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I’m going to guess recapture, though I’m not sure.
debe
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I have the Ikea Galant top on the motorized table base, also found at Ikea. I’m pretty sure it’s also part of the Galant series. I first saw it in the store attached to a Galant table top.
The motorized base lets me raise & lower the desk. I find this incredibly convenient when I need to get under the desk or work on the gear on the desk. Also, after a long day editing, when I have just a little bit more to go but my whole body is telling me I have to get up, I can raise the desk and stand up and wrap up my day more comfortably.
I just tried to find it online, but I couldn’t find it in the Ikea catalog. I hope that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped selling it!
I still need a better chair, but I’m more than happy with this desk. Worth the cost!
debe
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You need another firewire bus for you Mac. That is a card you’d buy and install.
Places like wiebetech.com sell them, but there are many other vendors.
Unless you are heaviliy invested in firewire drives, you might want to consider using external SATA drives instead. Instead of adding a FW card, you’d be adding a SATA card. Under most conditions, SATA is more reliable than FW.
This leaves your existing fw bus on your Mac for the camcorder.
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Are you judging this quality on the computer screen or on your external video monitor?
If you are not using an external monitor, it’s possible that your text is fine. It’s your monitoring situation that needs some TLC. The manual has a pretty detailed diagram of how to connect external audio and video monitors. If you don’t have pro monitors available, a TV will do in a pinch.
If you are monitoring externally, have you checked your render settings?
debe
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That’s a good idea.
FWIW, when I first started using my DSR-45 to make masters for some clients, I worried about the FW slippage. I used to test every master I made. After a year, I found no slippage, not once. I have since stopped checking so vigiliantly, unless I know absolute accurate tc on a master is a must. Usually it’s for syncing during live shows.
I’m not saying it can’t happen, because I believe it does, but I am saying it also doesn’t have to happen!
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FCP doesn’t send timecode out. Never has.
You’ll need to use the Edit to Tape function, not Print to Video. You’ll also need to stripe your tape with the appropriate code at the head of the tape using the deck’s internal preset timecode generator. Then you’d use the assemble edit feature in Edit to Tape in FCP and change the DSR-45 to internally regenerate timecode. The deck needs to generate the code. You can make it so it matches the timecode on your timeline. It’s just a little math.
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You’re not done yet! You still need to edit it into the timeline. You’re just creating the text file in the Viewer when you do what you do. FCP doesn’t yet know where you want it to go.
Once you’ve typed, hit “apply” and are back in the regular editing mode, select your in point on your timeline and insert or overwrite.
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[JeremyG] “And seriously by that time, ‘drives’ will be vapor state storing bits on microscopic electrons that circle around your head. When you are ready to edit, you dream the sequence, and the electrons assemble themselves in the right order, fully rendered and everything.”
Wow, that’s almost creepy…..
…yet oddly intriguing!!
debe
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We need much more information to be able to help diagnose the issue.
How far does it get when you say it “only goes so far then nothing”? There should be a line of info at the bottom of the start up window that tells you what FCP is loading. What does that say when it stops?
Which files did you “move around”, exactly?
What were you doing when it quit initially?
When you reinstalled, what was your procedure?
Which version of FCP are you using? What model of “new mac”? Which verison of the OS and QT are you running on the new mac?
What are you using for media storage, and how is it connected to the computer? (less important, but sometimes useful info)
Post back. Hopefully we can help unravel the problem!
debe
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An overlay is somthing that covers up part of the screen. Like a sidebar. A lower third super bar is also a type of overlay.
A matte is something that allows one to cut a hole in the frame to allow another image to show through.
A background is a fullscreen animation/image that can be composited over using overlays and mattes, as well as other elements.
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