Andy Mees
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If the source files aren’t going anywhere then you can simply lay out your sources in a sequence and export a quick reference movie to use in their place.
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I’m amazed so many folks are still running FCP3 … fwiw, at USD 299, now is a great time to upgrade.
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Given the rather late stage in the game for doing this Thomas, you might want to use FCP’s Media Manager tool and choose the Recompress option:
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>I actually created a brand new sequence and made necessary changes.
You’re probably a bit tired and frustrated by all this by now Thomas, but you have to bear with the remote troubleshooting process here. When you say you have made “necessary changes” then you have to explain what you mean by that or else folks are left chasing their tails. Did those changes include setting the sequence codec to ProRes and/or transcoding the source footage to ProRes?
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Back in my school playground many moons ago, a “prat” was widely considered to be mean literally a “pregnant goldfish” although that was never the intended slur when it was used, nor i doubt is it really the correct term for such a thing literal or otherwise … I know my Dad wasn’t having any of it when I called him it once.
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Hi Joan,
You might want yo check the user manual for “Merge Clip” and see if that meets your needs … you might also want to consider exporting your merged clips as reference or self contained movies.
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>Red is title safe, green is graphic safe, and blue is absolute 4×3 border, correct?
Yes, those are the default guide colors but you can change them if you want.
Can I not use the Guides in a multi-clip edit setting?
Just lock the track with the guides on and it should work fine (as this prevents it from loading into the Viewer when the Playhead Sync mode is set to “Open”).
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Andy -
Interesting. Perhaps we’re doing it wrong … as noted, it certainly used to work as described in the tutorial I linked to but I found that it stopped working for me that way thereafter. I can’t speak for the steps you are following as I have not seen the tutorial you are referring to, but if its being demo’d as working on an FCP7 system then I guess it does work?
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Yup, the safe guides are specifically designed for use in a 16:9 sequence to show your 4:3 and 14:9 crop, title and graphic safe areas within that aspect … the free guides and center cross can certainly be useful when used in a 4:3 sequence but the safe areas would not be correct. FCP already has perfectly good 4:3 safe guides so if and when working in 4:3 you can simply use those guides rather than my plugin.
If you work in your original 16:9 sequence (or a copy of it) you can use the guides to show the 4:3 center crop region and resize and reframe / keyframe your shots accordingly for your pan and scan version, then use the method originally outlined above (Compressor > Geometry tab) for creating that version when exporting directly.
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You can use the blink filter for this Lillian … put your 2 video sources on 2 separate layers (eg v1 and v2) then apply the blink filter to the upper layer and adjust the settings to the rate you want that upper layer to flash on and off.
Have a look a Luca’s Dual Flicker filter too, adds a really nice “randomness” to the whole idea and a great example of a good idea well realised:
https://www.videonline.co.uk/Lucas_Dual_Flicker.htm