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Re: .mpeg (MPEG-2) files will only open in VLC Player, nothing else? - 13 years agoHi Strypes, How does one export from VLC? And what codecs can one export? I'm thinking the fellow projected the 8 mm on the fall and shot it with a camera, and then possibly converted it with something else. There was one reel transfered to DVCPRO HD (which is what was requested) and it looks okay, and works. And then all the rest are .mpeg files. I suspect the guy's setup is more or leby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: .mpeg (MPEG-2) files will only open in VLC Player, nothing else? - 13 years agoHi Ben and strypes, I suspected as much (the MPEG2 component already loaded). Dang! I must have been half asleep when I did that. These are supposed to be transfers from reels of 8 and super 8 film. I suggested to my friend to have them transfered DVCPRO HD; the transfer house did one roll in the DVCPRO HD and it worked beautifully, and then they did the next thirty rolls in this weird .by Ben Ged Low - Café LA .mpeg (MPEG-2) files will only open in VLC Player, nothing else? - 13 years agoJust received a whole group of Quicktime .mpeg files (supposedly MPEG2 muxed, 1440 X 810) that will only open in the VLC Player. They won't open properly in: MPEG Streamclip: the image is white Quicktime: the image is black FCP timeline: the image is pale blocks of solid color, no image But they open just fine in the VLC Player. Any ideas what might be happening? I just purcby Ben Ged Low - Café LA changing audio track on FLV movie? - 13 years agoHi Gang, I've got to deliver a very specifically spec'd FLASH movie to my client. Following the required specs of the website this has to go on, if I try to create my .flv file using FCP to Compressor ... or if I even use DV Kitchen ... I get a decent .flv file but really BAD sound. If I use Logic Audio to create an AAC audio track I can get very decent sound and still be at the 64 kb/secby Ben Ged Low - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: Canon EOS T2i & FCP Log & Capture (issues) - 13 years agoHi jmcquaid, I bet Aperture (which I use all the time) could do this too. I think the issue is that once imported, they then have to be 'rendered' out from an FCP timeline. The idea, I'm told, of Log & Transfer is that the conversion takes place during the transfer process, and is 3 times faster than bringing the clips onto the FCP timeline and exporting them out as ProRes. I canby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Canon EOS T2i & FCP Log & Capture (issues) - 13 years agoHi Shane, No such luck. That might be the right way to do it. But I'm still getting a warning drop-down note: '"Folder X" contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media.' I get this no matter how I prep the folders. Even if I make a .dmg file ... an exact copy of what's coming from tby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Canon EOS T2i & FCP Log & Capture (issues) - 13 years agoI'm wondering if it might have something to do with the fact that I'm still in Leopard, but running the latest FCP. I wonder if it's time to upgrade to Snow Leopard? Could that be my issue?by Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Canon EOS T2i & FCP Log & Capture (issues) - 13 years agoThank you Jeff. So it remains a mystery. Why my FCP won't see and open the .MOV files ... even though the file structure is as it should be, and I've written the T2i into the camera list in the 'camera.plist' file (as recommended). I keep waiting for heaven to deliver the solution. All the best, Benby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Canon EOS T2i & FCP Log & Capture (issues) - 13 years agoThank you fcpguru, I haven't tried Compressor yet. I've got MPEG Streamclip working fine though ... so I can get ProRes versions (but without timecode etc.). I did try a disk image, which didn't seem to change anything. But remembering now, the compression was set I believe. Maybe if I try a version WITHOUT compression... I'll try that next. I just can't get FCP to read and open theby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Canon EOS T2i & FCP Log & Capture (issues) - 13 years agoHi Jeff, Did as you suggested. Then opened the .dmg file. Then directed the Log & Transfer to the correct folder. Nope. All .MOV files still grayed out. If I direct Log & Transfer directly to the .dmg file itself, I can go down through the folder hierarchy and see the .MOV files, no longer grayed out ... but ... I still can't get them to come into the Log & Transfer window.by Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Canon EOS T2i & FCP Log & Capture (issues) - 13 years agoHi Jeff, I wonder how one goes about making a disk image from the card itself? I've done disk images many times, but always of other drives, or DVD's \ CD's. Mmmm. Maybe I just answered my own question. I wasn't seeing the 'reader' earlier (in my Finder window), coz I was trying to come straight from the camera. And then I ran out and got the reader. Thank you for this, it may be the soby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Canon EOS T2i & FCP Log & Capture (issues) - 13 years agoI've installed the Canon plug-in for FCP, to be able to use Log & Transfer when capturing Canon .MOV files. I've done the suggested change to the camera.plist (adding the Canon EOS T2i) to the list of supported cameras. But I can't seem to get FCP Log & Capture to read the Canon .MOV files ... they appear grayed out. This happens when I direct Log & Transfer to the USB Readerby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Naming clips captured with 'Now' function? - 14 years agoHi Derek, R-name a super idea. But when I went to their site, the download wasn't working. I'll check again later. Much appreciated, Benby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Naming clips captured with 'Now' function? - 14 years agoApologies. Just figured it out. I 'log' a clip (without in's and out's), name it. Then start the tape and hit 'Now'. Not too painful. Everything working perfectly now. All the best... Benby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Naming clips captured with 'Now' function? - 14 years agoHi Gang, I've got to capture 14 hours of HDV with broken time-code. I want to capture each tape using the 'Now' function. Is there a way that I can have FCP add a name & number automatically to the clips as they are being captured? Rather than me having to rename all the 'untitled' clips in the media afterwards? All ears, Ben Can't seem to find a reference to this in the manual.by Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Multiclip editing with non-contiguous timecode?? - 14 years agoThank you Nick and Andrew, I'm copying down your suggestions ... to go into my hard copy notes. I exported out the two synched tracks (with slugs) to Quicktimes, brought the Quicktimes back in, and the