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Re: Out of memory errors - 5 years ago
QuoteEthanThere's an acknowledged maximum project file size. I want to say it is 70mb but I see where some say 100mb. Acknowledged by whom? We recently finished a half-year FCP7 project here with final filesize 139 MB without incident. In a topic from 2014, Derek Mok wrote:QuoteI'd only start suspecting an overlarge project file around the 150MB mark or so. It's the project complexity --by dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Mavericks vs. Snow Leopard - 5 years ago
Stefan, A good way to assure that FCP7 in one system is set exactly up the same as FCP7 in another system -- the requirement when making comparisons -- is to use Preference Manager from Digital Rebellion. Download version 4.3.2 for Snow Leopard. Backup the FCP7 preferences in Snow Leopard, with a name you can recognize. Open Mavericks and Restore from those FCP7 preferences. Note: Preferencby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: it's official - FCP7 won't launch in High Sierra - 5 years ago
The Apple announcement at Nick's link doesn't quite imply that FCP7 won't launch in High Sierra.* Some brave soul can install the High Sierra beta and see if FCP7 can be installed and then run. (Brave because High Sierra brings a new file system, and I wouldn't put it past Apple to change, perhaps irreversibly, more than the volume on which you install High Sierra.) Anyhow, if FCP7 is incompby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Video footage, every fourth frame duplicated - 5 years ago
OK, you think you have some footage with frames either like ABCCDEFF... or else like ABCDDEFGHH... . (One could say of the first that every fourth frame of the video is a duplicate; one could say of the second that every fourth frame of the source was doubled. Best, spell it out.) First, as Nick suggested, make sure that your video really contains duplicate frames. It could be that your ediby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Out of memory errors - 5 years ago
lupacexi's question is verbatim a question posted in this forum two years ago. Quote Joe Riggs "Out of memory" errors May 22, 2015 04:07AM Been recently getting a lot of "Out of memory" errors recently. One project file in particular seems to be the most prone, it is a sizable project file, 200mb. All media and project file are connected via an external usb3 driveby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: 1998 x 1080 @ 24fps - 5 years ago
Since Blu-ray doesn't allow 1998x1080, you have to choose between: 1. 1920x1080 Blu-ray letterboxed with 21 black pixels at top and at bottom. 2. 1920x1080 Blu-ray which is a ~4% crop of the original picture. 3. 1920x1080 Blu-ray which is a ~4% distortion of the original picture. This aesthetic (and therefore commercial) decision should dominate over your rerender concerns. You say FCP7 doby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Projection on Christie - 5 years ago
Of course you can afford a DCP. There are excellent free softwares for making DCPs. DCP-o-matic is one that's especially easy to learn. DCP is the one output format which can assure the filmmaker how the film will look on the screen. That is, once you know it looks in one DCP projection you know how it looks in all DCP projections. It is also possible, without ever seeing your DCP projecby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: mp4 video, 29.97 fps with every fifth frame duplicated - 5 years ago
Nick: that is a gorgeous method. I, for one, didn't know that it was possible to: QuoteNick Meyers do a search in the timeline for "slug" Also I was amazed by the move: QuoteNick Meyers select all in your timeline, drag to the canvas, drop into the over-right window Thank you for having learned these operations of FCP7 and showing them. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: mp4 video, 29.97 fps with every fifth frame duplicated - 5 years ago
If you need to remove every fifth frame, yes, you can do this in Compressor. The surest path is to quit NTSC-based speeds for the operation. Use Cinema Tools or (my preference) QT Edit to conform what you believe is your 29.97 fps video to 30 fps. Compressor just counts, it doesn't analyze, the frames, so you must make your duplicated frames occur at the right places. Your video startby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Exported file changing run time - 5 years ago
I assume you're reporting timecode 01:44:31:21 as 104:31:21 and timecode 01:44:25:14 as 104:25:14, and that you mean "a bit more than 6 seconds longer" where you write "almost 6 seconds longer". The apparent lengthening of your video is the result the legacy nightmare of cinema's 24 fps vs. NTSC-based 23.976 fps. The FCP7 sequence presets denoted 24p are really 23.976 fpby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: crop at an angle - 6 years ago
