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Apple finally updating their online FCPX Pro marketing
by Craig Seeman 1 month ago
Final Cut Pro In Action http: www.apple.com finalcutpro in-action
Re: Apple finally updating their online FCPX Pro marketing
by Mark Palmos 1 month ago
Craig Seeman "It seems the COW is having tagging issues in their Smart Collections. There's stuff showing up in the Quantel forum as well." Yeah, I think you are right... Ive written about the issue
FCPX from an Editor who used it on Iditarod 2012
by Craig Seeman 2 months ago
More specific about FCPX than Iditarod workflow with it but one can infer that his information came from the workflow (likes problems). Also important is that he used it on a major project such as Idi
Re: FCPX from an Editor who used it on Iditarod 2012
by Mark Palmos 1 month ago
Craig, not sure why the FCPX article is in the photoshop forum... Also not sure why people are still bothering about FCPX... but that's up to them ;) Cheers, Mark.
To P or not to P that is the question
by eric Thompson 2 months ago
I've been shooting on both a Sony Ex-1 and Ex-3 for the last 2 years and have always shot 1080i thinking it would be the best resolution. However, when I edit in Final Cut Pro 7and export I get some i
Re: To P or not to P that is the question
by Mark Palmos 2 months ago
Yep, I always shoot progressive as most the time my edits are going to be watched on a computer, not a TV, but it is safer to do progressive, unless your client specifically wants it interlaced. Mark.
Undelete SD card - partial calamity suggestion please
by Mark Palmos 2 months ago
Hello guys, I was filming yesterday and while copying the PBAV folder from my 32gb SD card over to my HD, I realised I was copying to the wrong folder. I cancelled the copy, and selected the folder I
Re: Undelete SD card - partial calamity suggestion please
by Mark Palmos 2 months ago
Hi Bala Thanks for the response. I did not try that... I tried about 8 different programmes, and one worked, it was called hetman uneraser. It was the only one that managed to get the crucial mediapro
Royalty split for selling footage
by Mark Palmos 3 months ago
Hi there guys, I read the FAQ but could not find where it mentions the split of profits from selling footage, CC.net surely keeps some %, right Cheers, Mark.
Re: Royalty split for selling footage
by Mark Palmos 3 months ago
Hi Ron, It's good to hear from you, I hope all is well with you guys! Ok cool, thanks for the info. Be well, Mark.
URL question - link to download and NOT stream video
by Mark Palmos 3 months ago
Hello guys, I have some videos for a client on dropbox, but when they click on the link, it tries to stream from the dropbox account, which I don't want as it does not stream properly and they want it
Re: URL question - link to download and NOT stream video
by Mark Palmos 3 months ago
Erik try the link I posted above as an example, it only works with IE sadly! Ive just tried it again now on both. Give it a go http: www.videoblurb.com public worlds_strictest_parents.wmv dl=1
HTML email page background colour does not work...
by Mark Palmos 4 months ago
Hello guys, I am not really an HTML web guy, but am trying to send some (slightly) jazzed up emails and for some reason YahooMail, Gmail do not see the background colour. I just want a dark grey page
Re: HTML email page background colour does not work...
by Mark Palmos 4 months ago
Hi there Fernando and thanks for the response. Yes, after about 24 hours of messing about, I did try that and it worked... but the only problem was that with one of the test addresses I sent it to, it
AVCHD premiere elements osx mac native?
by Mark Palmos 5 months ago
Hi guys, I'm sure that this has been asked 1000 times, but I'm in Paris and for some reason search is not showing anything... A novice friends with a mac wants to edit his jvc Avchd but imovie can't.
Re: AVCHD premiere elements osx mac native?
by Mark Palmos 4 months ago
Hi Jeff, Yeah, I have CS5.5, but my friend cannot afford that and is wanting to edit home movies only, so there is no need for anything like CS products for him... I suggested he download a trial of E
Basic Editing commands missing...
by Mark Palmos 6 months ago
Hello guys, By and large I am very happy with my move to PP from FCP, but there are a few ghastly omissions which drive me nuts, DAILY! 1 mark IN mark OUT and copy! How can this be missing on an editi
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Tom Daigon liked this 6 months ago
Re: Basic Editing commands missing...
