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Friends:  RexHavoc | | | | | | MAYA on Intel Mac under Windows OSby Ken Nemetchek 5 years agoHi. Just bought a new MacPro Octicore, which is great, but now I'm wondering if I have to buy MAYA again. I own 6.5 and have been running it on a G5, but the disks did include a Windows install. My qu | | | | |
| | | |  | Delete P2 contents on computer?by Shane Ross 5 years agoI swear that I used to be able to insert a P2 card, copy the contents off of it, then drag them to the trash and the empty the trash by holding down the option key. I KNOW I did this. This is what we | Re: Delete P2 contents on computer?
by Ken Nemetchek 5 years ago
Shane: Open the Log & Transfer window in FCP. High-light all the clips and press "Delete". This will delete all the clips from the card, while retaining the clip-name file. If you format the card from
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| | | | | Audio distorting the picture on HVX-200by Ken Nemetchek 6 years agoJust something I've noticed that might be of interest. First let me say that if your sound guy knows what he's doing this should never happen to you, but lucky me... I did some talking-heads and my ca | | | | |
| | | | | I click on Parade, but nothing happensby Ken Nemetchek 6 years agoHey everyone. Thanks in advance for helping. I must have clicked something I shouldn't have, but after searching the Apple manual and previous posts on this forum, my sad realization is that I must as | | | | |
| | | | | find problems in DV videoby Ken Nemetchek 6 years agoHello all! I know I'm talkin' crazy but I just don't want to spend the time watching 4 hours of talking heads looking for dropouts or other video problems. Anyone know of a filter or tool that will fi | | | | |
| | | | | correction lens distortionby Ken Nemetchek 6 years agoThanks in advance for the solution to my problem. I have a Century Optics 0.6 X lens mounted on my HVX-200, which gives me a distortion on my image. I tried correcting it with the FishEye filter in FC | | | | |
| | | | | C-stands in Orlandoby Ken Nemetchek 6 years agoHey everyone. Okay, so I'm a bad, bad man and sorry for this ill-placed question but I have nowhere else to go and you guys know everything! I'm on vacation in Orlando and want to pick up some new c-s | | | | |
| | | | | P2 MICON ERRORby Ken Nemetchek 6 years agoSo I'm doing a two-week shot of plants growing, using the interval option. When the first card (I'm using 2 4-gig cards) gets full, on the screen in blazing red is the message: SYSTEM ERROR P2 MICON E | Re: P2 MICON ERROR
by Mitch Ives 6 years ago
I encountered this same error last week for the first time. Both 8GB cards were empty. The screen would go black and that error would come up. I'd cycle the power to get the camera back on and after a
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| | | |  | Transparent Backgroundby filmeditorjoe 6 years agoHi: Working with just making some simple titles in motion and having trouble getting the background to be anything other than the default black. Here is what I have tried: Changing the project propert | Re: Transparent Background
by Ken Nemetchek 6 years ago
The other thing you can do is drag the clip from the timeline into the browser and then experiment with different Alpha settings (scroll to the right). Good luck. Ken
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| | | | | Missing mediaby Ken Nemetchek 6 years agoHello all and thanks in advance for your help. I've got a .psd file that I'm using as an image mask on some sparkles. Straight forward enough, right Right. Then I close the project and reopen it later | Re: Missing media
by Ken Nemetchek 6 years ago
Gee, I feel like I know you already... So, Apple released FCP 5.1.3 today and I thought, may as well try it. Well, problem solved. Go figure. The help was very, very apreciated. Thanks again. Ken
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| | | | | measuring focusby rmherd 6 years agoWhere's the film plane ccd plane Today I'm shooting wide open, and I can't be wrong, so I thought I'd measure, but to what... ThanksRH | Re: measuring focus
by Ken Nemetchek 6 years ago
Just one thing to add: the ccd array moves, depending on the focal length you are set at, so the focal plane moves. For most situations this is not an issue, considering that we're talking maybe a cm
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| | | | | Shake or AE?by Ken Nemetchek 6 years agoI own AE 6.5 Standard but I've never used it. I need motion tracking and a 3D compostitor. The upgrade from 6.5 Standard to 7 Professional is $500, which is the same price as Shake. So the question be | Re: Shake or AE?
by Ken Nemetchek 6 years ago
Andrew: First of all... Wow! Thanks for actually addressing my concerns, rather than dancing around the issue. Although I very much enjoy the support I've gotten on the COW since joining, this is the
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| | | | | FCExpress won't openby Ken Nemetchek 6 years agoJust trying to help a friend. He owns a 2.16 Intel iMac with 2 Gigs of RAM. The OS and QT are the most current. When I lauch the app, it gets to about 90% on the profiling system and then quits. Anyon | Re: FCExpress won't open
by Jerry Hofmann 6 years ago
Tell him to move the preferences and cache files (all three of them) out of their folder in User library preferences Final Cut Pro User Data folder. And restart FCE. If no change put them back. otherw
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| | | | | FCExpress won't openby Ken Nemetchek 6 years agoJust helping a friend... He has an Intel iMac 2.16, with fully-updated OS and QT. FCExpress gets to about 90% on the system profiling then promply quits. Anyone  | Re: FCExpress won't open
by Tom Wolsky 6 years ago
Try repairing permissions Did you install in the Applications folder Are you an admin user Did you upgrade the OS, if so did you do a clean erase and install All the best, Tom Author: "Final Cut Pro 5
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| | | | | No audio on INPUT 2by Ken Nemetchek 6 years agoI am running a shotgun mic into input 2, but there is nothing over the headphones, on the recording, or showing on the on-screen level display. The same mic works great into INPUT 1, but I can't recor | | | | |
| | | | | green screen?!?by firewireflow 6 years agohi guys! we are shooting some stuff on a green screen this weekend with a hvx200 ... since it is my first green screen project i want to ask if theres any advice you guys can give ... anything i need | | | | |
| | | | | Open-In-Editor keyboard shortcutby Ken Nemetchek 7 years agoOkay, usually I'm a mouse guy, but in this particular case I would much rather use the fingers on my other hand to open Motion from the FCP timeline. I've gone thru my little cheatsheet and the Help m | | | | |
| | | | | quantizeby Ken Nemetchek 7 years agoOkay, so I'm a producer who's trying to save some money. So sue me. Anyway... Does anyone know if STP has a quantize feature Does Logic Express I know that Logic Pro does, but since I have to buy my n | | | | |
| | | | | Software waveform monitor for PowerPointby Ken Nemetchek 7 years agoI have no idea if this is the right place to ask this question, but it seemed better than any other forum I could see on the Cow's list. If I'm in the wrong place... apologies. I'm not a PowerPoint pe | | | | |
| | | | | Listening to voice-over while recordingby Ken Nemetchek 7 years agoDon't you just hate it when everyone starts by pointing out that they are about to ask a lame question Anyway.... I'm running a USB mic into a G4 Powerbook 17", and I want to be able to listen to the | | | | |
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