Bret Williams
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You’re sure you’re looking at the right bin? Perhaps you were an Avid editor in a previous life and believe that the bin it’s capturing to is the current open bin? It captures to the bin you have selected as the logging bin. Right click on the bin you want in the browser window and select logging bin.
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I think you may be a little in over your head. Or at least your question is too vast to be covered here. You’ve basically just asked how to operate Motion, LiveType, Photoshop, and Final Cut Pro. In relation to your question about pixels and patterns, that’s your choice and that’s why people study design, software and editing. There is no answer. In asking about everything else I think you may want to look into tutorials for the program which are included or take a few beginer classes. This isn’t a training 101 forum.
But perhaps you are a skilled craftsman in some other editing software and just need a jump start in FCP… Basic titles are created in FCP with the pull-down menu in the viewer in the lower right hand corner. There are a few choices for text, mattes, color bars, etc. Your best choice would probably be a static lower 3rd from the text sub menu.
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What are your sequence video render settings? Are you rendering with RGB, White or Super White? It should be White.
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But he’s correct. 5.1 was 5.0.4 with Intel support. Apple said so themselves when it came out. But yeah, 5.1.1 and .2 have had improvements that the PPC folks that didn’t upgrade have lost out on. I know because I’m waiting for my discs right now. It says there on back order, yet the site says now shipping before you actually order. Here’s hoping they’re here in about 3 weeks for a P2 project I need them for!
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There are 3 formats of SD DV. DVCam, DV, and DVCPro. They are all recorded differently at differnent tape speeds and either locked or unloced audio. If you have a DVCam player it most likely won’t play the DVCPro and vice versa, but both will play the generic DV format. To add to the confusion, regular DV can also be recorded in an LP speed that won’t play back on DVCam or DVCPro correctly.
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Run a head cleaning tape through there for a few secondds. Try playing the tape on different decks. Try different tapes in that deck. You’ll figure out where the issue lies pretty quick.
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That’s the kind of attitude Matrox has had since OSX was released. They never promised ANY support for anything but OS9 and it took them about 2 years to get a working driver for OSX only to have OSX updated and the whole thing started over with 10.2 or .3. Matrox is well known for releasing products for either Mac or PC platform that are hyped in the begining, but then they begin designing the next product and drop support for the previous. Keeps them from being a big contender with the AJAs and Blackmagics of the biz.
But still, there is no reason to use the Matrox anyway.
The benefits were RT effects (2 layers of video and 1 layer of graphics). Exept for rotation, FCP can do more on it’s own now with processors alone. It can also do lower resolutions and more layers. The matrox was stuck with exacting hardware specs.
Another benefit – extra monitor port. 640×480 and was ok for bins. Actually the rez was higher in OS9, but I think in OSX they never got it fixed. Macs have an extra monitor port now.
3rd benefit was that the monitor was always in sync with the analog output. Apple fixed this years ago by adding a playback delay for the computer monitor that is adjustable.
Good riddance to those guys. Don’t buy their stuff. They’ve got some new solution now they’re pushin’. Don’t fall for it.
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Try just shutting everything completely down and restarting. I’ve seen that before and it’s usually just hardware that’s all confused for some reason. Does the image look like that straight from the deck to the monitor? If so, it’s your deck. If it only looks like that coming through FCP/computer then obviously it’s a firewire thing and rebooting should do the trick.
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You’ll also have to change the sequence settings to reflect the number of audio output tracks. You will also need to change the audio/video setttings for FCP to the number of audio output tracks.
Strange, but that’s sorta how it works. The system has a number of output tracks. Then each sequence can utilize all or some of those. With DV, you can even get 4 audio track output if you switch the system audio settings to 32khz, and then your sequence settings to 4 track output.
You can also map the tracks in the mixer instead of the timeline. In the mixer, all the way to the left is the list of tracks. Right click on them.
When it’s all set up right, you should see more level meters in the audio mixer instead of the standard 2. If you’ve got 8 outputs then you’ll see 8 level meters.
You can set up custom presets and easy setups for all this to make switching around a matter of a few keystrokes.
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I can’t comment on the sonnet and your system, except to say that the 11 seconds might even be a tad slow. Just for fun, I found a 680MB file on my internal ATA100 drive adn copied it to my external SATA by Acomdata. The controller PCI card came with the drive. It took me roughly 15 seonds to copy to the eSATA and to copy it back to the internal ATA100 it took about 18-19 seconds. This was all limited to the capability of reading and writing of a 4 year old ATA100 drive, AND I’m running a Dual 1 gig MDD G4 with a cheapo eSATA by Acomdata. I’ll have to say for the eSATA by Acomdata though, it’s been turned on for over a year now and hasn’t fliched. On the other hand I’ve killed 2 internal Hitachi/IBM ATAs over the last 4 years. I think the MDD systems just get too hot inside, but that’s another long gone story.