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| | | | |  | Fixing a blown out backgroundby Justin Mitchell 4 years agoI'm busy editing a video and in one of the interviews the background is very washed out. It was shot outside in front of a lake and the lake appears almost white, the sky is completely white and the t | Re: Fixing a blown out background
by Lon Keller 4 years ago
Russ, You forgot option 4: String up your shooter by his thumbs! OK ... that won't fix the video, but it may make you feel better! ;-) Lon Keller Chief Editor Producer Sundog Studios
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| | | | | Service: Sundog Studiosby Lon Keller 4 years agoFargo North Dakota, United States Production Human Resources Web Sundog Studios Full Service Video Production Marketing Interactive Design and Development * E | | | | |
| | | |  | FCP scaling or Motionby Nick Price 4 years agoHi everyone, I have some DV 4:3 footage that eventually needs to be 16:9. Is it better to distort to 33.33 and resize to 133 in Final Cut. Or is it better to go to motion and resize it in there. I hav | Re: FCP scaling or Motion
by Lon Keller 4 years ago
I've always found Adobe's After Effects to be superior at scaling. Might be worth a try.Lon Keller Chief Editor Producer Sundog Studios
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| | | | | OT: Holiday Gift to Allby Lon Keller 4 years agoI'd like to take this opportunity to share what's possible in this business of ours. http: payitforward.statebanks.com Over the past year, our company had the privilege of producing the feature storie | | | | |
| | | | | Offline Archived Assetsby Lon Keller 5 years agoIs it true that Final Cut Server can only search for assets that are online Instead of continually adding multi-terabyte RAIDS, we'd like to take older assets and move them offline using Drobo and 1TB | | | | |
| | | |  | Ok to Upgrade To Leopard??by KC Allen 5 years agoI've hesitated, I've waited, I've procrastinated. I'm wondering if its safe to upgrade to Leopard now. I'm running two systems, a MacBook Pro 17", and the older G5 Power PC (non-Intel). I use Final Cu | Re: Ok to Upgrade To Leopard??
by Lon Keller 5 years ago
Peter's correct. Every time I upgrade I wipe the drive clean and perform a clean install of the OS, Final Cut Studio, etc. Although it takes some time, I never had issues.Lon Keller Chief Editor Produ
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| | | | | bad audio issues on playbackby Jamie Nabers 5 years agoguys, i am having issues with scratching, popping and overmodulation when playing back audio from a timeline. The kicker here is that it doesnt happen all the time. I will start playback once and its | Re: bad audio issues on playback
by Lon Keller 5 years ago
By referenced, I believe Jeremy was asking if you have a sync generator hooked to your system, like the AJA Gen10 We used to have similar audio issues, but since installing the Gen10, all has been wor
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| | | | | No audio in "Log and Transfer"by Ben Hendriks 5 years agoHi, Suddenly I lost audio transfering P2 with Log and Transfer in FCP 6.0.2. The audio plays fine in the FCP timeline, but in the log and transfer window nothing. The audio levels are working but only | Re: No audio in "Log and Transfer"
by Lon Keller 5 years ago
Ben, Just got it to work. I shut down all programs and rebooted ... that's about it. Not sure exactly what did the trick, but I'll try to explain a little more about our setup and the apps I had runni
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| | | |  | public opinion poll: XDCAM vs. P2by Trevor Ward 5 years agoI have a question for FCP editors. I'm considering making a new camera purchase. From an editing standpoint, which recording medium is better XDCAM or P2 (I realize there are many codecs that this is | Re: public opinion poll: XDCAM vs. P2
by Lon Keller 5 years ago
We've been using P2 for the majority of our projects, but recently had the chance to try XDCam HD. Importing the footage was pretty straight forward, basic editing was fine, and getting our Kona 3 con
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| | | | | DVCProHD to SD DVDby Dov Yellin 5 years agoHey All, I've been having a strange issue with Compressor trying to convert a DVCProHD program to standard Mpeg2 for DVD. I'm using a MacPro w Leopard, FCP 6.0.2, newest version of Compressor. I have | Re: DVCProHD to SD DVD
by Lon Keller 5 years ago