by Mark Palmos 6 months ago
Alex Udell "I never did get to see the video you did describing the track patching . You still have that around What about you What How are you doing these days " Hi there mate, I can have a lookie s
An anal-retentive FCP switcher's notes on Premiere Pro
by Andrew Gingerich 6 months ago
I just wrote a big, long, nitpicking review of the Premiere Pro interface, from my perspective as a control freak and recent switcher from FCP: http: www.exgfilms.com p=1477 Anyone care to weigh in Is
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Philipp Hampl liked this 6 months ago
Re: An anal-retentive FCP switcher's notes on Premiere Pro
by Mark Palmos 6 months ago
Tim Kolb "...but simple aggregation of features like this creates what we have currently...in out for some functions, work area for others, multiple select for others...insert copy extract cut copy d
Dear FCPX team,
by Luke Hale 7 months ago
Dear FCPX team, Thank you for your willingness to innovate at an uncomfortable rate. Yes your editor sucks for almost everything that involves collaboration or communication outside of my standalone e
Re: Dear FCPX team,
by Mark Palmos 7 months ago
Apples "brave move" will shape adobe and avid God, I hope they aren't so stupid as to dumb down and spoil a perfectly good editing paradigm with some gimmicky magnetic nonsense. I expect they are quie
No Keyframe editor? massive fail apple!
by Mark Palmos 11 months ago
Hi guys, Boy, there is plenty to underwhelmed by, but I find it incredible there is no keyframe editor, not one that I can find... I wish I hadn't been so trigger happy, FCP Motion5 and Compressor are
Re: No Keyframe editor? massive fail apple!
by Mark Palmos 7 months ago
Mate, don't throw your computer away, just throw fcpx away, it's prosumer rubbish! Premiere is doing fantastic things...
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Two issues, drag and drop to import / milky renders
by Mark Palmos 9 months ago
Hi guys, I have noticed I cannot drag and drop a file (jpeg, mpeg, mov etc) from a windows folder to my project panel. I am convinced I used to be able to do that and am wondering if I have some weird
Problem Sorted!
by Mark Palmos 9 months ago
1 the no drag and drop thing was because I had set premiere.exe and after effects.exe to be run as administrator. I disabled that and drag and drop works fine. 2 milkiness is vlc player, not the actua
CS5.5 - do you want to allow the following programme to make changes...
by Mark Palmos 9 months ago
Hello guys, All of a sudden, when I start AE or PP or PS or Bridge etc, I get a User Account Control window asking me if I want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer. I am ru
Error Initialising database error, need to transfer NOW!
by Mark Palmos 9 months ago
Hi guys Im on location, macbook pro crashed, corrupted the database somehow, I unistalled xdcam transfer and reinstalled, removed the plst prefs thing, but still corrupted Please help! Mark
Re: Error Initialising database error, need to transfer NOW!
by Mark Palmos 9 months ago
yep, thanks ian and andy, that works... all fine now, but hell, my mbp feels like it is going to melt, just rendering h.264's from the camera files... and slooooow.... especially when most the office
Read Only, cannot save my presets to Support FilesPresetsTextMyPresets
by Mark Palmos 9 months ago
Bizarre this... Windows 7, no matter how many times I try to change read only in the folder properties, it stays read only. I have gone to the Ownership settings of the folder, and I am administrator,
Calling Dr. Zelin.... and other brilliant thinkers
by Steve Martin 10 months ago
Hi Bob (and other bovine) Like many, we were waiting patiently for the FCP "upgrade." I don't want to get into a discussion of the merits of the new FCP - that's been well documented and will continue
Re: Calling Dr. Zelin.... and other brilliant thinkers
by Mark Palmos 10 months ago
Steve, did you read my VERY long and detailed post about my switch from FCPS3 to CS5.5 http: forums.creativecow.net readpost 8 1138560 Cheers, Mark.
Why the urgency to jump to Avid/Adobe RIGHT NOW?
by Gareth Randall 10 months ago
I've read many comments from professionals using FCP7 who have basically said that in response to FCPX, they're going to jump to Adobe or Avid. I'm just a bit confused as to why they've announced this
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Tony Badea liked this 10 months ago
Re: Why the urgency to jump to Avid/Adobe RIGHT NOW?
by Mark Palmos 10 months ago
For me the urgency is that FCP8 has been so long in coming, and we have had to put up with 32 bit editor with a pathetic keyframe editor for a very long time, and now that it is clear apple want to du
Blog: ONE MONTH: The FCP-X rants continue
by David Battistella 10 months ago
It's been a great month. I've read through many valuable threads on the FCPX and the FCP X techniques forum. It's been a very healthy discussion. Many have expressed their problems with the software.
