Bob Flood
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Greg
Back in the day I set up one of the first CMX340 systems in Boston. All we had was a manual, if that! We stumbled along to get it running, figured out a few shortcuts, did time code calculations on paper and got it all to happen
Then 3 months after we were up and running the demo training rep would come through and show us how to do it right. by that time we knew enough to be dangerous and had answered all the simple questions ourselves, so we only had need for advanced info from this rep, thereby making our time with him more valuable, and his time more efficient (i was a demo rep for GVG later in life as well, and I found it better if the users had spent some time with the gear)
now you can go to school to learn how to operate avid, fcp, fire, whatever. OR you can got to your favorite forum and ask the same questions many before you have asked.
Maybe its time to republish those “rules of the forum” that i think walter came up with some time ago?
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
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Hi
check this out
https://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134&Itemid=138
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
Lewis
You need to re-export from the original source.
Where did the file come from? did you make it in another application? Did a client provide it? Did it show up on your doorstep this morning wanting a new home? 🙂
You are correct in that you cannot export a file you cannot open, so you need to go back to the source of the file and export it again. If a client provided it, work with them to get a file in a codec you can use, like what ever you’re current sequence is set to (did you say dv?)
If you made it in a different application, re-make it in a format you can use as i mentioned above.
and take a look at the manual for further help as well. it goes into some good detail about file formats.
hope this helps
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
Hi
FCP has a number of compositing settings, like After Effects. Right click on any clip and you will see a choice.
I am sure there are ways to lay out the video (with alpha) on a timeline, then add a layer of white (or black) on top, and using the compositing settings, get the graphic to “cut out” the white for the matte. I have done this, but i cant remeber if the white goes above the video or below, and if you can mute the video but still get the cut out
I would also lay them off to 2 separate tapes with matching time code, one tape for foreground (shape) and one for the key or matte.
hope this helps
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
Hi Lewis
FCP is quicktime based, so if quicktime cannot open the file than fcp cannot either.
and if quicktime cannot open it, Its either corrupt or was made with a non quicktime codec.
Can you tell us anymore about the file? are you sure its a quicktime and not AVI or WMV or something like that? Sometimes Mac OS will automatically give a Non QT file a QT icon, and try to open with QT, but in fact It needs to be opened with something else.
Once you find out waht it is, you can find the appropriate player open the file with that player, and export the file to a quicktime codec.
hope this helps
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
Hi
Not to cast aspersions on Graemes fine product, but here is another way:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/838058
hope this helps
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
Hey all
Lemme tag onto waht shane is saying by adding this, which comes from experience: Recapturing HDV material is unreliable. The Good VTRs that can shuttle and cue in our lifetime ie fast are not cheap, AND due to the nature of HDV you cannot be guaranteed Frame accuracy.
IF you have to “finish” on an avid, investigate moving the media from fcp to avid, rather than recaptureing. I do not know how feasible this is. you may have to capture into fcp at 8 or 10 bit uncompressed, or some other codec that avid can support.
Another approach is follow shanes workflow to create a superless submaster out of fcp, either to tape or video file, and capture that into avid for finishing. Use the Automatic Duck to create a timeline in avid, but only recapture specific shots or scenes if you have to, like for layering or something. At least that way most of the heavy lifting of editing is done in FCP
hope this helps
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
Thanx DAve
I am using a self contained export from FCP, ie a dv50 Quicktime so it should be happy about that
AND that file can be Compressed to other flavors as well in Compressor
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
wahtever
the RE20 is an awesome mic. IF you get a good preamp you will get great sound out of it.
bob
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
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Mike
the re20, like most dynamic microphones, puts out a signal that is very low (mic level) compared to what the xlr ins on the Io are made for (line level)
in a nut shell, you need a pre amplifier to take your mic level signal and amplify it to line level,
Any audio mixer should perform this task easily (unless its a line level only mixer)
In a pinch I plug mics into the XLR connectors on my camera, and go firewire into FCP, capturing only audio.
hope this helps
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.