Andy Mees
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Not really Bob … have you ever seen or even heard of a 7″ monitor with full HD resolution? You might find the following post interesting:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1058299I’ll quote a few salient points noted in the above:
The vast majority of LCD panels used in professional broadcast monitors were NOT built specifically for that purpose. The capital investment needed to build a new LCD panel manufacturing plant is astronomical (think 500 Million+ dollar range). The broadcast market is simply not large enough for any of the big panel manufacturers (and there are only really a handful) to justify building a dedicated plant to building panels just for this industry.
Below 21.5″ you find a very limited selection of native HD (1920×1080) panels because their is very limited demand for those on the consumer side.
I understand what you are saying about ‘more resolution is better’, but I assure you that is only true if all other characteristics are equal. I think even an untrained eye can tell you he likes the monitor with better off-axis viewing, wider color gamut, and better white uniformity…he may not be able to tell you exactly why, but even this ‘Joe Consumer’ will say “it just looks better.” Resolution IMHO is secondary to these other characteristics and the untrained eye is much more likely to NOT notice the lower resolution, especially when dealing with smaller monitors.
… because of the computer world one of the dominant resolutions at the 7″ size is becoming 800×480 (this is the WVGA standard). The consumer market (PDAs, Netbooks, portable DVD players,etc.) again drives the availability and resolution standard of these smaller panels.
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Arnie is spot on Jacob, whatever you may think you really do not want to apply a widescreen “filter” to al your clips before adding them to the timeline, if for no other reason that any further basic motion operations (resize/reframe?) and any filters added during the course of your edit (color correction?) will then be applied to the clip w/ widescreen already added. Not desirable. As noted add a widescreen matte to an upper layer and you’ll be much better off.
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They can’t please all the people all the time Itamar … for the vast majority this is either a good thing or a couldn’t care less either way thing, only a very few would find it a bad thing. You’re right tho, a simple user preference to “Warn before applying multiple transitions” would seem to be a reasonable option to have, but Apple have always tended toward a minimal interaction through user preferences approach in order to strike a balance between function and simplicity. For what its worth I’ve always wished that they would offer a Simple and Advanced mode for the User Preferences, with Simple being what is currently offered and Advanced being offering a much much deeper level of customization of both interface and operation … and the only reason I mention this is in the bizarre hope that a wandering pair of Apple ProAppDev eyes will alight on my thoughts on the subject and run with it. (Go on, you know you want to…)
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> i never did a full install i just did a program transfer for Time Machine could that be a problem?
It certainly could be Greg, such an install method might be supported but its far from recommended. Your very best bet for a good clean working edit station is a full clean install of the OS followed by all current OS updates, then a full clean install of FCS, again followed by all current updates. For an extra safety net you might want to repair permissions after every step along the way too!
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> Should do a clean install for FCP?
Hi Greg
That would seem to be a drastic first step … although ultimately it may be necessary, I’d nonetheless try some other less extreme things first. Trashing your preferences (or restoring a from a known good set of preferences) is always worth a shot when FCP starts acting strangely. Corrupt preferences have been known to present themselves in all manner of quirky and otherwise inexplicable behavior. There is a very good (and free) helper app from Digital Rebellion, called Preference Manager, that can make this a simple task. Another thing to try is to create yourself a new OS X user account on your Mac, then log in to that new account and try running FCP again … does it still display the same behavior?
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That VO file isn’t in MP3 format is it? If it is then you should convert it to 48 kHz AIFF … FCP has a strong aversion to MP3.
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If a third party solution is acceptable then Jon Chappell’s FCS Maintenance Pack (a cool suite of tools for keeping FCS stations running smoothly) includes his Plugin Manager app which you can use to manage all your installed plugins.
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcs_maintenance.htm
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>I log and captured the material and multicam edited in FCP. We exported in dv format and then we atached the sound and exported again dv.
Don’t do this … by all means export a lower quality version for your sound designer, but when you have the master audio then bring that back into FCP and attach it to the full HD resolution video and export an HD master.
>Then with procoder 3 we made it avi and PAL in order to be used for tv.
Goodness, why did you shoot 60i if delivery was to be for 50i? Ah well, whatever the reason I guess its too late now. What are the exact delivery requirements? For example, is it particularly specified that you need to deliver a DV avi file?
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No. Don’t upgrade to Snow Leopard yet Paul, at least not if your preference is to use Sony’s XDCAM Transfer in your workflow. As yet there are still some bugs to be ironed out with Sony’s software under the latest OS X version so you’d be better off upgrading no further than OS X 10.5.8.