Ben Holmes
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If you want to do this without the ‘smack’ (now where’s the fun in that?), download Virtue Desktop from versiontracker. It’s free. Nice way to use a laptop anyway, with seperate desktops for browsing, working, mail etc. Makes expose look clunky.
You can have windows from FCP on different pages, but as these are seperate ‘virtual deskotps’ you can’t drag from one to the other… Suppose you could have a seperate browser page, and double-click clips into a viewer on another page.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Love it! Gotta get this…
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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This is the way FCP allows compatability with Photoshop – and very handy it is too!
If you need to put a caption onto your timeline, just drag the imported sequence to V2 (etc) exactly as you would a clip. Sequences are just nested clips as far as FCP goes, so you should have no problems.
Occasionally I have had transparancy issues with PS projects in FCP, in which case you may need to try exporting from PS in a different format – although JPEGs do not support transparancy. Only a couple of gfx file-types do, the most common being Targas (.tga).
Finally, you can always open the sequence and copy and paste the layers you need – a little more time-consuming, I’m sure.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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[walter biscardi] “Motion needs a desktop machine to run efficiently and with a powerful graphics card”
Absolutely – I’m not recommending either MB or MM as a motion machine. I only mentioned it because the Apple KB article seemed to suggest to some that it would not work at all, and I have found it to be completely stable, if slow. As I have said before, I have used the Mini to run renders and builds for DVDSP, Motion and Compressor, so I could continue to work on my other system/s at home. And before anyone asks, we have several licences for FCS, one of which is spare at the moment. I’ll probably have to take it off the Mini when we buy a Quad next month (so I can continue to run all our plug-ins for the foreseeable future).
FCS does (as Walter suggests) run best of all, but undoubtably needs more RAM than my Mini has / would have if I used it regularly for this.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Time since this question last answered?
Looking forward to “my graphics/titles look funny in the canvas” soon….
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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I can only reply (as per earlier threads) that I have run 5.1 on a Mac Mini (CoreDUO 1.66 and Intel Integrated gfx a la the MacBook) and it does run. However, it seems sluggish in use (particularly with Motion and DVDSP) probably due to the lack of PCI graphics. I also only have 512Mb of RAM on my system – so that probably doesn’t help.
Be nice to hear from a Blackbook owner with 2Mb of RAM….
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Just to clear things up – a bit late:
All of Final Cut Studio WILL run on a Mac Mini (and hence a MB as it has the same integrated graphics chipset).
This includes Motion – although it’s pretty slow. FCP runs fine. DVDSP runs fine, but it’s pretty sluggish, as it is on my 1.33 PB. I have not had ONE instance of instability from 5.1 on my 1.66 DuoCore Mini.If you expect to see any big speed increases from any of the pro apps, don’t get a MacBook, get the MBP. I use my Mini at home to run compressor overnight sometimes, but I did recently compile a fairly complicated DVD from FCP projects with Motion designed menus in DVDSP…. Just expect to see a fair bit of the ‘Spinning Beach Ball of Death”.
I wouldn’t even consider a Macbook if you are looking for a speedy portable edit – spend more and get the MBP.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Jay – sorry, was away from my system and a little vague.
Open Log and Capture (default Apple+8)
Click on the middle tab on the right hand side labeled “Clip Setting”
On the section marked audio, to the right of the box for selecting the number of audio channels is a check box marked ‘preview’. This should be checked.
Clearer?
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Of course – didn’t recognise the name. A colleague of mine evaluated this last year – it had some frame-rate issues in PAL as I remember, probably all sorted by now.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Couple of quick ones:
1) On the middle tab of log/capture, on the audio section, there is a check box labelled ‘preview’. Is this checked? sounds like the most likely cause of this problem.
2) In system preferences check in the input/output tabs of the sound settings that the ‘mute’ box by the levels slider is not checked.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com