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Re: Suggestions/filters for creating a 'scoreboard' look? - 14 years ago
Thanks, guys! I was completely over-thinking this, and digging into my font library never occurred to me as a solution. That little touch of adding a "bloom" effect is great. Thanks again, it's appreciated!by jwilliam - Café LA
Suggestions/filters for creating a 'scoreboard' look? - 14 years ago
I'm working on a quickie parody video with some shots of an electronic sign outside a stadium. Does anyone have a good suggestion for a cheap way to make text look like that electronic scoreboard style look?by jwilliam - Café LA
Replicating a first-generation chyron look - 14 years ago
Anybody have any suggestions for how to create the really bad looking titles that sports broadcasters used to use back in the early 70's? If you watch football game footage from back in the Howard Cosell days, the titles were this garish yellow, low-resolution, and seem to hover independently from the background. I'm working on a football parody piece, and want to get that old, 1970's title feby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Motion tutorial missing - how would you do this? - 14 years ago
Thanks, Mark. That shatter effect is a little more involved than my original thinking, but it's not out of reach. Except that it uses Adobe's discontinued "ImageReady" to create the image sequence. Does Photoshop have that "divide and slice" capability, do you know? Great list of links & tutorials you have! I really appreciate it. Jeffby jwilliam - Motion
Motion tutorial missing - how would you do this? - 14 years ago
So this link promises a cool looking tutorial of video swivelling in 3D and breaking apart into a bunch of boxes. But when you follow through the link is missing. I'm up for a challenge, and have tried to think my way through how to replicate this effect. In theory, how would one build an effect like this? Would you: Use a replicator on a white square and fill up the screen with iby jwilliam - Motion
Re: Burning multiple DVDs with DVD Studio 2? Or copying with another utility? - 14 years ago
Oops... should have probably thrown this into the DVD Studio Pro forum. Long day, bleary eyes, you all know the drill. But the second question maybe qualifies for this forum. Good DVD copying software, anyone?by jwilliam - DVD Studio Pro
Burning multiple DVDs with DVD Studio 2? Or copying with another utility? - 14 years ago
I'm working at a client who has DVD Studio Pro version 2, I think. It might be 3, not sure... don't have it in front of me, but it's much older than v.4. With older versions of Studio Pro, is there a way to burn multiple copies once the program goes through the encoding process? I have to create 6 approval copies (and yes, that's another nightmare), and it would be tremendous to not take all dby jwilliam - DVD Studio Pro
Re: P2 workflow - 14 years ago
Hey Dan - That Ken Stone article has pretty much every answer I was looking for! Thanks all! Jeffby jwilliam - Café LA
P2 workflow - 14 years ago
I'm getting into a job that's shooting on the Panasonic HVX200. The cool thing is that I'm going to be on-set with a mobile workstation going over the dailies while the shooting is going on. A first for me, and I'm pretty excited about that. Question is: what's a good workflow for working with the P2 cards? Surprisingly, there aren't a lot of threads about using them. My big question isby jwilliam - Café LA
Pointer keeps turning into hand tool - 14 years ago
Don't know why, but there's an object in my project that when I click it with the pointer to move it, suddenly the pointer turns into a blue-outlined hand tool that moves my whole canvas. Anyone know why? Once it happens, every object I click behaves the same way (turning the pointer to the hand tool) until I quit and restart. Is the object glitched somehow? Is there some setting I don't knby jwilliam - Motion
Re: la cie big disk extreme is 'read only'! - 14 years ago
Let me also add to the list of "careful LaCie drive handling instructions": Don't move it. Ever. These are not good drives to carry back and forth from one facility to another. Keep it stationary, well ventilated, and thoroughly backed up, and you'll be at less risk of failure. G-Raid, I must admit, are worth the price - both for performance and reliability. My 1TB drive works likby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Still no full screen playback... time to trash the preferences? - 14 years ago
That did it! Thanks all!by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Still no full screen playback... time to trash the preferences? - 14 years ago
Thanks Michael, I'll try that. Is the process the same for FCP5 as for FCP 6?by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Still no full screen playback... time to trash the preferences? - 14 years ago
Yeah, I'm 99% sure that I do... When "external frames - view all" is selected, I get a full-screen view of the frame that the playhead is parked on, but the video won't roll when I play. Doesn't matter if I select "view - digital cinema desktop display" or "full screen" or "raw", it all gives the same result. The thread that started the troubleshooting iby jwilliam - Café LA
Still no full screen playback... time to trash the preferences? - 14 years ago
So I've been wrestling with a sudden lack of full-screen playback. All the idiot checking steps haven't helped, and I'm stuck with frozen video on my full-screen playback and normal audio playback. Is this the kind of thing that preference-trashing might clear up? And the FAQ has a link to preference trashing for FCP 5, is the process similiar for FCP 6?by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Can someone idiot check me on full-screen playback? - 14 years ago
Nope, not multi-cam. The reason I feel so daft is that it has worked flawlessly since I got my system running many months ago. The new element was the PD-150 connected via firewire (which - for another post entirely - was connected to a Slingbox and did a fantastic job of streaming an edit to my far away client in real time, no exporting, uploading, or downloading needed!). So there's somethinby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Can someone idiot check me on full-screen playback? - 14 years ago
