Arnie Schlissel
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[dzul sungit] “discovered it by chance, thus, a fluke! :-)”
More likely a bug! 😉
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[Jim Kanter] “The trick is to make sure the 2 instances of the object are synchronized and that the upper instance has the masked filtered area.”
If you’re going to be applying any complicated moves on the layer, you might want to nest the original & masked layers together, then apply the motions to the nested layer. That way, when you make changes to the move, you only have to apply them to one object.
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[Graeme Nattress] “Lagavulin 16yr, Laphroaig 10yr, Ardbeg 10yr etc.”
Which is also a workaround to make your single monitor look like 2… 😉
Coffee, black, no sugar. I prefer Bustello, btw.
Mint tea, most any kind. This summer I grew 4 different kinds of mint on my girlfriend’s terrace, and it’s quite refreshing if you start with a fresh sprig.
NYC tap water, ‘the champagne of tap water’.
Or a soda once in a while. Plain seltzer, ginger ale, Coke, Dr. Pepper, Dr. Brown’s.
Beer (a little later in the day, perhaps?). Preferably porter, stout or a nice dark ale.Arnie
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Happy birthday! Happy holidays! And, FWIW, you’ll be glad to know that I’m 3 1/2 years older than you!
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And if you need to make a more complex matte than the garbage mattes allow, you can create travel mattes in Motion (or another external app.) and use those to isolate part (or parts) of your shot.
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Short answer:
Sorry, no.Slightly longer, more informative answer:
By definition, you can’t really ‘delete’ gaps because there’s nothing there to delete, that’s why they’re gaps! You have to close each gap, one at a time. To try to speed things up, hit the Home key to bring you to the head of your timeline, then Shift-g to go to the next gap, and Control-g to close it. Wash, rinse, repeat till done.The above assumes that you have a gap that’s in both picture and sound in each place. If you don’t, well, then you’ve got some additional work to do because you need to find a way to maintain synch while you find a way to fill or close your gaps. In that case, good luck!
BTW, the snide answer would have been ‘Umm… don’t make them?’
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Does your DSR-20 allow you to set the TC? If so, then you pre-stripe your tape, then set an in in the ETT window. Otherwise, you’ll need to search on Apple’s web site for a program called ‘Simple Video Out’. You’ll use that to pre-stripe your tape with timecode by exporting a QT movie from FCP that has TC, & using SVO to record that to tape. You then go back to FCP & lay your show off to tape using Edit to Tape. Consult the FCP manual if you need help using ETT in FCP.
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[jay] “Media/system/program should all work on the same drive or Mac would have to sell dual HD with every copy of FCP. I think it’s nuts that it shouldn’t all just work fine on one computer with one HD.”
Sorry, but you’re absolutely wrong. This is not a secret, nor is it obscure information, and it’s in the FCP manual, as well.
No professional video editing systems are designed to work without dedicated media drives. Not Avid, not Media 100, not Vegas, not FCP.
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[bogiesan] “Bogi. 01:01: RTFM. “
Let me give a loud Amen!
Somewhere in the 1st or 2nd volume of the FCP5 manual is a whole chapter on how to set up your system. I know this because when I upgraded to FCP5 (after 3 1/2 years of working with FCP on a daily basis) I made sure to read the whole manual. All 4 volumes of it. It’s amazing what you can learn when you read the manual!
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It’s called rotoscoping. You need to trace mattes for the 2 characters you want to keep in the footage. If you have Motion, you can roto with that. Otherwise, you’d want to use After Effects, Combustion or Silhouette Roto.
Arnie
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