[Elijah Lynn]

I know that DV Kitchen also has a WMV feature. I have been playing with the Demo but haven’t tried it yet.

DV Kitchen is a very slick program.

[Elijah Lynn]

Did you try multiple monitors on the affected setup?

[Elijah Lynn]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for all the feedback and tips! They will all be useful. I just watched Shane Ross’s video on Getting Organized in Final Cut and he has a tip for putting a space before the bin name that I think will work great for now. If I just put a space before all Bin names then all my bins will always be at the top. This is the same as Walter’s suggestion in essence.

Cheers,

Elijah

[Elijah Lynn]

Thanks for chiming in Kevin. I will get your course after I finish my current ones. I also just ordered the course catalog from Video Symphony in CA. Is there a similar school out here in New York that is highly recommended? I wouldn’t mind taking some night classes for some real life classes in NY.

So far I have ordered the following:

Steve Martin/Ripple Training: DVD Studio Pro
Steve MartinRipple Training: Final Cut Pro: Getting Started,
Shane Ross/Creative Cow: – FCP Getting Organized
Barry Green: Sound for film and television
Doug Jensen: How to setup, light and shoot great looking interviews

I watched Shane’s video last night and I am definitely gonna have to watch that one more than once, I really liked it too, it was interesting how he had no quams about duplicating media files just so organization would be easier. It was something I had always had a conflict with and was thinking of using a tagging system instead but am now considering following in suit of Shane.

I also finished Steve Martin’s DVD Studio Pro and produced a DVD already but would like to learn more advanced techniques from Noah’s course, DVD Studio Pro: Special Edition.

Anyways, thanks for explaining that your course is effective for all versions as I will definitely be purchasing it too!

[Elijah Lynn]

Awesome link Noah!!!

[Elijah Lynn]

You can rewrap them with Mpeg Streamclip. I forget exact method but I did it to a bunch of clips that I shot with a Firestore FS4-HD and had it set to AVI type 2 and actually needed Quicktime.

Although it is odd, I have been playing with some stock footage I purchased from Footage Firm and it is all in AVI format and after the message FCP gives me the footage works great in the timeline.

[Elijah Lynn]

Well, I guess they follow the same lead as Apple’s finder too. Because you can’t sort all folders at the top in finder either and after 10 years on a Windows box it is just part of the workflow.

It wouldn’t hurt to have the option available. It would help a lot of people transitioning from the Windows world. Ubuntu offers this too.

[Elijah Lynn]

Can you post some names of these higher end probes?

I am curious now 🙂

[Elijah Lynn]

There is a product called Spyder3 Pro that I have on my wish list. If you have the budget you may want to look into it. The whole Spyder 3 combo with printer calibration is around $600 or so I believe.

A normal CRT TV monitor will not give you much control for calibration.

I am not very proficient at calibrating my own monitors and lcd’s yet. My 28″ Hanns-G doesn’t even appear to have much room for calibration. I use it strictly for the workspace it offers.

But Walter has it right when he says “these are key”. I may not know how to do it yet but all work will be fruitless until they are calibrated.

[Elijah Lynn]

Well that is a bummer. I would call that a bug.

Thanks for confirming it though. I spent at least 30 minutes off and on the past few weeks trying to figure out how to put the bins at the top since I thought it was so obvious a feature it “must” be there.

Hopefully Apple can fix this.

Cheers,

Elijah