Dean Sensui
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Jerome…
You’ll find FCP to be a lot more flexible than Media 100.
For example, on one show I help assemble, the producer wanted some common graphic elements used in the show for lower thirds, etc. When I worked with a Media 100 system, each of these elements meant exporting a section of video and then compositing the graphics with Commotion or After Effects.
However, with FCP I can pre-render these same graphics with alpha channels and layer them directly into the FCP sequence without having to use an additional compositor. No need to export video clips. It’s a real time saver. Also allows for more flexibility.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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You probably deleted the folder containing all your media files.
Or you disconnected an external hard drive that you were using as your capture scratch drive.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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Unfortunately in a high-tech business some of the duties involve customer education. And some of that education is at the elementary level.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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Coffee, dark roast, freshly ground and brewed in a french press.
Black.
Regarding getting fed by clients, that would be nice. It’s usually the other way around.
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Just about everyone I know who does this does it on their own.
And, as it is with anything else, some are a lot better at it than others.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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While you can do pans and zooms within FCP some of them will end up looking better if done in After Effects. Should you run across tilts or zooms that just won’t render nicely then you can do those seperately in AE.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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David…
Here’s a couple things to try.
First off, make a backup of the project onto a seperate hard drive just in case the worst happens.
Then see if you can move the clip to the end of the sequence where it’s out of the way. That’s one way to get it out of the spot you’re trying to change.
Another option is to create a new sequence, then select all the clips from the old sequence, copy them, and paste them into the new sequence.
Or you can try the same copy/paste with a whole new project.
Hope this helps.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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The only other solution is to capture all your material onto a Firewire drive and hand that over to the production house. This assumes that everyone’s working on the same platform and same software.
Once the tapes are captured, then you’ll have a copy of a captured material and so will the production house. You can then email one another the much smaller edited program files (with the sequences) and collaborate remotely.
We do this for our own show and save a heck of a lot of driving and gas.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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Once you set it you can take the one you set and drag it into a bin.
It won’t be a default setting but it’ll be readily at hand.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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If it’s a DVCam tape there’s a “dup” feature that will make an exact copy from one DVCam deck to another. Keep in mind that both DVCam decks have to have this feature and that the source tape has to be in the DVCam format.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com