Don Greening
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[Joshua Ferg] “Is there anyway to get the 24P look in post? “
Yes. It’s called Nattress Film Effects for FCP (let’s hope you already have FCP). Graeme also has a standards conversion plugin for FCP to do different frame rates like 60i to 24p, etc. and the result is awsome. Check everything out at:
– Don
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I’d send your request to Don Berube at:
He and his brother Daniel have been wringing out the XL-H1 for quite awhile now and may be willing to share the requested info with you. If anyone has been working on presets it’ll be them. Can’t hurt.
– Don
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[Johnie Blayze] “Anyways we tried to go line into the camera from a mixing board converting the XLR to RCA and mini, but no go.”
What sort of problems were you experiencing when you tried to do this?
– Don
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Thank you to Steve, Walter, Ed, David, Arnie, and especially Mat for your input. All your comments were informative and insightful.
Mat, if you’re on vacation then you’re not supposed to bring your laptop with you. I think there’s a law about this somewhere. Please put it back in your suitcase and forget you’ve got it with you 🙂 And thanks for your feedback.
My FW drive problem is not he end of the world. I’ll take it back to the local vendor and get another one. The statements about the differences between consumer and industrial strength hardware was something I wasn’t aware of and this fact will play a huge role in my next big “Med
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[JeremyG] “I wouldn’t do it to the whole system disk with system files, even though it shouldn’t hurt anything.”
Agreement. What with the recent talk of a couple of Mac Trojans floating around it wouldn’t be a good idea to allow file ownership to be ignored for system files.
BTW, great job Jeremy 🙂– Don
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[Aprildentist] “I did a security update a few days ago from Apple, but that just required typing in my password.”
I wonder if this update somehow reset your ownership permissions to “read only.” How else would they have become changed. What do you think, Jeremy?
– Don
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April,
Just got back in and I’m very pleased to see that you’re up and running again. Isn’t Creative Cow a great place? Through the tireless efforts of people like Jeremy the Cow has gained a worldwide reputation as the “Answer People”.
If your troubles were simply a ‘read and write permissions’ problem with regard to media file access then somehow they got changed. Also, if you highlight each of your hard drive icons on the desktop and choose “get info” on them, make sure that the little box is checked beside “ignore ownership permissions on this volume.” at the bottom of the get info window. This will allow you to read from and write to your FW drives.
– Don
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[Aprildentist] “One question though — how will I know that a file is corrupt? I import a few at a time, until I get to one that what, won’t open? Gives an error message?”
You can reduce the risk of saving yet another corrupt project by first opening your various media files in another program e.g. if you have video clips, open them in Quicktime Player. If you have pictures try opening them in something like Photoshop or Apple’s Preview program. Then if everything checks out then import them into your new FCP project.
– Don
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[Aprildentist] “Also, would it make sense to start importing backwards, meaning the most recent files first, thinking that something I did in the past few days as opposed to a month ago is the culprit?”
That’s one way of thinking, and logical too. But consider the fact that the oldest imported media (actually the files that point to the media files) have the most chance of becoming ccorrupted from repeated saving.
I also second Jeremy’s advice about upgrading to FCP 4.5HD. If I recall, FCP 4.0 was quite buggy compared to the upgrade. And it’s free.
– Don
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[Aprildentist] “I opened a new project and imported 5 of the files I was using in the old project, they work fine.”
Okay. So now we know 2 things: Your FCP program is running OK and you know you have access to your media, or at least 5 of your media files. You need to make sure you have access to all your media within the new project. Once you’ve determined that, with the new project running try going to the file menu and choose open or open recent and navigate to your monster/chiller project and see if it’ll open that way, although I’m not optimistic.
– Don
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