| | | | Re: General Error by John Fishback on Aug 17, 2009 at 5:43:42 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Make sure you never use your system drive as your scratch drive. Another possible reason for the error might be corrupt drive directories. Run Disk Warrior on your system and external disks. IMHO, Disk Warrior is the most important utility to have if | | | | |
| | | | Re: HD do-for-both viewfinder/client monitor by John Fishback on Aug 17, 2009 at 3:37:31 pm in the Cinematography Forum We use the Ikan V8000 (8-inch). They also have a 5.6" version. http://www.ikancorp.com/pages/monitors/index__HD.html
John
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| | | | Re: 4x3 SD to HD thru MXO2 - Best workflow? by John Fishback on Aug 17, 2009 at 3:26:45 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Kona 3 has many uprez options: Pillarbox 4x3, Zoom 14x9, Zoom Letterbox or Zoom Wide.
John
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| | | | Presonus Firestudio Project firewire interface help! by Donnie Stephenson on Aug 17, 2009 at 2:22:11 am in the Apple Logic Forum Okay, so I am using a Presonus Firestudio Project firewire interface, and i create all of my tracks on Apple Logic pro 8, but, when i do, only 4 out of the 8 tracks i create are able to record. I have record enabled on all of the tracks and I have no | | | | |
| | | | Re: Can I put together a system myself by Matt Bodman on Aug 16, 2009 at 2:28:10 pm in the Apple Final Cut Server Forum If I were you (and I wish I was, because you have a very cool sounding name), I would do the install myself but pay for the training. I am just coming out of doing my first (and possibly only) FCS install and I have loved the challenge. I have done | | | | |
| | | | Re: Cell phone buzz by John Fishback on Aug 16, 2009 at 2:38:07 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum iZotopeRX http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/RX/
John
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| | | | Re: Shooting LED billboard by John Fishback on Aug 15, 2009 at 11:59:38 pm in the Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum What camera are you using. Can you set zebras on it? Can you get your hands on a waveform monitor?
John
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| | | | Re: xlr input problems by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2009 at 6:59:59 pm in the Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum Check the connection with another cable. If you still have the static, it's in the cam. It's possible the connection is dirty. You can try using compressed air in a can to blow out the connector. If there's still static then you need to get it servic | | | | |
| | | | Re: Lighting Difference in Two Cameras? by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2009 at 6:02:04 pm in the Lighting Design Pros Forum You can certainly color correct the tape. The challenge is how to handle dissolves. I'd blade the clip before the dissolve to the next cut or after the next dissolve. Then color correct that clip and add dissolves as necessary so the transition to co | | | | |
| | | | Re: Lighting Difference in Two Cameras? by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2009 at 5:22:57 pm in the Lighting Design Pros Forum It's possible you were getting flares in the lens from the spot. BTW what cameras were used. As I said, you should be able to fix most of what you're seeing using color correction in post. If you have FCP, Color would be very helpful. I'm not sure wh | | | | |
| | | | Re: Advice on Mixing SD and HDV formats by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2009 at 4:23:17 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum Starting from scratch, I'd capture HDV as ProRes. However, as you're already into it in HDV, I'd capture the new material as HDV when you upconvert with the Blackmagic card. IMHO it's best to capture or transfer to just one codec and then edit with t | | | | |
| | | | Re: mpeg streamer query. by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2009 at 4:16:57 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum You shouldn't convert to mpeg 2 and then convert to an FCP edit codec. Do it in one step in MPEG Streamclip. Open the VOB and export ProRes, DV, DVCPro50, whatever. How is your external drive formatted? If it's FAT32 you have a 4GB file size limit. I | | | | |
| | | | Re: Presentation videos for client's website by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2009 at 4:06:51 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum We've used a graphic or a CU of the PPT slide to cover edits in the video window.