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Vince Sanchez liked this 10 months ago
Re: Blog: ONE MONTH: The FCP-X rants continue
by Mark Palmos 10 months ago
David Battistella "The people at APPLE who write this software are doing a job, they have kids and a family and they go to work hoping they are doing some kind of meaningful thing. " Strangely, I had
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Article: A Final Cutter Tries Out Premiere Pro
by Helmut Kobler 10 months ago
Apple FCPX - Final Cut Pro X A Final Cutter Tries Out Premiere Pro If you're a Final Cut editor contemplating making a change in the wake of Apple's FCPX roll-out, you're not alone. Here's one long-t
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Jared Cook liked this 10 months ago
@Jiggy Gaton
by Mark Palmos 10 months ago
Hey mate, wow, sounds horrific! I live just south of london... so reasonably free from those risks, the biggest danger being british sarcasm and irony ;) (I am of south african decent!) cheers, good l
Kona LHE on Asus P6X58D-E motherboard?
by Mark Palmos 10 months ago
Hello guys, I guess like a lot of people here, I am moving to Premiere on a PC, and am looking at all the choices and options, Xeon vs i7, HP z800 vs custom system etc... Question here, is if anyone h
XDCAM for Windows Adobe Premiere
by mark pigott 11 months ago
Although Adobe swears up and down that it supports XDCAM on Premiere (which in this case on a Windows PC i7 64 bit machine with 8 Gig of RAM). This is what I do, Use XDCAM transfer software on our Mac
Re: XDCAM for Windows Adobe Premiere
by Mark Palmos 10 months ago
Hi Mark, best to leave prores and any other conversion out the picture unless you really HAVE to. PP can use the files natively, unlike FCP... so no need to degenerate the files by re-compressing. I a
FCP to Premiere
by Greg Andonian 10 months ago
I thought this article was interesting http: library.creativecow.net kobler_helmut FCP-vs-Premiere-Pro 1
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Mark Palmos liked this 10 months ago
Re: FCP to Premiere
by Greg Andonian 10 months ago
I should point out, Premiere Pro DOES have an equivalent to the 'close gap' command he talks about in FCP- if you right-click in a gap, a little menu will come up with the option to 'ripple delete'.
Mark In/Out on section of timeline, copy paste?
by Mark Palmos 11 months ago
Hi guys, It's been a while since I have used premiere, and I cannot seem to remember figure out how to copy and paste a part of the timeline that includes several clips, but not full clips. After I ma
Re: ripple paste / keyboard shortcut modify
by Mark Palmos 11 months ago
Thanks Dave. I was looking at the specs today, the HP workstation proabably about 60% more to buy than to build one similar to yours... and btw, there is no intel mobo with usb3 or thunderplug or what
A little feedback note to the "App" store to make us smile up a bit, or not...Let's think Positive
by Jason Dare 11 months ago
It's been a few years since I have chimed in here...2003, so hello fellow FCP editors! Just been reading the reviews on the App Store and this one takes the cake. Before I copy and paste it I'd like t
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Mark Palmos liked this 11 months ago
Re: A little feedback note to the "App" store to make us smile up a bit, or not...Let's think Positive
by Craig Seeman 11 months ago
Jason that's really about it. In my head the transition between FCP7 and FCPX is much like OS9 to OSX. I think the one problem is that there's no "classic" mode that OSX had. I don't mean they need to
Apple Customer Rating Removed from app Store
by Armando Ciurana 11 months ago
Apple just remove the "star rating" from the app store, this morning was two and a half stars, there s no more. it says tha there s not enough user rating for display President Ciurana Dussauge Films
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Peter Derren liked this 11 months ago
Re: Apple Customer Rating Removed from app Store
by Phil Hoppes 11 months ago
Just saw that. It is back now. 5 stars = 133 4 stars = 47 3 stars = 45 2 stars = 51 1 star = 238 Falling like Enron stock.....................
