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| | | | |  | Backup Strategy Adviceby Jeff Kirkland 1 week agoI do a periodical revisit of my backup options and, because there's people on this forum way smarter than me, I thought I's ask if anyone has thoughts on improving my current methods. 1. All footage i | Re: Backup Strategy Advice
by Michael Sanders 6 days ago
Jeff Kirkland "I've oscillated between keeping media in the events folder and just linking to it over the time I've been using FCPX. There are definite advantages to just linking and if I do, then I
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| | | |  | Blue overlays in FCPXby Tom Szymanski 1 week agoHey, we're new to FCPX and wondering what's up with the blue overlays we're seeing on this video. It was shot on RED, and we have the Red plugin. The video plays without the blue in both the viewer an | | | | |
| | | |  | Adobes social media is crying foul.by Richard Cardonna 2 weeks agoReading adobes facebook and twitter makes this forum look like Sunday school. Its like 99% against the cthe cloud. Hope this has an effect but adibes greed is mightier than our needs. Richard | | | | |
| | | |  | Lights or Notby tony west 2 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 Sanders 2 weeks ago
Top end Graders have been saying this for years. A good DP will know what he can do in post and what can be done better in camera. Michael Sanders London Based DP Editor
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| | | | | Swapping projects between hard drivesby Michael Sanders 3 weeks agoHey all, I wondered if anyone has any thoughts about this: I started working on a project at home with the event and project on my main RAID unit. I then needed to do some work on it whilst away so co | Re: Swapping projects between hard drives
by T. Payton 3 weeks ago
Hi Mark, Mark Morache "So when you bring the video into the event with "copy files", then you end up with two copies of all the media, right " Yes. But in my workflow as of right now. I am trying to s
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| | | |  | Apple hardware Q4 and 2014by Oliver Peters 3 weeks agohttp: www.businessinsider.com apple-says-it-has-no-new-products-coming-until-the-fall-2013-4 Sounds like no new Mac Pro this year. Wonder if they are waiting for 20Gb s Tbolt in 2014 from Intel - Oliv | | | | |
| | | | | C300 Cinema locked workflowby Michael Sanders 2 months agoHey all. I'm editing a piece I shot yesterday on a C300, which we shot in cinema locked mode. I've never done a full shoot in CL mode and am canvassing opinions on the best workflow. I'm editing on FC | Correction
by Carsten Orlt 2 months ago
Sorry I just updated FCP and now it shows Canon XF codec all they way through. I could swear it was Apple XDcam at least at some stage.... Sorry for the confusion :-) Happy Editng
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| | | |  | 10.08 releasedby Steve Connor 2 months agoDownloading now! Steve Connor There's nothing we can't argue about on the FCPX COW Forum | Re: 10.08 released
by Michael Sanders 2 months ago
How about this... 0.8 is the last version before 1.1 which will be previewed at NAB but will be a paid for upgrade. Michael Sanders London Based DP Editor
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| | | |  | Goodbye mixer and gigantic edit speakers?by John Davidson 2 months agoIn our never ending quest to simplify and make things easier better simpler awesomer, we were going through our edit suites today. It occurs to me that since we're transitioning to iMacs, edit suite s | | | | |
| | | |  | Export AS-11 for HD deliveryby Jonathan White 2 months agoHi, My broadcaster has finally started accepting file based delivery... no more renting digibeta decks and seeing my lovely HD drop to SD.... unfortunately the want it delivered mxf to as-11 spec. All | Re: Export AS-11 for HD delivery
by Michael Sanders 2 months ago
Jonathan, http: www.digitalproductionpartnership.co.uk Not sure if RTE are part of the forum but I think AS11 is an international standard. Michael Sanders London Based DP Editor
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| | | |  | Started a FCP job today..by Dan Stewart 2 months agoIt was only as I walked in to an open plan room full of Macs I realised I hadn't asked which FCP - I'm really no good with X because I never use it. Course, it was 7. I felt silly after for even worry+2 | Re: Started a FCP job today..