John
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| | | | Re: Lighting Difference in Two Cameras? by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2009 at 4:00:24 pm in the Lighting Design Pros Forum To me, it's a camera issue. Obviously, the cameras were not matched before the shoot. Even with the differences between the two cameras, this could easily be fixed in post.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 2 | | | | |
| | | | Re: Presentation videos for client's website by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2009 at 3:25:21 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum I'd build a simple Flash interface with a video window and slide window. Keep the video small and the slides large. It will be much more efficient bandwidth-wise since embedding slides in a video stream wastes bandwidth. The slides will look better a | | | | |
| | | | Re: avi to fcp using mpeg streamclip by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2009 at 2:57:57 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Recently, with some DVDs (corporate, professionally replicated) MPEG Streamclip was unable to export. The DVD file structure is visible, but when I try to export a VOB it fails. I ended up playing out of a DVD player and capturing that. I thought it | | | | |
| | | | Re: Primatte Keyer for FCP, Motion, or AE by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2009 at 2:45:19 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Keylight (which has been a keying mainstay in AE for the last few versions) is now available for FCP. I prefer Keylight, but they're both excellent keyers.
John
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| | | | Re: Trumpet sound in background... help! by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2009 at 1:58:39 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum iZotopeRX http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/RX/
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24" TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
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| | | | Re: Problem opening FCP 4.5 by John Fishback on Aug 13, 2009 at 6:17:33 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Have you trashed FCP prefs? If not, try that.
John
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| | | | Re: Editing by John Fishback on Aug 13, 2009 at 6:11:24 pm in the Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum Mainly it means you can play video without a lot of rendering. Most NLEs will play realtime. Factors that affect that are the choice of your edit codec (DV or DVCProHD for instance), the speed of your edit computer, and the speed of the hard drives s | | | | |
| | | | Re: My new Plugins are not working!!! by John Fishback on Aug 13, 2009 at 4:58:53 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum What plugins are you trying to install?
John
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| | | | Re: Understanding peak audio levels by John Fishback on Aug 13, 2009 at 4:22:41 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum I'd definitely double-check. If the master isn't in spec, it will be rejected by the network's QC dept.
John
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| | | | Re: Start From the Beginning: I/O by John Fishback on Aug 13, 2009 at 4:10:12 pm in the Cinematography Forum Checkout the AJA KiPro. http://www.aja.com/products/ki-pro/ You feed it HD-SDI from any camera and it records ProRes (which is 10-bit) to either an included hard drive module or an ExpressCard. You can instantly edit that material with FCP.
John
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| | | | Re: Music Video Lighting Effect by John Fishback on Aug 13, 2009 at 4:01:30 pm in the Cinematography Forum That effect is probably added in post. It looks like a volumetric light effect. There are many plugins for FCP that can create that type of effect. FCP has a few Video Filters in the Glow menu. Also, Google CoreMelt, Trapcode Shine & CHV Flow effects | | | | |
| | | | Re: Understanding peak audio levels by John Fishback on Aug 13, 2009 at 3:05:13 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum As these specs vary, it's always best to ask your client what their delivery specs are.
John
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| | | | Re: Audio editing by John Fishback on Aug 13, 2009 at 3:03:48 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum Open the music file in the Viewer, set in and out points around the chord and Insert edit to your timeline. Or, you can Blade around the chord in the timeline, Copy that and Paste at the head of the program. You may have to use and audio dissolve and | | | | |
| | | | Re: Wireframe with Anamorphic 16:9 by John Fishback on Aug 13, 2009 at 2:38:47 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum Action and Title Safe were created because in the era of tube TVs, a lot of the TV tube was covered by the TV cabinet. Varying amounts of the screen would be blocked, so someone (no idea who, maybe SMPTE) came up with the idea of a percentage of the | | | | |
| | | | can you get audio automation from FCP to logic pro 8 by adam moore on Aug 13, 2009 at 3:09:59 am in the Apple Logic Forum does anybody know how you get audio automation from FCP into logic pro 8...I know it works in soundtrack pro but have had such headaches with that app that I gave up...have a pretty large project and the idea of redoing all the audio levels from scra | | | | |
| | | | Re: The Blackmagic Ultrascope by Craig Sommerer on Aug 13, 2009 at 12:48:41 am in the Blackmagic Design Forum Bob,
Thanks for this post and also a big thank you to Nick for listing exactly what is needed. I've been playing email tag with BM tech support trying to find out exactly what was needed hardware wise, and it's not to be taken lightly. Upon eve | | | | |
| | | | Re: Archiving P2: Use Final Cut or P2 CMS? by John Fishback on Aug 12, 2009 at 10:04:35 pm in the Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum Checkout this link at Imagine Products. It's a database program that could be used with an LTO drive. http://www.imagineproducts.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=7
Info about MXF-aware LTO drive http://blog.digitalcontentp | | | | |
| | | | Re: dual mono vs. stereo output for XDCAM by John Fishback on Aug 12, 2009 at 9:35:20 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Try panning the audio in your clips in the timeline left and right.