multi-clips are working fine. But I'm going to experiment with your suggestion ... it looks like a good idea, and I want to know how to do it. Tonight we are shooting with three cameras .by Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Multiclip editing with non-contiguous timecode?? - 14 years agoAndrew, This sounds intriguing. How does one add an aux timecode, or where can I read about it, or see a tutorial, or ANYthing? I've never had to add an aux timecode ... not at all sure where one starts. Though I'm going to do a search for sure... Benby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Multiclip editing with non-contiguous timecode?? - 14 years agoHi Nick, Same cameras. This was a job about five years ago, DV NTSC, that the client is finally deciding to do something with. In a hurry. After synching I am exporting each camera as a separate 'clip'. And importing the two new clips back in ... one will have black slugs wherever it wasn't running. I'm suspecting that the multi-clip will now work just fine. I'm always wary about expby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Multiclip editing with non-contiguous timecode?? - 14 years agoHelp! I've got to edit a one hour show overnight. Two cameras. One camera is shooting continuous, only one stop to change tape. The second camera was stopping and starting all the way through. I synched up the clips of the start\stop camera all the way through on track two. I synched in 'camera one' where it starts up after a tape change. So I have a timeline with the whole show, made up of twby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP editing 3D? - 14 years agoSuperb!! Thank you Tim. I'll get it to the gang. They are buried in a current influx of rushes, preoccupied, but say they are going to catch up to implementing this new pipeline next week ... meaning continuing with their tests and research. I'm heading west to film Tibetan Monks and sand mandalas ... but will keep close contact with them, and impress upon them the usefulness of making a coby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP editing 3D? - 14 years agoTim!! Somehow I just knew there was a brilliantly simple way to do this. Most wonderful. Most kind of you to write it all out. I'm going to suggest that Jill and Mac (post production head and chief techie) get in direct contact with you. I think they will be truly delighted with your 1,2,3. They are in the middle of two, if not three, 3D IMAX productions, using new hybrid cameras and aby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP editing 3D? - 14 years ago"We can't do dual-stream output within FCP/Motion because FCP can't support it, however it is possible to output an unsqueezed side by side quicktime and play back in perfect sync across two DVI outputs with quicktime player." Hi Tim, Is there an existing PDF with exact instructions on how to do the above? I've been trying to encourage my brother's tech-team to switch over to anby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP editing 3D? - 14 years agoBen, I love the little spit at the end ... right around the time I was finally able to get my eyes crosses properly. I think my Dad says 14% can't see 3D (even if they have good vision) ... Dad made the first or second 3D IMAX; he certainly made the first 3D 48 fps IMAX, if you don't think THAT wasn't a monster to shoot. Boom! Looked magnificent though. Tim's stuff looks very intriguinby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP editing 3D? - 14 years agoI'm with you... I'm sure it's all going to go to 3D. But, you know, don't we love to watch black and white films. And Buster Keaton's The General is still a work of art. I'm reading T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom - a bunch of letters squirreling across a page. I've started to write poetry to counterpoint all the techno nonsense I have to digest every day. I love playing the piaby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP editing 3D? - 14 years agoI think the stereo screening is mainly because some cuts WORK in 2D but DON'T WORK in 3D. This is more an IMAX issue I believe. As you probably know, cutting in IMAX is a whole different ball of wax. That screen is SO big that one has to be much more careful about overwhelming the audience - at least it was traditionally. And the 3D exacerbates the problem. Sometimes a few frames either wayby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP editing 3D? - 14 years agoVery interesting ... I will check out Stereo 3D toolbox. And I will pass on your suggestions to the fellow who has to screen the stuff. As far as I can tell they are using a proprietary system for projection that has no correction for parallax, alignment etc. etc. and it is working enough for them at the editing stage. But it is a complicated rig to use requiring going back and forth betweeby Ben Ged Low - Café LA FCP editing 3D? - 14 years agoHas anyone set up FCP to cut 3D? Is there any video card or 3rd party 'plug-in' or 'hardware device' that might facilitate taking two images simultaneously out of FCP? This is for a 3D IMAX film company now using a very awkward PC proprietary system - which requires several different format renderings, working only SD etc. etc. A mess. I've proposed they create an 'Apple' pipeline, which maby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Emergency: FCP to Compressor, FCP crashing ('Lithium Plug-in' the problem???) - 14 years agoThank you most kindly Andy, I've downloaded the Compressor Repair Tool. In the end I had to make a QT (DV NTSC) master, and then bring THAT into Compressor to make the MPEG2. I'm always suspicions that that extra step makes for more artefacting. I will try the repairs then run the export the way I originally intended. I'll post the result. Very much appreciated, Benby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Emergency: FCP to Compressor, FCP crashing ('Lithium Plug-in' the problem???) - 14 years agoHi Barry and strypes, Am doing that. A self-contained Quicktime Master, which I've then pushed through Compressor. Seems to be working so far. I did a test, and it also gave more or less the same quality as going straight from the timeline. I was afraid I'd lose some. All seems to be going well now. Thank you most kindly for your advice. Benby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Emergency: FCP to Compressor, FCP crashing ('Lithium Plug-in' the problem???) - 14 years agoHi LAFCPUG, I've got to deliver a 78 minute master MPEG2 (DVD) today. I'm exporting from a DV NTSC anamorphic timeline, through Compressor: MPEG2 - 90 minute best encode (tweaking the bit rate up to 6.7 average, 7.9 max). The Compressor encode runs for an hour and then Final Cut crashes. It's done this three times now. Here are the first couple of lines (below) of the FCP analysis, whichby Ben Ged Low - Café LA |
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