Bret Williams
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If yoiu’re just shortening the project from 2hrs to 60min then you most likely won’t have a whole lot of use for bins anyway. Just duplicate the timeline and start hacking away. If you need a clip or something, then go hunting, but I would first hack the edit down. Usually once a few decisions are made on what is priority info, it’s pretty easy.
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Yeah, forgot about that. I’m old school. Just copy and paste the autosave project and of course backup my current project by renaming. In fact, on important long lasting projects I continually option drag my project in my project folder to create “project copy 1, 2, 3, etc.” files.
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Is it not true that pre 5.1 versions of FCP are a bit buggy when it comes to P2 material? I just upgraded mine to the universal binaries because I have a P2 project coming up and that’s what I’ve read/heard. It took less than a week to get the crossgrade discs. Sent them last week, got the new ones this week.
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Don’t know much about the mixer products but in your situation I’d monitor the audio out of the deck for distortion, and watch the meters in FCP (since the DSR-11 has none) to calibrate. Once you’ve got the meters on your mixer calibrated with the meters in FCP there shouldn’t be any distortion unless you’re sending the deck distortion. Maybe just upgrading to better deck with line level xlr inputs and meters would be a solution too, but that might cost as much as the new board.
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I think I’d second that. That’s the point I was trying to get across. I don’t mean to suggest that the church video work is at all toying around, but you yourself admitted in a roundabout way that the projects that you’re given that give you trouble are to a point toying around by grabbing clips off the web and DVDs, etc. Probably copyright infringed, but usually not going to be a problem in a small closed audience or for a non-profit, etc. Probably doesn’t make it legal, but we all know how it goes.
Apple can’t focus on every market. They’ve chosen to focus on the high end market. The people with the big wallets. Apple always has. It’s probably written in their company mission statement. So I’m sure their R&D is focusing on how to make FCP further meet the needs of Filmmakers, Broadcasters and high end production companies first.
Doesn’t mean it’s not a viable solution for you. Like was said, just hook up your DVD as a regular video source. And as far as other clips go, you can nest them all in their own sequence and render them only once and then treat them like a SD or HD clip in the format of your choice.
Maybe a neat addition to the program would be to permit you to up rez a clip right in the timeline like we do audio, and not have to use an external converter. If an audio clip doesn’t match the timeline khz, you can render that clip right in the timeline, essentiall up rezzing it. FCP then references a new version of that clip, even if you move it around, add effects, etc. Hate to say it, but Avid has been working with video this way for at least 10 years. It’s called Destructive compositing and it’s a GOOD thing much of the time.
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Why don’t you either highlight all the clips in the sequence and drag them to a bin (clip names would all be correct) or highlight the sequence and do a cmd+f (find) find used command and drag the results to a bin (not sure if clip names would be file names or seq names).
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I think the “most recent project” setting is saved like a preference upon quit of FCP or closing of the project. If you’re crashing, then any recent changes to preferences, including it’s listing of most recent project, are lost and it’s probably opening the most recent project you successfully closed or quit without crashing.
You don’t actually open auto save projects “as is” from the autosave vault do you? If you need to use an auto save project you should use it to replace your normal project (always backup!) and you should rename it the same as your normal project. That keeps further autosaves labeled correctly and keeps all captures and renders in order in the correct media folders.
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Let’s also remember that these issues really only effect the people toying around. Except in rare cases and the occasional clip, professionals are not ripping dvds, using mpeg2, windows media, and avi at all – and definitely not in the same time line. Professionals are shooting, creating and editing original content. My point being that is what FCP is designed for and that’s why the tools are more highly valued than the toys. The pros might shoot some on digi beta and some on DVCam and some on betasp, but they’re most likely going to bring it all in via sdi and a professional card. The mixed format timeline is probably of more importance to someone ripping stuff for youTube.
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A few jpegs took a second or two, but they seem to be pretty small in file size. Overall I didn’t notice any problems with the site. I’m surfing on cable modem. If there is a bit of latency at times it may be the hosting company. I have one site on a super cheapo hosting company and their output is like modem speed no matter what kind of a connection you have. Really can’t watch video files or flash. But for regular surfing it’s ok.
You could try putting a large file on the server and downloading it. Most browsers like Safari show the download speed in the activity window, and a file of 20megs or so would be a good measure. You should be getting a few hundred kb/sec. If you’re getting around 10 or less kb/sec that’s modem speed. If you’re getting 40 or 50kb a second it’s more like a shared T1 line where the overall speed is divided up and limited.
But on a DSL or cable modem at least 300kb/sec.
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He may be referring to Avid’s ability to time track projects. But it’s pretty limited. If you leave the project open and go home, well it keeps on tracking. Not very useful. But it will tell you how long projects and seqs were open. It’s been around since version 7 I think, back in 1997 or 98.