Member Since: February 23rd 2002 Friends:  Abraham Chaffin  Chris Harlan  Steve Brame  Tim Wilson | | | | |  | Notes vs keywords for clips logging in 10.4.6by Sam Lee 5 days agoI've been logging more notes than keywords to the clips. This is for super long-form docu that's growing. I ran out of the 10 most used keywords. Are there any downsides or limitations to using notes | | | | |
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| | | |  | Default transition durationby Greg Ball 1 month agoThis may be a stupid question but how do I change the default transition (Dissolve) from 1 second to 20 frames It looks like 1:00 is shortest length in preferences. Thanks. Greg Ball, President Ball M | Re: Default transition duration
by Bret Williams 1 month ago
I saw that post and I don't know the answer right off the bat. And I don't have a multi-cam project recently to test. Can you post a screen recording or grab Might help. I'm assuming you have the angl
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| | | |  | When and if to upgrade graphics driversby Mark Suszko 1 month agoSo, the scenario: I love using FCPX on my older iMac; it just keeps getting better. But management is pushing the shop towards the Adobe suite and so I have been transitioning to using Premiere CC her | | | | |
| | | |  | replacing media fileby Karl Lohninger 1 month agoI'm using a rendered After Effects file in an FCP project - alas, I made the mistake to delete this file. I re-rendered the file again, made sure to give it the same name, and now try to replace the ' | Re: replacing media file
by Bret Williams 1 month ago
Just relink the file to the new file. Select the file in the timeline or browser and go to file relink files. If you rendered it to the same location that it was previously, with same name and same ex
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| | | |  | New studio I/oby Tom Sefton 2 months agoHello hive mind. I want to upgrade our I o and would really like to find something that can provide 4K 10 bit outputs with 5.1 surround sound. I ve got this with separate devices at the moment but the | Re: New studio I/o
by Bret Williams 2 months ago
Yes in a big studio with machines down the hall or something I'm not sure how you'd do it. But in my little home suite I have the SDI going to my Flanders Scientific monitor, and then have the audio o
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| | | |  | php or asp.net ?by aboo spatena 4 months agoHi, I'm new to web design. I finished front end lessons and now I should choose may backend Programing language.but I don't know select php or asp.net I using C# windows form before but I think PHP is+1 | Re: php or asp.net ?
by Bret Williams 4 months ago
I don't code, but PHP seems to be the way to go. I've always preferred open source. But they're not really apples to apples are they Isn't one a platform and one a language But Wordpress and php. ____
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| | | |  | 8 Core Macbook Pro!by Steve Connor 4 months agohttps: www.macrumors.com 2019 05 21 apple-debuts-new-8-core-macbook-pro Looks really hot :) | Re: 8 Core Macbook Pro!
by Bret Williams 4 months ago
What, the 8 core That s already in iMac. ______________________________________________________ https: BretFX.com FCPX Plugins & Templates New Transition Pack! SLIDE WIPES Customizable Wipes that Move
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| | | |  | Archiving/Consolidatingby Shane Ross 4 months agoI onlined a 96 min feature doc cut in Avid, consolidated for online in Resolve. All ProRes HQ. The consolidated media takes up under 600GB of space. So this, along with all the audio deliverables, GFX | Re: Archiving/Consolidating
by Bret Williams 4 months ago
When you re in split clip mode, you can click on the playhead and drag it around. Split clips, and copy, paste, move clips between open QT players with copy paste. In trim clip mode you get the range
