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  • Captain Mench

    July 13, 2009 at 9:21 pm in reply to: A big thanks to Walter Biscardi

    [John Fishback] “Congrats, Walter. You’re a true mensch.”

    Hey, I resemble that remark!! But congrats out to WB from ThreeBoys!

    Mike

  • Captain Mench

    July 3, 2009 at 12:42 am in reply to: capture 24p SD through non-24p camcorder?

    Typically 24p SD is shot with some sort of cadence that makes it 29.97 anyway…

    So… no, you don’t need any special camera.

    But what camera did you (they) use to shoot with?

    Mike

  • Captain Mench

    June 29, 2009 at 12:47 pm in reply to: Matting moving text over an image

    It makes sense.

    But you really want to do this in MOTION. FCP’s garbage mattes aren’t really that useful. They have minimal points, where you can build your own masks in Motion.

    Mess around in there and then come back if you still have issues.

    Mike

  • Captain Mench

    June 27, 2009 at 6:53 pm in reply to: Neat trick!

    I usually use a . but don’t do that in your FINDER… you won’t be able to see it anymore!!

    Mike

  • Captain Mench

    June 23, 2009 at 4:07 pm in reply to: OT: FCP Splash Screen

    Hey Dave… here is where it WAS…

    https://images.appleinsider.com/apple_legal_2004.gif

    Seems someone else didn’t want anyone knowing that 64bit FCP was in the wild… oh wait… IS IT????

    hee.

    Mike

  • Captain Mench

    June 22, 2009 at 10:29 am in reply to: 24p dv to dvd out of sync, help!!

    Gentle it is!!

    Ok… let’s get some of the confusion out of the way first.

    If it was 35mm film it wasn’t ‘reverse telecined’ to 24 it WOULD have been 24 fps. UNLESS it was 35mm laid off to tape??

    That’s the first question.

    What/how did you get the 35mm into FCP? Was it a file? Was it a tape?

    Second question…

    Pulldown is something that is ADDED TO 24 fps not taken away from 24. So, if indeed everything was 24 fps native (clips and sequence) there should be no pulldown to remove.

    OK — so there’s all that.

    Now — though it COULD be that everything was ingested wrong and you forced it into a sequence that you shouldn’t have and that might have caused some of the sync issues… but I doubt it. You would have noticed it while you were editing.

    UNLESS… and here’s a big leap — unless you were viewing the video on one source and the audio on another. Like, if you were sending the video out via FW to an external monitor but still keeping the audio going thru the computer’s internal system and not sending IT TOO out via FW you’d get a little latency issue that if you weren’t aware of AND you were creating your own audio tracks to match to the video you were seeing… well, once you put them out to a single source (dvd) you’d have sync issues.

    But I doubt that’s the answer too.

    SO — question 3: Does the sync issue happen from the beginning to the end at the same rate? And can you tell exactly how much? Like 2-3 frames? Or 8-10 frames?

    Again, what was the original ingest footage properties?

    Mike

  • Captain Mench

    June 22, 2009 at 10:18 am in reply to: Am I not capturing my footage properly?

    What are the settings on the sequence? Those must match the easy setup of the capture. Maybe you’re trying to cram 29.97 into a 23.98 sequence??

    Mike

  • Captain Mench

    June 19, 2009 at 9:13 pm in reply to: Losing audio track on insert

    Ok… what that tells me is that what you have in the viewer at that given time has only one audio track.

    Do a test…

    Load other clips… or even better yet… load a SEQUENCE that you KNOW has at least two audio tracks and see what happens there.

    But without seeing a screenshot of your audio tab I have to take your word that there is a stereo pair… but I’m just not feelin’ it.

    Mike

  • Captain Mench

    June 19, 2009 at 3:50 pm in reply to: Losing audio track on insert

    Odd.

    First thing that comes to mind is maybe you hit an Fkey and number key that turns off your audio patch.

    Dbl check to see than indeed you have BOTH audio patches connected where you want the audio to drop on… in… at (gah). Make sense?

    Mike

  • Captain Mench

    June 13, 2009 at 1:52 pm in reply to: Is there a way to zoom and crop?

    Sure…

    If the clip is in your timeline, dbl click it to load it to the viewer. Hit the MOTIONS tab and then use your keyframes to SCALE it. Keyframe your CENTER too.

    Good luck,

    Mike

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