[Craig Richard]

Thanks Shane, I’ve been working with tape-less media quite a few years, and am a FCP CT, I know about including all the media and reference files, however, I cannot get the card to show up on the desktop with the FcP plugin, nor copied (all folders) from the canon software (possible it’s corrupted I’m sure) to a drive and have L&T recognize it from there. I’ve reformatted the card, restarted, done all the normal things you do in editorial, and still no luck. Exporting copied mov files to pro res anything then down res seems like more of a pain than it’s worth. Any help would be appreciated.
CR.

[Craig Richard]

I’m not sure what you mean by full card structure, are you saying to reformat the card from the camera? All the files and folders seem to be there, and in l&T I can select Canon from preferences, it just won’t come up anywhere on my desktop, or in l&T.
Thanks,
CR

[Craig Richard]

Thanks Richard, I’m from the film world, double system is no big deal, makes the post a little more work but good audio is very important.
CR.

[Craig Richard]

The great camera shoot out is the best response I’ve had at CCow about new camera’s. All your quality questions are answered, meaning, of course, do I shoot film, or can I, or do I buy a 5d or 60d to do the same thing.
Thanks for the lind Richard.
c.

[Craig Richard]

We have had the best luck using your #2, it’s seems to work very well and offers a slight bit more control, and you can hear your surround (if you are set up for it) in DVDSP in the timeline.

[Craig Richard]

We’ve had some confusion with Stereo and Grouped outputs, meaning it sounded like some tracks just dropped out at times, usually when more than 20 tracks had something on them in FCP. I would take all stereo pairs out of the FCP stream, then output your stems, making sure when you output aif only the audible for those stems are on. It’s a pain, but works. I’ve also heard that panning your tracks to the appropriate side or center helps, but that seems not to have any effect here, and shouldn’t really with dolby these days.
You might try to import into DVDSP your ac3 Surround if you have an optical, or pcm adapter for your mac to your surround receiver, you should be able to hear it without burning so many discs.
Good Luck,
CS

[Craig Richard]

Compressor does have the capacity to give you a surround mix if you feed it the right information. Your stems (all the channels you want to play from L on one stem, all for C on one stem etc.) you need to output from FCP and label them appropriately. Drop those stems into Compressors Surround and you will get your surround.
Problem, of course, is actually hearing your “mix” while you are doing it – which you can’t do this way.
Firewire carries 6 channel audio, you could use something like a Motu Ultralight via firewire, output to your surround 6 channel in and hear it that way from something like Soundtrack Pro, it’s a little whacky, but it would work.
good Luck.
c

[Craig Richard]

After an exhaustive investigation, and no help from Apple, it turns out compressor was trying to make network connections thru my firewall. Firewall off for the output, no problems.
CS

[Craig Richard]

Thanks Wayne, I’ll try it. I can’t decide whether it’s a snow leopard, compressor, or FCP issue, very annoying.
C

[Craig Richard]

Thanks Mattew, I’ve noticed in the thread some problems with this software, have you had a negative experience with this?
Thanks