Don Greening
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Click on Walter Biscardi’s head at the top of the forum page. That will take you to his bio and to his tutorials on creating luma and travel mattes. There are 3 tutorials in the series and (not that I’ve ever done it) I think you need to turn your text into a luma or travel matte so your video will show through the text after it’s made transparent. The text colour has to be white for this to work, I think.
Anyway, Walter explains it all in his tutrorials.
– Don
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[Gary] “the entire white line with the marker designation is fully there.”
That’s the text track for the compression/chapter markers. FCP automatically generates compression markers in a sequence where there are transitions. This tells Compressor to pay special attention to these areas when it encodes to MPEG2 for the DVD. The text track won’t show up on the final product.
You can hide this text track by opening up your movie in Quicktime. Go to the Window menu and click on ‘show movie properties’. Uncheck the box beside the text track. The above method is for QT v.7. QT V.6 is done the same way but it’s in a different menu.
Next time when you export your movie from the FCP timeline choose to “Export with DVDSP Markers.” Although I’ve never exported markers that way, it may solve your visible text track without having to do it in Quicktime.
– Don
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Try trashing your FCP 3 preference files and then open up your project to see if that fixes things. If it doesn’t then there’s a deeper problem, such as a directory issue on your media drives. But try trashing those pref. files first.
Read how to do this little task here:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
– Don
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[Erik Mitchell] “when is the next nab!?”
April 22 -27 in Lost Wages Nevada.
– Don
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[Jeff Carpenter] “They just feel like very different kinds of jobs to me and I would not want to do both at once. I’d always feel like I wasn’t doing one of them justice.”
I’m in total agreement. We do have a digital Rebel that we bought just to get high quality stills for our DVD printable discs and case jackets. During the course of the wedding day my wife will manage to shoot “targets of opportunity” and if we collect enough stills we can offer the couple a slideshow set to music at extra cost. We always tell clients that our first priority is video, but if we have the time we’ll get some extra stills. In any case, we tell them they’re welcome to any of the stills we’ve managed to get. I just burn a CD and give it to them, regardless of whether or not we do the slideshow. This little extra perk has impressed more than one couple in the past.
– Don
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[moztu] “is there another way of doing this, maybe a litle faster?”
Try this:
https://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/standardsconversion.htm
Graeme’s conversion will probably do a much better job of it as well.
– Don
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Try trashing the FCP pref. files. When I had the same problem you’ve described, trashing the preferences always fixed it for me.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
[mike schwartz] “Any thoughts here, and why can’t FCP retain the digitized elements up until the error point, why does it just dissapear?”
It would be nice if FCP did leave what it already has captured (up to the error point) on the scratch disc, but I guess that’s not how the program operates. Perhaps it’s a built in safety feature to automatically delete a file that has possible corruption. Trouble is, there was no corruption until the end of the capture process when FCP screwed it up.
– Don
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FCP 5 can utilize up to 4 Gbytes of RAM. Usually, extra large project files will benefit from more RAM, in addition to a good graphics card to help with RT effects.
If you think your system is slow, consider using system optimizing programs such as Mac Janitor or Cocktail to get rid of bloated cacheand log files, etc. that contribute to slowdowns in FCP.
– DOn
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[iMan] “I know Canon XL-H1 and Sony Z1 HDV footage do not mix on the time line”
I didn’t know that. Sony HDV 50i PAL and Canon HDV 50i PAL should be the same, shouldn’t they? An interesting question to ask in the FCP forum.
– Don
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Not that I’ve ever used footage from a Z1U because I don’t have that camera, but I can’t see a problem with mixing the the same type of standard def. footage from different cameras. I work in the NTSC world and I mix footage from my XL2, GL2 and Sony PD170 all the time in the same timeline in FCP.
You work in the PAL world, so your capture and sequence presets will be using the DV PAL codec. As you already know, you have the option of capturing from the Z1U in standard def. over firewire, which would mix naturally with the footage from your PAL XL2. Since the Z1U is also widescreen, adding the XL2 to your camera arsenal shows you’ve chosen wisely 🙂
– Don