[Bob Delano]

Hope this works for you. I knock out a four-channel master weekly for a one-hour show without any problem. First, you must have an IO that can handle four channels of audio out to the deck. I use the AJA Io, and have sent four channels to a D-Beta via AES/EBU, and to a BVW-70 with four analouge channels.

Under the sequence settings pull-down menu go to audio. Switch from two channels to four, make them dual-mono not stereo. I set them to 0db instead of -3.

In your timeline control click or right click on each audio timeline and assign it to a track. If you started the project in stereo or a two channel default, your four tracks will default to 1&2, 1&2 instead of 1,2,3,4.

In my bars & tone at the head I build two seconds of tone on cnl 1, then 2 on 2, then 2 on three then two on four, then tone across all four. This way I can see the four channels hit the meters on the deck and be confident that I have clean seperation for the stereo mix on 1&2 and the M&E on 3&4.

Let me know if this works for you…

[Bob Delano]

I’ve had a lot of luck with Thinkstock… http://www.thinkstock.com

Editor Bob
Charlotte, NC

[Bob Delano]

Same problem here… used a high res photo file, cropped it, and rotated it 4 degrees… the result is pretty ugly. I tried deinterlace and a couple of other filters….no luck. I’d welcome any advice….

Editor Bob
Charlotte, NC

[Bob Delano]

What a great topic! About ten years ago I left my position with the leading post house in our market, but at that time they were changing their business plan to service only their inside clients and were getting out of the post-house business. My decission to leave meant taking the outside clients and their tape library, and it solved what senior management considered a problem. We remain on good terms to this day, and I still pick up some of their overflow work.

Over the next decade a number of staff graphic artists and editors left to open their own shops. The relationship between an editor and their regular clients is a strong one, and when staff exited to start their own botique I assumed that their regular clients were going with them. I kept close tabs and strong relationships with them, and provided the heavy-lifting support services that they needed like telecine or smoke and flame work, plus duplication.

Two years ago we sold the operation to one of our larger clients. After hanging around through the transition for a couple of years not knowing how I fit in or what my job was and watch the focus turn from outside clients to internal projects, I packed up my desk, bought a Final Cut system, and joined my former employees and co-workers in the world of botique edit operations. At last count their were six of us.

Have I agressivley gone after the former big shops clients? Nope, but some of them have come looking for me. For some clients I still go back in to the old shop as an on-line guy and do a day as a free lancer, and try my best to take the high road and not drag them over to my new place… but they’re starting to realize that they’d be better served in a different atmosphere.

I most certainly go out of my way to respect the other small shops in the market. These guys are friends, and I respect there talents and what they provide. I truly enjoy being able to recomend them to folks when it’s a job that I can’t handle, and we can openly discuss problems, technical issues, and work to help our clients and the industry by helping each other.

Kind of a rambling post… but I wanted to add my thoughts as someone who seems to have spent equal amount of time on both sides of the issue.

[Bob Delano]

Josephine – Thanks! That did the trick. Seems there was a bit of a QuickTime conflict going on behind the scenes. Deleted the receipts for all versions per the link you gave me, reinstalled QT from the apple web site, and I’m back in business.

Once again, the Creative Cow Community saves the day.

Thanks again

Bob

Editor Bob
Charlotte, NC

[Bob Delano]

It’s the Ducks Fault…

Another FCP editor just told me that there’s something in Automatic Duck that prevents anything else after it from reading. I changed Automatic Duck to “Z Automatic Duck” and everything loaded just fine. Special thanks to Joe Murray for the wise advice.

Bob

[Bob Delano]

It’s the Ducks Fault…

Another FCP editor just told me that there’s something in Automatic Duck that prevents anything else after it from reading. I changed Automatic Duck to “Z Automatic Duck” and everything loaded just fine. Special thanks to Joe Murray for the wise advice.

Bob

[Bob Delano]

Hmmm….

Not much luck here with the filters. Looks like none of my third party filters are happy with version 5. Sounds like Operator Error on my part… but I can see them all in “boot drive/library/application support/final cut pro system support/plugins”. This is where they go, correct???????

[Bob Delano]

Tim-

Not sure what’s happening with your graphics. I haven’t experienced that problem. Most of my graphics are built outside the box, either on a chyron or with pgotoshop, then imported as targa files. What resolution are you working in, and what’s the construction process for your graphics?

Bob

[Bob Delano]

I use a 500 gig internal SATA (2 x 250 gig drives striped) in the G5 that I purchased through promax, no serious problems. They add a bracket that will hold up to three more drives, meaning I can still add two more drives (another 500 gig SATA package)and still have my seperate boot drive. I have recently digitized a full one-hour clip at 10-bit uncompressed via the AJA IO.

In the field I use the G-Raid SATA firewire, with two external SATA enclosures (500 gig each, with two 250 gig drives striped as a RAID in each). They work well, although I find myself waiting for the drives to spin back up after they’ve been idle for a while. This system uses a Blackmagic card, working at 10-bit uncompressed.

Hope this helps.