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Mark Palmos liked this 11 months ago
FCPX REFUND request awaiting response...
by Mark Palmos 11 months ago
Hello guys, Well, the longer I spend with FCPX the more I feel really annoyed I wasted $300 on a piece of half-baked crap. To me, all the sales schpiel about "everything just changed in post" and "jaw
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jay ingles liked this 11 months ago
Re: FCPX REFUND request awaiting response...
by Ryan Turner 11 months ago
It has been over 24 hours since I sent an e-mail asking for a refund and still no word!
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Mark Palmos liked this 11 months ago
Article: FCPX: Ready or Not, Here it Comes...
by gary adcock 11 months ago
Apple FCPX - Final Cut Pro X FCPX: Ready or Not, Here it Comes... We knew that Gary Adcock was the perfect person to deal with an app that aspires to meet the needs of the hardest-core, highest-end p
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Tom Werber liked this 11 months ago
Not for professionals?
by Kevin Knutson 11 months ago
Its disingenuous to hide behind FCPX's lack of completion by saying its not meant for professionals yet. The P in FCP DOES indicate that working professionals should be able to rely on a reboot of the
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Mark Palmos liked this 11 months ago
Apple's lonely stepchild - Final Cut Pro X
by Brian Nichols 11 months ago
All you need to know is Apple doesn't even have this software mentioned no their landing page. you have to go FIND IT. They would rather tell us about iCloud!! After playing with this software, I trul
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Mark Palmos liked this 11 months ago
World Map to Globe, Not CC Sphere...
by Mark Palmos 1 year ago
Hello guys, I would love some help with this, I am wanting to start of with a flat world map, then spherise it into a globe. CC Sphere cannot do this AFAIK, it is either a sphere or not, but no way to
Re: World Map to Globe, Not CC Sphere...
by Mark Palmos 1 year ago
Thanks Paul, Dave and Michael, I will try the Zaxwerks first as it seems to be free... will try tomorrow morning. As far as I know the Boris is only available in a whole suite of Boris plugins, so a b
Transcend 32gb that works perfectly, with full overcrank
by Mark Palmos 1 year ago
Hello all, Well, I thought I should let you know that I have just filmed 720p at 60fps repeatedly with no errors, and also recorded a 720p 25 clip non stop for 114 minutes! No errors or problems at al
Re: Transcend 32gb that works perfectly, with full overcrank
by Mark Palmos 1 year ago
Ok cool, thanks for the warning... Perhaps I will open one, test it, open another, test it... just to make sure each one works... but I am pretty happy about that, great for conference concert shootin
32GB SDHC cards that work? - SanDisk Extreme 30MB/s Edition?
by Mark Palmos 1 year ago
Hello guys, Well, it seems the cheaper 32gb SD cards do not work without errors, I have tried class 10 Fuji and Transcend. I have searched this forum but cant find a thread which lists 32gb cards that
Re: 32GB SDHC cards that work? - SanDisk Extreme 30MB/s Edition?
by Mark Palmos 1 year ago
Hi Ron Ron Pestes "I am still on the original firmware. I don't remember what number it is. I bought the camera in Feb. or 09." I have just upgraded my camera to 1.25, it's pretty easy to do, there is
How to TARGET / keep logos upright in spinning circle ?
by Mark Palmos 1 year ago
Hi guys, I have a bunch of logos in a circle. The circle of logos must rotate but the logos must remain upright. I cant seem to do this with parenting, and was wondering about TARGETING which is what
Re: How to TARGET / keep logos upright in spinning circle ?
by Mark Palmos 1 year ago
Thank you guys for some really good info... I had to get it done today and did a botch-job... but if I get some more time on Wednesday I will redo my crappy anim and try one of the tips I got here. Th
How to make video with interactive hot spots (for links, overlays, downloads)
by Mark Palmos 1 year ago
Hi guys, I posted this message a couple of weeks ago in the video encoding forum but got no responses, so I think I may have more luck here... I am increasingly being asked to provide web video which
Re: How to make video with interactive hot spots (for links, overlays, downloads)
by Mark Palmos 1 year ago
Thanks Mike, that looks pretty good, though I will have to see how easy the scripting is and also what kind of actions there are, the demo shows text appearing, but I will find out if a click can go t
Interactive overlays/hotspots/links on web video
by Mark Palmos 1 year ago
Hi guys, I am increasingly being asked to provide web video which contains clickable hotspots to either emphasise a point, link to a supporting document image or link to another site or a BUY NOW butt


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