to be the tool for the spot, it woulby Francois - Café LA Re: OT: TRAPCODE releases PARTICULAR 2 for After Effects = MUST SEE!!! - 14 years agohey Joe, you are telling us THIS spot was created with PT 2 Beta ? who did it ?by Francois - Café LA Re: Gamma Correction on 8-core Macpro and XDCAM EX - 14 years agodoes it happen with rendered DV parts in an XDCam Ex timeline ? it might be a GPU problem, (Graphic Card), with difficulty handling the gamma shiftby Francois - Café LA Re: Compressor won't "un-rasterize " (interpret raster) - 14 years agoJohn you wrote :the Preview window in Compressor will not change based on the pixel aspect ratio; you have to export your video to see the results. there is my answer.... thank you, you are telling me that preview window is not reflecting real result, poor me, I was trusting that thing ! As I wrote in my post I have been already several time in Geometry tab labeled pixel aspect ... with noby Francois - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Compressor won't show correct Aspect Ratio - 14 years agoIf I drop a rasterized HD format in Compressor if seems it won't interpret the anamorphose right. Any app will, (QuickTime reader will, not compressor 1440... 1280 ... what ever ... tall heads ! (in the preview window) and the resulting compression the same, witch is the real problem The inspector for the source won't help me I spent some time trying to address right pixel format in thby Francois - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion What does Auto Balance do ? - Solved - 14 years agoI mean... I known what it does but it's all "under the hood". Shouldn't we see some change in the color wheels ? in levels ? -------- Edit : Duh ! It shows up in in the advanced tabby Francois - Color Re: Any solution to uneven titles scrolling at the end of the movie? - 14 years agoI confirm Boris Tittle Crawl is perfect you don't anything else, external solutions make it more tedious to adjust in time, (like if it would never happen... ) Anti Flickering option is mandatory, (or you can add a one pixel vertical Blur) and ... mode FAQ " on " , Watch it on a real Tv monitor lalalalaby Francois - Café LA Re: Hello from Europe - 14 years agoyes that's a new kind of job you are doing so let us know when you have something on line and good lukeby Francois - Café LA Re: using Red Giant Instant HD? - 15 years agoJoe, Do you use Instant HD or Instant HD advanced ? do you know if there is any chance that "advanced" would be operating in Fcp ?by Francois - Café LA Re: FCP & CS3 - 15 years agoon the same subject I wonder why the same picture .pict or .tiff saved in Photoshop CS2 will play fine in Fcp without render - with the full color bar (dark green) above and if saved in... Photoshop CS3 will need a render with the crude green line (preview) supposed to be real time but ugly. A least on my station, but I am not the only one Quite strangeby Francois - Café LA Re: XDCAM EX 1 hr timeline very slow to export to QT movie - 15 years agothats was diamond clear !by Francois - Café LA Re: XDCAM EX 1 hr timeline very slow to export to QT movie - 15 years agoLet's have it crystal clear If I edit long GOP media in a long GOP sequence and render in ProRes, therefore end up with a fully rendered Timeline. when it's export time I have to take the hit of the never ending re-conforming process in long Gop because it is still a long Gop sequence under the hood ? Is this a right assumption ?by Francois - Café LA Re: XDCAM EX 1 hr timeline very slow to export to QT movie - 15 years ago? when working with Long Gop media in a long Gop sequence and rendering in ProRes you will end up with a fully rendered Timeline, I mean... there is at least a little Color Correction on every cut . (let's assume it). at this time I will have a Long Gop sequence linked to a bunch of ProRes render files. Now I want to have a ProRes timeline to export. even if Strypes says : If everythingby Francois - Café LA Re: Recording macros in FCP 6 - 15 years agowell it's triggers the combination of actions (aka the macro) that you would have programed yourself, with the software utility that comes with the Shuttle-Pro on the required button. of course it very limited compared to the tons of macro you can have at your fingers with a dedicated app. (Shuttle-Pro has only 13 buttons !) for example : if I hit once one dedicated button the position bby Francois - Café LA Re: Recording macros in FCP 6 - 15 years agoa Shuttle Pro will bring you macros alsoby Francois - Café LA Re: "First-person Shooter" Navigation ? - 15 years agook, now I've got it thanksby Francois - Motion Re: Round Trip to Motion Freeze Frame Missing - 15 years agook let's take it this way: What does transfer from Fcp to Motion ? 1 - One filter, The SmoothCam, becoming Stabilyse in Motion 2 - the whole Motion Tab (I mean anything you've done in the Motion Tab ) with the exception of the Blurs. - No Crop Border soft (Edge Feather) because Motion doesn't soft crop borders. (You have to do it one other way and YES , that a big wanted featureby Francois - Café LA Re: How to detect if clips have already been used? - 15 years agoyes and don't hesitate to read the answers given to you, (that's why we give them to you) cos this one was already in a few messages aboveby Francois - Café LA Re: How to detect if clips have already been used? - 15 years agojjnap this function, duplicate in the timeline , works, it might sometimes not update itself if extended ( if Nick says so .... I guess it's true ) how did you get your footage in FCP ? Tape Capture ? Ingest ?by Francois - Café LA Re: "First-person Shooter" Navigation ? - 15 years agook, thanx so, applied to a Motion course, it means navigate in 3D between elements (long story short) with the point of view of the active camera. and if somebody can help me with Putting English on the ball ! (it's in an other Apple Motion3 course doc in the 3D Particles lesson)by Francois - Motion "First-person Shooter" Navigation ? - 15 years agoThis is a need for translation help I am working on an Apple Document related to Motion learning, (a course description) I read that term : "First-person Shooter" Navigation, and I wonder ... what they mean by that !by Francois - Motion Re: How to detect if clips have already been used? - 15 years agothe duplicate clips showing with colors in a sequence works fine with tape numbers. If you log & transfer ( aka : solid state media) you can specify a media name, (a shooting date ?) as a tape number. you should be good for instant viewing while editing within one sequence at a glance. And yes Derek's method can narrow down with some manipulations to do. but there is a function implby Francois - Café LA Re: FCPUG Supermeet - 15 years agovery interesting cam and Fcp oriented. its not clear in the doc if the lens has a never ending focus ring or a resisting ring with a stop when you reach infinite.by Francois - Café LA |
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