Don Greening
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[Paul Campbell] ” Is this a preference that I must enable first? “
Make sure “clip keyframes” and “clip overlays” are both enabled for the timeline. You’ll find both icons for these at the bottom left in the sequence window. the icons are toggles for on and off.
– Don
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[dorit grunberger] “are there any special requirements I need to ask the venue AV dept to make sure they have in order to use my Macbook (2GHz core duo) as the source? “
No, not really. You can connect your Macbook to the projector using the DVI port and the projector effectively becomes a second display that you can access from your Macbook. Just make note of the video connector to the projector, so you may need a DVI to VGA video cable. Also make sure you know what the audio connections need to be at the projector end. Your Macbook has a stereo miniplug on the left side so just find out if the projector will also be used for audio or if it will be a separate sound person. The answer to that question will determine what your audio connections need to be.
– Don
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[Steve Price] “So, I lay my shame bare before you and ask to be shown the way… “
Follow this shining path to aspect ratio Nirvana:
Open your exported movie in Quicktime Player and hit Cmd – J to open the movie properties window. Highlight the video track. Uncheck the “Preserve Aspect Ratio” box. Change the pixel size in the first box to whatever your 16:9 version is supposed to be. For example, a DV NTSC movie would have a default aspect of 720×480 anamorphic but would be changed to 853×480 to become viewable as 16:9. Hit the return key and your movie will pop out to the proper aspect ratio. Click save and choose another destination so you don’t overwrite the original. Once saved you can keep the new version and trash the old one.
– Don
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Yes. Go to Window>Arrange>Two Up. Now the Log and Capture preview window will be bigger when you call it up.
– Don
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If Rafael Amador was around he’d say edit in HDV but set your render preferences to use Pro Res. That way you have the best of both worlds.
– Don
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Life is good…….again.
– Don
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[lawrence eaton] “‘m also looking for something inside FCP to embed, say, a hyperlink and a graphic (that I can cobble together in Motion) so that it looks like one of those annoying ads you get on the TV popping up from the bottom of the screen.”
That I wouldn’t know, as I’ve never had the need to do it myself. Perhaps you should start another post and entitle it: imbedding a usable hyperlink in FCP. I’m pretty sure this works in DVD Studio Pro, though. I think it’s called DVD @ccess. Sorry I can’t be more helpful.
– Don
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Great! Glad it worked out for you.
– Don
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[jason leue] “Maybe I’ll just use that other internal and use a usb for my time machine.”
You may want to check out whether or not you can use a USB drive for Time Machine. I know that you can’t use one as a startup drive. A lot of FCP users will clone their startup drive before doing a major software update so that if they run into problems afterwards they can always start up from the external and keep working like nothing ever happened. The minimum requirement for a bootable external drive is FW 400.
[jason leue] “It’s better to have an external back up anyway yeah?”
Absolutely.
– Don
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Hi Jason,
You forgot to ask another important question, which is: Can I use my startup drive for storing video files or do I need to have a dedicated media drive? Answer: You need a media drive with a minimum of a firewire 800 connection. A SATA drive connection is even better. This is probably why your Mac/FCP system won’t play back the video without dropping frames, especially if you’re editing with a Pro Rez sequence. Editing at the highest quality possible is a great idea, as long as your system can handle the higher playback demands you’re asking of your system.
– Don