Bret Williams
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Not sure what you heard in the PS forum, but I think the better question would be slicing vs. not slicing. How many really cool sites do you see out there with sliced up images as their major design? They’re slower, harder to manage and update, and kind of old school.
So I don’t think the question is whether you should be positioning slices with tables or CSS, it’s whether this is the right direction altogether.
With CSS you actually have greater control over text, borders, lines, blocks, squares, background images, etc. that you often don’t need to slice anymore. You can create a background image and place buttons and text designed with CSS stylesheets over the background image with great precision and accuaracy. It makes for a quicker load, and it’s easy to update stylesheets for the text and links.
So go with what you’re comfortable with, but start breaking down some of your favorite sites and seeing how they’re done. Start reading a few books on CSS and you’ll be on your way!
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The answer to his question has nothing to do with setting target tracks. He said “drag a clip IN the timeline.” Not INTO the timeline.
What he should be looking up is linked selection. Hardly even reqires reading the manual. Actually, not much requires reading a manual. Just look through all the menu items. One happens to be “linked selection.” Very aptly named. It’s in the edit menu. An appropriate place for it. Hasn’t changed since FCP version 1.x. Press shift+L to turn it on and off.
When it’s off, press option and click to select as if it is on. When it’s on, press option and click to select as if it’s off.
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Quit closing it.
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Why is MP3 a problem? I use nothing else when making Sorensens with Cleaner. Best sound for the bit rate for compatibility ratio.
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Why is MP3 a problem? I use nothing else when making Sorensens with Cleaner. Best sound for the bit rate for compatibility ratio.
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Or use the matte generation tool in FCP. No reason to go to photoshop to create a couple mattes of boxes.
I’d just create a slug, and crop it half way. Then use that as my matte to alpha matte images. Then you’d be able to move the images inside the mattes pretty quick and easy.
But if you only had a couple to do, I’d just crop the clips.
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This reminds me of the Southpark episode where we encouter Cartman and his evil twin. I thought it was pretty darn hilarious that whenever they were on screen at the same time, there was a slight line separating them, as if they had to do a split screen like Walter described.
I’m also a sucker for outtakes at the end of a cartoon movie.
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Or you could just draw an 8 point garbage matte. Either way, feather it and you’ll get wonderful results.
Outside, the light changes alot, so the twins might be a good idea.
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FCP uses QT. QT uses QT. iTunes uses QT. It’s all exactly the same. Never had a single issue. It’s called item level render.
It’s all the exact same rendering engine. QT. When you mix down a track, QT. When you use iTunes or compressor it’s QT.
Even the FCP manual describes importing CD audio tracks the same way. Copy them to the hard drive. Then import and item level render if needed. All item level render does is run it through QT and upsample it. The sequence then utilizes that upsampled file for all further edits involving that clip. Even if you move it around, change the volume, trim it, add other clips above or below it, etc.
When you drop a differently sampled clip (like 44.1) into a 48 timeline, the clip is labeled with a green line. If you item level render it, the line becomes blue.
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Probably ok. But more RAM is always better. Especially for medium to large size projects. A couple quick offline edits – a gig is probalby ok. But I haven’t looked at FCP 5 specs yet.