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Re: Changing opacity gives me a green screen of doom - 12 years ago
ProRes 4444. Footage originally came from a Canon 7D. Knowing what I know now, I'd have transcoded to ProRes 422, but live and learn. I've done similar effects with the footage in the same timeline earlier in the edit. This seemed to crop up suddenly.by jwilliam - Café LA
Changing opacity gives me a green screen of doom - 12 years ago
I'm having a problem this morning, and searching for answers is almost impossible on this one. I'm trying to create a video overlay effect. V1 is my untreated video. I copy that, paste the copy directly over my clip on V2. Using the basic motion parameters, I scale up the copy on V2 & turn the opacity down to 40%. When I turn the opacity down, instead of seeing the layer underneath, my fraby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Audio EQ/mix suggestions? - 12 years ago
Michael, if you mean dropping the Flip camera into a pot of boiling water for a POV look at the chef, you're on the money.by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Audio EQ/mix suggestions? - 12 years ago
Because I didn't shoot it. Didn't even have any input on shooting it. And sometimes you have to live with what your clients hand you. "Awful" doesn't quite cover it with the Flip, too. In fact, "awful" is a rather generous assessment of its audio capabilities.by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Audio EQ/mix suggestions? - 12 years ago
@Derek - I should be so lucky! The footage is a couple of minutes of a cooking demo. Client isn't going to be picky about the audio on this one, they know what it is. I just want my ears to stop bleeding as I'm working on this!by jwilliam - Café LA
Audio EQ/mix suggestions? - 12 years ago
Question for the resident geniuses with golden ears... I'm stuck using a bunch of audio from a flip camera's built-in mic. It's from an interior, in a moderately lively kitchen so there's some low hissing from stovetops, and the voices are just cutting through really sharply. What's the best strategy for hitting that with some EQ to help smooth it out? Bring down the midranges to smooth thingsby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Matrox MXO2 only shows still frames, won't play video - 12 years ago
Thanks for posting the followup on the Matrox board, Andy! I rushed out of here from posting my last message to get to the LAFCPUG meeting with the AVID preview. Just wait until you see AVID handling mixed framerates with raw Canon 7D, ProRes, and RED files. Viva innovation!by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Matrox MXO2 only shows still frames, won't play video - 12 years ago
Survey says.... changing the framerate of the source clips solves the problem! Tim, Shane, and Andy, I owe you all a beer. Given the sudden appearance of the problem with other projects that live on my system, I'm certain that re-installing the drivers cleared some funky gremlin out of the system. Which only leaves me with egg on my face for the footage I was working with and converting aroundby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Matrox MXO2 only shows still frames, won't play video - 12 years ago
Thanks Andy, will do. If I create a new project from scratch, and throw a troublesome SD clip onto the timeline & let FCP conform the sequence settings, I get this: The clip settings for what's in the timeline are: And the Matrox settings are: That combo still produces this non-playback problem. Now, here's where it gets weird. Right now, in my original project, thby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Matrox MXO2 only shows still frames, won't play video - 12 years ago
Success! And at the same time, continued failure! Uninstalled & re-installed the software, now my HD projects are working fine. Sadly, the SD project which has the nearest upcoming deadline, is still being balky. Inspired by the success, let's add another data point from some experimenting: The clips that won't play through the Matrox in FCP will play through the Matrox in Motion. If Iby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Matrox MXO2 only shows still frames, won't play video - 12 years ago
@Shane - Yes, this project is SD. The footage came from a bunch of sources, so I converted everything to standard def ProRes 422 NTSC @ 720x480. The only Matrox setting that matches that is what I'm currently using: "Matrox MXO2 - Apple ProRes 422 NTSC 48 kHz/29.97) However, the high-def projects on my system are suffering from the same problem. Everything I try to play back I've gotby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Matrox MXO2 only shows still frames, won't play video - 12 years ago
Excellent suggestion, but no dice. I followed the preference-trashing steps here: FCP 7.0x Go to your Home directory then inside it to: Library > Preferences Drag com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist to the trash Scroll down to the Final Cut Pro User Data folder Drag Final Cut Pro 7.0 Prefs to the trash Drag Final Cut Pro Obj Cache to the trash Drag Final Cut Pro Prof Cache to the trashby jwilliam - Café LA
Matrox MXO2 only shows still frames, won't play video - 12 years ago
I've got this posted up on the Matrox tech support forums, but thought I'd take a stab at crossposting here in the hopes that (A) someone else has run into this problem because this is a much more active forum, and (B) that it's some goofy output setting somewhere in FCP that I'm overlooking and not a problem with the box. Hopefully this is just something stupid that I'm overlooking. I've trieby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Stuttering playback question - 12 years ago
Hey, nevermind! Was playing my footage back without my Matrox output attached. My system was looking for it, it wasn't attached, voila unhappiness. I don't know if I'm brilliant for figuring it out, a moron for it being something so stupid, or both. But if I'm a happy idiot, maybe that's good enough, right?by jwilliam - Café LA
Stuttering playback question - 12 years ago
