Don Greening
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[Terry Alexander] “The in and out points aren’t changing for me in the Viewer.”
You need to double-click the credits clip in the sequence to actually load it into the viewer. Then you can change the in/out points to make it scroll faster or slower. If your clip is loaded correctly in the viewer any changes you make there will be reflected in the Canvas and Timeline right away.
[Terry Alexander] “When I place my cursor on the sequence in the time line, the arrow points only to the right.”
You have the track forward tool selected. Hit “A” for the selection tool. Then you’ll be able to select/highlight a single clip.
– Don
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[R. Bruce Perry] ” I want to take an edited(FCP6) HDV 1080i60 spot to a DVCPRO SD 4 x 3 format, print to miniDV SD tape, maintaining the best possible resolution. What would the workflow be in FCP 6?”
In your HDV 1080i sequence select all and copy. Create a DVCPRO 50 sequence. Make sure your playhead is at the beginning of the sequence. Press Cmd-V to paste your 1080i sequence into the DVCPRO sequence. When FCP asks if you want to change the sequence settings to match your clip settings just say no. Now you have all your 16:9 clips letterboxed inside a 4:3 sequence.
16:9 footage is the same height as 4:3 so all you have to do is what’s called a “centre punch” of your widescreen clips. Double-click your first clip to load it into the viewer. Click on the scale parameter tab in the viewer and scale the clip to 100%. In the canvas window now you’ll see the clip filling the frame but the sides are cut off. You can also accomplish the same thing in the canvas window by dragging a corner of the clip until the top and bottom fill the frame. Anyway, after you’ve scaled up the first 16:9 clip in the viewer just hit “Cmd – C” to copy that clip’s attributes to the clipboard. Deslect the first clip and select all the rest with the track forward tool. Hit “Option-V” to paste the first clip’s attributes on to all the other 16:9 clips. In the dialogue box that pops up make sure “Scale” is selected and click OK. All your 16:9 clips are now centre punched to fit the 4:3 sequence.
– Don
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[Robert Semeniuk] “Using media from another project, I surmised from reading about FCP, is troublesome- if you change the associated projects media it starts to affect other alias projects.”
FCP is pretty good about remembering where everything associated with a specific project is stored. The trouble comes when you delete a finished project and the some of the referenced media for your new project was contained in your old project’s scratch folder.
Every time you start a new project it’s generally accepted that you should create a new scratch folder. Getting organized right off the bat makes your editing life a whole lot easier when projects get big. The main “gotcha” about FCP is that when you bounce around from project to project FCP is not “scratch folder aware” and will not change the scratch folder for a project unless you change it yourself. FCP editors have been asking for this feature for years and it’s a PITA to go to FCP’s System Settings and change all the file destinations each time you want to change projects.
– Don
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I use 1/60th sec. shutter with HQ 1080p 30 all the time, Core.
– Don
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In addition to Chris’ sage advice make sure you haven’t made things more difficult for yourself by trying to edit 1080i clips in a 1080p timeline which, if your described settings are accurate, you’ve attempted to do. When playing this sequence back unrendered and in real time it will certainly cause the issues you’ve described, depending on the speed of your editing system.
Regardless of whether you’re shooting in 1080i or 1080p always make sure you’ve got the EX shutter speed set to 1/60th sec. or faster to avoid frame stuttering and to keep motion blur down to acceptable levels during pans and tilts.
– Don
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I’m using the exact same Macbook Pro, albeit in the 17″ version, with FCP 5.1.4 and it works well, even when another monitor (19″) is hooked up for dual screen editing. You neglected to mention how much RAM the used Macbook Pro has, but I suspect it’ll be the same as mine, which is 2 Gytes. I can’t see FCP 6 being much more taxing than 5.1.4. With only 2 Gbytes of RAM though, it’s in your best interest to run only one of the FCS apps. at a time. If, for example, you have FCP running and decide to start Motion as well you’ll see a significant drop in performance depending on how large your projects are.
Hope this helps you in your decision making.
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[Darwin Go] “i need to know what size is the CCD for Sony EX3 that would correspond to a 16:9 Square aspect ratio.”
Hi Darwin,
You had all the information you needed for your answer contained in your question. The EX imager(s) are in the 16:9 shape with an effective pixel count of 1920X1080 square pixels. Sony defines the chip size as 1/2″. It’s the effective pixel count in the 16:9 aspect that you want to plug into your text field.
FYI the EX sensors are CMOS and not CCD.
Hope this helps.
Don
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[Paul Willetts] “Is there a tick box or something obvious that I am missing to have the clips import in the order in which I filmed them?? “
If there is I haven’t been able to find one. I guess I’ve just learned to live with it, although I think that if you “select all” the list view in the bottom right window shows everything in sequential order.
Welcome to Creative COW, Paul.
– Don
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I’ll continue to foster a deeply personal connection with Tim without the need for an Avatar.
– Don
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[Tim Stevens] “Is there something that I can do to fix this problem? “
Perhaps. When FCP starts acting wonky the first thing to try is trashing the preference files. There’s even a freebie program that will do the job for you and you can find it here:
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
Here’s an article on the reasons why you have to trash Preferences once in a while:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
See if that solves your XL2/FCP issues.
– Don