[Enzo Tedeschi]

I agree with Tom.

Video Mixdown in Avid is not really anything like an FCP nest. You lose all reference to original material in an AVID mixdown for a start.

One thing that might help in tandem with Paste Attributes, is that unlike Avid, you can paste the attributes or apply effects filters to multiple clips at once simply by multiple-selecting the clips in the timeline, and dragging or pasting the effect onto the selection.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Funnily enough I encountered this today!

I found that some images went onto the timeline green but rendered ok…

Anyhow, in my case, FCP had a green fit when I imported CMYK color space files (logos in my case). I opened them up in Photoshop converted them to RGB and FCP was much happier.

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Effects > Audio Transitions > Cross Fade

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Find your “Final Cut Pro Documents” folder. In there, you will find the “Capture Scratch” folder, and within that, folders pertaining to your project names. That’s where you’ll find your QT files.

You could always use the Media Manager in FCP – might be safer than poking around at file level. It will let you copy or move the files in your project to wherever you like – no mess, no fuss.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Have you rendered the timeline? Do you have a third-party output card (Blackmagic Kona etc). I have seen this happen with some I/O cards doing weird stuff when attempting realtime – renedring often solves the problem.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

I know this is kind of a old thread, but a great discussion.

Personally I love every technique I have ever seen in editing – used appropriately there is a place for all of them. There are no right or wrong ways to cut – whether it be drama, music, fast, slow etc – just what works.

I am cutting a film at the moment that has shower scene where a depressed woman slowly starts to lose her mind. It’s a great performance by the actress, and she slowly goes from relaxed to upset to crying until she unleashes a scream… It worked fine as an “invisible edit” (by invisible I mean the cuts didn’t intentionally draw attention to themselves).

I took the scene and cut entire chunks out. I took out the subtlety of the actress’ transitions from emotion to emotion, and jump cut between them, and used multiple takes of the scream one after another. The end effect is a crazy scattered sort of feel, but it works better than the original “traditional” cut – the jarring editing gives the viewer a feeling of what she might be feeling… disoriented, uncomfortable… it’s more powerful this way.

My two cents… 🙂

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

What is the codec of the AVI file? This can make a big difference is “editability”…

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

You’re right, David. I never thought it the ideal workflow, but I am working under the assumption that trev knows what he is doing and has decided on this workflow for a reason.

Everything you say is spot on.

Come to think of it, if the grader had asked you for a qt file to actualy grade off, they are very likely not going to be very good, as they sound like they may not know what they are doing.

If you haven’t condsidered the options David has mentioned, then definitely take him up on his offer to help you work out a workflow if it’s not too late.

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deejay,

This setup will cause you problems. End of story.

USB 2.0 drives are kinda just quick enough to cut off (sort of), but they do not give the sustained data rate that firewire does. They share a similar peak speed, but the sustained data rate is really what makes your hard drive video-capable.

Get a firwire drive, or better yet FW800 if your computer has it. Otherwise, at a pinch, you could digitise to your internal drive and copy the files across. But you will still end up with problems using the USB 2.0 drive to cut.

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Sounds like a quicktime reference file – To get a DV file when you export, make sure it says “current settings” to match your editing environment and look for the “Make Movie Self-Contained” – if it is unticked, tick it.

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