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| | | | |  | AVCHD(hmc150) files stuck on SD card!by Sam Duncan 4 months agoSo I deleted a few AVCHD(hmc150) files from an SD card (I was in a hurry and couldn't sort through them all), and now FCP 7 won't recognize the card in "Log and Transfer"!!! I can still view all but 1 | | | | |
| | | | | iMac peripheral advise please :Dby Thomas Morter-Laing 5 months agoMight be simple, might be impossible- I dont want to buy an Apple display, to be clear right away (don't have the budget). New imac (late 2012)- has no firewire 800, which is annoying as I have a lot | | | | |
| | | | | Forgot a clip in sequenceby Thomas Morter-Laing 6 months agoProbably simple (hopefully anyway)- sent a sequence to color, missed out a clip which I now need to match to the rest of the sequence, is there a way of sort of re-importing the xml so that all the gr | Re: Forgot a clip in sequence
by Joseph Owens 6 months ago
Its called "Reconform", and its covered in the manual. Stills should be available across all projects by navigating through the COLOR browser associated with the stills page. jPo "I always pass on fre
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| | | | | eSata speed difference on G-RAIDS?by Thomas Morter-Laing 7 months agoA little bit more to this than the title, but I'll try and keep it as brief and tech specs only as possible: I have 2 iMacs, both 3.4 Ghz i7 (late 2011), one has 12GB Ram and a 2TB Hitachi internal, o | | | | |
| | | |  | Best External Hard Drive for FCP editingby Steve Loh 7 months agoIt's time again for that question: What's the best (or your preference) of desktop external hard drives for FCP editing My go-to drive used to be the La Cie d2 (I've used dozens), but they seem to hav | | | | |
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| | | |  | Out of memory Error on outputby Ned Weisman 8 months agoI have a 5:32 minute pro res 422 timeline that I cannot output. It is completeluy rendered. When I try to output a simple quicktime (same as timeline) output I get the dredded out of memory error. I h | Re: Out of memory Error on output
by Thomas Morter-Laing 8 months ago
Ah that old badger- do you any lots of images on your timeline Tiffs especially seem to do it for me. If you do, Cope the sequence and delete the images, then try an export to see if one of those is g
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| | | | | Sound solution!by Thomas Morter-Laing 10 months agoHi guys, Im filming tomorrow using a Sony Z7 and a Canon 7D. I have a Rode NTG2, a Blimp and a deadcat. I managed to stupidly forget the lapel mics, so am now obviously terrified of that roomy echoey  | Re: Sound solution!
by Todd Terry 10 months ago
Sounds like you are already on location and can't go back and get the hardware you meant to bring. No worries, this is not a disaster. It might even be a good thing. Personally, I usually hate using l
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| | | | | Skin tone correction Final Cutby M. Louise May 1 year agoHello! I need to ask for your helpful advice in this: working on a 2 minutes clip, shot on EX1, green screen, one person standing in front to camera, medium shot. This person has a very white skin, bu | Re: Skin tone correction Final Cut
by Thomas Morter-Laing 1 year ago
Hope this helps: use these principles to correct the color: http: www.youtube.com watch v=bcfWvRY3uTc Use this one to create a custome mask so it only effects the area you need it to (ie the skin area
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| | | | | FCP7 to MC6by Thomas Morter-Laing 1 year agoOK I'm sure this is a VERY basic question- Im experienced with FCP but VERY new to AVID. All Im trying to do is open a project from FCP7 in AVID MC6. Ive tried exporting an EDL, which didn't open in A | Re: FCP7 to MC6
by Andy Field 1 year ago
This is the ONLY reliable method we've found to work from FCP7 to AVID 5.5 -- We've tried BORIS AAF and Automatic Duck (free now) with AMA linking and it virtually never works -- (the sequence carries
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| | | |  | Glass/Dust effect, The walking deadby stig olsen 2 years agoHi, How is the glass effect with dirt dust on the opening title of "the walking dead" made Its like its shot through a piece of glass, but I guess its just an effect added on top of a dust layer or so | | | | |
| | | | | Point light to fill light?by Thomas Morter-Laing 1 year agoMotion 4, how is this done I have to point lights which work really nicely and are keyframed to move a little bit. However When they are finished I want the whole picture to be uniformly lit, and am n | Re: Point light to fill light?