I'm experiencing stuttering playback problems with an old project I'm revisiting. I started a cut of a short doc on my home system, got distracted for a couple of months, and have returned to polish it off. Basically, every time I press play, the footage stutters, audio skips, and the picture lags out of sync. The source footage is DVCPRO HD 1080p30 running off a 750 GB internal drive. Wheby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Media Manager FAIL! - 12 years ago
Nick - Just tried your 'set permissions in the finder-level folder' trick, and still no dice. I'm ready to chalk this up to general FCP weirdness. Thanks for the suggestions! Jeffby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Web delivery formats? - 12 years ago
Thanks. The frustrating thing here is that I'm not sure how these are going to be used, and I don't have any contact with the people who will actually be using them. My client wants these clips to distribute to a bunch of local stations and syndicators, and that's about as much info as I have. Guess I'm going to burn h264, with as big a bitrate will fit all these files on 1 DVD. The next userby jwilliam - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Web delivery formats? - 12 years ago
I'm wrapping up a project, and the client wants clips of the final program for web publicity purposes. They're 2 minute clips for stations and broadcast outlets to run on their website. Is h264 an acceptible 'master' format to deliver quicktime clips in? Or should I suck it up and send huge uncompressed files? Thanks! Jeffby jwilliam - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Media Manager FAIL! - 12 years ago
Hey Nick - You might be right, and the reel numbers aren't being taken in properly. I did not get that message. I do get the message with changing other clips in the project, but not the 30 minute episode clips. Possible to change/set those permissions somewhere? Jeffby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: OT: Media Composer 5 - 12 years ago
I'll be very interested to see AVID's promised drag-and-drop interface. If they can remove the tedium of constantly selecting and de-selecting tracks, and support output to the Matrox, it will really be a great platform. A variant on Color would be nice, but something closer to Motion (to replace the hideous Marquee) would be even better. FCP needs to retaliate by buttoning up their media mby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Media Manager FAIL! - 12 years ago
Nick - The clips that are causing me 50 gig of trouble are 27 minute long quicktimes, with a DV/DVCPRO-NTSC codec. I got them on a hard drive, and they imported without any reel numbers attached to them. Any thoughts? Jeffby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Media Manager FAIL! - 12 years ago
I should be so lucky to be using the Aja anything on this. My sources came to me as fully edited shows on a hard drive. I think they were originally produced for the internet, so it's possible that this stuff has never seen a tape since the original camera rolled. I did the media manage anyway, just for kicks, and those are the space hogging clips. All 10 thirty minute shows come over intact.by jwilliam - Café LA
Media Manager FAIL! - 12 years ago
It's archive and cleanup day, and once again, Media Manager is driving me batty. I'm getting the same old problem - it won't delete unused media. Usually the solution is to make sure that all non-timecoded source have a perfunctory reel number. I've done that, and still no dice. My 6 minute sequence is going to take 60 gigs of drive space. Any other thoughts for troubleshooting this? Is theby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Crashing when I send to FCP - 13 years ago
Thanks Shane! Constant speed changes would explain it, as I was getting loopy with the new speed tools. Interesting tidbit about 8-bit and ProRES not playing nice together. Why is that?by jwilliam - Color
Completely confused by the STP interface - 13 years ago
I'm working on my first project that needs (I believe) Soundtrack Pro, and there's things about the interface that are making me crazy. Now, I'm an old school editor, used to mixing on the FCP timeline. I've had the STP2 Apple Pro Training Series book for a while, so out of curiousity, I worked through it to familiarize myself with the interface. I think I'm so used to the concept of mixing inby jwilliam - Soundtrack Pro
Re: Deinterlacing - 13 years ago
Head... meet desk. The problem is gone now. I just finished rendering out some graphics, and went back to the stretch of high-motion shots that was giving me fits to pull a still, and it's now gone. Everything looks fine. I was getting that banding/bars effect on all the moving edges, and now it's completely disappeared. I even did a test and dropped a 'de-interlace' filter onto one of themby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Deinterlacing - 13 years ago
Thanks for the quick response. I'm going to give that a try and see how it looks on a consumer DVD player and TV. What bugs me is the interlacing issues on my edit monitor, which is a consumer HDTV being fed by a Matrox MXO LE. If the source footage was HDV 1080i60, and I worked natively in 1080i60, sent it to Color that way, and it came back that way, why is there only a banding problem withby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Deinterlacing - 13 years ago
Jeff - can you expound on why you shouldn't de-interlace before laying off on DVD? I'm having an interlacing problem today. I sent my project to Color, and the material that came back has a lot of interlacing problems when I playback in FCP. My source footage is HDV1080i60, and I'm burning a standard def DVD for the client's final screeners. Will the down-convert to MPEG fix the interlacinby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Crashing when I send to FCP - 13 years ago
OK, quick update - I stripped out all the usual offenders (stills, graphics, slo-mo shots) and boiled the timeline down to one layer, and it zipped over to FCP without a problem. Wasn't the upgrade to Color supposed to improve those issues? So now I'm having interlacing problems. My source material is HDV 1080i60, and my Color outputs have a lot of banding issues that the untouched footage doeby jwilliam - Color
