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| | | |  | working with 4800 X 2700 red filesby Steven Sanders 2 months agoI wonder if anyone can help me with the following. I have received 5K red rushes with a resolution of 4800 X 2700. If I want to edit them in FCPX, my options to create a project do not include these d | | | | |
| | | |  | Roles appear and disappearby James Bayliss-Smith 2 months agoI often assign roles to media. I have ones called "VO and Intv" Sometimes they are available sometimes not. What is going on here Are they somehow attached to events or projects Is this a bug I don't | | | | |
| | | |  | finding and collecting red footageby Daniel Edelman 2 months agoWhen conforming red projects, we used to use clip finder and and edl xml to collect the r3d clips needed for a cut. Since clip finder is no longer available, does anyone have a different solution | | | | |
| | | |  | Imac and FCPX slooooooowby Carlo Ferraro 2 months agoI tried to make a 30 secs simple ad with preset build in moving characters and some moving background plugins and this has been a nightmare, slow to desperation, stopping at times, something that can | Re: Imac and FCPX slooooooow
by David Battistella 2 months ago
Seems like time machine can really slow stuff down as well. Open up the activity monitor and see what is going on wit the cores and memory. David ______________________________ http: www.davidbattiste
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| | | | | Performance issues with 50+ eventsby James Bayliss-Smith 2 months agoWill FCPX run better with 1 mega event or 50 smaller events. I'm on a MacBook Pro with 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 8GB Ram. I'm struggling at the moment a little under the strain of my news archive. Is | | | | |
| | | | | rendering compund clipsby Julian Bowman 2 months agoI may be wrong but it appears that if i break a project into sections, edit each in a timeline, compound clip the sequences and then pop them in a play all timeline, that when I render one of the init | Re: rendering compund clips
by David Battistella 2 months ago
Check your sequence render settings to make sure you are rendering to the quality that matches your output quality preferences. David ______________________________ The shortest answer is doing. Lord
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| | | | | R3D > ProRes > DPX 10 bit Workflowby John Squire 2 months agoI'm doing a job that's shooting on the Epic. The deliverable is a DPX 10 bit sequence at 1080p. I'm cutting on FPC7 and will be using ProRes. What's the easiest way to create the DPX Is conforming wit | | | | |
| | | |  | Red Courses Suggestionsby charles meadows 2 months agoAnyone know of any Red courses I should take I'm in South Africa at the moment but don't mind travelling to the US or UK. Was thinking around August, September or October. Cheers for any suggestions. | Re: Red Courses Suggestions
by David Battistella 2 months ago
Red runs a program called REDUCATION. Go to RED.com to figure out when the next one is. David ______________________________ The shortest answer is doing. Lord Herbert http: www.davidbattistella.com
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| | | |  | RED Scarlet X setup for documentaryby Jordan McGehee 2 months agoI am going to film a documentary which I will have some indoor interview shots and some outdoor shots. I am pretty well sold on the scarlet x and love the entry price point for 4K. I was wondering if | | | | |
| | | |  | Force RE_linkby Ramin Doostan 2 months agoThe project is a live music performance. People on set created a project after shooting and created a multicam sequence, using audio as sync parameter. I duplicated the project and clips on my HDD. I | Re: Force RE_link
by David Battistella 2 months ago
Ramin Doostan "We've always got the uninstall button :D " look. that is a pissy comment. There is room in this software for improvement in areas like reconnecting media. There are many instances when
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| | | |  | How is this done?by Kannan Raghavan 2 months agoHi all. A long time FCP 7 user thinking about X as it would suit my workflow better, but only if it can do this. But I can't find info about this. I edit a lot of sports highlights packages. I import | Re: How is this done?
