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| | | | | | Skimming? Is it really that great?by Chi-Ho Lee 4 months agoSo I've been playing with X a bit and it seems that skimming is a huge part of using X. In so many posts, people are saying "just skim to this part of the clip and then do X, Y, or Z" or "It's so easy | Re: Skimming? Is it really that great?
by Chi-Ho Lee 4 months ago
Thanks for all the replies. The current way I'm using the skimmer now, I turn it off a lot and use JKL. I just can't skim to a frame as precisely or as quickly as I can with JKL. Maybe it's a muscle m
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| | | |  | Flexible Clip connectionsby James Ewart 7 months agocannot figure out for the life of me which key you hold down to make this work. I have an FCPX keyboard...any clues. I love being able to select a clip in the timeline without the bloody playhead foll | Re: Flexible Clip connections
by Chi-Ho Lee 7 months ago
I feel that this feature should be a toggle that is on or off instead of having to hold down the key while dragging. Chi-Ho Lee Film & Television Editor www.chiholee.com
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| | | | | Scrolling creditsby Chi-Ho Lee 11 months agoI can't seem to find an easy way to create a gutter in the scrolling credits in X. How bout you guys Chi-Ho Lee Film & Television Editor www.chiholee.com+1 | Re: Scrolling credits
by Chi-Ho Lee 11 months ago
It was a corrupt title. Have no idea why. I tried again and added another scroll title. It works as predicted now. The previous scroll title actually crashed FCP X. I deleted it and added a new one an
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| | | |  | 'New Coke' syndromeby Scott Sheriff 2 years agoAfter the sneak preview, the debate started. Those expressing an opinion basically fell into three camps. 1. Fanboys 2. Wait and see. 3. Skeptics. From group one we heard hyperbole like "a new editing+5 | Re: Is there only one professional?
by Chi-Ho Lee 2 years ago
Scott Sheriff "OK sure. But isn't this your post from 7 o'clock this morning "Damn! You beat me to it! http: www.apple.com finalcutpro top-features " So do you use your iPhone, or iPad to hourly chec
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| | | |  | Performance Issuesby Ben Holmes 2 years agoSure, FCP X is a long way from complete for pro users. In fact, it's unusable for broadcast users. There. I said it. Not going to defend it, and not going to complain I'm not disappointed. I still hav | Re: Performance Issues
by Chi-Ho Lee 2 years ago
I think you'll need an OpenCL graphic card to see it running full steam. Chi-Ho Lee Film & Television Editor Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer www.chiholee.com
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| | | |  | FCPX is released!by Steve Connor 2 years agoCheck the app store it's available now with new versions of Motion and Compressor, NO DVDSP, Soundtrack Pro or Color though Steve Connor Adrenalin Television Have you tried "Search Posts" Enlightenmen | Re: FCPX is released!
by Chi-Ho Lee 2 years ago
Damn! You beat me to it! http: www.apple.com finalcutpro top-features Chi-Ho Lee Film & Television Editor Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer www.chiholee.com
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| | | | | FYI Kona3 drivers with New FSI firmwareby Chi-Ho Lee 3 years agoNot sure if this happened to anyone else but after I updated my 2450W with the newest firmware, I could no longer send out a signal from FCP to the 2450 (or rather it would only show a green screen). | Re: FYI Kona3 drivers with New FSI firmware
by Chi-Ho Lee 3 years ago
Great monitors and great customer service and tech support. And you get a ton of features for the same price as the other big name monitors. And of course, their monitors are hard quality and accurate
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| | | |  | Audio mixer and ProRes: Dropped framesby Matt Larson 4 years agoI typically use the audio mixer to make adjustments to the audio levels in my timeline on-the-fly. When I edit a 720p59.94 Pro Res sequence and do this, typically several seconds later I will get a Dr | Re: Audio mixer and ProRes: Dropped frames
by Chi-Ho Lee 3 years ago
On two machines - one is an internal 4 drive Raid5 with a highpoint card. And the other is a Caldigit HDPro with an external PCIe connection. On my office machine, this is very bad on multiclips with
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| | | | | Kona3 with FSI Monitor firmware updateby Chi-Ho Lee 3 years agoI had an interesting issue with FSI firmware updates and reinstalling Kona3 drivers. If you have this combination - this post may save you an hour of troubleshooting. http: forums.creativecow.net read | | | | |
