I am lead editor and producer at Schazam Productions. I am an all about guy - techie, of sorts. | | | | Member Since: May 21st 2004 Location: Collierville, TN | | | | |
Friends:  Robert Stone | | | | | | FCP X Newbie Questionby Wayne Carey 2 weeks agoGang, I'm new to FCP X but I am a very longtime user of FCP. My question is... Can I copy generators from one edit system to another We are converting over to FCP X but I have noticed that there are l | Re: FCP X Newbie Question
by Wayne Carey 2 weeks ago
Thank you! That is exactly what I was looking for. The COW comes thru again! _______________________________ Wayne Carey Schazam Productions http: web.mac.com schazamproductions schazamproductions@mac
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| | | |  | Project mgmt - RAID backup drive...by Bob Woodhead 3 weeks agoSo I've got a single cheap large drive that does a nightly backup of my project RAID. It's always online, so I never have to think about it, just fires up at 2Am to run it's backup task. Problem: as t | Re: Project mgmt - RAID backup drive...
by Wayne Carey 2 weeks ago
Guys, All you really need to understand is the way that FCP X works. When working with external drives, you have to create two folders, Final Cut Events and Final Cut Projects, on the root level of th
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| | | | | Drive goes to sleep and doesn't wake upby Wayne Carey 3 months agoI'm using MacOS 10.7.3. Yes, I do have my computer to go into sleep mode after a certain period of time. And no, I do not have my drives going to sleep. This computer is a professional graphics system | Re: Drive goes to sleep and doesn't wake up
by Wayne Carey 2 months ago
Just as a word of advice... I've not had good luck with any of the G-Tech drives at all. Most all of my door stops are G-Tech drives. I have another G-Raid that will go out any day now. I'm not knocki
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| | | | | Print Settings and Huey Pro Issuesby Wayne Carey 2 months agoOK... I have two questions that I hope someone can help me with. First... In Photoshop CS5.5 (ver. 12.1 x64), when I select print, the print dialog pops up and gives me all the settings I need to prin | | | | |
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| | | |  | Mysterious Green Bandsby Dennis Dean 8 months agoI'm getting two mysterious light green horizontal bands in an .m4v using the H.264 for Apple TV - setting.... produced through Compressor from FCP - The bands are NOT in Final Cut - and appear only in | Re: Mysterious Green Bands
by Wayne Carey 8 months ago
Do you have a 2009 MacBook Pro If so, we have the same issue in the blacks. It is under Apple Care and we just have to find time to send it in for repair. The problem lies with the internal video card
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| | | | | XD CAM Transfer problemsby carlton hathcoat 8 months agoI am using XDCAM for the first time (Usually use P2) and the Video was shot 1080i60 (50Mb s). I used the XD Cam Transfer and everything seemed fine, but I have noticed in FCP that the Frame Rate is 29 | Re: XD CAM Transfer problems
by Bouke Vahl 8 months ago
Make a study about 'interlace' (and yes, that will set you back a couple of days before you understood everything. Short story, your material is fine, you are in for a lot of problems unless you catch
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| | | |  | Article: FCPX: Didn't We Ask for This?by Jeremy Garchow 8 months ago Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate FCPX: Didn't We Ask for This "When talking about FCPX, the greater topics of philosophy, ethics, religion, personal well-being, the time space continuum, the conseq+3 | Re: Article: FCPX: Didn't We Ask for This?