John
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| | | | Re: FCP 7 audio by John Fishback on Aug 12, 2009 at 9:33:20 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum It's probable that someone set your FCS 2 FCP to 44.1 kHz. Check the sample rate in your Sequence Settings - Audio Settings. I suspect it's 44.1kHz on your FCS2 computer and 48kHz on the FCS3 computer.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 | | | | |
| | | | Re: Wireframe with Anamorphic 16:9 by John Fishback on Aug 12, 2009 at 9:26:28 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum I'm not sure why you want to do that, but if you do, double-click the clip and then in the motion tab in the Viewer set the Scale less than 100%. The picture will shrink. Realize if you do this, on some monitorsthere will be black around your picture | | | | |
| | | | Re: Why can I only capture 9 minute clips? by John Fishback on Aug 12, 2009 at 9:21:26 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum How's your drive formatted? It sounds like it might be FAT32 instead of Mac OS Extended. Also, there is a setting in FCP System Settings > Scratch Disk tab that can limit the capture to a specific size.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5. | | | | |
| | | | Re: P2 drivers by John Fishback on Aug 12, 2009 at 9:15:31 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum I'm not sure what you want to do, but if it's to use the transferred QTs from one computer on another computer, copy the qts to the other computer, then simply Import them to FCP. If you want to use the MXFs directly and avoid L&T check out Raylight | | | | |
| | | | Re: P2 drivers by John Fishback on Aug 12, 2009 at 8:11:52 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum In FCP go to Log & Transfer in the File menu. Click on the Add Folder icon in the upper left of the L&T window. Navigate to your external drive and select the folders that contain the Contents folder and Lastclip file from each P2 card. All your clip | | | | |
| | | | Re: Music Software by Stephen Vidano on Aug 12, 2009 at 5:21:28 pm in the Music - Creation | Composition Forum Hey Mark. I may not fully understand your question... But I was discussing this with a music composer that I work with quite a bit and he recommended that you go with "Logic or Ableton Live."
Is this helpful at all?
Stephen Vidano
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| | | | Re: Saves taking ages by John Fishback on Aug 12, 2009 at 3:38:46 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Have you tried trashing prefs and repairing permissions? How full is your scratch dive?
John
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| | | | Re: Convert HD 720p/50 to SD 576i/50 by John Fishback on Aug 12, 2009 at 3:35:10 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum I should also have mentioned you can use an I/O device like the Kona 3 to do this in realtime.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24" TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, | | | | |
| | | | Re: Convert HD 720p/50 to SD 576i/50 by John Fishback on Aug 12, 2009 at 3:33:19 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Compressor should be able to do this. Just make sure to turn on Frame Controls and set the quality settings (particularly in the Resizing section) to best.
John
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| | | | Re: FCP 7 audio by John Fishback on Aug 12, 2009 at 3:18:49 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum 48kHz has always been considered the professional sample rate. However, FCP can be set to different sample rates in the audio settings section of the sequence settings. If you import a file with a different sample rate from FCP's setting, you'll have | | | | |
| | | | Re: Cant Add Effects in Final Cut Pro 5.0.4 by John Fishback on Aug 11, 2009 at 8:11:33 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum Change the name back and see what happens. Also, trash prefs & repair permissions.
John
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