Chi-ho Lee
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Just wanted to follow with this post. Our capture window is not following what is load in the sequence nor Canvas. Since all our sequences and viewers are showing 16×9 HD clips. The capture window is still showing a faux letterbox.
CHL
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[Arnie Schlissel] “You should always have a separate video monitor connected for just this type of reason. A properly configured broadcast monitor will always show you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
Yea, if it was up to me, I’d have one all the time. But budgets….and I ain’t in control of it….
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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Thanks for all the replies. Ultimately, we shoot a fed out of the Kona into a NTSC monitor to check. We did not initially do this because our final videos are for museum installations on LCD monitors and not CRTs and not for broadcast.
However, it is a bit misleading. The capture window should ideally reflect the aspect ratio what what you are capturing, in my opinion.
Many thanks,
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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[Sean ONeil] “Unfortunately this whole 4:2:2:2 thing that FCP does is awful, archaic, and just plain dumb. It is by far my biggest complaint about FCP right now”
You can change the cadence pulldown to suit your needs – In system settings>playback controls – you can pick from 2:2:2:4 to 2:3:2:3. You’re not stuck in 2:2:2:4.
You’ve been able to change this since v4.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
The problem with slipping and sliding on keyboard is that you don’t see the two up display as you would with dragging. I wish you can see the two up with keyboard as well.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Rod,
I have an copy of 6.0.2. What is your email? I’ll send it to you. Or we can arrange an FTP/iDisk Transfer
Chi-Ho
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Shane’s method is the most elegant. And if you’re handy with Replace Edit (F11). That will overwrite it back in – provided you didn’t move the playhead. This will let you adjust clip speed without changing clip length (in a sense, though not really.)
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
I’m big on log and capture as well. Even If I’m capturing a whole tape, I’ll still log it and mark in at the head and out at the tail, then either capture clip or batch.
I do it this way cuz I’ve been burned in the past by capture now not properly “closing” out the clip when it got to the end of the tape. I would let the beach ball spin for about 10min. The system never got out of beach balling. Had to force quit.
One time with the client in the room and I had to tell him, it screwed up – have to wait another hour.Since then I mark in and out around the tape even if I capture the whole tape. Granted I think this was back in 5.0. But it burned me enough that I never tried it again…fool me once…
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Kimberly,
What city are you in?
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
[Kimberly White] “I’m completely up to date with all updates.
“[Kimberly White] “FCP 6.0.2
OSX 10.5.1
2×3 GHz Quad
8GB memory
1.1 TB SATAMAX external media RAID “Well, you’re NOT up to date. The current FCP is 6.0.3 and OS X 10.5.2.
[Kimberly White] “all footage is 1080p30, some graphics are at 25fps in various sizes, and there are many stills some of which are incredibly large. “
Are all the stills RGB color space? Why are some graphics at 25fps? Just how big are these stills?
1080p30 what? HDV? Uncompressed? ProRes? XDCAM?
It could be bad RAM. Maybe take out all the 3rd party RAM and go back to the stock Apple RAM to see if the problems persist.
Your system sounds particularly strange. I don’t know if online help is what you need? Might be best to hire a local FCP tech to trouble shoot.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com