Make some black slug, put it on a track over the picture, and in its Motion tab rotate it, scale it up, and recenter it till it's as you want. (Same is achievable using Distort in the slug's Motion tab, changing just the second entries for each of Upper Left and Upper Right.) If the black is too black reduce opacity in the Motion tab, or else change the slug's color using the left circle in Colby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Converting SD DV PAL (25fps) to 1920x1080 (24fps) - 6 years ago
QuoteNick Meyers frame rate: are you converting from 25fps to 24fps? or "Conforming" the latter will make the footage play a little slower, but it would most likely look better. i'd definitely test a few clips. Nick alludes to the problem with simple converting discussed many times in this forum. It discards every 25th frame of the original, so playback has a little jump iby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Imported HD files are too dark - 6 years ago
What you say looks "dark" and "underexposed" is most likely a distortion in the encoding function, such as an incorrectly interpreted gamma. You are using a prosumer camcorder that offers log encoding and many gamma-like options. The options that are Panasonic-specific can't be included in the .mov file metadata, so FCP 6 can't display those files correctly. FCP 6 thinks itby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Importing AVCHD into fcp 6.06 - 6 years ago
The problem is the 1080/60p. This was not legal AVCHD at the time FCP6 was written. Same for FCP7. So these FCP's don't support it. Panasonic raced ahead of the very AVCHD spec it had participated in. Sony followed. Now 1080/60p and 1080/50p are legal AVCHD. It was precisely for bringing 1080/50p AVCHD into FCP7 that I bought ClipWrap 6 years ago. Search for "ClipWrap" in thby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Cannot find fonts in FCP7 - 6 years ago
Robert: You're right. The Font Book disabling method does work under 10.8.5 too. I tested incorrectly earlier. Disabling all but the wanted variant with Font Book is a good general method for utilizing installed font families in FCP7. Lato isn't the only large font family. Avenir has 12 variants, Helvetica Neue has 11 variants, etc. FCP7 does bolding, italicizing and narrowing/condensingby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Cannot find fonts in FCP7 - 6 years ago
The Lato font collection includes hairline, light, medium, semi-bold, bold and heavy weights. Presumably these are designed with more visual sensitivity than a stroke width generator would produce. So enjoy your 18 variants of Lato font. The only way I see to do this within FCP7 is to install just the one variant you wish. Then what FCP7 calls Lato "plain" is exactly that Lato vaby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: 23.98 fps to 24 fps, ouch ouch ouch... - 6 years ago
You meant to say "And we're talking .02 frames every second." It's really .024 frames every second, because Appletalk 23.98 fps is really NTSC 23.976 fps. So we're talking .001 sec every second which becomes noticeable to sharp observers after about 20 seconds. If someone's talking or chopping wood etc., and shot with two cameras, one at 24 fps and the other at 23.976 fps, and yoby dcouzin - Café LA - X
Re: What's the latest MacOS I can safely upgrade to which will run FCP 7 and DVD Studio Pro? - 6 years ago
You will buy a new Mac computer and try to run DVD Studio Pro on it. Question #1 is: what operating systems can the new computer run? Apple's official position is that you can't (or shouldn't) run any operating system earlier than whatever shipped on the machine. Not necessarily true. I ran Snow Leopard successfully on a Mac Pro that shipped with Mountain Lion and ran Mountain Lion successfulby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Mixed Media on DV NTSC timeline - Best way to export for big screen? - 6 years ago
Jay, The reason for the double deinterlace is safety, in case FCP7 did something funny to some of your original clips when fitting them into the 60i sequence. FCP7 can't show fields separately, so it's hard to know exactly what 60i thing it's made. You say the 24p material is displayed ABCDD. Go to a part where there's fast action, set the canvas to 100%, and step through to confirm that yby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Mixed Media on DV NTSC timeline - Best way to export for big screen? - 6 years ago
Jay: What a mess! FCP7 isn't very good at mixing media. QuoteJayG0413I've been using Compressor for most of my exports. Compressor has a role after the edit, but it also has a role before the edit, to ready the disparate clips for FCP7. Aspect ratio disparities are obvious, and Compressor's Geometry pane and its "best" setting for Resize work well. Frame rate disparities are lesby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: What's the latest MacOS I can safely upgrade to which will run FCP 7 and DVD Studio Pro? - 6 years ago
