Debe
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There’s also SnapzProX. Many companies that produce computer training use this to capture what’s happening on the screen.
Google it!
debe
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You’re looking to turn Audio Scrubbing back on.
It’s a toggle. At some point, you likely inadvertantly hit Shift+S. Hit it again, and it should toggle back on.
debe
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There have been several threads on this. Search for Wacom, and you’ll find a plethora of opinions.
Just to get you started, I’ve been using a tablet since my old Dubner Graphics Factory/Grass Valley Halo days (remember those?!?!)
I love my Wacom. I have two. One for my tower, and one for my laptop. I love the ability to get more precise control when I’m cutting mattes, and the pressure sensitive features I get when drawing or painting.
As a mouse replacement, I find it very helpful, as it causes you to use your hand and arm muscles differently. I find I get less fatigue in my hands and wrists using the tablet. I have a unique situation, though. I’m a left-handed tablet user, but a right-handed mouser, so I get the best of both worlds!
They tend to be a love ’em or hate ’em kind of tool. If you think you’ll like it, you probably will.
debe
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Dangit! Sorry adguy! I was hoping for the easy answer for you!
Other than a total shutdown and power off, wait at least 3 minutes and power back up, I’m outta ideas.
And something tells me you may have already gone down that road…
debe
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How about just a good ol’ fashioned restart?
debe
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Instead of having the Canvas set to 100%, try “Fit to Window”.
debe
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There will always be bad producers out there…and to be fair, incompetent shooters & editors, too (not to slight the other very important positions in the field, but for the sake of brevity….)
I had an experience, a really BAD experience over 7 years ago with two producers. One in-house, the other…I want to say “extra-terrestial”, or “out-house”….but I’m trying to be too clever. The other producer was independent, hired by our company to produce this video.
I won’t go into the details of how this project went awry, but suffice it to say, I was left holding the bag, because those two really couldn’t produce their way out of it, even if it was paper, and soaking-wet.
There was a lot of finger pointing on their part, a LOT of stunned silence on my part, and now years later, after it is all over, they are the ones with the permanent stink attached to them. Because I was “disciplined” mostly to save face with the client, whom I was trying to protect during all of this, it became common knowledge around the company and around the local community. When people ask me the story, I tell them honestly what happened, I even take responsibility for the 10% that really was my fault, which is mostly not insisting ENOUGH that there was not enough time to do what they were proposing. It was great idea, and under other circumstances, with a different deadline…yadda, yadda…
That being said, they trashed me every chance they got from there on out. They did this even at an industry party, an open house for a new facility a couple years later that we all attended. I was told later about it. They were walking around the facility pointing me out and telling anyone who would listen that I was incompetent. They were infantile enough to think that trashing me would cover their own inability to successfully complete their jobs. The people who told me about later thought it was funny, and let me know that it made them look much worse that it made me look. In fact, it helped goose my reputation a little bit, in a good way. I was considered a champion by anyone who had worked with, or rather put up with, them in the past. One guy told me he wished he’d had my moxy to walk away. As for the ones who believed them when they were trashing me at the party…well, I don’t lose too much sleep over it, because if they believe those two, they probably aren’t the sort I really want to do business with, anyhow.
I haven’t repeated their names in over 7 years, because I feel it’s unprofessional to trash someone, regardless of whether they deserve it or not. I’ll tell the story as honestly as I can, but I have refused to attach their names to it. Some people know who they are, but those are either people who were my co-workers at the time, or the people to which they themselves have blabbed. Honestly, as I type this I realize that I can’t even remember their names anymore. The in-house woman, I remember her first name, but I don’t remember her last name, and the other one….not a blip on the radar of what her name is. If I hear them again, I’d surely recall…but, it has become so very unimportant to me after all these years.
The gist of all this? They tried to trash me, they tried to ruin my reputation, mostly, in my opinion, to throw scrutiny off of themselves. It didn’t work. I didn’t play their 4th grade game, and I am the one left standing with a very successful freelance business. People who know me and hear the story, know that they are full of it. People who don’t know me, but know them and hear the story, know they are full of it. The best thing to do is to take the highest road you can. Defend yourself, of course, but don’t point fingers. Defend your work, your point of view, your method of thought, your decisions on workflow, your attempts to guide the process as justified by the deadline or the budget, and that’s all you really can do. Do it honestly, earnestly, and almost most important, LOGICALLY. It will serve you very well in the end. It worked for me, anyway! I left that company a year later, by my own choice. The management knew. My punishment turned out to be really an extra week of paid vacation. They called it “suspended”, again to save face with the client. I called it a paid week off richly deserved after what they put me though.
I still have the plant from the very expensive arrangement the company’s receptionist “sent” me. I’m pretty sure it was charged to the company credit card. The one with my manager’s name on it.
debe
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All upgrades from here on out will require the having the 5.1 crossgrade, so the rumor goes. If you intend on upgrading, you will either need to pay for the crossgrade before December 20th, or purchase another full version of FCP in the future.
You cannot buy it through Macmall or the Apple Store. You can only get it by sending in your current disks and paying the fee.
Go here for more details:
https://www.apple.com/universal/crossgrade/
Do a search of this forum if you want to hear other opinions on this process. It’s been done to death.
debe
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We still need to know if you are using an external video monitor or if you are trying to judge this quality on the computer screen.
If you are trying to judge it on the computer screen, that’s the problem, and you probably do not have an issue with your text. The canvas, by design, only shows about 1/4 resolution. True quality can only be assessed on an external video monitor, or by exporting a QT movie and looking at it in High Quality playback. External monitor is less time consuming.
In a pinch, even a TV will work. Check out the manual for proper external audio and video monitors.
If you are monitoring externally, it might be that you are mixing QT 7 with Panther. Panther and QT 7 don’t play well together. Your options there may be to upgrade your OS and FCP, or to revert back to QT 6.5.
debe
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Any possibility these files are muxed?
Files that play back in QT but FCP doesn’t see the audio usually need to be demuxed.
Google MPEG Streamclip.
debe