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Friends:  Abraham Chaffin | | | | |  | Just so we're clear...by Greg Andonian 2 days agoTHIS is NOT an "event"... ...THIS is an EVENT. ______________________________________________ "THAT'S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it pl+3  | Re: Just so we're clear... by Bret Williams 1 hour ago Because an EVENT doesn't resemble a Project in any way. Events are essentially bins. Bins that live outside a Project. I don't know about you, but I always considered my Project to be all about a fini
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| | | |  | Hardware makes a huge difference with FCPXby olof ekbergh 21 hours agoI have tried the FCPX and the MX02 with a 4 year old 8 core Mac Pro with 12GB ram and a fast internal raid 300+ MB s with pretty poor results lots of stuttering and beach balls. Now I got a top of the | | | | |
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| | | |  | if you understand colour - why?by Wayne Garton 2 days agoWe record a weekly show. It's always a speaker in front of lights (parkans). On the flesh line with the scopes in FCPX, the face is the correct colour, but his dark grey suit is showing brown. I haven | Re: if you understand colour - why? by Bret Williams 2 days ago Lower the reds in the blacks, move the mid control directly above the black control, and raise it, bringing back the same amount of red back into the mids. If that doesn't work you have to go Andy's r
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| | | |  | highlight/shadow balance?by Daniel Bethe 4 days agoHi guys. Is there a generic way to help raise shadows in FCP X I suppose the contrast would be the least I could do. I was hoping that someone had made a free-of-charge highlight shadow balance filter | Re: highlight/shadow balance? by Bret Williams 2 days ago Free FCP X Color Grading Tutorials and Presets http: www.colorgradingcentral.com final-cut-pro-x-color-grading-table-of-contents You can literally do those 10 or so tutorials in an hour or two and you
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| | | |  | Editing scenarioby Oliver Peters 3 days agoI'm curious about how to best cut something like this in X. I'm currently editing it in 7 and honestly, it seems like anything trackless would make it a struggle, but I'll toss this out for comment. T+1  | Re: Editing scenario by Bret Williams 3 days ago When hey demoed x at he super meet, Randy ( the designer) didn't mix broll in the primary. So they obviously weren't thinking that way. But if it's easier it's easier. Wouldnt putting it I the primary
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| | | |  | PP cs6by mark wilson 1 week agoWhen do we get PP CS6 update for Mx02 Thanks, Mark | Re: PP cs6 by Bret Williams 4 days ago If you're looking for CS6 full suppt, FCP 7 & X, Avid MC6, all in one, well then BMD is it. I use it on all the above except MC6, but it says it supports that too. If you've got Thunderbolt, then you
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| | | |  | Video outputby Bjarki Gudjonsson 2 weeks agoHi guys! Really excited about the new Smoke. The reason I didn't move before was that the price point wasn't really justifiable and also the need for a Kona 3 card was a dealbreaker for me. Any word o | Re: Video output by Bret Williams 5 days ago Just to chime in, I'm using BMD Intenstiy Extreme with my iMac i7 27" and 99% use it for monitoring. But part of the reason I chose it was to use it for DaVinci as well vs. say Matrox MXO2 mini which
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| | | |  | Premiere cs6 audio syncby Steve Grimes 1 week agoIs there still no way to have premiere automatically sync video to a separate recorded high quality audio track inside of premiere with the new release of cs6 I figured this was no brainer feature #1, | Re: Premiere cs6 audio sync by Bret Williams 5 days ago Yeah, I remember that too. But watch the video. The engineer type guy that can barely speak exports xml, then opens terminal and types in some code, then imports the data back into Premiere. He's runn
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| | | |  | FCP X Render Problemby Ricky Dominguez 5 days agoYesterday I work in a project in FCP X 10.0.4 until 1am and I render my 4 minute project, today when I open the same project some part of the video wasn't render. Ricky Dominguez Luna Films Puerto Ric | Re: FCP X Render Problem by Bret Williams 5 days ago Did it play, or just have the orange marker above it I've found a few times that the orange doesn't go away, even if fully rendered. For example, I can select all, and press ctrl+r and nothing happens
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| | | |  | rough draft ray trace mode?by Bret Williams 6 days agoMaybe I'm missing something. I'm able to work in CS6 in fast draft mode pretty quickly and efficiently. I'm animating some boxes and extruded stuff. A little poor mans 3D animation. I can get a 1 3 re | Re: rough draft ray trace mode? by Bret Williams 5 days ago It's only on 4, but that's a good idea. Don't know if it'll beat the RAM preview or fast draft mode. I'm not doing any RAY Tracing per se anyway. Just using it to extrude some shapes. Seems odd that y
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| | | |  | FCX and VIDEO PLAYBACK options...by Shane Ross 7 days agoIt started here... http: forums.adobe.com thread 999865 With someone noticing that they could only play back the format their sequence was set to. Unlike in Legacy FCP, where we could choose the VIDEO | Re: FCX and VIDEO PLAYBACK options... by Bret Williams 6 days ago Interesting thread. The reason we shot 24p Because halfway into the shoot I asked the camera op "You've got it set to 30p, right " and he said no, 24p. So, the next shoot had to be 24p for the second