| | | |  | Mac Pro Editing Suiteby Dominick Pietrzak 3 years agoHello! I was not sure which forum topic I should post this under... but here it goes. I am looking to create a high end editing suite. I currently have a Mac Pro 2x3GHz Dual-Core Xeon with 8GB of RAM | Re: Mac Pro Editing Suite
by Chi-Ho Lee 3 years ago
I second Caldigit, AJA Kona, and Flanders! Chi-Ho Lee Film & Television Editor Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer www.chiholee.com
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| | | |  | long hoursby david masterson 3 years agoReally didnt have a place to post this so I figured I would just talk to people that edit...maybe they can help me - At 52 my back is not what it use to be. I have bought the standard " nice chair fro | Re: long hours
by Chi-Ho Lee 3 years ago
I have a sit stand desk and it's one of the best purchases that i've made. Check it out. http: www.geekdesk.com CHL Chi-Ho Lee Film & Television Editor Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer www.chihol
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| | | |  | HD Monitor/Broadcast Monitorby Adam Howden 3 years agoHi All, I'm in the process of upgrading my SD suite to a HD suite. I'm thinking about selling my 800 line Sony PVM14" monitor with SDI in out and eventually replacing with an equivalent say a Sony 24" | Re: HD Monitor/Broadcast Monitor
by Chi-Ho Lee 3 years ago
Ditto on the FSI. It's quite a damn good price. They're running a NAB special now if you don't mind buying a refurb demo model. CHL Chi-Ho Lee Film & Television Editor Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Tr
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| | | | | ARIB bars for calibrationby Chi-Ho Lee 3 years agoI posted this in the general FCP forum but didn't get much reply so I'm reposting here in Color forum to see if anyone else has more experience with this: So I was talking to Dan Desmet from FSI and h | | | | |
| | | | | Rotary Knob Reset suggestionsby Chi-Ho Lee 3 years agoI have a suggestion about the control knobs on the 2450 (and I presume on other models as well). I find that the simple push to reset the knob's current setting to be too easily reset by accident. Is | Re: Rotary Knob Reset suggestions
by Chi-Ho Lee 3 years ago
Yea, I could see how other folks would like the quick reset. I remember the old knobs on production mixers where you can "lock" the setting by pushing the knob all the way down and the knob was in the
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| | | | | Burn In precautions?by Chi-Ho Lee 3 years agoHello, Just got a 2450 today. Was wondering what precautions do you recommend to prevent burn ins on this monitor, if any Thanks, CHL Chi-Ho Lee Film & Television Editor Apple Certified Final Cut Pro  | Re: Burn In precautions?
by Bram Desmet 3 years ago
LCD monitors don't really suffer from the same burn-in issues found on phosphor based display systems. However, virtually all LCD technologies are prone to a similar issue known as Temporary Image Ret
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| | | |  | Kona LHe vs Decklink HD Extremeby Andy Lynch 3 years agoHi, I am hoping to find advice on which card to go with, the Kona LHe or the Decklink HD Extreme. I am needing to capture HD video from various character generators, (Lyric, Deko, etc) in both 720 and | | | | |
| | | | | JVC verite lcd monitorsby Chi-Ho Lee 4 years agoHi, Does anyone had any experiences with the new JVC Verite line of monitor I'm interested in the new 20" JVC DT-V20L3DU. But I can't find one single review online Anyone used own one or seen one at a | | | | |
| | | | | Capture Window showing letterbox?by Chi-Ho Lee 5 years agoHi Guys, This may be a dumb question or dumb operator... Using FCP 6.0.3 and Kona 3 to uprez a variety of SD to 720p tapes to 1080i UC 10bit. The FCP capture window is always showing a letterbox even | Re: Capture Window showing letterbox?
by Chi-Ho Lee 5 years ago
Just wanted to follow with this post. Our capture window is not following what is load in the sequence nor Canvas. Since all our sequences and viewers are showing 16x9 HD clips. The capture window is
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| | | |  | close caption problemby Suzy Shaw 5 years agoI am pulling my hair out with a problem that I've been working on for a couple of days. I'm producing 3 DVDs at the same time all with CC. 2 worked without a hitch and the 3rd won't no matter what I t | Re: close caption problem
by Chi-Ho Lee 5 years ago
I did have this CC issues yesterday where the CC file wouldn't show up for a Mpeg2 stream but it would show up on the full rez QT movie file. Both have TC starting at 00:00:00:00. Don't know why that
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| | | | | Please clarify the IO HD ?by Chi-Ho Lee 6 years agoI believe the IO HD ONLY encodes to ProRes 422 - meaning no matter what format you're bringing it - it only encodes it to ProRes 422 for SD and HD. Meaning no uncompressed, no DVCPro HD, no DV, no DV  | Re: Please clarify the IO HD ?
