Sound & picture post facility. Fairlight Xynergi for audio & FCS3. HDCAM & digi beta, Kona3 | | | | Member Since: February 19th 2008 Location: Tasmania, Australia | | | | |
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| | | |  | Lights or Notby tony west 3 weeks agoThe other day I had to shoot some jerseys in the locker room. Didn't have much time to be in there so I couldn't light them. Just available light which I don't like (too flat) I was messing around wit | Re: Lights or Not
by Michael Gissing 2 weeks ago
I've been shooting lately on my Canon 5D and even with it set to flat contrast, it obviously doesn't give me the grade range that I have enjoyed with RED & raw formats. I prefer to get lighting right
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| | | |  | AE drives the NLE decisionby Oliver Peters 3 weeks agoI edit and do training from time to time at broadcast facilities. What I've seen has been FCP in the commercial promo department and Avid in news. The general flow I've seen is to cut a base layer in +7 | Re: AE drives the NLE decision
by Michael Gissing 3 weeks ago
Picking up on something Bill said about specialising. I grade & sound post and increasingly want to add image manipulation and graphics to the specialities. So my base is getting a bit broader. That s
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| | | |  | Audio issuesby gor baghdas 3 weeks agoHi, I've seen some posts concerning this issue, but not something that would match mine. We have a feature film edited in FCP. When the edit was finished, the sound designer mixed the audio into 5.1, | | | | |
| | | |  | The Future of Editingby Greg Andonian 1 month agoI was thinking, If Apple really is skating to where the puck will be and FCPX really is the future of editing, you would expect the users of other NLEs to want their preffered NLE to follow in its foo | | | | |
| | | | | An Interesting observationby craig slattery 1 month agoThis past week I have been inundated with calls from a number of directors that Ive worked with in the past, now working on other productions, asking technical questions about editing in FCPX. It appe+1 | Re: An Interesting observation
by Michael Gissing 1 month ago
I go back to producers and directors who used to have Steenbecks in their garages. So the process of democratising the first stage of edit seems to me to be predictably changing. As younger film maker
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| | | | | Paste Attributesby Greg Andonian 1 month agoAs a long-time Premiere Pro user, I never understood the huge brouhaha over Premiere's lack of an FCP-style Paste Attributes panel- because I've been achieving the same thing this panel does for a lon | Re: Paste Attributes
by Michael Gissing 1 month ago
Selectively removing attributes from a bunch of clips is just as important to me as adding. Any tricks and tips for Pr for this If I understand the release info, that is something that CS7 is addressi
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| | | |  | FCPx Share Export Errorby Junee Lim 1 month agoHi, I am trying to export a file from FCPx after my edit but I keep getting the following error: The operation could not be completed because an error occurred when creating frame 872 (error -1). Any | | | | |
| | | | | Plural eyes gradually going out of sync ...?by josh smith 2 months agoHi Guys, Cant work this one out.... Im working in FCP 7 , shot an interveiw on a cannon 7D and recorded sound seperatly on a zoom h4. I got all the got both the sound and video clips into a sequence i | | | | |
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| | | |  | Fixing echoey audioby Adam Kitter 3 months agoHey so this might be futile but I have been surprised from some of the guru's on here in the past so heres my issue. long story short I shot an interview, had the subject mic'ed up, somewhere along th | Re: Fixing echoey audio
by Michael Gissing 3 months ago
There are some VST plugins that might help. The idea of deconvolving reverb hash been around for a while. I recently tested the demo version of this and was impressed. It isn't cheap but it is good. h
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| | | |  | FCPX crashed todayby Steve Connor 9 months agoOnly the second time it has since 10.05 came out, I didn't lose any edits. Steve Connor 'It's just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure" | Re: FCPX crashed today
by Dominic Deacon 9 months ago
Not saying this to be snarky or to compare to X at all (which is obviously a young program) but I've just found this remarkable and wanted to note it: I've been using Edius daily since X was released
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| | | |  | Blog: Wow, were did Tuesday go?by gary adcock 1 year agoThis has been one crazy show, I have counted more that 500 products that I have found interesting, inbetween working at the Aja booth and running speaking at the Director of Photography Conference at | | | | |
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| | | | | Blog: Back into the fire.by gary adcock 2 years agoHey, Yeah, me again. There is alot happening in the industry right now, here is an interview with MacVideo's Rick Young that I did at IBC. My thanks to Dean Cleary on Bcam and AJA for allowing us to s+1 | Re: Blog: Back into the fire.
