Bryce Whiteside
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Telecine and no FLEX file that has the database info in it?
Inquiring minds…
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https://pistolerapost2.com/fcprescue/
According to this post:
Re: FCP rescue site down by Thax on 2006-01-13 05:02:33HTH,
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Download this excellent .PDF, Final Cut Pro 4 Default Keyboard Set-up .
This is the best FCP keyboard map in my experience. What is really great about it is you can open it up in Mac OS X Preview or Adobe Acrobat, Command+F (Search), type a key word like mark, canvas, viewer, et al and it will take you right to the all shortcuts keys related to say like mark, mark in, mark out.
Very handy,
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Does that editor still edit on a Quadra 650, 700, 810, 840? Maybe he is really uptown with a Macintosh 9600.
Wow! What a question. Try it and see. I made the switch to Final Cut at Final Cut Pro 3 from Media 100.
Inquiring minds…
Bryce WhitesideDon’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…
PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
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You might want to consider reading this thread Variable Speed by Eli Mavros on Dec 1, 2005 at 9:53:52 am. Note my second post in this thread to a link on KenStone.net regarding the Time Remap Tool
I’m thinking the Time Remap Tool should do it for you. This is my Quick Start Guide to the Time Remap Tool. When you are adjusting your keyframes it will look like your clip in the timeline will want to ripple but it won’t.
Just try and remember to look at the second from the bottom “Speed Left” in the pop-up yellow dialogue box with the Time Remap Tool and adjust the segment of you clip to the left of your keyframe with the Time Remap Tool.
Also your Time Remap Tool needs to be hovering over your footage bar in the Sequence Timeline at a keyframe.
As a simple example let’s say you want a normal speed for the first half of a clip. Set a keyframe with the Time Remap Tool at the end of the normal speed–as a sidebar it should be noted that each clip you put in the timeline already has two keyframe and is set for Constant Speed. That means when you add your first keyframe with the Time Remap Tool you are really adding a second keyframe down from the first that was already there–you can see this if you click on the Motion tab in the Viewer for the clip you are working on and twirl (some call it the Disclosure Triangle) down the Time Remap channel at the bottom of the Motion tab. Since you are using the Time Remap Tool the speed will change to Variable Speed under Time Remap and you should see 3 keyframes now in the Viewer timeline under the Motion tab since you added one to the two that are always there.
Now add a 2nd keyframe with the Time Remap Tool further down the timeline–to the right of you present keyframe you set. Now hover over the footage bar in Sequence Timeline at the 2nd keyframe you set and drag to the left watching the yellow pop-up dialogue box to slow it down to 33% or 25%. Now go to the end of you clip to adjust the last keyframe–it is automatically there for each clip–and adjust it to 100% for Speed Left in the yellow pop-up dialogue box. As a general rule you are alway adjusting Speed Left–second from the bottom in the yellow dialogue box.
In this example the first part of the clip is normal speed, then about 25% and finally normal or 100% again.
In the Viewer you could hover over your clips and hold the Control Key down and click for the Context Menu and adjust the keyframe for Smooth, but that explanation is beyond my little example here.
Understand that the Time Remap Tool is a zero sum game. That means if you slow you clip to the left of your keyframe it speeds up the clip to the right of your keyframe to make up for your adjustment. Just set your keyframes where you want them while the clip is in normal speed and then work left to right to each keyframe in your clip to adjust the the Speed Left for the speed you want. And remember if you clip needs to be normal speed for the first part of you clip set an anchor keyframe at the end of the normal speed range.
If you load you clip into the Viewer from your sequence and look at the Motion tab and Time Remap in the Viewer timeline you should see your keyframes and adjustments. I can’t stress enough to watch your adjustments in the Viewer while you work in the sequence Timeline to begin to understand the Time Remap Tool.
HTH,
Bryce WhitesideDon’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…
PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
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<a href=YourURLgoesHereCompleteWithHTTP>Your URL Name Goes here</a>
You can use other HTML basic codeing like for Bold, Italic, Quote, Underline, Image Tag and some others.
If you look at one of your email’s Response Notification via Email messages you will get the idea.
HTH,
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Wow Jeff, that is an excellent idea!!!. You should work for Apple marketing. Between VAR’s, Apple Stores, CompUSA’s, Fry’s, et al, this is a doable deed nationwide or at least the VAR’s and Apple Stores. Yes, some will have to do the mail-in thing but it shouldn’t be burdensome for them–living Timbukto to enjoy the country life has its convenience costs.
Hello Apple???
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You could just pop out of FCP and in Finder highlight your project file and press Command(Apple)+D and duplicate it.
1. Start with your project file MyProject.fcp
2. Highlight it and press Command(Apple)+D to duplicate it
3. Highlight the duplicated file and rename it MyProject060201A.fcp for February 01, 2006 A. It could also, for convenience, look like Machead filenames like “MyProject.fcp 060201A” by simply highlighting the “Copy” part of “MyProject.fcp Copy“–My history is DOS, Windows, IRIX, UNIX so those kind of filenames make me crazy.
4. Subsequent project duplication on a particular day would be MyProject060201B.fcp, MyProject060201C.fcp, etc.
5. If your main MyProject.fcp project file gets corrupted just copy your last duplication to step on the corrupt MyProject.fcp file.My 2
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The Spinning Beach Ball of Death at The X Lab site has some possibilities.
I have also read where Microsoft Office products use to try and phone home for up to two minutes when closed. I know that’s not your issue, but I thought I would throw out a sidebar.
On an old 1.42Ghz DP G4 I had a system drive (S.M.A.R.T. technology) that was going bad–turning into D.U.M.B. technology. I think it took 2 months to die. Of course, in the mean time I reloaded the system and software about 2 or 3 times. There is a S.M.A.R.T. drive diagnostic somewhere that I used. Maybe it was in the Disk Utility–I just can’t remember at the moment. I also used and kept handy Disk Warrior and TechTools Pro. Micromat has a neat little firewire thumbdrive call Techtool Prot