by Mark Spencer 1 year ago
Add an ambient light. Keyframe it's intensity to increase and the point light intensities to decrease. -- Mark Spencer Freelance Producer Editor Motion Graphics Artist Apple-certified Master Trainer A
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| | | | | MacBook Pro, iMac or MacPro?by Armani Del Rio 1 year agoSo at first I was sure I wanted the MBP but now I've been researching it and I'm not so sure. Im coming from windows and editing HD (AVCHD) is complete hell, my computer is so bad that it won't even p | Re: MacBook Pro, iMac or MacPro?
by Thomas Morter-Laing 1 year ago
The Mac Pro is Apples professional machine. However, the difference between the current top spec iMac (3.4ghz with full RAM) and the Mac Pro as standard, is only noticeable on paper really. I use both
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| | | | | What is a finalcut worthy MacBook Pro?by Steven Lake 1 year agoIve finally made some money through being self employed, and I am keen to pick up a MacBook Pro. Money is still an object and I wanted to know what the best set up would be to get Final Cut running we | | | | |
| | | |  | Cropped A Video. What Do I Fill It In With?by Jaye James 2 years agoI have a white background video. I cropped half of the video. How do I match and fill in the cropped area. I used a matte. Used both a 235 White and 255 white color matte. Both look great on the compu | | | | |
| | | | | audio sync noob questionby Gordon Neil Allen 2 years agoHi, a workflow question regarding audio sync. On this shoot, a lot of the time there were two mics: one to the camera, one to a separate recorder. It is more advisable to sync all mics, then edit Or e | Re: audio sync noob question
by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years ago
I would sync the mic first, that way it will all be there when you start moving bits around and cutting bits off- just make sure every time you cut a clip and move it you keep the off camera audio in
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| | | | | Sony HDV Musings...by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years agoOK so this isnt n issue per say, just a possibly debate starting musing Ive been having. What is the point in the Sony Z cameras I mean, I understand theyre good work horses, but take a Z7 for example | Re: Sony HDV Musings...
by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years ago
That's precisely my point though- you can now buy something better at the same price point. Also snark aside, I was wondering if I had missed something about them because, contrary your interesting re
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| | | |  | White burst transitionby Lawrence Richards 2 years agoHello! I would very much like to have this kind of quick transition between clips. If someone has a moment and can give me a quick a How-To I would be greatly appreciative. Thanks! Thank you! Larry R. | Re: White burst transition
by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years ago
If you're interested in using it frequently, I gather a lot of professionals who edit this style of programming use this: http: www.nattress.com Products filmeffects G_Film_Flash.htm I've used a few a
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| | | |  | FCPx 10.0.1by Jeremy Garchow 2 years agohttp: www.apple.com finalcutpro software-update.html | Re: FCPx 10.0.1
by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years ago
I have 10.0.0 and it's not updating It wont even show up in Software Update. Any ideas Or even better, is there a way to manually download the update somehow :D Tom Morter-Laing Freelance Editor, Cert
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| | | |  | FCP7 Put Back on Sale?by James Daugherty 2 years agohttp: sdfcpug.com fcpwp 2011 09 fcp7-back Apple FCP Studio 3 is back on sale... Final Cut Studio, part number MB642Z A, is again available for $999 (and $899 for educational customers). The product is | Re: FCP7 Put Back on Sale?
by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years ago
Oh no wait, sorry just saw the 'on order' bit... :D Tom Morter-Laing Freelance Editor, Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010 www.depictproductions.co.uk Sony Z5, with Rode NTG2. iMac 27" intel i
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| | | | | Canon 60D - can AGC be turned off?by Jim Ray 3 years agoHi folks, I'm trying to make the right purchase choice for shooting video with a DSLR between the T2i and the 60D. I see that the 60D has audio meters and allows manual adjustment, but it is unclear t | | | | |
| | | | | RAID permissionsby Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years agoWe have an office where there are three macs, which are connected via ethernet to a patch, which then connects us to a RAID (its RAID5). This RAID is actually a PC with an 8TB array, but we are access | Re: RAID permissions
by Bob Zelin 2 years ago
Steve writes - Solution 2: Use OpenDirectory ActiveDirectory to manage your users and permissions. You can then create a user group that has Read Write Delete privileges on a volume and then assign us
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| | | | | Dual RAID Cache?by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years agoIf I have a dual drive RAID0 over firewire800, is it a bad idea to have two identical sized drives, both of the same brand, but with different cache sizes (one 32mb one 16mb ) Thanks! :D Tom Morter-La | Re: Dual RAID Cache?