by Michael Sanders 2 months ago
John Godwin "So far the benefit to my clients is that I can do more in the same amount of time. So I have more time to polish and add fit and finish and finesse and stay within their expectations. Th
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| | | |  | FCPX and P2 Cards?by Wolfgang Isenhart 2 months agoStrange problem with p2 cards. They want to come in in 4GB chunks. Anybody know why I have a one hour clip that is getting broken up into 4 gig chunks when I bring it in. Why put the card back in the | Re: FCPX and P2 Cards?
by Michael Sanders 2 months ago
At a guess it sounds like P2 cards are FAT 32 file system which has a 4GB file size limit. Usually the format manufacture (Sony, Panasonic etc) has an import utility which reads the card and joins the
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| | | | | NAB and FCP Xby Michael Sanders 2 months agoNAB isn't far away - surely it's about time the rumours started Michael Sanders London Based DP Editor | Re: NAB and FCP X
by Mike Matzdorff 2 months ago
this is exactly how I feel. I was VERY resistant at first, now -- a year later, I see the wisdom. it's young software but a hugely powerful tool.
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| | | | | IoHD and FCP Xby Michael Sanders 5 months agoDoes anyone know if the IoHD works with FCP X 10.0.7 - can't seem to see anything about it on the Aja website. Cheers. Michael Sanders London Based DP Editor | | | | |
| | | | | XDcam HD proxies on USB stick.by Michael Sanders 6 months agoHi all. I've got some XDcam HD proxies I recorded on a USB stick. The camera was a PDW800. I can see them and play them in XDcam content browser and in the memory stick as MXF's but I can't do anythin | Re: XDcam HD proxies on USB stick.
by Ian Cook 6 months ago
In Browser you can open the Offline Media window and copy them to the system. This allows you to log them and then later write the updated metadata back to the full res clips on the master disc.
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| | | |  | Canon XF pluginby James Marshall 7 months agoMy new retina Mac with OS 10.8.2 is not allowing me to install Canon XF plugin for FCP 7.3 Any suggestion how I can get my c300 footage into FCP Thanks James | Re: Canon XF plugin
by Michael Sanders 6 months ago
You need to google Adam Wilt and 10.8.2 Basically you need to fool the installer into thinking its running on 10.7 not 10.8 We're still waiting for Canon to come up with 10.8 s w. Michael Sanders Lond
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| | | | | SxS cards and 10.8.2by Michael Sanders 6 months agoI stupidly installed OS X 10.8.2 which seems to break the Sony SxS driver. Disk Utility d reads as being in the machine but it won't mount. Has anyone else suffered from this and does anyone know of a | | | | |
| | | | | Episode V Compressor.by Michael Sanders 10 months agoHas any one dine a time trial of Episode V Compressor In particular from Prores to H264 and Prores to WMV Doing a encode to WMV last night I noticed my MBP was only using 1 core using compressor and I | | | | |
| | | | | So what hardware?by Michael Sanders 11 months agoI know not strictly techniques but.. So here's my problem: I've got a Mid 2010 Macbook Pro with 8GB of RAM and an 2.8GHz i7. I'm a one man shop and general editing is fine on the machine in both FCP 7 | Re: So what hardware?