by Bob Zelin 6 years ago
How does Apple Pro Res 422 HQ look in person - it looks EXACTLY like AVID DNxHD 220, which is "good enough"for every major network, and cable provider in the United States. If this is not "good enough
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| | | |  | Uprez'ing from 720p to 1080i via softwareby Clay Walker 6 years agoI am working on a project right now for a very large live event that is going to show several 2 minute videos that we are creating pre-onsite and onsite on a very large screen in front of thousands of | | | | |
| | | | | simple navigation questionby Chi-Ho Lee 6 years agoHello, Is there a way to move the playhead current timecode indicator by 1 sec or even 10 frames Thanks, CHL | Re: simple navigation question
by Cal Johnson 6 years ago
I forgot to mention, if you do the typing in of number of frames or whatever that you want to move forward or back, you can type "+18" to go forward 18 frames, but to go back, you have to type "+-18"
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| | | | | More research - Editshareby Chi-Ho Lee 7 years agoI didn't find much postings on Editshare here. The price is significantly lower. Has anyone have any experiences - post or research with this solution Thanks, CHL | Re: More research - Editshare
by Ernesto Sanchez 7 years ago
Editshare is an inexpensive way for sharing media with all editors including Avid-based ones. I just installed one for 3 workstations and a small AE render farm. Their are major differnces between a
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| | | | | Advice on several optionsby Chi-Ho Lee 7 years agoA company is looking to add a san system. Their dealer has offered 3 options, XSan, Fibrejet, and Unity (I wasn't aware that Unity works with FCP now ) I know this is a very general question. But whic | Re: Advice on several options
by Chi-Ho Lee 7 years ago
Thanks Mark and Shane, I suggested to have the vendor give us a demo of each system. Don't know if we'll get that but I think at least we'll get a demo of XSan. The vendor seem to be leaning towards A
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| | | |  | *NEW* KONA 3!by AJA Sales Department 7 years agoHello! We are pleased to announce the powerful new KONA 3, built upon a blazing fast 4-lane PCIe bus interface, and an all new extensible architecture. KONA 3 is our new flagship card for OSX, offerin | Re: *NEW* KONA 3!
by Chi-Ho Lee 7 years ago
Oh yes, you're right. My Bad. -CHLChi-Ho Lee Film & Video Editor Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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| | | |  | Motion files crash after 10.4.3 updateby Graeme Nattress 8 years agoSome old Motion2 files are now crashing Motion after the 10.4.3 update. I tried taking Motion 2.01 back to 2.0 but that didn't help. Short of rolling the operating system back, I think I'm stuck. This | | | | |
| | | | | After Effects project into Motionby Chi-Ho Lee 8 years agoAnyone know how to open an AE project into Motion 2 Does Automatic Duck support this yet I have these bumpers and lower 3rds and bugs that someone built in AE. But I would love to be able to open thes | | | | |
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| | | | | Flat Screen Monitorsby Dwaynne Villiers 8 years agoHi guys - Can anyone recommend flat acreen LCD monitors that would be good for motion design, esp for Motion I have been reluctant to go LCD because of I heard that they did manage colour and motion a | Re: Flat Screen Monitors
by Chi-Ho Lee 8 years ago
I've become a big fan of the Dells. Not as pretty but for around $550 for a 20" and a 24" for just over $1000. It's a great buy. As if you have an NTSC monitor for critical preview, it's completely sa
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| | | | | Edge Collision helpby Chi-Ho Lee 8 years agoHey All, Wonder if anyone has an answer for this....I'm using Edge Collision to make things bounce around the screen. But they are bouncing outside action safe. Is there a way to contract the bounce e | Re: Edge Collision help
by Chi-Ho Lee 8 years ago
Ah, yes, I see. Interesting idea. I did crop the edges of the stills to make them smaller so they will bounce closer to the edges. Here's the rub....it's for a DVD menu - once I make it for action saf
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| | | | | Creating Motion Menu'sby Joseph Barrus 8 years agoI'm trying to create a Motion Menu in DVD Studio Pro 3 that has an intro and then the buttons appear about half way through. What's the best way to do this As far as I can tell, the buttons always app | Re: Creating Motion Menu's
by Chi-Ho Lee 8 years ago
The downside to this method is that the user will always have to watch the intro of this menu when they jump back to this. Where as if you break it up to 2 menus or a track and then a menu, you can ta
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| | | | | Compression Markers from Avid to DVDSP?by Chi-Ho Lee 8 years agoI search the forum and didn't find a post to this - hope it's not old news. How would one add compression marker to the timeline in an Avid or what is the work around Since you can't send an Avid time | | | | |
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