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| | | |  | New to Forum and have some fcpx questionsby shane worth 1 week agoHI there, I am pretty new here and I have looked through other posts and these are some of the questions I either have not found or have not figured out yet. I was just watching some movie trailers an | | | | |
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| | | |  | Stabilization zooms WAY inby Bret Williams 2 weeks agoOne more question. Can you tell I'm finishing up my first X edit It's a multicam testimonials piece. The second cam is kind of a shaky cam thing. But too shaky. Would rather it be smooth. It's shot is | Re: Stabilization zooms WAY in by Bret Williams 2 weeks ago Yeah. They have no effect. Maybe a couple pixels. It's zoomed in like 300-400 % . That might be necessary for the worst part of the clip, but I just need it zoomed 115% or so for the few seconds I nee
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| | | |  | How does one rid oneself of QTX?by Dave LaRonde 2 weeks agoI have an acquaintance who wants to get rid of QTX and go with QT7. He's on OS 10.6.8. I'm not allowed to alter my FCP machine in any way by order of the tech guys, and they're the system administrato | | | | |
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| | | |  | emailing proxy files/ Dropboxby Ken Zukin 3 weeks agoI used to have a nice, easy workflow where I sent proxy files to a producer. They're P2 files -- compressed via ProxyMill and sent via Dropbox. Easy, quick, and simple. Then Dropbox "updated" their si | Re: emailing proxy files/ Dropbox by Bret Williams 3 weeks ago I don't understand. They don't reencode your files. They have a web preview that is flash based with a lot of compression, but I'd you click the download button next to it, you'll get the original fil
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| | | |  | clean install of FCP 7; will it update?by Don Walker 1 month agoFor the past 4 months I have been running FCP 7 and FCP X on 2 separate partitions on one drive. 7 on a Snow Leopard partition and X on a Lion. I am getting brave. I have cloned the Lion partition to | | | | |
| | | |  | Matrox Announces New MXO2 Driversby Jeff Pulera 1 month agoNew MXO2 drivers out for Premiere CS5.5 on PC and Mac - http: www.matrox.com video en press releases io_device_adobecs5s Available for free download here - http: www.matrox.com video en support downlo | Re: Matrox Announces New MXO2 Drivers by Bret Williams 1 month ago Weird. I downloaded those on Monday. AE CS5 was losing connection like crazy and so I checked in and got the drivers. Had no idea they were new. AE is rock solid now With the mini. FCP was already sol
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| | | |  | Intensity Shuttle Thunderbolt Spec.by Klaus Koenig 1 month agoHi, I am waiting for the release of the Intensity Shuttle Thunderbolt. While checking the Blackmagic site for a release date, I discovered to my horror that Blackmagic has dropped 1080p60 as an availa | Re: Intensity Shuttle Thunderbolt Spec. by Bret Williams 1 month ago What are you grabbing that isn't already file based I guess that was one of the few reasons to go shuttle instead of intensity. Shuttle doesn't support DaVinci Resolve FWIW. That was enough reason for
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| | | |  | Matrox-New Issueby Neal Klaeser 2 months agoOK. So I re-installed the software for the Matrox MXO. I can now see good quality moving video on the two monitors that I have connected to the MAtrox. But...the video in the canvas and viewer are not | Re: Matrox-New Issue by Bret Williams 1 month ago This is also where you would adjust the playback delay. The desktop is always ahead of exterior monitors by a few frames. Depends on the lag of the monitor, whether it's HDMI or component, etc. -3 or
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| | | |  | Intensity Extreme Dropped Frames issueby Danny Luksa 2 months agoI just bought the Intensity Extreme from Blackmagic. It's great, Media Express is great. I'm just having one issue. When I capture into my iMac, video is very choppy, from dropped frames. I tried to c | | | | |
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| | | |  | 720p30?by Bret Williams 2 months agoIn all the settings, prefs, templates, whatever in Premiere CS5, FCP 7, and FCP X blackmagic intensity extreme doesn't have a 720p30 setting. I found that odd. I also find it odd that it doesn't have  | Re: 720p30? by Bret Williams 2 months ago True, except this is just a matter of laziness and them not creating the presets. For example, the Matrox 720p30 preset is just a easy setup. Every new sequence you create is 720p30. The hardware stil
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| | | |  | Wanting your feedback on our driversby Wayne Andrews 2 months agoHello I wanted to drop in and let the community know that we have open public beta releases for; Adobe CS5.5 Mac Adobe CS5.5 PC FCP X Avid Media Composer 6.0.1 There has been great interest based on t | Re: Wanting your feedback on our drivers by Bret Williams 2 months ago Vizio input on 720p HDMI is pink green purple on HDMI. But all fine on component. It's also low rez. The pixels are extremely stair stepped. But, I just have it set to uprez everything to 1080 so it r
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