[Craig Alan]

Ronny. Are you suggesting:

Turn the entire timeline into a compound clip, adjust the audio first to the entire clip and then key frame adjustments then perhaps break apart the compound to continue editing?

If so, I’ve always been reluctant to turn an entire project into a compound. Maybe I’m just not adjusting to Fcp x workflow?

Isn’t there a way to apply the gain effect to the entire timeline leaving the volume bar for further adjustment?

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks Bill. Never understood what the heck that was for and it falls out pretty easily. I have bogen’s version.

Grip equipment/manufactures are still pretty old school in their assumption that they are selling only to grips who know how everything is mounted.

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[Craig Alan]

The canon 5dmiii is a great camera and you can get fantastic shots with little light. Two Kinos is more than enough light particularly if you are blacking out the room. Try to avoid snake eyes. You might want to consider a baby jr stand to mount the key kino. Maybe use white foam board as fill instead of another light. You might consider a broadcast monitor to better judge your composition and lighting. An apple box would help you adjust the lights and get the height or a seat you need. When shooting video you need the camera mounted and you might consider a prime cinema lens. 24mm or 50mm. also great for stills.

If you take the suggestions of putting the baby on the floor get a large muslin to lay the child down on. You can park pillows under it if need be and this will give you an even non distracting b.g. However all high angle shots might not be ideal.

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[Craig Alan]

Other variables would include increasing the dynamic range in color correction. adding a filter to give it a sepia or other type of look and then applying only the amount that you like. There are also plug ins for black and white looks. You might want to play with subtle speed changes to emphasize a certain feel. You also don’t need to completely desaturate the image but leave a hint of color that might prove interesting or color correcting to a certain hue like giving it a warm or cool look. The right music track can help dull images as well. Faster cuts can help. Maybe if you post an image people might make some interesting suggestions.

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[Craig Alan]

Why is transform tedious? You just adjust scale in the inspector and then I grab the image and adjust what you want to show in the frame – gives you a lot more control then some auto fill.

There is no perfect way to take one aspect ratio and turn it in to another. Or you can just leave it trimmed (cropped) and give it a black or white b.g./frame.

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[Craig Alan]

I opened a long clip in the browser for the first time and the waveforms were showing up very slowly. Command 9 showed no tasks.

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[Craig Alan]

Well it’s too late for that idea though I think it would just link back to the original P2 folder where I copied the card’s content.

Here’s what I just learned:

If I open the import window and select a folder (which contains a copy of a media card’s content), “leave in place” is not greyed out and it does import the clips into the event. However, if I open the folder up revealing the card’s components: “contents” and “last clip.txt” then leave in place is greyed out.

I usually use the folder I create, “media” or “original media” as the destination for the import. Until the other day when I chose ‘leave in place’ to save space.

The other thing I’ve noticed is that when I copy the contents of one of these folders back onto a P2 card the camera will display an error message but then open the card and play it fine.

The advantage I find of copying these cards into labeled folders is they then import into FC with the folder’s name as meta data. And the labeled folders are a lot easier to identify in the finder as well.

Tomorrow I’ll do an experiment and try a ‘leave in place’ and then do a ‘reveal in finder’ from a clip in the event. Should prove interesting. I will also try to apply an edit to one of these clips and see if the edit is saved.

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[Craig Alan]

https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/specs/

Native editing4 support for:

Panasonic AVC-Intra, including AVC-Intra 100 and AVC-Intra 50

I’m shooting in AVC-Intra 100. And the import window sees and reads the camera card files and my copy of them, before after and during my problem with one events media going off line.

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[Craig Alan]

I am at work now and on a different and non troubled set-up, do not have ‘leave in place’ greyed out. But I am working with a finder copy of the P2 card. Could that be the difference?

I create a labeled folder in the finder and drag the entire P2 card contents into it to make a copy. Then I import that into a FC event.

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[Craig Alan]

interesting. mine has not been greyed out. that said an over full firewire drive is not cutting it. So I’m biting the bullet and cleaning house to make room on the internal 3 drive raid.

I’ll start the whole project fresh just saving the P2 copies and the media that imported into “original media”.

I’ll do the usual maintenance by trashing preferences upon start up etc. My fault for just grabbing an old drive for a project with this much media. I needed to prepare for production this evening and cut the wrong corners. Man modern media with the need to back up the cards and have an on-line original media transcoded copy – thus a total of at least three copies – takes up a lot of space.

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