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I am transitioning from Media100 to FCP and have 2 huge questions….
Question 1
As a newbie and working on my first HD project, I made a change from Media100i to the HD Final Cut 5. I use the AJA Kona2 with a Huge media Vault RX320. I only know one way to work… Cut my project in MEdia100 and export the project timeline for finishing in After Effects. This process gives you an individual layer for each clip from Media100 right in After Effects. I am quite comfortable in After Effects and I like this feature very much. Can someone explain to me how to make this happen when I have edited in Final Cut please. Is it possible at all? I have Motion but I have never used it so on this project I cannot experiment.
Question 2
I have captured all my material and as quicktime movies player from the actual media files they look great. In final cut they look weak and I see scan lines. It this normal? How can I fix it so that I can get a nice full resolution image while editing in FCP?
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#1, get Automatic Duck. That program converts an FCP timeline into separate clips in AE.
#2, Shane’s Stock Answer #2:
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timelinehttps://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
DV footage requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
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Is it an After Effects plugin or a FCP plugin?”It’s an AE Pro Import plug-in. You export an XML from Final Cut Pro 5 and then the Duck opens it up as a timeline in AE.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[admarkjamaica] “As a newbie and working on my first HD project, I made a change from Media100i to the HD Final Cut 5. I use the AJA Kona2 with a Huge media Vault RX320. I only know one way to work… Cut my project in MEdia100 and export the project timeline for finishing in After Effects. This process gives you an individual layer for each clip from Media100 right in After Effects. I am quite comfortable in After Effects and I like this feature very much. Can someone explain to me how to make this happen when I have edited in Final Cut please. Is it possible at all? I have Motion but I have never used it so on this project I cannot experiment.”
One thing you’ll get used to soon is the wealth of abilities that FCP gives you right within the app. I ran Media 100 for 6 years and made the switch four years ago to FCP. I’ve done full digital compositing of up to 27 video tracks right within FCP completely with matting, SFX, titles, etc….
Took me about 2 weeks to figure out the FCP interface and about 2 months to really get comfortable. Within about 3 months I was faster on FCP than Media 100.
Congrats on making the switch and know we’re all here to help you figure out the “buttons” on FCP!
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Thanks so much for your motivating words. The entire interface looks so strange. I spend a week trying to digitize into a bin. Still not sure if it is possible or if I am supposed to. Looking forward to the challenge though. Is there anything else I should look out for… basically?
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Right-click or Control+click on the bin you want to be your logging bin. You’ll get a menu that pops up. Select “Set Logging Bin”. Now everything you log will end up in that bin instead of at the first level of the project. It’s in the File menu, too!
But there’s nothing wrong with logging to the first level and sorting later. If you find you like it, there’s no technical reason not to. Some like to organize as they go, others like to do things in steps.
I find keeping things tidy as I go works better for my style, so I’m apt to select “Set logging bin” first & put all my captured clips in there. Sometimes I sort it more later, like separate out talking heads from B-roll material or whatever.
Welcome to FCP!
debe
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I also moved from Media 100 3 years ago and have almost never looked back.
Get this book.
Apple Pro Training Series : Final Cut Pro 5 (Apple Pro Training Series)
by Diana Weynand
Borders has it. This book will get you up to speed quickly.Don’t start cutting like you did in Media 100 in FCP. Learn the FCP way. We used AE with M100 as well, now we do 90% of what we did in AE in FCP. Get Boris Graffiti or Red for titles, you’ll be right at home there. The 3D Title is a dumbed down version of Graffiti, you can’t place text on the screen in 3D title. You do it when you go back to FCP
Make sure you use the easy set ups, it will save you a lot of head aches. Live Type is amazing but it takes a little learning. https://www.dvcreators.net/products/ltps.html have a great LiveType DVD to get you up and going quickly.Enjoy Dave
Dajen Productions
Santa Barbara, CA
G5 Dual 2 Gig – AJA IO & LA
Huge 1.2 Raid
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You all have been so helpful. Thank you so much.
I am going to explore some more right away.
Will be back to let you know how I fared.
Cheers,
JJ
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