[David Bogie]

Not sure what the problem is. You can make this work any number of different ways including simple composite modes. The hard part is coming up with the animated layer but blending it is easy.

Umm, depends on your need to sell the effect, of course. It get really complicated if you think you need to follow the contours of the faces. Displacement map created from a monochrome version of the footage might work.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

The biggest thing Premiere’s newest rev has going for it is the fabulous integration with the complete video suite. Adobe has Apple beat all to heck when it comes to seamless integration between the suite components, At the moment. We are hoping FCP’s suite elements will become seamless in the next rev but, honestly, if you are using the Adobe suite/Bridge combination and like it, you will be VERY disappointed in FCP. But only for a few days until you realize how powerful the new toys are.

However, your biggest thrill will be your new Macintosh and working with OS10. Give yourself a few days or even weeks to get up to speed before you start doing mission critical work. OS10 is not like Windows at all.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Welcome to the family.
What’s an Avid? (Rhetorical, don’t answer)

The default function for multiclip is for audio to follow video (p279 in vol 2) so you’re going to need to start from scratch on the setup. See page 280 for View>Multiclip Active Tracks seelction advice.

Multiclip on FCP is new with these recent releases and it’s still pretty weird. Start on page 274 of volume 2 for most of the helpful information. You will want to load the keyboard layout for multiclip editing. It provides a series of audio and video switching and cutting buttons.

Hope you get it figured out. FCP will never work like your former platform, it’s a completely different paradigm and trying to make it happen will only piss you off. There are hundreds of confused and frustrated ex-Avid and ex-M100 users here. They’ll chime in with more advice soon.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

The insert edit controls on my old 1800 are not accessible directly from my version of FCP. I used to have a controller application called Pipeline (or something like that) to control the 1800 externally. There is a hidden menu on the 1800 setup that will enable inserts so that when the edit command is received from your Mac’s 242 connector, assemble is disabled and your chosen insert type is initiated.

There may be other controllers for the 1800 on the market that will talk directly to FCP. Sorry, dunno.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Chris, for the benefit of others with similar issues, could you be a little more specific about where you found the Boris folder?

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

You should also make sure what you are doing:
a. burned in subtitles for video
b. user-selectable sbutitles for DVD
c. user-selectable captions for video
d. user-selectable captions for DVD

They are all slightly different and doing one when you shoud have been doing another will mean a tremendous waste of time.

Also, are you supplying video files are just the subtitles? It’s a very complex craft these days. These might help.

https://www.ccaption.com/nccwork.shtml
https://www.captionmax.com/faqTechProb.php
https://www.robson.org/capfaq/

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

> I am creating Quicktime references in AVID and importing them into FCP< References out of Avid? You mean you're running Avid and FCP on the same machine. What codec was used in the Avid? FCP probably cannot use that codec directly so, yes, they'll need to render. You might want to export from Avid using standard codecs, saves allkinds of headaches, but it assumes your Avid stuff is gold and won't need to be re-edited later. Umm, what's an Avid? (Rhetorical, do not answer.) bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

and please let us know if this accomplishes anything.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

It’s a very complex situation and normally answered easily by the cheeky copout: “Your client will need to perform dozens of hours worth of experimentation.” Wish it was easier but that’s about it.

So much depends on how the export is managed. You can go directly via Compressor and force new render media to be created or you can create a self-contained movie file and bring that into Compressor. You can use better compression systems. If you open up the controls for MPEG2, you will see there are many possible ways to mess it up.

Sorry to be evasive but if MPEG2 is critical, your client will, umm, have to do lots of experimentation. There are dozens of excellent compression books on the market.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Ah, “target Firewire.” yes, forgot about that one, good call, Zak.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”