Debe
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Hit “t,t,t,t”, and your pointer turns to a double arrow pointing right, or click and hold on the single arrow pointing right in your vertical toolbar (that’s the one usually near your timeline, unless you’ve moved it) and select the double arrow pointing right. That is the Select All Tracks Forward Tool. Click on the first clip you want shuffled down. That tool will select everything on your timeline from the click to the end. After you’ve selected, the double arrow turns into a crosshair-looking thing, like the move tool, so just pick up the selected tracks and move them down to where you want them.
It may take a few tries to get the hang of it, but it’s a fabulous tool! (And remember, if you’re not comfortable with what you’ve done, there’s always Undo!) Check out all the Select Tools, they are very handy!
debe
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Make a black layer that is R=0, G=0, B=0
Make sure you are not color managing
In Photoshop choose Photoshop > Color Settings. (shift-command K)
do: settings color management off.That should be it. Just make sure there is significant difference between that black and any other blacks/dark colors in your animation.
And test, test, test!
debe
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Oh, great! I’m glad it worked out for you, Catherine!!
There’s nothing more frustrating than something that makes no sense!!
debe
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Wow, this thread has bad juju for me! Sorry for the poor grammar and the accidental double post!!
That last ‘graph should read: “Regardless, using the scopes in FCP isn’t exactly the same as using an external dedicated scope. Therefore, I didn’t feel I could give the original poster hard-and-fast numbers to shoot for when making his animation, for fear of giving him bad numbers that I couldn’t guarantee would work.”
debe
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Bret–
I use an external digital scope, and I am properly trained and I do know how to read it correctly. I don’t use the FCP scopes, and perhaps I mis-spoke, or am not remembering rightly an article I believe I read recently on Ken Stone’s or Larry Jordan’s site about how the internal FCP scopes aren’t what those of us who use dedicated external scopes are used to dealing with.
Perhaps the term FCP Units was something that was coined by the author of that wrote the article to make writing the article easier. I just did a search, and I cannot locate the original piece.
Perhaps someone remembers the article of which I speak, and might be able to come up with a URL?
Regardless, using the scopes in FCP aren’t exactly the same as using an external dedicated scope. Therefore, I didn’t feel I could give the original hard-and-fast numbers to shoot for when making his animation, for fear of giving him bad numbers to shoot for.
debe
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Bret–
I use an external digital scope, and I am properly trained and I do know how to read it correctly. I don’t use the FCP scopes, and perhaps I mis-spoke, or am not remembering rightly an article I believe I read recently on Ken Stone’s or Larry Jordan’s site about how the internal FCP scopes aren’t what those of us who use dedicated external scopes are used to dealing with.
Perhaps the term FCP Units was something that was coined by the author of that wrote the article to make writing the article easier. I just did a search, and I cannot locate the original piece.
Perhaps someone remembers the article of which I speak, and might be able to come up with a URL?
Regardless, using the scopes in FCP aren’t exactly the same as using an external dedicated scope. Therefore, I didn’t feel I could give the original hard-and-fast numbers to shoot for when making his animation, for fear of giving him bad numbers to shoot for.
debe
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Oh, tons of good books!!
Tom Wolsky has a good one. Kevin Monahan has one that’s not been updated for FCP 5 (yet), but much of the principles apply, and it’s very well written and had easy to follow instructions. Lisa Brenneis always does good work. The Peachpit Press Professional Training Series is always a good buy!
Go to Amazon.com and search for FCP 5 in books. You’ll get a wealth of great options! There’s a “Photoshop for Nonlinear Editors” book, as well!!
I’m still stumped, that TIFF file should work, and converting it to a PSD should work! We must be overlooking something obvious!!
debe
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Oh, wait, I just re-read your original post…
What version of FCP are you using? You’re still using OS 9? The link I gave you probably won’t help, then. Possibly doing a search on the LAFCPUG site for “trash prefs FCP [your version #]” might yield results.
It’s been a long time since I used FCP 2, and I skipped FCP 3 altogether!
Perhaps someone else can chime in about proper preference trashing after wxdunne posts which version of FCP he’s using?
debe
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Hmm, well, I’m stumped!
It’s got to be something in the translation! Does anyone else see something in William’s workflow that might be causing his problem that is eluding me?
In your file, the center is blank…it’s the checkerboard, with black bars on top and bottom? When you “Save As”, you have the checkbox for “Include Alpha” checked, and it’s giving you a file that isn’t keyable? (assuming you ARE using Photoshop?)
And this is Photoshop on a Mac? What version?
I’ll let this roll around my brain. There is the option of making the letterbox within FCP. Unless there’s something unique about this file, you may be able to recreate it with a mask or crop or any number of options.
But this SHOULD work, so I’m focusing of figuring out why it’s not…
debe
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Well, my heart goes out to you, wxdunne! I do not envy you right now!
I’ve been there, like I said, under different circumstances.
If anything else pops into my brain, I’ll be sure to post it!
Keep us updated. I really hope your salvage operation is successful!!
debe