• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  device control quick change

  Posted by Craig Anderson on January 22, 2006 at 4:54 am

  Hi there,

  Hopefully someone out there can help me solve a problem of productivity that I am experiencing. I work on a show where we capture with Capture Now (no device control), but output with Edit to Tape. We do this all day long, switching back and forth. My problem comes with the device control, as to Capture Now we don’t use it, but to Edit to Tape, we do. Every time I go to output, I need to first open the Log and Capture window to change the device control, close it, then open the ETT window. The ETT option is greyed out if I am set to ‘non-controllable device’.
  Does anyone know of an easy way to set your device control to a keyboard shortcut, or create a macro that will perform all the steps in one? It isn’t a huge deal, but I find it increasingly frustrating, especially since there is a device control menu in in the ETT window. I haven’t been able to figure out if/how Automator can work in FCP, and I don’t have the background in Applescript to do it that way.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Craig

  Bret Williams replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Bret Williams

  January 22, 2006 at 5:57 am

  You can change it any time with a hot key and a click.

  For example, we are currently using a firewire deck, AND a beta deck routed through the component of the firewire/dv deck.

  So we use RS-422 through a serial adapter for beta control, and firewire for deck control.

  You need to create an easy setup, which is the entrie hardware setup prefs.

  If you’re using firewire for output/control during print to video here’s what you’d need to do…

  1. Press ctrl+q to bring up easy setup and select DV NTSC. That sets up everything to come in over firewire and be controlled by firewire. Probably the setup you’re using for output. If you’re using something else, choose that.

  2. Now, go to the FCP menu and choose audio/video settings. Change the device control preset to non-controllable device. Then click on the create easy setup button. Name your setup. Probably something like “non controllable capture” or whatever you want. You have to type a description for some goofy reason.

  3. No you’re ready to switch quickly. Any time you want to switch from controllable to non-controllable, simply press ctrl+q, and select the setup you want from the menu. It’s also a nice convenience if you’ve got multiple editors always mucking around with thesettings. Just press ctrl+q and you know all your hardware is set up correctly.

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