Don Smith
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Kerry, I meant to add that, like you, I’m working in C4D as well.
Except, not like you, I’m just a serious student of C4D at the moment trying to get up to speed. But, I love the program. It also helps that my son Chris (author of CSTools) is my guiding force. You may have seen Chris’ demo of his camera fly-through plug-in at NAB on GreyScaleGorilla.com.
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Yes. Whether your HD is 1280 or 1920 it’ll now be 720 pixels horizontally. And the vertical? It’ll only be taking up part of the 480 vertical resolution!
You’ll be sending out Standard Def video with a picture of a high def video in it. But it works well enough in my experience. Because your original video was shot in HD, it’ll look better in that SD frame than video originally shot in SD. That’s a perception that can’t be explained except to say that the higher quality you put in, the better it looks.
But the only way you can have a 16×9 frame is to put the subtitle text over the video. Placing it below makes the frame taller and next thing you know you’re at an aspect ration of 4×3. Can’t have both the HD video and subtitle text unless the text is over the video.
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Very nice of you to go to the trouble to find the link. Thank you. I’ve ordered the cable.
My work Mac Pro had a GTX card in it which I took out when I discovered that FCPX would work much better with the ATI card. Now that I’ve learned from you how to put the GTX card back in along with the ATI card, I’m in heaven.
My workstation has two Apple 30″ screens attached to it and the ATI card would run one of them at full res from it’s one DVI Dual-Link connector, but the Mini Display port would not drive the other one except at a much lower resolution. My manager just HAPPENED to have an Apple adaptor that went from Mini Display to Dual-Link! Both 30″ screens now are at full res off the ATI card.
Now I can have Open GL as at the same time. Life is good. So what that Apple didn’t announce a new desktop!
Thank you very much.
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Kerry, how do you come up with a third power cable to run both cards? The ATI card just needs one but the GTX card needs another two. I have two power cables in my Mac Pro.
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Is it possible in moving your files about that you did Finder copies?
The latest MacBreak Studio video from Ripple Training points out not to do this because FCPX puts an index number with each Event. You can copy within FCPX by simply dragging the Event to another hard drive. They can even have the same name, but FCPX will give the copy another internal index number.
Early on I made the mistake of doing a Finder copy and boy, I paid dearly for it!
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I do this all the time. I’m a major FCPX fan but my workflow for substitling is best in FCP7.
Create a 4×3 timeline and drag in the 16×9 file. FC will ask you if you want to conform the timeline to the file and you say ‘no’.
Once the 16×9 video is in the timeline, select it and move it to the top of the frame. This will give you all the black at the bottom. I usually put three lines of subtitles there in 32 point text. I use Helvetica Neue for readability.
Now here’s where FCP7 has the workflow advantage; Create a text field by pulling down on the bottom-right drop-down of the Viewer and selecting Text. Plain old ordinary Text. Select the font, the point size and (for me) left justification.
If your subtitles are in English and/or you UNDERSTAND the foreign language you’re laying in, then you can copy/paste the WHOLE text into the text field in the Viewer and lay into the timeline as the second video layer over your main video. Target the second layer and and TURN OFF the Auto Select for V1. With the playhead crossing over your text object, Press F to load a COPY of the text object into the viewer.
Format the first three lines of text in the Viewer and put an empty line after the first three lines so the rest of the text disappears below.
Press F10. The text with the first three lines formatted will lay into V2 (you DID target V2 earlier, right?).
Now, you fly!
When the playhead is at the end of what you subtitled in the first three lines and you’re ready for the next three lines, just delete the first three lines in the Viewer and let the next three lines bubble up. Format and hit F10. Reposition the playhead. Rinse and repeat.
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I took the NVidia GTX285 out of my MacPro and replaced with ATI Radeon HD 5770 and got MUCH better FCPX performance. I wasn’t working with Motion at the time and can’t tell you about that, but with the NVidea card FCPX was running like a stubborn mule. Just switching back to FCPX from, say, Safari, took 20 to thirty seconds of the spinning pizza of death. After the change to the ATI card, the switch was instant. FCPX then performed like BUTTAH! Before, there was a delay for every click!
FWIW
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Glad to have helped. Now, how can I convince you that if you’ll get to know FCPX, you’ll see why Premiere Pro and Avid are antiquated? I know Avid because I had to edit on it for years and I own the latest version of Premiere Pro and seriously considered (and rejected) it.
Really give FCPX a tryout. Also, I’ve been collecting links to free tutorials and tips on a hidden page on my website. Got to https://www.newsvideo.com/fcpx
You can’t beat the multi cam editing in FCPX. The new editing paradigm is the future. Track-based editing is a century old and needs to be retired.
All effects are Motion effects. Don’t like something? Change it in Motion. Or create your own custom effects. I could go on and on. I just telling you that if you’ll start working in FCPX as I have you’ll discover new miracles almost daily.
Don
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I think you have the model where you have two graphics cards but to get the more powerful one you have to manually engage it in the preferences. I helped a friend recently with poor performance and I found that she hadn’t enabled the more powerful graphics card in her preferences. The more powerful graphics card is intended to be used when the laptop is plugged in but you have to tell preferences to use it.
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If the files didn’t play fine in FCP7 I would agree that you have a bottleneck to your external hard drive but that can’t be if the files are doing fine in FCP7.
I also am running Lion on an old Mac Pro 1,1 but what helped greatly is having an ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card in it. Before the ATI card I had an nVidea card and I described FCPX as “running like a stubborn mule”. Replacing the nVidea card with an ARI card made a huge difference.
FCP7 does not take advantage of graphics card acceleration and it also only uses one core of the main processor, yet your video runs fine with FCP7.
FCPX uses Open CL (that’s what my ATI card provides) to make use of the graphics card processor for acceleration. FCPX will also use all available processor cores.
So what gives? I can only think you have an nVidea graphics card that hobbles FCPX. Maybe. Worth checking.
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