by David Battistella 2 months ago
In that case, Blade the piece you want to move up then option drag it over the track you want to replace. David ______________________________ The shortest answer is doing. Lord Herbert http: www.davi
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| | | |  | Record Frame Rate vs. Frame Rateby Anthony Huang 3 months agoHey everyone, I'm dealing with some RED footage that was shot with: Frame Rate: 23.976 Record Frame Rate: 29.97 This metadata was accessed by right-clicking on the file. Basically, my company needs th | Re: Record Frame Rate vs. Frame Rate
by David Battistella 3 months ago
This article will help you understand the problems. http: library.creativecow.net battistella_david Film-Style-Slow-Motion 1 You are going to have to do a pulldown to that footage. David _____________
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| | | | | New to the R3Dby Scott Adams 4 months agoAnyone know of a free Red player I am new to the red camera and I have a bunch of elements that were shot using a red scarlett. I don't own Nuke yet so I need a way to read it. I use nuke at several l | Re: New to the R3D
by David Battistella 4 months ago
Redine X includes a free version of an app called RED player which will do exactly what you want it to do, play red files, REDCINE X can be used on a MAC or PC and lets you play the files at various r
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| | | | | RED color correct/color matching issueby Amy Rosenberg 4 months agoHi there, This past weekend we shot a commercial using a RED camera and the footage looks amazing. The only problem is that the lighting was different from day 1 to day 2, so the lighting and colors a | | | | |
| | | | | Aerials and rolling shutterby Charles Binn 4 months agoHi, we had to do some aerials in an harsh environment. Micro light plane, no Cineflex, a lot of vibrations. Red Epic camera. 160fps or more. Shutter set to 90 degrees. We ended up in footage with seri | Re: Aerials and rolling shutter
by David Battistella 4 months ago
I tok a look at this footage and I can't see how it can be fixed. perhaps 160 was a bit excessive. if you wanted to remove vibration 48 FPS might have been enough, put if the camera vibrates that much
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| | | | | Article: SHOOT>EDIT with RED and FCP Xby David Battistella 6 months ago Apple FCPX Techniques SHOOT EDIT with RED and FCP X Embracing FCP X and the RED Camera System from the earliest releases has been proven a successful choice for filmmaker David Battistella, whose ent | Re: SHOOT>EDIT with RED and FCP X
by David Battistella 5 months ago
FCP 6 is a tough one. I have not run an FCP 7 Workflow in with RED for about two years. What you could do. Render all material with original file names and Time code. EDIT Send FCP XML back to RCX and
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| | | | | The Old Subtitle copy paste trick!by David Battistella 10 months agoYep, I'm subtitling a film and doing the old COPY PASTE from a pages document. I wish that the title tool would hold the formating I set up in the motion template, but alas it does not. I have to enla | | | | |
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| | | | | Buggy Behaviour...by David Battistella 1 year agoI have a simple shot where a tracked TV needs to be replaced. Motion does the track OK and it applies to the desired track. When I do the renders a bunch of parameters do not render. Tracking does not | Re: Buggy Behaviour...
by David Battistella 1 year ago
I am exporting it out of motion. I'm not working in FCP at all it's a standalone shot in motion. Cont figure this one out so I think I'll just take it to another compositing program. David ___________
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| | | | | FCP X 10.0.3 XML import broken?by David Battistella 1 year agoSince installing 10.7.3 OSX LION Beta 8.2 Resolve lite FCPX 10.0.3 It seems that XML import is broken. NO matter what sequences I send, I get a dialog box saying that it is V1.1 of the XML and then wh | | | | |
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| | | | | I think I found a BUG....by David Battistella 1 year agoRecorded two channel audio Ch 1 Voice Ch 2 silent Used Remove silent channels during import I broke apart clip items to get rid of picture. Clip names in the timeline are now showing up with clip name | Important: Audio bugs and workarounds
by David Battistella 1 year ago
OK. Much testing determines that you have to LEAVE AUDIO ATTACHED TO VIDEO IF -you plan on using the free OMF exporter from FCP X to your favorite software mixing software. The problem is this. Let's
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| | | | | Tutorial: RED AND FCPXby David Battistella 2 years ago Apple FCPX Techniques RED AND FCPX With the release of Final Cut Pro X, many were anticipating that there would be NATIVE FULL RED R3D integration in the new software. When that was not part of the r | @Luke Ogden
by David Battistella 1 year ago
Check your Library Quicktime folder to see if the Prores component is installed. You need to have a purchased version to have it installed. David ______________________________ The shortest answer is
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| | | | | Article: FCPX: Three Camps - The Pro vs. Non-Pro Debateby David Battistella 2 years ago Apple FCPX - Final Cut Pro X FCPX: Three Camps - The Pro vs. Non-Pro Debate Three camps of thought seem to be quickly emerging in the forums and the excitement surrounding the release of FCPX. Step b+5 | @Dan Stewart
by David Battistella 2 years ago
You nailed it Dan! Thanks for the back handed slap. I see myself as both a student and a non professional. Sheesh! Folks really forget they are commenting in front of the whole world. :) David _______
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| | | | | Is FCPX really worth it?by David Roth Weiss 2 years agoSince the April 13th "sneak," FCP users have experienced upheaval and turmoil that I liken to a "civil war," with brothers fighting brothers and editors quarreling among themselves, because lives and +3 | Re: Is FCPX really worth it?