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| | | |  | Market Demand for Motion Templatesby Lorenzo M. Vidali 4 months agoI'm thinking about creating some templates for Apple Motion to sell online. Can anyone speak to the market demand for Apple Motion templates Are there any specific types of templates in demand in more | Re: Market Demand for Motion Templates
by Bret Williams 4 months ago
That. Although I gotta say, they're catching up fast. Just check out MotionArray.com's array of Motion Graphics Templates for Premiere. They're made in AE for Premiere, just like Motion & FCPX. Same s
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| | | | | Converting to joomlaby emma woods 5 months agoHey I am working on this website now: https: www.scarboroughbadcreditcarloans.ca . It is a Wordpress site. Will it rank better if it is converted to Joomla +1 | Re: Converting to joomla
by Bret Williams 5 months ago
I don't know anything about Joomla, except it isn't as popular as Wordpress which seems to have everything going for it including a fast growing page builder market letting the non-coder like myself a
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| | | |  | Please rate my website designby Stewe Johnson 2 years agoHello there! I am currently working on the design of this website: https: vironit.com Can you please leave any feedback Would be good to listen to some opinions. | Re: Please rate my website design
by Bret Williams 7 months ago
Pretty nice! What theme page builder did you use Content is very responsive and the footer looks great. However on iPad the menus are a bit small and the hamburger menu icon on the iPhone is ginormous
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| | | |  | How to Use Web Templatesby Cameron Dozier 1 year agoHello, I had built a custom site with Dreamweaver a few years ago, and at some point something became outdated and my icon animations broke, some icons went away completely. At this point I have forgo | Re: How to Use Web Templates
by Bret Williams 8 months ago
I d say the hottest themes right now are Astra and OceanWP. They re good for just about any kind of site. But the cool stuff is going to happen with the page builders. Elementor is where it s at right
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| | | | | New siteby Bret Williams 9 months agoFinally wrapped up an overhaul of the BretFX 2.0 website with all kinds of new tech, new theme, new page builder, etc. The new site is built with WordPress, Woocommerce,, OceanWP theme and a lot Eleme | | | | |
| | | | | Issue with adding content to the websiteby emma woods 11 months agoI added some content to this page: https: www.hydrogenics.com hydrogen-products-solutions fuel-cell-power-systems hydrail developments-in-hydrail . I was checking it in mobile and PC. Apple iPhone X (+1 | | | | |
| | | |  | Website with user interactivityby Ray Peterson 10 months agoI'm making my way to web design. I'm already familiar with wordpres (wordpress.com and self hosting) but I thought I'd try and learn dreamweaver or any other software to produce a website that has a l | Re: Website with user interactivity
by Bret Williams 10 months ago
I m guessing there s a plugin for WordPress that would do this. Or an Elementor add-on. Are you familiar with Elementor yet _______________________________________________________________________ http
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| | | |  | Demystification: A Parableby Simon Ubsdell 2 years agoImagine, if you will, an apartment building. It has roughly 25 and a half floors (probably designed originally by Charlie Kaufman, who knows ), but only around 20 of these floors are actually used by +3  | Re: Demystification: A Parable
by David Mathis 2 years ago
I think I found a video describing what Simon is referring to. I have been on elevators that have behaved this though not to this level. Pun intended! https: www.youtube.com watch v=sDoTu43wCvI
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| | | |  | More "demystification"...by Bill Davis 2 years agoI'm trying to stay out of this because in both software engineering and color theory - I'm pretty much an idiot. I'm just an end user, and HAPPY to be one. But this has blown up so much - that I'm fas+1  | Re: More "demystification"...
