[David Rowan]

Well, trashing the preferences did seem to fix the problem. (I use FCP Rescue).

I do still sort of wish that I knew what caused it in the first place, perhaps it could be some kind of feature, instead of a bug!

[David Rowan]

Oh, I forgot to mention that when I set the video render files to my other SATA drive Media 2 it works fine.

[David Rowan]

Flip-4-Mac exports WMV7

[David Rowan]

This refers to the stuff you use in a project, and not all the extra system “goodies”

I work on lots of short daily projects. Whenever I generate LiveType or Motion stuff, or when I import graphics from other people, I put them in the same capture-scratch folder where my video clips are.

If I am starting a project and I don’t have the tapes yet, but I have some of the other materials, I will just capture a moment of nothing, just to force the system to create a capture-scratch folder.

When I have bigger projects I create sub-folders in the capture scratch folder for the project. Then I can just drag that folder into the project and it becomes its own bin (This is handy when I have a lot of stills and want to use thumbnails for them. I don’t usually use thumbnails for my video clips)

When I’m done with a project all the media is one place. I can delete it all, or back it up without hunting all over.

[David Rowan]

Would it be worth it to create a new forum at the cow for lightroom? It seems like a pretty powerful app that works a little differently than Photoshop?

[David Rowan]

I must be doing something wrong, because my export from FCP is turning out right.

I’ve been doing the export right from FCP and the aspect ratio seems to be fine. I realize that the iPod video is now 640X480, and the DV that i work in is 720X480, but it doesn’t seem to be squishing up the video, rather, it keeps the ratio correct and adds a little black at the top and bottom (on the iPod screen, in iTunes its just, well, normal).

BTW, I love the digital heaven stuff.

DWR

[David Rowan]

I put together five podcasts now for my TV station. Here are some things to consider:

Most of what you edit for a podcast is just like editing anything else thats a short, self-contained presentation. In terms of design remember that when people watch a video clip in a website (like using flash) there is supporting information all around the video clip on the web page, but with a podcast they might be watching it on an iPod or in iTunes, and any supporting material or branding logos or what have you need to be contained in the video.

In terms of the actual edit you just want to keep in mind that the screen on an iPod is rather small (but surprisingly sharp). The clincher is, most people do not watch video podcasts on their iPods, they watch them on their computer screens where they are downloading them. So you have to accomodate the small windows, but don’t count on that to hide “flaws” that might show up when full screen.

You can encode for iPod/iTunes right from Final Cut, Just export–>Quicktime Conversion—>iPod. With the latest upgrades the results are pretty impressive. (I now use this for client demos, I load the clips in my iPod and plug the iPod into their TV and use the TV output to show them their projects)

Before I upload the video to the server I run it through iTunes and edit the “info”. In iTunes I can do things like set the poster graphic and fill in the author/album/etc info. Some of this gets lost or changed when its downloaded as a podcast, but some of it stays. For instance I always replace the poster frame with a title graphic, these look nicer when the end-user looks at their lists of podcasts in iTunes.

The real trick is maintaining the server and the RSS feed (its the RSS that makes a bunch of video clips into a “podcast”). I don’t know if this will end up being your responsibility or not. Getting your RSS just right takes some trial and error. I recomend checking your RSS feed by loading it in an RSS checking program. This can also teach you a lot about how to format the RSS (aka: XML) data.

Watch a lot of other video podcasts. See what other people are doing, so you can do it better. There are many business that want to jump into this, and the people making the decisions don’t use, watch or enjoy podcasts, so they have no idea what sort of content or form will actually work.

most importantly…subscribe to my podcasts!. Every subscriber in iTunes moves me up the lists where I can get more noticed. So just go to the iTunes store and serach for “KUTV”, from there you can subscribe to all five of them. The Blooper archive is the podcast I think people here will enjoy the most.

Let me know if I can help with any more specific questions.

DWR

[David Rowan]

Calligraphy is what they call the set of Boris products bundles with FCP

I’m on FCP 5.0.4 OS 10.4.8 QT 7.1.3

[David Rowan]

Yes, the pluins are there. So I took the pluins and hid them. Then I did a re-install from the disk, since it says it will install FCP AND Calligraphy. Sure enough, it does install the plugins in the place where they were…the same place you specified. FCP will not use them.
When I launch FCP I get a meassage that says:
“AE Effects Error: Unable to load plugin “Text Scrambler” ” Or “Title 3D” or the others. It asks if I want to find it from another directory, so I tell it Yes and navigate down to where the plug-ins are. FCP can see them (not greyed out) but when I select the appropriate plug-in I get the error message again.

So I think FCP is seeing the plug-ins, but it doesn’t seem to be able to use them, even when freshly installed from the FCP install disk.

Within FCP it can see the plug-ins (now it can see two of each one, the originals that I moved and the new installs) When I select them I get the Unable to Load Plug In red screen. Other plug-ins from Eureka and TooMuch work fine.

[David Rowan]

The hard drive was (theoretically) untouched. I did have to re-enter the serial number for FCP, but except for calligraphy it all worked fine.