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Dennis Mcelroy
June 10, 2011 at 3:46 am in reply to: General Setup recommendation for Multi-cam HD

Thanks guys. It looks like I’m going to be doing this on someone else’s Adrenaline system now. MC 2.8.3. Having them transfer three DVCPro HD cameras to media files with the AVID DNx115 codec. I’ve been told this should hold up adequately. Will run tests on it tomorrow. Thanks again for all the input. I will definitely ask more questions if needed as the cow has been a great resource for me over the years!

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Dennis Mcelroy
August 2, 2008 at 10:15 pm in reply to: Does MC v. 2.8.3 run on Leopard 10.5.3?

Next dumb question. I did the $495 upgrade to MC from Xpress in late May. If I had upgraded in June AFTER 3.0 had come out, would I have received 3.0 at the same $495 price? And as a result of what I have done do I now have to pay the add’l $295 to get v. 3.0? Thanks for your quick response, I’d ask AVID but they are not open on weekends. And I now at least know, I should at wait for 3.0 to install MC.

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Dennis Mcelroy
April 6, 2008 at 6:27 pm in reply to: Multicamera improvements in FCP soon?

Jerry thanks a lot, I will certainly write to them.

I know I’m being confusing so I will try to be clear. You asked if I’ve tried making a multi clip sequence. Yes I have. And it works. But it’s still a sequence. It is not a clip. I would prefer it if the sequence were a multi clip, with each camera holding it’s designated window regardless of any TC break. This would allow me to view my source material in the viewer window. Select ins and outs for whatever camera I’d like and then make an edit onto or into my sequence below.

Instead, with the “Multi clip sequence”, I am working by subtraction. Meaning I’m scanning through a sequence and deleting the material I do not want. That may work on some projects, but I need to know I can go the other way as I could on an AVID. Scanning through a multiclip in the viewer and then adding it to my sequence.

I can do this, but only after jumping through and over the many nonexistent black holes left by quicktime’s lack of recognition for TC breaks in corresponding cameras. I spend hours sewing together multiclips because I love editing from the viewer in FCP. Something AVID software calculates in literally one click.

I will absolutely write in. Thanks Jerry.

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Dennis Mcelroy
April 6, 2008 at 6:08 pm in reply to: Multicamera improvements in FCP soon?

Thanks for the great response Jerry. Yes I have tried that. It’s interesting, and yeah it works technically, but I should not be pigeonholed into editing by subtraction from a sequence. The sequence becomes my clip, and this isn’t right and works against the traditional editorial process where you have source material on the left, and your recorded material on the right. If I want to assemble a cut from the viewer I should be able to do so. Any other ideas, I really don’t think this is something FCP can handle. I would love to show Apple how this issue really makes productions have to change too many basic processes to incorporate it in the multi-cam world.

To edit a sporting event with multiple cameras I must now adamantly insist to my camera operators DON’T STOP ROLLING EVER YOU’LL MAKE MORE WORK FOR ME WHEN I MULTICLIP. That’s the Apple software dictating the production process and that is not right.

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Dennis Mcelroy
April 3, 2008 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Audio Hardware question (monitoring)

Thanks David,

You pretty much just confirmed some other advice I got. The project I am working on is pretty much dialog and some music, and an example of the computer speakers not reflecting the work I’m doing on the DVD:

I put a fade out on some music, which over my computer speakers (even when they’re jacked up all the way) sound like a smooth, even fade. Whereas on the DVD that fade will sound like it’s cut off, magnifying something I didn’t pick up on (or couldn’t) while doing my audio pass over the computer speakers.

Dennis

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Dennis Mcelroy
September 7, 2007 at 2:24 am in reply to: POWER PROBLEM COMPUTER WON’T SHUT DOWN

thanks much appreciated
Dennis Mcelroy
September 7, 2007 at 1:16 am in reply to: POWER PROBLEM COMPUTER WON’T SHUT DOWN

Sorry,

-I have repaired disk permissions.
-I’m running 10.4.10
-Melrose mac reset the PMU.

And I have not tried the last part, how would I do that?
Thanks, for the quick response!
Dennis Mcelroy
August 25, 2007 at 5:54 pm in reply to: iDVD burning the project to a DVD!

Hmm,

It’s actually a half hour long. And I added a photo slideshow that with about 90 pictures. That’s all that’s on there. Does the QT file have to be a certain format, it plays in the preview mode fine? It says the disk would come out to bout 2.4 gb. My burner is an external burner. Could that have something to do with it?I figured if it did it would give me an error message about not having a device, but it doesn’t. Literally almost nothing happens.
Dennis Mcelroy
March 15, 2007 at 6:38 pm in reply to: 4 discreet audio channels in quicktime FCP 4.5 will only recognize 1

Will FCP 5.0 recognize the four discreet channels?
Thanks for the input.
Dennis Mcelroy
March 13, 2007 at 9:20 pm in reply to: 4.0 XML ?

So I can get it to 4.5, which version CAN i use v.1 or v.2?