[Ben Insler]

Trashing prefs….always a good idea…forgot about that one for a sec. Haven’t tried it yet, but I will. Thanks

[Ben Insler]

…and I tried deleting them and they both get deleted

sooooo confused…

[Ben Insler]

It’s doing this because it’s jumping the playhead to display the last frame, or rather if it were to jump to the end of the layer then nothing would be displayed, so ‘O’ goes to the last frame, not to the ouu point. I feel the same way you do about it, but don’t know if there’s a way to change it.

-Ben

[Ben Insler]

Graphic Converter is still free with MacOS. You should have it in your Applications folder.

[Ben Insler]

When you change the speed of a clip (unless you’re doing manual speed ramping), FCP makes the clip longer (or shorter), and moves other footage in the timeline accordingly to match your change. If that move causes a collission (either with the clip you’re trying to change or other clips moving in the timeline), FCP won’t let you make the speed change because it may cause something in your timeline to be overwritten without you knowing about it.

The simple fix…well, there are a few. The easiest: drag the clip to the end of the timeline so that it is the last clip in the timeline. then do the speed change and put it back where you want it.

You could also reserve a track (or set of tracks if you’re using audio too) for speed changes, and anytime you want to change the speed of a clip, move it directly up to that track. Lock all other track, then do the speed change. Since the tracks are locked, they no footage will be shifted. Then unlock the locked tracks and move your remapped footage back down.

-Ben

[Ben Insler]

trashing prefrences always seems to fix problems when other things don’t. Give it a try. I can’t think of anything else right now but if I do I’ll post more.

Ben

[Ben Insler]

This one eluded me for a while too, but it’s funny how easy and intuitie it is. Make sure nothing’s selected in your timeline, move the playhead to where you want to start exporting, and press ‘i’ to set an in point on your timeline. Do the same thing for your out point where you want your timeline to stop playing. If you’re exporting, FCP will automatically export from In to Out. If you’re printing to Video, under the Media section choose Print:In to Out. If you’re Editing to Tape, you will be required to set In and Out points.

In my experience, the best quality that you have have is the quality you started with – you can’t get any better than that, so no need in wasting the HDD space trying. If you shot/captured DV, you don’t have to export to anything better than DV. If you shot on Beta, export to Beta Quality, and on and on. Basically, want to export to the quality or media that matches the best quality footage you’re working with. So if you’ve upconverted all of your DV and you’re editing it in a Beta sequence because you have one clip that’s Beta and you want to preserve that clip’s quality, you output to beta for that one clip, but the quality of all the DV footage you’ve upconverted won’t be any better than if it was on DV. If you’re exporting to HDD, I’d keep everything as .mov for the Mac, and convert it if you plan on delivering to another platform.

Best,

Ben

[Ben Insler]

Convert them in iTunes (or QT Pro if you haven’t upgraded an lost your capabilities yet) to 16-bit 48K stereo aif files, then bring them into FCP. You can export them and convert them back the same way.

Hope that helps,

Ben

[Ben Insler]

Yes it is, and actually if you don’t want your audio to sound like it dips in the transition, you want to use the +3dB transition.

What type of audio are you using. You want to be using 16-bit 48K stereo aiff files. Definately not MP3s, as they always cause popping.

Best,

Ben

[Ben Insler]

Kyle,

Glad you got everything working, and to answer your questions you interpreted the pre/post tweaking just fine. I’ve found that you just have to play with them… sometimes you extend them, sometimes you shrink them. In terms of the linkage idea, I was merely suggesting to capture the clips in two different locatons (i.e. 2 different drives) and then reconnect the media to the new footage, test it, then reconnect it to the old footage, and test it – I guess I could have just said that in the first place… But that doesn’t matter now anyway…

I’m glad everything ended up working. Happy Holidays, and best wishes,

Ben

PS – And Don, if you read this… your call to Graeme peaked my curiosity… I just pass it up!