[Frank Nolan]

1. A preference to turn off ripple effect when speed changing a clip in the timeline.
2. A way of showing clips in the browser that have been used in the timeline. (like having them highlited or colored differently in the browser, once placed on the timeline)

[Frank Nolan]

If it’s occuring at the same spot every time it sounds like it could be a corrupt file at that point. Is there a transition or effect at that point in the timeline? If so try just deleting that and re-creating it, if you dont have time to delete all render files.

[Frank Nolan]

>Can anyone tell me what I am rendering?

You are rendering the clips because more than likely your clip settings do not match your sequence settings.

>If anyone can point me to an explanation of what is rendering, that would be helpful. I’m a little worried that I am going to have to render a lot during the editing and I don’t have time for that.

Look up rendering in the back of the manul, there are plenty of pages on it. I suggest if you dont have the time to render all your clips then you at least take the time to read a bit of the manual so you have a better understanding of the process and how to avoid having to render everything.

[Frank Nolan]

Hello!!!! What planet are you living on? Apple announces new models, or at least upgrades, about every six months!

[Frank Nolan]

Yeah it sucks! I just bought a new car and then wouldn’t you know it, they just announced this years model. I just wish they would stick with the same old models and never introduce anything new ’cause then I could continue to get frustrated with my old hardware ’cause it doesn’t run the new software very well any more

[Frank Nolan]

If they have asked for an M & E, then that is what they want, not a mix minus. What you deliver can mean the difference between your movie either being accepted or rejected for foreign. To clarify, a mix minus is just basically your stereo mix, minus the dialogue but what happens to all the production sounds when the dialogue tracks are muted? For instance one actor is talking to another while walking into a room (footsteps), opening and closing a door (SFX), putting a set of keys down on the table, putting a pan on the stove etc, etc. (foley). On the other hand an M & E, as well as being the mix minus the dialogue, all the production foley, sound effects and ambient sounds that are in the dialogue tracks are then added back into the mix from foley artists and sound effects libraries. So if you didn’t have foley done for your movie and all the production sound effects split out from dialogue or duplicated from a library, if that wasn’t possible, then you could have a problem if they want an M & E. Now if you did have all that done in your tracks in FCP and you have the capability of laying back 4 tracks of audio in one pass, then you can quite easily do your layback wiithout having to do two passes. The simplest way is to route all your tracks to Channels 1 & 2 out. Then duplicate just your music, foley and effects tracks and route them to 3 & 4 out. Before you layback you will need to remix the M & E tracks to compensate for the lack of production sounds so you can just mute your original tracks while you do this.

[Frank Nolan]

1) Do you have the filters box checked in the user preferences>render control tab?
2) Which ever color is appearing above your clip in the timeline, do you have the same color checked in the drop down render menu when you select sequence>render…….

[Frank Nolan]

This would depend on a couple of things.
1) Is the background bowling alley noise a library sound effect or are you using the sound from some of the footage you shot?
2) By voice over I presume you mean ADR (you had the actors lip sync to the edited takes) If this is the case it would depend on how much of the production dialog you are using in the scene. If you are cutting between prod and adr then you will need to build out your dialog tracks with background noise from your own footage so it matches. If the whole thing is adr then you could just use a library sound for the whole scene. Either way room tone is part of any recording done on set so you dont really need to add another track of just room tone as there will be plenty of it in the bowling alley background noise unless the whole scene is adr and feels empty or too sterile without it.

[Frank Nolan]

Did you have the sequence selected in the browser when you tried this?

[Frank Nolan]

When was the Z1 ever considered a broadcast camera? Sony introduced the camera as an entry level HD acquisition solution. It was never intended to be a broadcast camera. Besides the HVX-200 is a different format to the HDV format of the Z1.