Arnie Schlissel
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By all means, offer them a discount for early payment, or better still, add a finance charge if they pay late. Just make sure that they’re informed about the charge before you accept the gig. Also, get a non refundable deposit before the day of the shoot.
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[Sean Lander] “Not so. If you have low levels and you need to get into the waveform to perform a precision cut you can’t see i”
OK, that’s avery different matter. I didn’t understand what you wanted at all. That would be nice!
To me, though, that’s more of a workflow issue. I prefer to take serious audio issues into a dedicated audio app, just like I prefer to take serious compositing, graphics & titling into dedicated apps. But that’s me. Your own milage may vary, of course.
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[Rick Dolishny] “I’m not talking about dragging the horizontal bar down to make the track bigger, although that’s sort of the effect I’m going for.”
See, this is where you loose me. What I’m hearing is that you want the audio waveform to be taller, but you want the track that displays it to be shorter. To me it sounds like someone is saying they’d like a bigger picture on their TV, but they don’t want a bigger TV.
Whenever I need to see a big waveform in the timeline, I just make the track(s) bigger. No need for a feature request because the feature already exists. Plus, I’ve found that if I made one track bigger by dragging, clicking on any of the track size icons at the bottom left of the timeline sets the height all of the tracks, so with 1 click I can make it (or them) smaller again.
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[Brian] “Am I missing something?”
Yes, Sort of. You should always, always, always be checking your work on a video monitor. and your speakers should be connected to the same source as that video monitor, be it a DV deck, an Io, a Decklink card, whatever.
FCP’s canvas is intended only as a low-res preview. Your NTSC or PAL monitor is your real guide.
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[J.P.] “”An error occurred finding one or more of the specified capture scratch volume(s). Verify that both audio & video scratch disks are set in the preferences.”
“I find that error messages like this can actually be pretty useful if you take them at face value. In this case, FCP is telling you very specifically that it can’t find the disk or folder that you’ve designated.
Now the question is why???
Is it, perhaps, that you’ve got a “/” in your clipname? 9 times out of 10, that’s the cause.
In Unix (OS X is, after all, Unix), a “/” in a file name means the part in front is a directory or folder. If you try to name a clip “Interview/Bob Smith”, FCP will try to find a folder named Interview, so that it can place a clip named Bob Smith in it. You can work around that by changing your clip name to “Interview-Bob Smith”, or “Interview_Bob Smith”.
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[the202] “And since your computer only crashes 12 times a year, you are odds are definitely better than mine.”
FCP crashes less than 12 times a year. The computer itself crashes maybe 1 or 2 times a year. And I have to really work at it to make that happen!
BTW, about 2 weeks ago I decided to try doing a photomontage in Motion, just as a sort of learning exercise. I doubt that I’ll ever do one in FCP again if I have Motion available. The workflow is just faster. Give me some time to adjust the workflow & I expect that I can cut my work time in half or less for these things.
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You’ve definitely got something set wrong. There’s a noticeable gamma shift between the 2 pics, & there shouldn’t be any. you said above that your timeline was “based” on the DV easy setup. Can you elaborate? Also, when I de-interlaced your timeline export in PhotoShop, there were still some jaggies, which suggests that the quality settings may not be at full.
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[the202] “So far my best result is to simply turn OFF Final Cut Pro Effects handling and go for a straight render of every animation.”
Ok, let me get this straight: you were previewing your moves in RT, & the previews weren’t as good as you wanted the final product? Yeah, well, that’s why their previews. RT saves time, if you understand the workflow. It pisses you off if you don’t. Also, you don’t mention if you have a video monitor hooked up. You’ll never get good results without having one hooked up properly.
I’ve done dozens of photomontages with FCP versions 3-4.5 (haven’t upgraded yet), & they look really good when the clients send in good looking pictures. When the client’s send in crap, well, they don’t look as good.
You indicated that you’re a bit confused about the various RT options. Have you cracked the manuals & done some controlled tests to help yourself figure this feature out? You didn’t say what kind, if any, video editing experience you have, so I can’t give any advice other than to read the manuals & do the tutorials. The thick, multi-volume nature of the manual should be an indicator that you can’t just turn on the CPU & expect to be cutting Star Wars.
As to FCP crashing, well, it doesn’t crash for me. I don’t think I’ve had a crash for a month or more, & I’m running the same Mac as you are. If FCP is crashing on a regular basis, there’s a reason why, & you’ll need to do some trouble shooting.
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[Gunner Jones] “Oh man Arnie! You got it nailed. It’s gotta be one of these things.”
Unless, of course, it’s something else! 😉
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One of the biggest causes of synch issues is that people don’t monitor properly. Both your video monitor & speakers should be connected to your DV deck the whole time that you’re editing, from the time you start logging & capturing until you lay off to tape. If you don’t monitor you sound & picture that way continually, you’re going to run into lots of problems related to synch & quality that you could have fixed easily (or even avoided) at an earlier stage.
I’m willing to bet that you had your speakers connected to the computer while you were monitoring picture on a video monitor (or that you had the speakers connected to the deck, but no video monitor), so your sound was out of synch the whole time, without you’re even knowing it. Volume 1 of the manual has instructions for connecting your video monitor & speakers properly.
OTOH, if you sound is slipping out of synch (as opposed to being out of synch by a constant amount), that’s a whole ‘nother can of horse poo. Most likely, that problem is caused by by your drives being too slow or too full, by virus protection software running in the background (anti-virus software causes many bad juju on video editing systems), or can possibly be fixed by mixing down your audio. In the Sequence menu, look for Render>Audio Mixdown, & see if that fixes it.
Arnie
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