Grant Strac
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The render takes so long because it is roundtripping to motion for the information from that project the only way to reduce render is to export a quicktime that you bring into final cut. this unfortunately defeats the purpose of motion projects in timeline. if you already have motion projects in the timeline and you know they are perfect you can open compressor and drop the original saved .motn from your hard drive (not from final cut) and put it into the well (you can drop up to 99 .motn into a batch well at a time) find the setting you want and select all the tabs in the batch well and paste or drag and drop the setting on each tab while they are all selected and it will apply to all of the project tabs in batch well. next submit the batch and when it is all done put them into a folder and go to final cut and select each motn you have and reconnect media now click locate and deselect the exact name” check box and then select your exported .motn in the folder and hit ok. this should make all the other motn projects reconnect to the final export quicktimes and then the render will be much quicker because it will render the entire clip as a bulk of frames instead of how it looks like the .motn which is frame by fream this is why the render is so long. hope that made sense my workflow is kind of odd
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This is happening because Time Machine drive has a os on it that organizes the information on it and makes it able to be accessed from other computers on the network. The time machine is not a networked hard drive in the sense you are thinking you can. I am not totally positive but I really do not think you can solve this issue because in order to get into the hard drive you need the interface to interact with it on the network so even if you used disk utility to reformat it to mac ox journal so that it was basically a networked hard drive the machine has no interface to long into it. Unfortunately you can not use that as a capture storage, it can only be a “deep storage” drive as in you’ll put a folder on your machine that time machine will back up and that folder would have broll footage you want to archive or finished quicktime masters on it. Capture would not be possible or I should say reliable over a home network hard drive because of the strain you would put on the network (even if wired and gigabit) because final cut need massive gpu ram to render the image that you are capturing and one minute several gigbytes that you are sending wirelessly over network to the drive. Hope this helps
Grant Strac
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its doing exactly what it would do if I was using a license on the same network but quits after the boot dialogue and does not say “detect on same network ect ect” so basically if that did not make sense the fcp window comes up it loads all the rt crap then actis as if it will boot then quits. it only seems to happen when its not an admin account but all the other programs boot. I”ll trash prefs and let you know but if you have other suggestions please let me know
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select all right click and remove attributes>filters so that you are not doubling up filters….then with all clips still selected then in browser go to effects pick filter and drag to timeline it will put filter on all selected items
Grant Strac
Apple Certified Final Cut Trainer
Apple Certified End User FCP6/7,Motion3,DVDSP, and Soundtrack -
Quit and restart FCP then open project and right click sequence from Browser to choose export>using compressor. if that does not work hit command-3 or activate the sequence in timeline and file?export using compressor, if that does not work hold down option and double click the sequence to activate it into the viewer then file>export using compress. hope that helps
Grant Strac
Apple Certified Final Cut Trainer
Apple Certified End User FCP6/7,Motion3,DVDSP, and Soundtrack -
If I understand the question correctly it seems like you do not want to change the View>Audio Playback option menu when editing…if this is true then yes you will have to hook up an external mixer with an out from the mac to the mixer and the out of deck to mixer to speakers. When editing in Final Cut you must tell final cut to either play through built-in or through firewire. The only problem with this is if you are not taking a straight deck feed to your speakers and you are listening using the internal speaker (i.e. view menu>Audio playback>built-in) There is a delay in the video and audio and the audio will look about 2-7 frames off sync….this is my warning!! do not sync the audio to fix this because when you output you actually will have put it out of sync. Always check you audio off of the deck to make sure it is in sync NEVER through built-in.
Grant Strac
Apple Certified End User Motion/Final Cut 6-7/Soundtrack/DVD SP
Apple Certified Trainer FCP 6 -
A self contained .mov will be substansially less in file size. Un-self contained files are very much like a project file in the way it works and especially file size if it is only several mb it most likely is not self contained. Moving the files are a way but if you double click the file and it opens a sequeb e where you can see layers and cuts it’s a non self contained. Also you could right click the file and bring up the drop down menu and I belive that the third option is “reveal in finder” and that will reveal where the origin of your files are.
-grant strac
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Like the guy below said color is by far the best program to fix dark footage. You will need to right click from the timeline and send to color and then boost your luma levels in the primary color room. Use the waveform scope to do corectly first bring your black level to legal limit then expand your waveform by boosting luma. Gamma will have to probably be manipulated as well. On a side note I have found that the “light rays” filter in final cut with the amount at either 2-5 also helps but that is a quick way around it. Hope that helped!
-grant strac
apple certified final cut trainer -
In motion 3’s templates go into the first group “3d text….” click on “cracked.hd” in there you will find three objects being cracked, it is in hd so you will have to delete the camera, go to edit>project properties, and change to ntsc or whatever you want it in. Then pick a crack/shatter you want, delete the “drop” behavior, fiddle with the positioning, re-place the drop zone with you’re media, fiddle with sizing and stuff and you will have a sort of quick shatter. Find shatter sound effects in soundtrack pro. good luck