Andy Mees
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Jiri
One of my favourite freeware finds recently is the “Spark” utility. You can use it to record and playback macro’s (global or app specific) … great for modifying simple FCP behaviour like mapping the combo F9, Q to the F9 key, or F10, Q to the F10 key etc. So far its worked transparently for me, no stability issues, no adverse performance issues … only identifiable change seems to be an increase in productivity.
https://osx.iusethis.com/app/sparkBest
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Nicholas
Oftentimes the trouble with the internet is that no one really knows who you are and what you do. You could be a 14 year old schoolkid brashly demanding knowledge or an old school film editor with bad interpersonal skills who never had to work without an assistant before. Who knows? Either way, sooner or later I’m sure someone more altruistic will come along and attempt to help you out. In the meantime, whilst you wait, have a go at rewording your request for assistance … at present it doesn’t give any sense at all that you understand what you are doing or indeed have made any attempt whatsoever to help yourself. If you don;t know what you are doing then its probably worth knowing that what you are asking has been asked in one form or another time and time again, you need to search that information out, filter it, and digest it. The Search field is at the top of the page. You’d learn a great deal in the process and be better able to ask specific and targeted questions.
I genuinely hope that helps!
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Darn good going Walter!
Now imagine if you will a scenario where you are in a facility of a size where overnight staff are readily available to ingest all 6 hours of the material before you even come into work in the morning. You begin your day by logging and assembling your selects from the already ingested reels … tape transport loading, unloading and cueing times to a large respect eliminated. I’d wager you’d have arrived at that selects cut even faster than your admirable 4 hour 10 minute record, and you have access to those all too familiar missed shots that somehow got away during the first pass, or that you never guessed that you might need.
My point is only that best practices vary from project to project and from workplace to workplace … there is no definitive right and wrong.
Just saying, is all. Am still impressed by that 4hr 10 minute record.
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[david bogie] “there are good and bad practices in this business … You don’t even need to know why …”
Ahhh, the old bogiesan we know and love, arrogant and old school 🙂
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>It looks like I’ve maxed out what Final Cut Pro is capable of.
FCP generally scales with your hardware configuration … is it possible that this project is punching above its weight for your Mac set up?
How are you organizing your workflow for this feature in FCP? Are you using a single master project approach or multiple projects … you’ve really not provided any details other than to state you are having trouble.
You note: But even with just a small project up and running, I can’t make more than a few edits without a crash.
When was the last time you did a full clean rebuild of your system? If you system can’t even handle a small project without crashing then this suggests either that you are doing something wrong (which seems unlikely as you are clearly not new to this) or that your OS / FCP install has become corrupted.
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If you are looking specifically for an alternative to using the Firewire output from your G5 to a DV device as a convertor (your JVC VCR) then the (original) MXO would be a reasonable option … works on a G5, uses a DVI output from the host and can output any HD or SD timeline to HD/SD SDI, Component, S-Video or Composite (the box handles the SD downconvert as and when necessary). If you have any plan to work with HD then it might be a consideration. If its just your specific and noisy JVC DV VCR that is the problem then you might want to consider an alternative such as a Canopus ADVC unit or similar.
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Elin
If you have the time (overnight?) and the disc space/capacity for it, and if it suits your workflow, then it really doesn’t matter a jot that you ingest all footage first (as you have done) and then log later … as long as you DO log the footage, which clearly you are doing, then everything is fine.(The problem is when folks ingest hours or raw source footage and DONT log … then you waste hours scrubbing back and forward looking for shots lost in a morass of footage the most of which you simply don’t want nor will ever need.)
Your particular logging method, of creating selects reels may not be the best way of handling things for your purposes though. As already advised, a better method would be to organize your selected shots as subclips within selects bins (crows, action whatever) in the project’s browser tab and use the plentiful logging fields available to each clip to add the logging info … thats what those fields are there for after all. If you do that then finding the footage you want is super quick and easy.
Cheers
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>Issue is that I have 9 tracks of audio that need to go too. Delivery spec audio. And I can’t have all of them in the exported QT file
Why not Shane? It’s been a long time since QT dropped its 2 channel limits. Just set the sequence audio outputs to 10 channel (5x dual mono), map the timeline track outputs accordingly, and export self contained. (Btw, can we assume you’ve set your User Prefs >> Real Time Audio Mixing to a suitable high number?)
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Hannah, can you better describe what it is you’re trying to do? Whilst “x” marks the extents of a clip in the timeline with sequence In and Out points, it sounds like you might actually be trying to add keyframes not markers?
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AndyEDIT : sorry, didn’t realise you had double posted
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1028997#1029004 -
Indeed, the pillarbox look is an odd one to go for as a final output but it can be useful in order to pre-visualise what effect a broadcaster’s 4:3 or 14:9 center cut might have on your video …. there are many free and paid guide overlays or plugins you can download to show or matte out these areas. I have one you’re welcome to, its on my webpage at https://web.me.com/andymees (its called Andy’s Guides 2) … or if you really do just want to pillarbox then you can grab my Andy’s Letterboxer plugin at the same site. Set the value to -25 (Positive values will Leterbox, Negative values will Pillarbox).
Good luck
Andy