David Roth weiss
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Walter,
Having just captured numerous hours of DVCPro 50, I can vouch for the fact that Panasonic decks and FCP 5.1 do have some protocol issues. No matter what I did or how I logged (I know of the Capture Now issues), some captures wound up with audio at 47.873 khz or there abouts. You couldn’t do that with a Sony deck if you tried. In any case, though my experience doesn’t directly apply to your scenario, it is indicative of some problems that exist bewteen Pany decks and FCP.
DRW
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[Rick Dolishny] “David: Your sense of humour is appreciated by me.”
I gotta look after my homies Rick. I mean let’s face it, most of us were editing before the parents of these guys went out on their first date. Pretty soon we’ll have to ask Ron and Kathlyn to start a new forum called FCP Out To Pasture Forum.
DRW
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Bob,
Double click on the audio or video track in the nested seq. you’ve dragged into your timeline. What happens???
Answer: Its opens the original timeline. What does this tell ya???
It tells me that next time you’re in Hollywood we’re doin lunch baby…
DRW
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And, keep in mind that the Easy Setup preset you choose when opening a new project does not get applied to Seq 1, which is already open. Every new seq. you open after selecting Easy Setup will have those preset characteristics applied. This will snag you if you if you’re not aware.
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Terry,
The FCP Prefs that are trashed by FCP Rescue are not crucial parts of the application that can cripple your project. Most of what you will lose are very minor things such as the layout you used last and things like that. Keep in mind, that if you don’t remember what you called your recent projects or where you’ve located them that could be a problem for you because the list of recent projects disappears evey time. The porjects are still there however…
DRW
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You missed the point. As John McCain said, “its not about them, its about us.” If you don’t understand what that means I’ll explain it to you.
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[walter biscardi] “The question right now is why did you choose FCP? You have so many choices out there for NLE’s yet you chose FCP. I’m sure you investigated and tested all your options out there so if you’re not happy with the way FCP works, there’s a lot of options out there for you.”
You exhibit such warm and wonderful empathy. I’ll bet Bob appreciates that…
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[jmf] “only by understanding a concept thoroughly will I accept such a basic process”
Bingo!!! Once you truly understand the paradigm it makes perfect sense, and its very precise.
In the old days (just a decade ago) everyone learned to edit film first, then video. In traditional film editing any film frame can only be used once, and on top of that, since transitions were printed using an expensive optical printing process, editors had to be extremely precise in setting up the transition for the people at the lab to insure the transition would work properly. Video editing, especially non-linear editing is a real luxury in that editors can try all these things over and over again until they get it right, but unfortunately that has left many without any real understanding. So, its kind like five steps forward and one step back…
DRW
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[jmf] “Those of us who begin editing on a nonlinear system have a difficult time accepting linear constraints.”
Many generations of filmmakers and television professionals before you established standardized proceedures that are still used around the world and throughout the industry. These proceedures are well thought out and they work well, more importantly, because everyone in the industry uses them there is great deal of continuity in the industry, enabling collaboration between farflung groups of people around the globe who may not even speak the same language. Learn these standardized proceedures first, then feel free to adopt your own methods and proceedures.
DRW
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The audio is very important in selling a transition at the end of a clip. Often if you can gracefully fade out the audio over seven frames or so, making the speaker sound like he or she was finishing, then you can adjust the video transition accordingly and it will seem to work better.
Another trick is to apply a slomo or speed ramp down to the frames within the transition rather than a freeze, as it keeps moving and doesn’t come to a screeching halt, which can look bad especially if the pace of the speaker was rather fast.