All frames = On Canvas & Viewer = fit to window, shift-z'd Still the same result - frozen picture on my full screen display. I know it's something dumb, 'cause that's my style, but still, this is really frustrating.by jwilliam - Café LA
Can someone idiot check me on full-screen playback? - 14 years ago
Sheesh... most of my postings are some sort of idiot check, it seems. Under my Audio/Video settings, I switched video playback to NTSC firewire device to send picture out to a camera. Then I switched it back to "Digital Cinema desktop preview - full screen", and now when I switch to full-screen mode, I just get the full screen still frame of the video I parked on, and rolling audio.by jwilliam - Café LA
Cumulatively building a mask - 14 years ago
I know there's a clever way to do this, but I'm stumped at the moment. I want to use the "future data stream" graphic from the content/gauges menu to build a transition. The graphic is a nice, overlapping stream of white rectangular boxes. I'd love to have this graphic running, but on the left half of the screen, let the graphic start remaining on screen so that after 30-40 frames, tby jwilliam - Motion
Re: OT - help configuring AirPort Extreme - 14 years ago
For those still wondering how this all turned out... I solved my problem. The solution ranks up there as a pretty big D'oh! The answer was just to get an AirPort card installed on my MacPro. Problem solved. Apparently, the AirPort Express is a wireless transmitter, not a receiver. I didn't factor that into my problem-solving because two different sales people at the Apple store told me otherwiby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: OT - help configuring AirPort Extreme - 14 years ago
Thanks again for the help, but that was a typo on my part... I'm having problems telling the silly Apple products apart after a couple of hours of surfing their troubleshooting boards. I only have the Express... I'm trying to get my Mac Pro connected to my existing wireless network. The 'base station' I'm using is my Belkin cable modem & Linksys wireless router. Any other thoughts? I reby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: OT - help configuring AirPort Extreme - 14 years ago
Thanks, Joe... Done that about 6 times by now! Every time I go through the initialization process, and it hangs, I have to do the 'hard reset' where you hold the button down for 10 seconds to restore factory default. Soon as I do that, the AirPort Utility will find the AirPort Express without a problem, and then I repeat the steps above - find network, connect, and *poof*, suddenly the AirPby jwilliam - Café LA
OT - help configuring AirPort Extreme - 14 years ago
Hey - if anyone out there has any experience with the AirPort, I'd appreciate some troubleshooting advice! I just picked one up and have spent two hours trying to get it connected without any success. There's nothing like the failure of a supposedly plug-and-play piece of electronics to humble a man. I want to use the AirPort to connect to the wireless network already in my home. When I connecby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Compressing for the web FAST and BEST quality - 14 years ago
In this thread here, I asked a similar question: I found a 2 step process using Final Cut's "Quicktime Conversion" and then Quicktime Pro yielded the best picture quality to file-size ratio I could find. DVCreatorlabs got mentioned in that thread, too, and I looked into using it. I opted against it because I was getting solid results for client approvals in 10 minutes or lessby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Station says aspect ratio is off -- what to do???? - 14 years ago
Did they complain that the tape started with over a minute of brightly colored bars and an annoying high-pitched noise, too? Those are like, the worst opening titles in history!by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Changing the serial number of an FCP Studio 2 install - 14 years ago
How clean is clean? Re-doing the whole OS? Any good links/tutorials/reference points for how to start over with OS X?by jwilliam - Café LA
Changing the serial number of an FCP Studio 2 install - 14 years ago
Is there any way to change the serial number of FCP studio 2 once its installed? The backstory is that my favorite - but grossly technically inept - client had their tech guy install Final Cut 6 way back when they bought it. I don't know what happened, but for some nebulous reason, he installed it using his serial number. I figured that out when I went to install the rest of the Studio packageby jwilliam - Café LA
OT - cheap videocamera w/firewire input & rca output - 14 years ago
Anybody have a good recommendation (or even brand) for a cheap videocamera with a firewire input and some sort of RCA/NTSC monitor friendly output? I'm looking for a camera that will do something along the lines of a Canopus video conversion box, but since I need to buy a piece of gear, I wouldn't mind having something with basic camera capabilities, as well. The big picture here is that I'by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: OT - wireless network adapter for Mac Pro tower - 14 years ago
Ah, but therein lies the rub... I don't have a deck around here all the time. I'm guessing that my options are either: a) new video card, or b) some sort of firewire to RCA converter that I'm not aware of. What I'm trying to do here is get a video stream off my Mac Pro and connect it to RCA inputs. I'm trying to use a Slingbox to feed a video stream to a client at their location. Inby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: OT - wireless network adapter for Mac Pro tower - 14 years ago
Actually... belay that last question -- just figured out that I can get another cable modem and keep my connection as it is. The better question now is what is the best way to connect the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT video card to a client monitor & keep my two 23" cinema displays connected. The card only has 2 DVI outputs, so how do you connect an NTSC monitor?by jwilliam - Café LA