I can report that FCP 7.0.3 along with Compressor 3.5.3 and DVD Studio Pro 4.2.2. will install under Sierra. The procedure is strange. The .app files must be moved from a ghost Application folder to the working Application folder, but your serial number is accepted and the three programs appear normal. From a .mov file, Compressor made .m2v and .ac3 files, and from these, DVD Studio Pro maby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: What's the latest MacOS I can safely upgrade to which will run FCP 7 and DVD Studio Pro? - 6 years ago
I hold the minority view that FCP7 doesn't work perfectly on any OSX beyond Lion (10.7.5). Please read , and what it links to. This was my experience on my hardware. ("Work perfectly" means as perfectly as FCP7 can work.) So my computer is now multi-boot. FCP7 runs on a Lion volume. Much else runs on a Mountain Lion volume. One program required later, so it's on a Sierra volumeby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Converting 60 FPS TIME to 30 FPS TIME - 6 years ago
You've posted in the FCP7 forum and you'll get an FCP7 answer. Your details are too unclear for you to get your "conversion formula". Firstly, 60 fps isn't 59.94 fps. Also a 1080I video -- properly 1080i -- is interlaced, and isn't 60 fps or 59.94 fps. The "f" in "fps" means frames, not fields. Also 1.09.54.58 denotes a rather unusual timecode. Check yoby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Partition drive to run FCP7/FxFactory on old OS? - 6 years ago
I doubt that FCP7 running under OSX 10.7 (Lion) will call files in another volume before locating them in its own volume. And what FCP7 library files would be "native" in El Capitan but not "native" in Lion? However, if FCP7 does do what the Apple rep fears, you can stop it. Most simply, you can unmount (or eject) the El Capitan volume whenever you run Lion. Or you can preby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: The two main colours of concern along the Kelvin scale - 6 years ago
In practical photography the illumination varies from about 2000K candlelight to about 15000K north skylight. A decent estimate of the color temperature can be had by comparing the Blue and Red exposures, representing the short and long wavelengths, respectively, while the Green exposure is held constant. This graphic shows the spectral power distributions for seven different blackbody illuby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: What used Mac Pro to choose for FCP 7 - 6 years ago
I erred in writing that FCP7 utilizes just one processor core. Activity monitor shows all my cores used during FCP7 render, but not much. The total use on my 6-core machine is 1.6× what's possible from a single core. FCP7 was not written for multi core, but the operating system has found a way to keep the cores somewhat busy. There's a mystery here which the internet gossip doesn't answeby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: What used Mac Pro to choose for FCP 7 - 6 years ago
That's an OK Mac Pro for FCP7. Realize that FCP7 utilizes little RAM and just one processor core*, so the 2.66 GHz will largely determine your render times. Since the Mac Pro has four hard drive bays, consider how you can use them for the edit. I run two 2TB drives internally in OSX RAID 0 -- no RAID card -- for 4TB of edit capacity. This is very fast and trouble free versus external drives.by dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Digitizing old EDbeta footage - 6 years ago
Half sec error in 7 min suggests that you have a 30.00 fps vs 29.97 fps error. You can fix this by separating the video and audio, conforming one or the other to a new rate, and putting them back together. If the timeline is 29.97 conform the longer element to 30. If the timeline is 30 conform the shorter element to 29.97. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: exports are all squeezed vertically - FCP 5.1.4 - 7 years ago
You might consider quick-and-dirty solutions for this which just modify the file's media descriptors in order to make playback have the desired shape. I assume that what you call the "final output" is a .mov file. You have QuickTime Player 7 if you have FCP 5. Open the .mov file in QuickTime Player 7. Window > Show Movie Properties Video Track > Visual Settings Deselect Prby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Basic AVCHD question - 7 years ago
I use ClipWrap to convert .mts files to .mov. (I must because I shoot AVCHD 1920x1080 50p which Final Cut 7's Log&Transfer doesn't recognize.) It is sufficient to feed ClipWrap the individual .mts files, with no need for the AVCHD file structure, except when a clip spans multiple .mts files. Spanning occurs when a memory card is formatted FAT32 so .mts files have 4 GiB limits. See relevby dcouzin - Café LA