by Wayne Carey 8 months ago
I have one question that I need to ask... Why didn't everyone abandoned Avid when they had their troubles There was basically no development or support for almost four years. People whined... But did
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| | | |  | xdcam & fcp xby Marc Lucas 11 months agoWas just about to purchase an EX1 I have read there is a codec conversion plugin' which is downloadable but is this going to be a big problem going forward, why haven't they supported XDCAM from the s | Re: xdcam & fcp x
by Wayne Carey 11 months ago
Keep in mind that typically Sony is about one year behind Apple on support. So far with every level of XDCAM, Sony's support inside of FCP had been one year behind. So... As a workaround, use the Sony
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| | | |  | OS X 10.6.7 updateby Mark Laslo 1 year agoHi all, I was wondering if anybody has updated to 10.6.7 that was just released today and if anybody has found any compatibility issues with FCP. I figure there is no better place to ask. Cheers, Mark | Re: OS X 10.6.7 update
by Wayne Carey 1 year ago
ANYTIME you do an update... Clone your system drive and reset your permissions after the initial reboot. _______________________________ Wayne Carey Schazam Productions http: web.mac.com schazamproduc
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| | | | | Flip Camera in FCPby Megan Lisette 1 year agoHi, I was wondering if I could have some advice on how to convert videos from my 1st generation Flip camera to a format compatible with Final Cut Pro. I've searched on the Internet and looked up a few | Re: Flip Camera in FCP
by Wayne Carey 1 year ago
Hmmm... I suggest that you read the manuals and look at some tutorials before trying something that you have no idea how to perform. What you are wanting to do is elemental... ________________________
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| | | | | Naming Issuesby Wayne Carey 1 year agoWhat's the deal with the naming issues in OS X Ever since Leopard came about and now in Snow Leopard, when I create a file in whatever program, and my file name exceeds 20 characters, I get a file nam | Re: Naming Issues
by Jerry Jorgenson 1 year ago
Version 10.6.6 $ touch abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890 $ ls -l abc* -rw-r--r-- 1 jerry staff 0 Mar 21 09:28 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890 Doesn't seem to happen on mine. Are you running in
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| | | |  | Mac alternative to MS Outlookby Bob Cole 1 year agoI did the search, but found only older posts answering this question: I have lived on Outlook on a PC for a long time, and would like to find a robust Outlook alternative on the Mac, mainly so I can u | Re: Mac alternative to MS Outlook
by Wayne Carey 1 year ago
I agree... But most IT guys are going to setup the Exchange servers for web access for on the road travels. At that point, the iPhone and the iTouch have no issues. But for the life of me, I cannot ge
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| | | | | kona with iMacby Nate tull 1 year agoi have an imac. is the a kona card that can be used with it | Re: kona with iMac
by Wayne Carey 1 year ago
I hope the next gen iMac will have a eSATA port. Strange that it doesn't have it now. _______________________________ Wayne Carey Schazam Productions http: web.mac.com schazamproductions schazamproduc
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| | | | | 10-bit Playback on Kona 3by Wayne Carey 1 year agoCan anyone see 10-bit playback using ProRes422 on the Kona 3 using a Panasonic BT-LH2600W Anytime I select any of the AJA ProRes422 Easy Setups, my playback is set to 10-bit video. When I try to play | Re: 10-bit Playback on Kona 3
by Wayne Carey 1 year ago
No... Not at all. I have a project that was HDV - ProRes422 converted or its just a ProRes422 project that used Log and Capture to capture all of the footage using the AJA Kona 3 capture card. If I tr
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| | | | | Log and Transfer for XDCAM HDby Paul Kim 2 years agoI saw that the Sept 15 2010 Pro Applications update included support for Sony NXCAM SD with Log and Transfer, as well as additional help for 720 versions of XDCAM. Does anybody know if Apple or Sony e | Re: Log and Transfer for XDCAM HD
by Wayne Carey 2 years ago
Better organizational skills would probably be easier. See Shane Ross' DVD on this subject. Its sold here on the COW. _______________________________ Wayne Carey Schazam Productions http: web.mac.com
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| | | |  | Xdcam HD 422 Codecby John Pipes 2 years agoIs anyone using the Sony XDCAM HD 422 CODEC as their editing CODEC for their ingest and sequence settings If so have there been any issues you can share Do you find that in spite of the small file siz | Re: Xdcam HD 422 Codec