by nick ring 11 months ago
I think Ben lays it out pretty well. I'd say go w the iMac unless you have specific needs that only the MacPro can provide (such as handling PCIe cards you may already own, need for greater than 16GB
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| | | | | Editing scenarioby Oliver Peters 1 year agoI'm curious about how to best cut something like this in X. I'm currently editing it in 7 and honestly, it seems like anything trackless would make it a struggle, but I'll toss this out for comment. T+1  | Re: Editing scenario
by Chris Harlan 1 year ago
Jules bowman "At what point will there be a unanimous call of 'yep, trackless was a mistake'. Personally i think there's nothing wrong with trying stuff and even less wrong with going 'ok, a circle i
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| | | | | Video files look corruptedby Michael Sanders 1 year agoHi All, When I load a XML into Resove Lite 8.2 sometimes, some clips look like they are corrupt. (Either lower half is green or two magenta pics side by side, or similar sort of thing). All the clips | | | | |
| | | | | Error when sending FCP X XMLby Michael Sanders 1 year agoHi all, I've got an XML file from FCP X, which when I load it into Resove Lite I get the error "no valid sequences are present in the file". Does anyone have any ldeas Michael Sanders London Based DP | Re: Error when sending FCP X XML
by Michael Sanders 1 year ago
Well... it says its opening the XML file but then reports the error "Mixed frame rate sequences are not supported". Which would be fine but my frame rates aren't mixed! Michael Sanders London Based DP
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| | | | | Repair corrupted project fileby chris walker 1 year agoAny way to repair a corrupted project file other than using the software I've seen mentioned That doesn't work and I really, really don't want to lose 30 hrs of editing and start from scratch! No back | Re: pair corrupted project file
by Bill Davis 1 year ago
If you're in a shared storage or multi-user environ with critical work on the line, then backups obviously need to be managed very carefully. For the single seat user, just slap a drive on the system
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| | | |  | Capturing Analog Video and Audioby Frank Cervarich 1 year agoI am using FCP7.0.3. I am running it on OS 10.6.8 and 2 X 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xenon system. I have AJA LHi to bring in beta footage. Here's my problem. When I capture beta footage, I get great vi | Re: Capturing Analog Video and Audio
by Michael Sanders 1 year ago
In the Kona set up utility app, have you definitely got analogue audio selected as the input Its under audio setup I think - I don't have the utility on the computer I'm doesn't have it installed so t
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| | | | | Make a 3D blockby Michael Sanders 1 year agoI'm not a motion artist so please go easy.. I am editing a results video for a client which will have graphs in it. I'd like to make the blocks have a slight extruded 3D look, like the ones you can ge | | | | |
| | | |  | Blog: IBC is just around the corner...by gary adcock 2 years agohey everyone, I am back from 30 days of restricted access to social media for one client. IBC, the second major broadcast convention of the year, is starting in barely a week and there should be a num | | | | |
| | | | | Weird DV tape issueby Michael Sanders 2 years agoHi all, I've got six mini DV tapes given to me by a client which I've just tried to capture using a DSR 45P into FCP. As far as I know all the tapes have come from the same source. The VTR and compute | Re: Weird DV tape issue
by Chris Cottrell 2 years ago
Jeff Pulera "Just re-read your post, and seems that you are expecting DV or DVCAM footage. MiniDV tapes can also be used for HDV, so it's possible that is what you have" Sounds about right. www.tekmg
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| | | | | Motion 5 text softby Michael Sanders 2 years agoHi all. I'm prepping some graphics for a corporate edit this week - yearly performance graphs. I created a new project in Motion 5 with the PAL SD preset and then switched the pixel aspect to 1.46 ana | Re: Motion 5 text soft
by Joakim Tjernell 1 year ago
I just figured out how to solve this problem. I imported the motion project into FCP 7 and went to sequence settings. There you choose "Render control" and under "Master templates and Motion projects"
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| | | | | A couple of questionsby Shaun Gish 4 years agoI'm looking at the KiPro as a possible alternative to recording multicams to HDCam decks because of the price but I have a few questions: 1. Is there a rack mount kit for the KiPro If not, I'm assumin | | | | |
| | | |  | Drobo Pro for editing HDV1080i and 720p?by mikkell khan 3 years agoHello, I wanted to set up a NAS for two computers, one a PC running Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and the other a MAC running Final Cut Pro 6. I would eventually like to add a third system, most likely anoth | | | | |
| | | | | Chromakeying with IMX50by Michael Sanders 3 years agoHi All, I've got some green screen interviews shot on a PDW700 in IMX50 mode. The colour background is solid and well lit, good separation with minimum spill. When I try and key it I get a jagged edge | Re: Chromakeying with IMX50
by Michael Sanders 3 years ago
Hi there, Thanks for the input. In the end I ended up getting DVmatt blast and I have to say the pictures a very impressive. Michael Sanders London Based DP Editor
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