David Roth weiss
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Commas are now passé, but in this case leaving one out gave you a false impression Robert. I intended to suggest an old copy of Encore, or a copy of Toast, not an old copy of both.
Are we clear now?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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FCP Legacy never supported Blurays that actually worked, and Adobe has EOL’d (end of legend) Encore. You will need to find an old version of Encore or Toast.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Damn you Nick! I wrote all that junk for nothing… and on the weekend no less. I’m probably gonna have to have you fried in lard for your transgression. 🙂
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Nobody here can help you without additional information. In order to help you we need to know the following:
1) Codec of the camera original
2) Pixel dimensions of the camera original
3) Sequence settings
If you don’t know the answers to these we can help and you will never be able to successfully edit in FCP, because your sequence settings have to match tend media type you’re editing, and that can’t happen without knowing the info above.
On the other hand, are you aware that if you open a new sequence and edit a clip into it, FCP will pop up a dialogue box that asks if you want to change the sequence settings to match your media? Guess what, if you do that and answer yes, to change the setting to match, now that sequence will have the correct settings that are identical to your media.
FYI, you can delete that clip from the timeline if you’d like, the sequence settings will remain in place, and you can just edit away.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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As a documentarian and journalist for longer than many readers here have been alive, I completely agree with everything Andrew has written about ethics, and most of what Tim has written, and I would never condone what the producers seemed to have allowed in this particular case. However, as I have written above, from a legal standpoint this is not a big deal, as our court system is not in place to arbitrate ethics, morals, etc. as many think, and on top of that, between provable monetary damages, legal costs, and the estimated payoff of a case like this, we’re talking peanuts.
What is more important in this discussion, which no one here has really mentioned, is the nearly complete erosion of journalistic and ethical standards in recent times created by tabloid news and opiion masquerading as journalism, Reality TV masquerading as “reality,” and a Reality TV star masquerading as a serious candidate for President of the US, who lies 70% if the time because he knows he can lie faster than he can be fact checked. These are much more serious matters than the tempest in a teapot being debated here, yet they have a serious impact on this case and on ethics in general, because they have completely degraded the line between right and wrong, desensitized the masses to such an extent that ethics are now virtually meaningless in our society.
Bottom line, we can debate ethical matters in journalism and TV all day long, but if society could care less, the courts won’t wade in on these matters unless there’s BIG money at stake.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Not really… Adobe first included a speech/audio to text feature in CS4 that was not really accurate enough for most users to make it valuable, but they promised it would improve with further development by its 3rd party manufacturer. Last year, after several years of no substantial improvement Adobe dropped it. There are tumors of other companies coming out with better and more accurate speech/audio to text apps, but so far nothing better is available.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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I agree with Hector – I mean, if you want to spend your life trying to fix these issues, that’s one thing, but if you’re trying to get your work accomplished, and get your clients to the finish line, separate boot drives for your main apps certainly would seem like the way to go.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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It’s very hard to prove anyone suffered anything but hurt feelings… It’s kind of a sticks and stones argument, and judges hate getting involved in those. And, as you said Shane, these kinds of creative decisions are done all the time. The brand clearly wasn’t hurt by the film, as more guns have been sold in the last 18-months than any time in history, so agreeing to a minor change, and paying the plaintiffs to go away, are still my best guesses on the outcome.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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This is exactly why E&O insurance is required. It is incumbent on the plaintiffs to prove they’ve lost business, which is doubtful in this case, so the insurance company will just settle ASAP.
There are very few deep pockets in the world of documentary producers, so suing the producer and her production company will probably be fruitless. My guess would be that the E&O insurance company will pay the other side $20,000 to go away, and the plaintiff’s lawyer will quickly grab his or her 33% and celebrate over a lobster dinner before filing as many similar suits as possible over the next days, weeks, and months.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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The process of rebuilding the RAID will format and erase the drive. FYI, just because it’s the same size does not guarantee it will work properly in your RAID set, but if you don’t expect performance, and you’re just temporarily rebuilding the set to get your files off, you’ll have a better chance of success.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.