by David Battistella 2 years ago
David Roth Weiss "The "big" question I'd like to pose to all FCPX debaters at this point in time is this, is FCPX really worth all the "high drama" that Apple set in motion throughout the industry si
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| | | | | Article: Exposing the RED MXby David Battistella 3 years ago RED Camera Exposing the RED MX David Battistella looks at the RED camera, an offering from a company that have now delivered over 7000 cameras to customers worldwide. David examines exposure techniqu | Re: Exposing the RED MX
by David Battistella 2 years ago
"how does that pan out exactly related to your base stop " This depends on where you set your mid grey bbut as a rule when highlights clip they are gone, there is much more DR in the blacks than in th
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| | | | | How can I re-create this 1970's effect?by John Celentano 2 years agoI'm trying to recreate the effect used in the beginning of this video below. I want to make something like the colored football players seen here, but for hockey. Can anyone tell me how they did that | | | | |
| | | | | Pulsing luminance when importing 60i footageby Gary Yost 2 years agoOK... here's what's happening. I'm bringing footage from a Canon XF100 into FCPX. It was shot at 1080i 60 and looks fantastic when viewed in After Effects or as a Quicktime .mov file. But after import | | | | |
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| | | |  | Feature Film FCP Workflowby Sofi Marshall 2 years agoHi all, I'm about to get started editing a feature shot on the RED. There's about 1TB of footage that needs to be transcoded. We're editing in FCP and want to eventually link back to the native R3Ds. | Re: Feature Film FCP Workflow
by Sofi Marshall 2 years ago
Hey all, I just finished up some tests and wanted to post my results to help anyone else out. I took David's advice and ran 100GB of 4K raw RED footage through RedcineX with the following export setti
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| | | | | Final Cut Hitchby Geoff McKay 2 years agoHello Everyone, I am having some difficulty with Final Cut. I find that when I add a frame hold, or slow a clip down, there is always a vertical jump to my preview just as the "altered" clip ends. It | Re: Final Cut Hitch
by David Battistella 2 years ago
You only are viewing one field in the FCP canvas and viewer windows. The jump is probably the missing field. David ______________________________ The shortest answer is doing. Lord Herbert http: vimeo
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| | | | | Text resizing on export - why?!by Alex Bond 2 years agoHi guys, I've been trying for hours to work around this and have now had enough! I've 16x9 footage on a timeline, putting text on it, exporting it uncompressed anamorphic. Text is staying the same siz | Re: Text resizing on export - why?!
by David Battistella 2 years ago
duplicate the sequence. Selct all of the titles and the CUT. Change the aspect ratio of the sequence. Paste the text into the new sequence. The text will all be the correct aspect ratio now. David ___
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| | | |  | Some thoughts on the FCPX Forumby Steve Connor 2 years agoSome thought from an e-mail I have recently sent to Ronald Lindeboom "Firstly let me say I love the COW, the FCP forum in particular has been a bedrock of advice for me and thousands of others since t+4 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Problem with Title Effect "Blur"by Armand Minotti 2 years agoThis this is a weird one. I'm cutting together a small video with occasional text between various clips. I decided the use the Blur title effect. On some, but not all, of the text clips, the last few | Re: Problem with Title Effect "Blur"
by David Battistella 2 years ago
I have seen this too. The fix for me was to retype the last word while parked on a frame near the end to see that the effect is "taking". It has something to do with spaces or the return key. I have n
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| | | | | Project (sequence) duration..by David Battistella 2 years agoFinished project. Sequence is 6 min 42 seconds Project is 14 minutes 41 seconds. Not one shred of media past the 6:42 mark. Anyone know how to trim the Project to be something like 6:52 I have to say | | | | |
| | | | | Lightworksby David Battistella 2 years agoThis forum is full of people with deep opinions about how a professional NLE should operate. I'd say that the very best way to get your dream NLE is to get involved in the lightworks beta program. Thi | Re: Lightworks
by David Battistella 2 years ago
Iin my view editing is editing. There are specific things that might happen more often in drama over other forms where a source record monitor is handy. For teh speciific kinds of match cuts you are t
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