Chi-ho Lee
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[NickM] ”
Chi-Ho Lee:
“Though, still match frame back to original media would be much welcome in FCP.””I’m reiterating what Jason said re: Matching back to the original video clip from a freeze frame.
FCP match frame freeze frames back to itself, not the original video clip that it came from (as you all know). So the Avid ability in this case, would be good to implement in FCP. But i think it has to do with how FCP and Avid create their media, OMF/XMF vs QT. So it may not be possible unless some major happens with QT. Just guessing.CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
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[Jason] ” I like to use my keyboard for everything, but why is it in fcp that if I overlay a clip from the viewer to the timeline it activates the timeline window, whereas if you drag and drop it the viewer stays active, it is really starting to annoy me the I have to keep using the mouse to click here there and everywhere I just want to be able to go through clips and quickly make selects without using the mouse.”
It all really depends on your situation. I’m editing on Avid right now and I can’t stand the Avid implementation because I’m fine cutting. And I only need to edit in one new shot, but Avid keeps activating the source window! I need it to activate the timeline! Whereas if I was assembling a sequence, I would’ve love the Avid implementation because it’s always activating the source window. So it all depends on where you’re at in your stage of editing.
Since you like to use the keyboard, you know you can activate the timeline with Cmd-3? And the Viewer is Cmd-1.[Jason] “Why can’t their be an effects window that shows up the effects on a clip when you select it rather than double cliking here there and every where just to see them.”
Again, that’s another thing on the Avid that I can’t stand. Why use up more screen space for this annoying window that floats around that you can’t dock anywhere?!? You can select the clip and hit return on the keyboard to open it in the viewer.Software developing is like trying to hit a moving target. Your suggestions would make you happy but it would annoying the hell out of me. So who are they going to please?
Don’t take this as a snide comment: What’s the point of FCP adding Avid features, then they’ll just be another Avid! I’ve heard a lot of people say this exact thing – it seems like what they really want is a more affordable HD Adrenaline not another implementation of an editing system.
Though, still match frame back to original media would be much welcome in FCP.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
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Chi-Ho Lee
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Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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But you can still use a G5 to transcode to ProRes right? I know it’s double the time of real time capture but for people on the cheap, that’s a viable solution right?
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
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[JeremyG] “Yeah, but that’s for playout and a sequence that is all 24p. Why Sean is saying is that when he drops a 24p clips in a 30 fos timeline, the media gets rendered with a 2224 pulldown instead of 3:2. Therein lies the problem.”
Ok, I would have thought that this setting would control ALL pulldown patterns in ALL sequences that would require pulldown. It would seem logical to me, but obviously that’s not the case.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
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[Sean ONeil] “Put a 23.98 clip into a 29.97 NTSC sequence. It doesn’t add 3:2 pulldown when outputting SDI. Instead it adds a duplicate frame every 4 frames or so. Just like how it worked in Final Cut 5”
All the way back in FCP 4.5, you had a choice of adding pulldown in 2:3, 2:3:3:3, or 2:2:2:4 depending on your cpu speed. In FCP 5.1.4, it’s in System Pref, Playback Control. They’ve even added 24@25fps options.
I don’t have FCP 6 yet, so I can’t say how it behaves. But did you find this option there or are you saying that the pulldown selection is not operating properly?
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
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Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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[Bullet] “Yes, Color runs fine on my first generation Intel MacBook Pro. And previews are pretty much real time even with a couple of secondaries”
Is this a 15″ or 17″? The tech specs says a 17″ only due to screen resolution.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
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Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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[lasvideo] ”
It seems a reasonable to theorize that Leopard will put the tiger
in FCP’s tank”I’d like to think so but I’m not so sure. Back when Spotlight came out, everyone was clamoring that Spotlight technology will definitely be in FCP’s media manager. “Yea, of course, it makes sense! Media Manager powered by Spotlight!”
And AFAIK, spotlight is not involved with Media Manager at all. If anything, I think Leopard will make the app run faster but not because of any special FCP/Leopard optimization but just because Leopard will benefit overall OS operations.
My two cents.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
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Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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Jerry, what’s the deal with the instances then?
I have to manually activate each instances? How? Via a menu option? Open up Compressor twice or 4 or 8 times?
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
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Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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[Jerry Hofmann] “You can actually send an instance of your compression job to each of the 8 in an octo…”
People have been touting that feature as multi-core aware, but that only helps when you have 8 movies to compress. But what if I only have one movie to compress? Doesn’t sound like all 8 cores will kick in to help compress one single movie….right?
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com