You'll always get the best quality downconversions using hardware over software. You have a great piece of hardware with the Kona 3, so use it. Set your Kona3 to output a downconverted signal (you'll
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| | | | | Effects filter settings changeby Lon Keller 5 years agoThis has been an ongoing problem for awhile and I was wondering if anyone else has seen this. After I have applied a filter to a track (like PlatinumVerb), tweak the settings to how I like them, save | | | | |
| | | | | Kona 3 and IoLA Issueby Craig Hotti 5 years agoHi Folks, New MacPro with a Kona 3 Card and an IoLA box here. I made my CineWave last a very long time. FC Studio 2 Upgrade. I posted this on the AJA Io forum as well. Sorry for the duplicate post, bu | Re: Kona 3 and IoLA Issue
by Lon Keller 5 years ago
Had a similiar issue. Our IoLA would not work when our Mackie ONYX 1220 FW was plugged in. AJA recommended if I wanted to use both at the same time, install a Firewire card into an open slot of the Ma
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| | | | | Problems with Kona 3 and ProresHQ-SOLVED!by Sara Shier 6 years agoHi, I'm new here but I thought I'd throw some info out there. I was desperately searching through forums last night trying to figure out this problem and called AJA this morning and got the answer, so | | | | |
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| | | |  | Walter, Bob...helpby Don Wilson 6 years agoHello all, Well, I'm on the bad side of the poster these days. I've been editing a feature for months and after getting to a point where I could upgrade for Color "Safely", I did, to 6.0.1. I now am i | Re: Walter, Bob...help
by Lon Keller 6 years ago
Have you tried running Disk Warrior on your drives It may find some directory errors on your disks that it can repair. It's worked for me in the past. Good Luck! Lon
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| | | | | Countingby motivity 6 years agoWhat is the easiest way to have number count up or countdown Say from 1 to 500 or vise versa. Is there a plugin for this Thanks, David | Re: Counting
by Lon Keller 6 years ago
We haven't found a way using Motion (we're on version 2). We accomplished the effect using AE.
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| | | | | 29.97 playback from a 23.98 timelineby Lon Keller 6 years agoWe're having issues achieving clean 29.97 playback from a 23.98 timeline. While the captured footage looks fine when viewing through the QuickTime player, or in FCP's Viewer or Canvas window, video pa | Re: 29.97 playback from a 23.98 timeline
by Lon Keller 6 years ago
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Jeremy. Turns out that the footage was shot in 24P Advanced. We were able to capture at 29.97, then use Cinema Tools to perform the reverse telecine so w
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| | | |  | Kona ATI conflictby Peter Mackay 6 years agoIs anyone here using the KonaLH card in a dual 2.7mhz G5 along with the ATI X800. I have been unable to get this combo to work. (computer crashes immediately on reboot) AJA has supplied me with a new | | | | |
| | | | | Scared about reinstalling FCP 5.0by Fred Grossberg 6 years agoAs my previous posts about prefs and capturing show, I think I'm in deep do-do. It looks like something has gone corrupt in the depths of my FCP and that the only solution will be to reinstall. I shud | Re: Scared about reinstalling FCP 5.0
by Lon Keller 6 years ago
Hello Fred, Some of the problems you've been describing makes me think you're having directory issues with your media drives and or the main hard drive on your Mac. Try getting a copy of Disk Warrior
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| | | |  | HELP! Can't See Kona 2by Bizatch 6 years agoI had been using my Kona 2 card for about 6 months. A few weeks ago I tried to upgrade to the latest drivers (v3.3), but the drivers wouldn't install. I'm using the latest version of the Mac OS as wel | Re: HELP! Can't See Kona 2
by Lon Keller 6 years ago
Adam, Just a hunch, but did you accidentally download the 3.3 drivers for the Kona 3 instead of Kona 2 Did you try uninstalling the 3.3 drivers and go back to the previous version of Kona 2 software y
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| | | | | Help! No analog audio from K3 breakout boxby Mike Parfit 7 years agoHi, all, We've had a Kona 3 for a couple of months with FCP 5.0 in a Quad. Finally got the breakout box today. But we can't get any audio out of the analog monitor outputs. Since we haven't hooked up | | | | |
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