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Where is the ORIGINAL video?
Why don’t you just record the M100 output to DV tape?
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You might be able to get these QT files out to DV another way.
There is “SimpleVideoOut” a small app that will play a QT movie directly out from the Mac via FireWire.
It can be recorded to DV tape WITHOUT FCP.
Then just capture to FCP from the DV tape.https://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2004/12/22/video_out.html
Its a free download from Apple.
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[Jason McCaffrey] “I’m curious why this problem happened in the first place, though. Is this a bug? A preference problem? A configuration problem?”
It appears to be a bug. It is pretty common.
Your workaround is what I do when this crops up (but I use the slug instead of a “random video clip”). Doesn’t matter what you use if you just immediately delete it.
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You need to always be very specific when asking a question.
Try looking here:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
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Is your Video Processing to Best Quality?
The Default setting is “Normal.”
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I’m going to guess your images are large.
If you are not going to “zoom-in” on them (motion) in FCP, there is no need
in DV format to import them any larger than (approx.) 720×480.
You can downsize them in Photoshop before importing.They will render faster at a smaller size.
If you just want to cut down on the “shimmering”
(likely due to being too large (too much resolution) for a video image,
then add the Blur > Gaussian Blur video filter to the images that need it and adjust the blur to between 0.25 and 1.5 per cent.You must only judge quality on an external video monitor and never on the computer’s FCP Canvas.
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Don’t know if you can accomplish exactly what you want, but Sub-Frame audio EDITING is possible inside FCP.
TO access Sub-Frame Audio in FCP
Click audio into Viewer, then:
1. Magnify Glass (Zoom) Tool-Click Upscale (Frame shows as Large Grey Area)
2. Arrow Tool-Click on FRAME in question.
3. Option-Click to add key-nodes at sub-frame level (1/100th frame.)
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If a mixer has “monitor out” jacks (yours does not), just buy plugs/cables/adapters that fit those jacks and match your speakers.
If you want to use the mixer’s line outputs (yours has 1/4″ jacks for this), just buy plugs/cables/adapters that fit those jacks and match your speakers.
Another method is to connect the speakers to the “headphone output” (you can then control the level with the headphone volume on the mixer).
To do this, buy a cable that has a 1/4″ stereo plug on one end and the other end splits to two RCA plugs.
Buy two adapters for the RCA ends that change to 1/4″ to fit your speakers. -
You must only judge quality on an external video monitor.
You must render all effects to view full quality.
If you have done this, then read on.The first thing to always try is to Quit FCP, Restart the Mac, Open your FCP project and try again.
Next:
THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”Click the following link for instructions.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCPro & FCExpress.Download these free Apple Scripts at
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
This is one FCP tip that has helped in hundreds of “odd” problems.
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[brasilnut] “I drag in my quicktime file so that it is supposed to start upon disk insertion. then I click “burn”. here it gives me a warning saying that this file is to large for a 4.3 gig disk.”
Say again how long the timeline is.
What version of FCP, of iDVD?
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[Kevin C.] “what is the most important benefit of seeing the timecode in the project you are working on”
This is one of those questions… “If you have to ask, you don’t need it.” (Or don’t know you need it, YET!)
If you don’t do enough pro work to find the benefit now, you soon MIGHT.I work from thousands of tapes in a given year. I can’t begin to remember where each shot is located on a a given tape.
Many times I have shot a tape myself, but there are many other times I might never have even SEEN a given tape before an edit.
At those times, if a producer has viewed the tapes and noted the TC, she/he can give me a sheet of shots that are wanted in the project.
With good TC on every tape, the producer can tell me exactly where to find any given shot or take, on any tape, to the exact frame.
During the edit, the producer may ask, “which take are you using… 1:23:05 or 1:36:18?” Its awfully handy to be able to see the TC to answer those questions.Further, as time goes by, many projects that where completed weeks, months, even years earlier may need additional re-edits.
With TC, (and careful storage of the tapes and project files) you can simply “automatically” re-capture the exact scenes used in the earlier edit and make your changes easily.
Without TC, you’d be in a real mess.TC can also tell you how “deep” into a tape you are.
TC is a very important for pro editing.
Once you have used it, you don’t want to do much work of any kind without it.