Al Bergstein
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Following Final Cut Pro Power Skills by Larry Jordan, I just deleted all my Prefs files per page 13.
Do any of you use any of the programs that are mentioned there for Prefs management?
I’ll fire up the program and start editing again. More later.
Alf
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On recommendations from another forum thread, I checked permissions on the disks. All were fine. Will likely reinstall FCP, which is a less than optimal way to spend a day that should be used to edit my video.
Alf
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Permissions checked, no problem there…sigh…
Alf
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Thanks. I’ll give those a try.
Alf
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I recently bought one of those eSata external drive docks. It seems to work fine, and allows me to simply buy raw drives and not a dozen power supplies. That might work for you also, as you run out of space due to HD file sizes…a TB a project (G)
Google search results:
https://www.google.com/search?aq=0&oq=esata+dock&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=sata+docking+stationAlf
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Having been using both I can agree that it’s really about the right tool for the job. If all that’s needed is throwing a few clips into a timeline, adding titles, audio tracks and simple cross dissolves, which for a lot of folks is about all that’s needed, then Vegas seems to be a tool that I would want to be using. If I was working in a collaborative team of a number of different people, doing extremely complex work and ingesting everything that any client could throw at you, then I’ve found that the sheer number of FCP users out there makes it almost a must to know and work with. Similarly, many pro sound engineers seem to gravitate to Pro Tools (at least in my neck of the woods). There are many other sound engineering tools available, but if you are a working professional musician, and you want to just hand over tracks you record at home to mix with your bands’s engineer, then you buy Pro Tools, struggle through it’s professional level interface, (read a tweak for every need), or you pay the hourly rate.
That said, I’m about to post a question about why, after two hours of work and numerous Save All projects, that I’ve lost all my bin logging because of some endless loop snafu that required a Forced Quit to FCP in a long clip I was transfering… FCP can be very frustrating…something I’ve never *yet* experienced in using Vegas…
Alf
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If you have access to a Mac I’ve successfully converted to Quicktime from DVD using https://www.dvdxdv.com. I highly recommend it.
Not sure if you could get it across to Vegas, as I’ve never needed to do this with Vegas.
Maybe Handbrake https://handbrake.fr/details.php would also do the job. It looks like DVD Decrypter development has ended. It appears that distribution to the US is considered illegal (???!) Use outside the US is still considered “quasi legal” Or am I misreading this?
Alf
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Yes, it would be good to define what “broadcast for tv” means to you. It’s certainly a very loose term these days….
Alf
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It is a very frustrating problem that I am constantly running into also. The documentation on this in the FCP docs gives step by step, but doesn’t cover problem solving like this. Go to the FCP help menu and type in close gap and read some of the files that come up. I never ran into a problem like this in other ‘lower end’ editors, so I’m rather baffled why it’s an issue as frequently as it is with FCP.
If something is ‘blocking’ it, try backing the ‘right hand’ segment, as an example, back to the right, get rid of any transitions, and then try it again.
Alf
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The book by Barry is well worth the price. I use it in conjunction with my manual that came with the camera, as Barry avoids rehashing stuff in the manual. Yet the insight beyond the manual that he gives is great. I’ve referred to it often.
Alf