by Michael Gissing 2 years ago
The "facility" performs more than just the function of housing the expensive gear and the trained operator. I have been doing sound post for 27 years, grading and picture post for 9 years and in that
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| | | |  | aspiring video editorby Andrew Marasco 2 years agoHi I am currently a college sophomore at a local community college in california with a few questions. I have a love and passion for film and film editing and wanna get into the professional world. I | Re: aspiring video editor
by Michael Gissing 2 years ago
Sean Thomas "Avid, Adobe, Apple - who cares." I do as should any post facility that has to take an editors cut and finish it for broadcast or cinema release. If, as an editor, you don't care about wo
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| | | |  | Roles: got 'em to work.by Mark Morache 2 years agoAlright, I think I get it. Select clips -- assign role. I can use the minimize button to shrink the tracks that I've already assigned, and then assign (or re-assign) the remaining tracks. Makes sense. | Re: Roles: got 'em to work.
by Michael Gissing 2 years ago
Craig Seeman "It also means Apple will focus on core functions." That's the core of my comment. I can't see OMF export as a non core function. If FCPX couldn't export a quicktime everyone would have
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| | | | | my exported portfolio looks too softby mark francis 2 years agodoes this image look to soft to you its a still from an exported self contained qt movie out of fcp. it even looks soft in the fcp canvas. my tiffs are sharp before i imported them into fcp. whats up, | | | | |
| | | |  | My 'FCP and Blu Ray on the Mac' surveyby Martin Curtis 2 years agoHopefully this is allowed. I have created a small survey in Survey Monkey to ascertain the effect of Apple's stance on Blu-Ray creation on the Mac. I read a lot of comments all over the fora (pro and | | | | |
| | | | | File: Blownout Gradeby Michael Gissing 2 years agocolorgrade file Unzip and place this folder in Library Applications Color Grades. Send the file to Color from FCP and then drag drop this setting onto the shot. You will see what I have done with the | | | | |
| | | |  | 5d prores transcode glitchby dan smith 3 years agoHi There I have a weird issue with some pro-res 422 (HQ) files i have created using log and transfer (in final cut 7 using the canon plugin for log and transfer) from our Canon 5D mkII. The camera is | Re: 5d prores transcode glitch
by Michael Gissing 3 years ago
Not much point in using HQ. Normal ProRes422 is fine for footage coming from a DSLR. Have a search on the Final Cut Pro forum for advice from Gary Adcock about avoiding HQ except for 2k up frame sizes
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| | | |  | Canon 5D Mark II Audio Questionby Rory ORear 3 years agoHi, I'm currently trying to decide on a good audio set up for my Canon 5D2. What I want is something AGC elimination with two XLR inputs that isn't too unwieldy for both tripod and handheld recording. | Re: Canon 5D Mark II Audio Question
by Michael Gissing 3 years ago
The 5dmk2 firmware upgrade a few months ago got rid of AGC. So using a device that puts noise on track two is no longer necessary. If you need mic powering, then best advice is a small sound devices f
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| | | | | Blog: Understanding Bit depthby gary adcock 3 years agoSo with all the talk about Log vs Lin and what can and can t be done digitally, lets get back to the basics. Lets talk about the bit depth in color channels. That s right, Bit Depth. I am constantly a+1 | | | | |
| | | |  | Blog: Converting NTSC to PALby walter biscardi 3 years agoWe re based in the U.S. so naturally the majority of our work is produced and finished in the NTSC standard. But sometimes we get requests to finish and even produce projects in the PAL standard for E | Re: Blog: Converting NTSC to PAL
by Michael Gissing 3 years ago
Nick Meyers "For Pal, speed up to 25. That's the whole idea behind 24P." Yes this is the exact workflow on a recent doco about the Forbidden City. After mixing the 23.976 version I sped up (with corr
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| | | | | AVCHD FCP 7 Woesby Kevin Muse 3 years agoThru log and transfer I can take the video off the camera easily. Problem is that it shows up as square pixels and upper field in the properties. Dropping the video in a Circ 601, lower field video ch | Re: AVCHD FCP 7 Woes
by Michael Gissing 3 years ago
Is this your main footage or is it to go into an existing SD timeline. Why not edit in HD otherwise and then downconvert the final to SD. There are lots of good ways to do this and a search of the fo
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| | | | | Final Cut Proby Juanjo Sayas Cardona 4 years agoHi, For the love of god someone help me because I feel the program is very frustrao...Two questions: - The first: When I close the window or the timeline canvas, Then I can not open it again. Las I lo | Re: Final Cut Pro
by Michael Gissing 4 years ago
FCP is a quicktime based editor. It can import avi files but it is better to convert them to quicktime files first. Not sure what you are describing with the timeline canvas Have you tried the manual
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