by Ricardo Reyes 2 years ago
Although it is always recomended to use the same specification drive when creating a RAID array, using different drives will result in only operating as fast as the slowest drive. Would it be a bad id
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| | | | | Digital Zooms useby Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years agoYes I know its expanding pixels, but can it ever have a professional use Or Should one avoid those camera men who decide to use it "willy nilly" :D Tom Morter-Laing Freelance Editor, Certified Apple P | Re: Digital Zooms use
by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years ago
Thats what I thought, I just wondered if I was either missing something or why I see so many camera men use it...maybe they're just not that good... :D Tom Morter-Laing Freelance Editor, Certified App
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| | | | | RAID 6 Best?by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years agoIm working at a company at the moment who uses an 8TB NAS RAID. It is RAID 6. (We are a video editing company). The data on the RAID is very important, which is why I think they originally went with R | Re: AID 6 Best?
by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years ago
Thats odd, Im fairly sure I didnt sorry! Perhaps try again :D Tom Morter-Laing Freelance Editor, Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010 www.depictproductions.co.uk Sony Z5, with Rode NTG2. iMac 2
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| | | |  | Shutter speed on z5u?by John Applewhite 2 years agoFilming a turkey hunt in the morning. Wondering what a good shutter speed would be for this type of activity. Full sunlight, not a lot of fast motion. What is a good all around speed | Re: Shutter speed on z5u?
by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years ago
Sorry about the late reply, but thought it would be a good future reference: In general they suggest not using the shutter to control light too much, because it has an affect on how the shot looks as
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| | | | | Fw800 RAIDby Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years agoOk, so I recently bought a FireWire 800 Dual drive raid system (I've put the enclosure together, it came in bits from here: http: www.span.com product_info.php products_id=8081&source=gbaseuk¤cy | Re: Fw800 RAID
by Fred Jodry 2 years ago
Also since "one hard drive is failing" when there s new hard drives, you may have a bad power supply plug on it or the power supply might be putting out the wrong voltages. Measure them. Unfortunately
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| | | | | Disable Bootcamp automount?by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years agoSo basically turns out the bootcamp has been the reason for some proapps giving me jip recently (not sure why, the Apple team said so). So naturally I would like to find a way so I dont have to manual | Re: Disable Bootcamp automount?
by Chris Gordon 2 years ago
I don't use bootcamp, so I don't know where it mounts, but your script could be something as simple as: ================ #! bin sh usr sbin diskutil unmount Volumes BootCamp exit 0 ================ Pu
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| | | | | Color Grading with 4:2:0by Brad Ballew 2 years agoI just recently started learning what 4:4:4, 4:2:2, 4:2:0, and 4:1:1 mean and I am wondering if I need to change my workflow. Here's the thing, I have been shooting low contrast with my XH-a1s and Can | Re: Color Grading with 4:2:0
by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years ago
From experience, and what I have learnt, you are shooting correctly. Shooting with too much contrast is actually what you DONT want to do, and having a fairly "flat" image is excellent for colour grad
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| | | | | H264 F4v on iPhone?by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years agoWHilst I appreciate this is kinda an iPhone question, it applies to all mobile devices which cant play flash, but you other editors may know of something Im missing. Basically, H264 is obviously like  | Re: H264 F4v on iPhone?
by Richard Harrington 2 years ago
Look into Flash Media Server... I undertand it is supposed to be able to do this and serve up different versions Richard M. Harrington, PMP Author: From Still to Motion, Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop
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| | | | | Sony SLT-A55 or Canon 550D?by Thomas Morter-Laing 3 years agoWhat with all the hype about Canon DSLRs for HD video, people sometimes overlook the other brands (as I almost just did...) So guys, Sony SLT-A55 or Canon 550D I know the 550D has more effective pixel | Re: Sony SLT-A55 or Canon 550D?
by Thomas Morter-Laing 2 years ago
For video quality the 550D is better, being a much higher bitrate of recording. The Sony has a few features such as continuous auto focus (which isn\'t actually that great apparently) but I\'m
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