Andy Mees
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[walter biscardi] “When you get it …”
Ahhh there’s the rub 🙂 Thanks for clarifying for me, am reading Michael’s post now.
Cheers
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Well I’d never have thought that was a primary function although of course one wouldn’t want to grade something so it were illegal.
I stand corrected Walter. apologies Jeremy.
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Disk Warrior rebuilds a damaged directory … but an initialized disc doesn’t have a damaged directory, it has a deleted one! Amongst other things Norton Utilities could take a periodic snapshot of your master directory … if you then accidentaly hosed your hard disc then you could scavenge the disc for these master directory snapshots and restore your directory structure using them. At present, I think only Micromat’s TechToolPro offers this.
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seems hard to beleive Ben
just as the project file format changes with every release so does the preference file format. it has to for there are always new or modified preference options with every upgrade.
that plist files are structured using an open and extensible format does suggest that diferent versions of a plist may still be accesible by earlier or later versions of the application, but I have never know FCP to read them … that said, I much prefer the clean install route and reset my preferences by hand.
you might like to look at FCP Attic for storing and restoring your custom layouts etc
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[JeremyG] “It just seems that the whole point of putting $25,000 grading software in Final Cut Studio that is used for broadcast would be to make sure that the output was legal, is all. “
I’m going to have to respectfully disagree with you Jeremy.
I do beleive the point that Jerry was making, and made very well, is that Color is not, as you maintain, for making your show broadcst legal.
It seems to me that grading is all about enhancing the images that were captured, manipulating them to better reflect the mood, or a look or feel that the DOP was aiming for. Yes, also for correcting errors to a minor extent, but to my mind its not at all about making something broadcast legal. (Frankly it should have been shot legal in the first place.)
Color was not bought and incorporated in the FCS suite as some kind of steroidal 3-way color corrector come broadcast sfae filter. Both of those filters still have their place. For instance, if I want to put a bug on something, I’m not going to do it in Shake. If I need to bring down the levels on something that was shot a bit hot I’m not going to send it to Color.
I appreciate that we’re all pro’s here to a lesser or greater extent, and that we all understand what the different components of the suite are for. Obviously nobody likes buggy software! But it seems there is a level of over-reaction going on here that is out of proportion to the “issue” at hand.
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now I look I see there is also Tools > Long Frames > Mark / Clear
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in FCP: Tools menu > Analyze Movie…
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ah gotcha … had a different take on the question there! got excited as the live dv downconversion is a big plus for field editing of xdcam hd witout an mxo.
picking hairs, but now, with the right 3rd party equipment, could the poster output a dvcprohd cross conversion via firewire in order to monitor their hdv timeline in hd in realtime?
i’m with you though. i also beleive the mxo is the best solution.
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yes indeed. that’s what the manual says.
i don’t have fcp 6 at this time but it would appear to be a simple case of selecting the output you want (ie apple firewire) and voila if you ave not broken any rules then your sequence will conform to that output setting in realtime .. i reserve the right to be wrong on this (and everything else of course!)