Captain Mench
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Ah — yes, well… my meager Intel3ghz runs very smooth. I imported… removed pulldown… even added a cross dissolve and it all worked.
Now for my accessories…
um…
My DSR11 worked great.
Yeah – I’m light on the pro part of FCPro…
But it really didn’t have any issue with FCP that I could see.
CaptM
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I’m GOING IN!!!
I’ve got nothing to loose….
Will post back in an hour.
CaptM
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Annie — I’d suggest this is something beyond the scope of the calf…might post on the cow.
CaptM
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Two monitors is good only in the sense that it gives you more area to spread your windows out… you don’t really want to use one for monitoring video – you want an actual TV type monitor to do that.
Most of us use our deck’s video outs to go to the external TV monitor, though SOME use 3rd party cards like decklink or kona for higher quality outs like SDI or component… but I don’t think you’re there yet.
Good luck,
CaptM
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Yeah — one from what you want to match and the bad one.
I’d like to do a mini-tutorial on setting up windows and offering solutions to matching shots.
Here — also take a look at this thread (sounded exactly like you… so if it is, well… your question might be answered):
https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=880342&tstart=25
It might just answer your question…
Good luck,
CaptM
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SPANK!
Use your Color Correction window setup in your Windows menu… should open up two viewers and options to show current and past clips… etc.
I’d work to reset your color with the color correction — NOT 3-way just yet. Use the eye droppers to try and match whites. If it gets too ugly… use the 3-way.
If you want to post two stills I’d be happy to show you some steps on how it should work.
Here’s another spank…
The manual has a GREAT — really… GREAT section on color correction. Start on your own, but have the online pdf up and running too.
Good luck,
CaptM
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Hate to ask… but what version of FCP are you using?? 5.1 or later?
CaptM
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Can you duplicate the layer (then replace footage (apple-H on Mac) and just hide it when not needed?
CaptM
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Where did you create the opacity for them? Somewhere other than FCP?
Easy fix:
Bring in the video prior to any work somewhere else and drop them in the timeline. Turn on your keyframe overlay buttons (option-W) and use the pen tool or the A-tool to move the opacity of the clips THERE.
Now —
Somethings you should know about video/stills and opacity – this creates an alpha channel… a channel of varying degrees of white to black, where white is solid… black is seethru and different shades of gray are your opacity.
Not all formats can carry this alpha channel – most just carry the color channels. IF you are bringing video out of somewhere and need this alpha channel to come along, you must – MUST use Animation… millions of colors + where the + is the actual alpha.
Stills are a little easier – but know that jpeg will NOT carry the channel either… TIFF – um…. .PSD (sometimes) … some others, I think too.
Anyway – sorry for the lecture.
Good luck,
CaptM
(ps, I reserve the right to have the Alpha channel thing backwards… but I think it’s right)
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Unless they’ve fixed that, I’ve NEVER been able to get it to work without a mixer. Not since v3??
Not sure why… but it doesn’t work that way.
CaptM