Arnie Schlissel
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Cinepaint: https://cinepaint.movieeditor.com/
It requires that you have X11 installed on your mac, and you’ll have to export the footage as a still image sequence. There’s no automation, so you’ll have to mask each frame one at a time. On the plus side, if you’re familiar with Photoshop, you shouldn’t have too much trouble learning how Cinepaint works. You should download & read the tutorial on using the flip book, since that’s the primary feature you’ll need to do any roto work with it.
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[Joe Shapiro] “Can one write a script yet in FCP that actually touches the FCP data structures?”
Nope. No scripting. I wonder if this is the kind of thing that Traffic might do? You can download a 30 day demo of it: https://www.xmedit.com/
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Soooo… this is double system sound, then? And you’ve constructed an edit without it?
If the QT files on disk have the sound in synch with them, you can use match frame to edit in the sound one clip at a time.
If not, well then you’ve got quite a lot more work to do. You’ll have to manually synch each clip. All 1500 of them.
Oy!! Good luck!
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[Okeoma] “Everything went well, however, I cannot hear any sound during playback except through my playback camera connected with a Firewire.”
Well, that’s the way it’s supposed to work. Consult your manual for proper hookup of your speakers & video monitor.
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One of the most important items in your kit would be the phone # of a good rental house! You’ll find that there are many things that you might need only once in a while, so why bother to purchase & store them? Also, since some types of technology change really quickly, you’d rather not be locked into this year’s (or this month’s!) “state of the art” when it’s obsolete in a year or less.
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There’s a difference between a layered photoshop menu and an overlay. You can use an advanced overlay on a motion menu, but you cannot use any motion at all in a layered menu. The manual is pretty clear about what you can & cannot do with each, & how to use them.
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2 things:
1) PAL does not use square pixels.
2) Are you viewing this on your PAL video monitor? Or in the FCP canvas? You should be using a PAL monitor, or you will never be able to see what’s going on. Consult the FCP manual to see how to hook a monitor up to your system.Arnie
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As per Apple, 512MB of RAM is the minimum. 2GB or more is recommended. RAM is relatively cheap these days, particularly for systems that don’t require the fastest, state of the art RAM, so if it were me, I’d upgrade the RAM by a gig or more.
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First, 512MB of RAM isn’t really enough for FCP v4 or later. For v5, 512 is the minimum, Apple recommends 2GB or more.
Also, how big are your stills? If you’re working in a DV timeline, they shouldn’t be more than maybe 2000 pixels accross or 1500 pixels high.
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Short answer: no, you can’t move more than one marker at a time.
However, you can simply plug a time code number, or even + or – a specific number of seconds & frames into a marker’s timecode field to move it. If you know that you’re removing 39;20, for example, all you have to do is hit shift+down arrow, then hit m, then tab down to the timecode field & type in -39;20 (or 39.20, or just 3920), and hit enter. Rinse, repeat till done.
Arnie
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