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Effects plug-ins - 15 years ago
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good and not outrageously expensive set of plug-ins for FCP 6.0.2? I'm looking for something that will give me a good glow effect, and maybe some good transitions with a nice flash to white, or film-flash effect. What's worked best for anyone out there? Jeffby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: real time effects question.... what am I missing? - 15 years ago
Re-digitizing the funky tape would be a good experiment, but today's my last day on the this project so it's not likely to happen. For now it's going to remain shrouded in mystery, until my next job with this company in January. Thanks for the brainstorming thoughts, all... To Jude/Mark: Three cheers for industry standard codecs! To Shane: Avoid the offline process? What are you? The waveby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: real time effects question.... what am I missing? - 15 years ago
Jude - thanks for trying to help me figure this out. Running through all the settings is a pretty good troubleshooting exercise, and here's what I've got. The sequence settings are: frame size: 320x240 multimedia large 4:3 pixel aspect: none anamorphic box unchecked field dominance: none editing time base 29.97 quicktime video settings: photo-JPEG quality: 35% audio: 48K depth 2by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: upon further inspection... - 15 years ago
....aaaaand using media manager to re-compress this trouble clip to a 24-bit integer did nothing. still getting the orange bar of doom, even with the re-compressed footage. That right click menu item is helpful, I've been overlooking that. But still no dice. Thoughts, anyone?by jwilliam - Café LA
upon further inspection... - 15 years ago
I think I'm on to something with this. The tape that's causing me rendering issues was captured with 16-bit integer audio, and everything else in the project is at 24-bit integer. I'm going to use media manager to re-compress this to 24-bit integer audio and see what happens, but could this be the source of the troubles? If it is, are there better solutions?by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: real time effects question.... what am I missing? - 15 years ago
If I scale up footage from earlier or later tapes, I don't have a problem at all. I have one sequence with a bunch of dissolves and quicktimes with alpha channels layered up three or four deep on top of scaling the footage and I'm getting real time playback without a hitch. In the same sequence, when I have to use footage from this "day 3" tape, I get the orange bar as soon as I scalby jwilliam - Café LA
real time effects question.... what am I missing? - 15 years ago
Running FCP Studio 2, 6.0, OS X 10.4.10 on a mac pro tower with 4 gig of RAM. I'm doing a job where I've been getting new footage from my assistants on a daily basis. The first three days of getting footage come in just fine. If I need to put a basic motion effect on the footage, it goes in without a problem. Day four, I get a clip with the visible timecode strip on the top of the frame. Iby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: AVID to FCP and back toAVID - 15 years ago
I'm not familiar with AVID Liquid, but Express Pro & Media Composer imports and exports quicktimes without a hitch. I've done a similar process where I've exported out of an AVID some shots for an After Effects artist, who just returned a quicktime file of the finished shot back to me. Unless, of course, you're working at an offline resolution and need to carry tape and timecode informatiby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: "Copy Master Clip" window... make it stop! - 15 years ago
Yep, that screengrab is the message that pops up! But in that thread, there's no getting to the bottom of what that message is about. I'm also not trying to media manage, but to rough cut. To Derek - Yep, I'm editing by double-clicking the marker, loading the marker up into my viewer, and editing from there. I get that message box whether I use overwrite or click-and-drag to get clips onto theby jwilliam - Café LA
"Copy Master Clip" window... make it stop! - 15 years ago
I'm working in FCP 6.0. I have a bunch of master clips that are over an hour long each. I logged them with markers, basically by scene number. When I load up the marker for "scene 1" into my viewer and start cutting, every time I drag footage to my timeline I get this window that pops up: ** COPY MASTER CLIP A master clip already exists for a clip you are adding to this projecby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: HDV codec not found... but it was there at some point! - 15 years ago
Follow up... I just got it working, but in a very un-kosher way. I found a shareware app called "pacifist" that allows you to open up and unpackage program install files. I used this on my Final Cut Pro install dvd, and got the AppleHDVcodec.component off that disk. That codec was version 1.3, and now my video magically appeared. So this leaves me with these questions, which mightby jwilliam - Café LA
HDV codec not found... but it was there at some point! - 15 years ago
I'm missing my codec for HDV 1080p24. In fact, I seem to be missing all the HDV codecs. First off - I'm running a new Mac Pro tower, 4 gig of RAM, the whole Studio 2 package, and FCP 6.0 (was running 6.0.1, but tried re-installing the software and haven't upgraded yet). I'm trying to play back some footage that's HDV 1080p24, and it's worked on my system before. It's been about a week sinceby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Red or blue tinted footage in viewer window - 15 years ago
Derek - Good ideas. I used media manager to convert my blue-turning footage and re-compressed it with the "blackmagic 8 bit" codec. Problem solved, the footage no longer turns blue when rendered. Putting the blank title card over the tweaky footage was something I discovered while working last night. It makes me think it might be some kind of bug in the alpha or RGB channels... beby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Red or blue tinted footage in viewer window - 15 years ago
Now let me add a curious wrinkle to this mysterious blue footage... if I put a title slug - even an empty title card over the footage and render it, it comes out normally. Bizarre.by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Red or blue tinted footage in viewer window - 15 years ago