by Mark Smith 2 years ago
The way color wheels work in rec 709 is giving me acid flashbacks to doing a tech set up on a analog video camera , say a PC70. Back in those days it was the case that engineering set up controls were
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| | | | | Footage becoming interlaced in FCP 7by Gabriel Rougeau 3 years agoHello, this may be the wrong sub-forum, but it's been awhile since I posted here. I have a Sony NEX VG10 camcorder, and I've been told that this camera only films in progressive, so I figured that it | Re: Footage becoming interlaced in FCP 7
by Bret Williams 3 years ago
But what frame rate did you shoot at 24M is a data rate setting, which can be used with 60i, 50i, or 24p. _______________________________________________________________________ http: BretFX.com Plugi
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| | | | | I've lost my headby Bret Williams 3 years agoA year or more ago I clicked on my head and said "remove my head from forum" or something like that. It was reminding me of just how addicted I was. Well, the first step is admitting you have a proble | Re: I've lost my head
by Bret Williams 3 years ago
Sounds good. Guess I'll have to up my postings to get my head back up though. 18th poster of all time just ain't good enough. :P
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| | | | | Compound clip audio weirdnessby Bret Williams 4 years agoSomeone smack me and tell me what I'm missing here. I have a compound clip nested within my sequence, and the 8 audio tracks are being merged. Usually, expanding audio components shows all the tracks | Re: Compound clip audio weirdness
by Bill Davis 4 years ago
Bret, Personally, I'd go back the the original clips - Open in Timeline - and completely delete all those empty tracks. We've seen that when X sees a bunch of empty tracks, (even if you're not activel
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| | | | | MP4 vs AVCHDby Bryce Douglass 4 years agoI have a Canon XA25 which shoots in AVCHD or MP4. I have been shooting in AVCHD then transcoding to Pro Res as I have had playback issues etc with multi cam etc. if I switched to MP4 would I have to t | Re: MP4 vs AVCHD
by Bret Williams 4 years ago
It's not as intensive with your iMac as with say a Mac Pro. You have h264 acceleration on that iMac processor where the xeons do not. Pro res is still a little smoother to edit with but not noticeably
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| | | |  | iphone4 video in FCP7 for youtube exportby raju bhai 4 years agoHi, I have an iPhone4 video that i just wanted to cut a section out of in FCP7 and then export it for youtube. It is a 36 min video. When i import the iPhone clip into FCP7 and drop it into the fresh +1 | | | | |
| | | | | Why MXF4MAC cannot open my .MXF file??by kim manis 4 years agoHello, Has anyone use MXF4mac for playing back MXF file I have been using it for a while until today it doesn't work anymore I don't know if there is something wrong with the codec in my .MXF file or | | | | |
| | | | | mixing frame ratesby Bret Williams 4 years agoIs there an issue with mixing frame rates in resolve I've got a multicam edit that is 29.97 except one camera that is 23.98. I ported the project over from FCP X so I could do better color correction, | Re: mixing frame rates
by Bret Williams 4 years ago
This also brings up a good question. Why is there a pull-down menu setting for timeline frame rate, and then right underneath it a "playback" frame rate FILL-IN box Isn't that just asking for trouble
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| | | | | Does anybody know about this new plugin?by Daniel Brown 4 years agoI wish a had bookmarked this article, so I apologize in advance for not having more information. I read an article and watched a video on this new plugin. (I cannot remember if it was just for Mac or | | | | |
| | | | | Fusion and OFX Supportby David Mathis 4 years agoWhile waiting for Studio for Mac OS X, I would like to see expanded OFX support, perhaps something from Red Giant and others. Otherwise, very pleased with Fusion overall, great software! Kudos to the | Re: Fusion and OFX Support
by Bret Williams 4 years ago
Where are you finding the time David In trying to cut the Adobe cord I've had to learn Motion, and still keep up with AE. And before that of course ditch legacy and learn X and some Premiere. Now I'm
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| | | | | Panning Audio in resolve 12by Bret Williams 4 years agoComing from a FCP 7 background, where there weren't any different types of audio tracks, this whole premiere-like audio setup is a bit foreign. In 7, a channel was a channel and a track was always a s | Re: Panning Audio in resolve 12
by Bret Williams 4 years ago
Obviously you can't animate a pan in the media window. My problem is that only s stereo clip will pan in a stereo track. I've read the manual on it and honestly it doesn't seem to correlate. It's defi
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| | | |  | How long to export 5 min of HD footage?by Benjamin Cohen 4 years agoI am using CC 2015, a EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Super Clocked ACX 2.0 Graphics Card, a i7 Core, 16GB of BallStix Memory, Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 TH LGA 1150 Z97 Dual Thunderbolt 2 ATX Motherboard i'm using a | | | | |
| | | |  | does your NLE match your budget?by Brian Cooney 4 years agoI've come to the conclusion over the last few months with the apple adobe saga and all that is in the mix, that we probably can't blame the manufacturers if we are still trying to keep up with the lat | Re: does your NLE match your budget?
by Bret Williams 4 years ago
You've got the cred so I'm trying to give you the benefit. But you just kind keep saying the same thing without really giving any specifics. What kind of stuff are you doing with these clients that yo
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