by Wayne Carey 2 years ago
John Pipes "We can't say for sure because the math does not add up (through-put, etc.) but we think as many of you that the long GOP nature of the CODEC is still an issue for editing. We did extensiv
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| | | |  | New Ki Pro Miniby Stuart Cummings 2 years agoThe new KI Pro Mini Has bean announced at IBC this thing is going to be very Hot! See AJA's web site for more info. | Re: New Ki Pro Mini
by Wayne Carey 2 years ago
John Heagy "Unless there's a forum called "Breaking cameraman of needless rituals" " You must have had a camera man also record 30 sec interviews in 15 minute chunks... Instead of 30 files of 30 sec
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| | | | | iPhone 4 and iTunes 10by Wayne Carey 2 years agoFirst of all... I'm new to the iPhone 4 (4.1 software) and maybe my post is something that has always been an issue for some but... I have setup my iPhone on my PC at home, sync it and downloaded all | Re: iPhone 4 and iTunes 10
by Wayne Carey 2 years ago
While you being picky about terminology... iTunes will do neither, manage or sync an iPhone on more that one computer. The ONLY work-around is to create backup disc of your library on one computer and
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| | | | | iTouch 1st Gen and iTunes Backupby Wayne Carey 2 years agoWhy is it that with my iTouch 1st Generation that it takes about an hour to backup every time I plug it in and iTunes starts. It wants to backup every time. Is this just me or are others seeing this Y | | | | |
| | | |  | Blog: Converting NTSC to PALby walter biscardi 2 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 Wayne Carey 2 years ago
Always good advice, Walter. I'd love to add that ANY hardware conversion, be it 29.97 to 23.98, SD to HD, HD to SD, creating a center punch for broadcast or letterboxing for broadcast or DVD. Hardware
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| | | | | XDCAM HD Import Issue & FCP 7by Wayne Carey 2 years agoHey gang, To all of you that use XDCAM HD... I'd like to see if you are getting this same issue that I am seeing. We'll use our XDCAM HD decks to log footage and save that back to disk for future refe | | | | |
| | | |  | Kona 3 - 7.5.1 Driver issue?by Jason Boucher 2 years agoHey Cows, I had a problem crop up today while editing in FCP 7.0.2 (updated last week). Basically, it would start to hang. I'd notice my external FSI monitor would freeze randomly and then playback in | Re: Kona 3 - 7.5.1 Driver issue?
by Wayne Carey 2 years ago
Did you uninstall the old driver first before installing 7.5.1 I ask, because I've not seen an issues with my setup using the 7.5.1 driver set. _______________________________ Wayne Carey Schazam Prod
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| | | |  | Kona 3 & 3D is comingby Warren Eig 2 years agohttp: blog.digitalcontentproducer.com briefingroom 2010 04 12 aja-teams-with-cineform-to-enable-true-stereo-3d-output-from-final-cut-pro-premiere-pro-timelines-via-neo3d-and-kona-3 Warren Eig O 310-47 | Re: Kona 3 & 3D is coming
by Wayne Carey 2 years ago
walter biscardi "just shows how amazing a four year old video card is when you make it the right way. " Amen, Brother! That's why Avid uses them on their hardware cards. AJA is Rock Solid!!! We have
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| | | | | XDCAM HD, Final Cut Pro 7 and Snow Leopardby Wayne Carey 2 years agoSo.... I'm wondering how many more years will it be until Sony fully supports Snow Leopard. Any bets I say this because it took Sony almost a year to support Leopard and it took Sony two full years to | | | | |
| | | | | Video: "Guide Series" Show Openby Wayne Carey 3 years ago"Guide Series" Show Open This is the show open for a new show that we are producing about the best fishing and hunting guides that the country has to offer. The entire show open was created inside of +1 | | | | |
| | | | | Hunter Orange XDCAM HD Issueby Wayne Carey 3 years agoHey gang, I'm posting this because we are looking at the EX series for replacement for old cameras but we do have a PDW-F350 camera that shoots beautifully EXCEPT when it comes to hunter orange. When | Re: Hunter Orange XDCAM HD Issue
by Wayne Carey 3 years ago
Yeah... That's pretty close, Don. The vests that we seem to use are the hunting vests that you see when folks are pheasant or quail hunting. Sometimes you see it with deer hunting. But the issue happe
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| | | | | PDW-HD1500 Question...by Wayne Carey 3 years agoOk... I'm getting some conflicting info on the write back capabilities of this deck with regards to data storage. Is this deck write capable of data through a firmware update yet Or is this some that | | | | |
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