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Frank Stäudtner
March 1, 2015 at 10:07 am in reply to: Some plug-ins clip signal at 100 IRE – Highlights Goodbye

hi Chris, very annoying indeed. We are destroying the information in our footage. What use is red raw data, if the first plug-in you add destroys & truncates it. we should have 32 bit float processing in the fcpx effects chain, like promised in the Apple specifications. Just like resolve.
But it seems, that some plug-ins are programmed 8-bit-ish.
Even worse: if all 256 color steps represent 8 bit. Some plug-ins cut off the top part of those 256 steps and leave us with, say only 235 steps. They just truncate the information. Previously I would have assumed that all plug-in programmers are creating 32-bit float plug-ins.

Could a plug-in creator chime in and clarify this?
Frank Stäudtner
August 15, 2013 at 9:45 am in reply to: [FCP X 10.0.8] Best plugin (or techs) to fix Out of focus video

Another Idea:
You could also experiment with the astonishing capabilties of the “smart sharpen” filter in Photoshop. It has special mode for removing lens blur.
best wishes, frank
Frank Stäudtner
April 28, 2012 at 1:24 am in reply to: Broadcast safe issue

more than welcome 🙂
Frank Stäudtner
April 27, 2012 at 11:12 pm in reply to: Broadcast safe issue

Alternately you apply the safe filter to an “adjustment layer” (special title layer) above your edit.
Then you can tweak the colors of your timeline without entering compound clips.

all the best,
frank

Link: https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/total-adjustment-for-final/id482883336?mt=12
Frank Stäudtner
July 14, 2011 at 8:42 am in reply to: Just finished first real project – experiences

Rick, I completely agree 🙂 – I feel it’s a very exciting journey we are one….

David, I though about it… and will try it when I edit something like a music video….

cheers, frank, sonicVision.de
Frank Stäudtner
July 13, 2011 at 9:10 am in reply to: Just finished first real project – experiences

@tony The lags just unhung themselves. And they were little to take, compared to the advantage of the background rendering and essentially always having everything playing in real time. This is such an efficiency booster .

@David & @Carsten : when I made the new concept of editing work for me, I just realised that it actually works much better for me;

I like the concept of important sync points. In order to get maximal emotional impact I always look for emotional video footage and then the musical equivalent of that .Like in my example above there was an important musical sync point at the end. If there were more important musical sync points at different sections of the video , I would now create those sync points in connection with multiple music sections and only at the end: trim, expand or shrink the different sections to make the music fit together. But that gives me complete flexibility during the edit to extend sections and make them smaller, anything I want really ; that’s a very powerful way of working for me.

What I also love with the colour correction: finally I can just click on a clip and the correction of exposure for example stays open. I click on the next clip and the colour correction is already open. How annoying was that in Final Cut Pro 7. This is so much quicker; I can skip through many clips within a few minutes and do some basic colour correction . That is how it was always supposed to be. I cannot understand how clumsy and how many clicks it took in Final Cut Pro 7 to achieve the same . Editing effects was a pain in FCP7.

And by the way I would love Apple to pay me, I could always use the extra bug! And as my five posts up until today are a real force to be reckoned with; they will surely transform the industry!

Watch them all fall to my love of fcpx 😉

beware 🙂

Love and peace, Franky
sonicVision.de

PS: there is a very important feature that we need: to hear and/or see the audio/video context of the sequence above while you are editing within a compound clip ; editing trimming your edits to a musical track in the above sequence does get unnecessarily painful at the moment…
Frank Stäudtner
July 12, 2011 at 3:41 pm in reply to: Just finished first real project – experiences

I used a mix of canon 5d footage,
h264,
About 1000 nikon and canon raw photos (cool to view and add quickly)

Viewing the film stripes made quick locating of interesting footage very fast and intuitive…

There were regular lags of about 15 secs where everything just halted…. That happened maybe twice per hour….
Hard to say where that came from as I am using an unsupported nvidia quadro fx 4500…

Peace, f
Frank Stäudtner
July 12, 2011 at 11:23 am in reply to: Audio Only Crossfade – Video Tutorial

Yeahhhh Alex, finally someone listened to me… 😉
my wife surely doesn’t ….

all the best,

frank, sonicVision.de
Frank Stäudtner
July 7, 2011 at 2:59 pm in reply to: Looking for the simplest way to put cross fades just on the audio.

How about creating a custom Audio-only transition in Motion, so you can apply it straight to the primary storyline (the video transition would equal a normal cut) ?

all the best,

frank, sonicVision.de
Frank Stäudtner
July 1, 2011 at 1:42 pm in reply to: So Inspirational & so lacking

@ J Hussar;

great 🙂 nice it inspired you; you inspired me with your perspective;

these are exciting times as the “good” features of FCPX will in return push Avid & Adobe to integrate similar features & interactivity;

Over time it will be a win-win situation for all of us….

In the meantime I will have to use both FCP 7 & X 🙂

all is good

frank, sonicVision.de