Nope, it's not downloaded from the web, but it's almost as bad. The majority of the footage I'm working with is digitized from a beta with a Blackmagic card, with the Blackmagic 5.7.2 codec. Which, as I figured out, is not compatible with the Blackmagic 6.1 codec and was my problem of the morning. The new footage - the stuff that is turning blue - is ripped from a DVD using the DVDxDV app tby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Red or blue tinted footage in viewer window - 15 years ago
Sorry, posting the system specs rather dumbly slipped my mind. I'm running: Mac Pro 2.66 gHz Intel duo-core OS X 10.4.10 4 gig RAM QT 7.2 FCP 6.0.1 editing off of a 750 gig external drive through a firewire 400. (Which might explain the unmixed timeline resolutions). Thanks for your help, Michael... Any thoughts on this blue issue? Ever hear of something like this?by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Red or blue tinted footage in viewer window - 15 years ago
The footage that's turning blue has a different compression setting than the rest of the footage in my timeline. Every shot that I cut in won't play back without rendering - which might be part of the problem because I thought there was some real-time resolution mixing in FCP 6.0.1. It looks normal in the viewer, normal when paused and unrendered in the timeline window, but after rendering sby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Red or blue tinted footage in viewer window - 15 years ago
Brilliant! Thank you. Is there something in the FAQ that explains why rendered footage turns blue?by jwilliam - Café LA
Red or blue tinted footage in viewer window - 15 years ago
Dumb question #2 for the day, and I've tried searching through the forums for an answer but the search queries return a massive amount of irrelevant results. Basically, the footage in my viewer window is tinted red, like a red screen is over the image. It disappears when I cut into my timeline, but everything in the viewer looks like it's under a red solid. Then, to further confuse matters,by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Blackmagic 8 bit codec woes - 15 years ago
I did solve the problem this morning, but I've been cranking along on this edit and haven't had time to share the magic solution. It was a codec mis-match issue. My client digitized with the Blackmagic 5.7.2 codec. The company website only offers version 6.1 for download. I pilfered their codec folder and all was well. Who knew they weren't backwards compatible? Jeffby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Blackmagic 8 bit codec woes - 15 years ago
Let me throw a new thought out there, for the Blackmagic users who might read this: Is there a capture setting on the Blackmagic that requires a Decklink card for playback? Could this be a capture problem? Would going back and re-capturing the footage with a different capture setting give me different results? Oh, this is making me crazy!by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Blackmagic 8 bit codec woes - 15 years ago
I've tried fooling around with the timeline settings, but I get nothing but the white screen in my viewer window as well, before the video even gets to the timeline. Now I am a relative FCP newbie, is there a project-wide codec setting?by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Blackmagic 8 bit codec woes - 15 years ago
I'll drop the Blackmagic support people a line. I have tried opening my capture files in Quicktime, and I get the same result. White frame of video, and full audio. Johan - I was under that impression too, that I wouldn't need extra fancy codecs to play back this video once it was captured. Could it be something else? Other, full-resolution quicktimes play back without a problem. Beyondby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: Blackmagic 8 bit codec woes - 15 years ago
Here's a puzzling update: I got both quicktime 7.2 and Final Cut Pro 6.0.1 to acknowledge the Blackmagic uncompressed 8 bit and 10 bit codecs. (At least, in both apps when I go to export, there are the blackmagic codec options listed.) I did this by installing the software that runs the blackmagic card, even though I don't have it, but installing the software that runs the card seems to have gby jwilliam - Café LA
Blackmagic 8 bit codec woes - 15 years ago
Hopefully this is a simple question, that will merit a simple answer. I'm getting the white video-screen of death. A client digitized a couple of tapes onto my external hard drive, captured with a Blackmagic card. I don't have a Blackmagic card, and seem to be missing the necessary codec to play back this video. The audio is fine, just no video. System details: New Mac Pro duo-core, upby jwilliam - Café LA
Recording scratch VO? Best/easiest way without a mixing board? - 15 years ago
Just got a Mac Pro tower... I was on the verge of buying the iMac, then did a final on-paper comparison, and at the last minute, picked up a 2.66 quad core Mac Pro. Needless to say, I love it. But a two part question for the experts, as my google-fu has failed to unearth an answer. 1) What's the easiest way to record scratch VO in FCP? Do I need a powered mic in running into the input? Or aby jwilliam - Café LA
Re: iMac vs. a Pro tower - 15 years ago
That thinking goes like this: Mac Pro, FCP 2 studio, with 1 24" monitor is $5700, plus a good 1 terabyte drive, that's over $6200. An iMac with 4 gig of RAM, FCP 2, and a drive is $3800. That's a $2400 difference, and if the major functional difference is the inability to digitize HD right out of the box, that's not worth it at the moment for my needs. Plus, if I'm making that $6200by jwilliam - Café LA
Re: iMac vs. a Pro tower - 15 years ago
Wow, thank you all for the advice, especially that creativecow link. That is exactly the kind of food for thought I needed. Basically, I work as a professional producer/editor, and a couple of clients would like to farm some jobs out to me. I'm not ready - nor am I inclined - to build an edit bay in my office that will compete with what I work with at a facility on a daily basis. I'd love to bby jwilliam - Café LA
iMac vs. a Pro tower - 15 years ago
Hello All... Long time editor, relative newcomer to FCP. For a while now, I've been contemplating getting an iMac and FCP Studio 2 to work from home with. I dig the new iMacs that just got announced today, and as I'm thinking about buying one, it hit me that I'm not too familiar with what the trade-offs or limitations are with the iMac vs. a Mac Pro tower. I'm guessing its mostly in deck contrby jwilliam - Café LA
