Grant Strac
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Thank you all for taking the time to answer my query. I downloaded that program “zynaptiq: unveil” and I tried it out. Honestly I spent three hours working on the audio in soundtrack doing noise removals, noise gate, and graphic eq, and other tricks and it sounded significantly better.
I’m not sure if Unveil being a demo or if I’m not using it correctly but there was a small change but not very good. I was surprised I couldn’t tell a difference I had to turn the volume up super loud to hear change. It was a stand along program not a plug in so maybe the demo is the problem but diligence & playing around with filters trying to brush off the cobwebs from my certification class several years ago yielded the best result.
I took all six tracks from the three cameras. Deleted a/b’s on all of them to make it mono. Then did a expansion of all the audio in the file to stretch up the frequencies and did a room tone removal (I ALWAYS do a 30 second room tone before every single take).
Deleted the expander. Opened the frequency spectrum, right clicked the graph and changed the graphical layout to show me as much frequency as possible. Deleted about 20 solid line sounds that ran across the files (power line hums, and other constant sounds. I really took my time with that.)
Then spend a serious amount of time on the Graphic EQ on each track just playing and THAT is what made it sound great. Its not perfect but with some fades and alternative editing the graphic eq saved my bum. I plan to spend three hours tomorrow re-doing the graphic eq because I think I can get it even better.
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Yes. The zoom cuts out for one minute so I only have camera audio. I deleted all the tracks but the wide shot audio because that was the closest to the talents. Then I deleted it down to a mono because it sounded better mono panned center than stereo
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No this extra project was filmed in SD 16:9 and I am being requested to deliver in 4:3.
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Oh man thanks so much for the input. I was actually just typing a response to my post a friend gave me a program tip.
Data Rescue 3 just saved my *&% !!!
It worked beautifully I had 5 corrupted files but they where short and thankfully it pulled all them and repaired it.
Anyone in this situation Data Rescue 3 or the above mentioned program.
Thanks for taking time to post!
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Thank you for taking time to respond.
It actually is possible just figured it out. I should have been more clear about that in my description to “look like it breaks apart into particles”.
I took the project file I made off the tutorial I followed and replaced the text with the image and it formed the image shape. I know the actual image can’t break apart but like in that tutorial he teaches to have the image glow and fade out into the particles. Now I just have to add behavior to suck down rather than out but this is exactly what I was looking for.
I looked at the project I was unable to get to work and I missed the speed setting thats why it didn’t form the shape of the image.
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well kind of because this is going into a animation where the leg has red “sore spots” where joints are and then in 3d environment a camera will zoom up on foot sock will fade onto the foot and stuff will happen the sock will fade off and camera zoom out and “sore pain” is gone.
I had done that and I also distorted the leg so it’s fudged as close as I could do it but producer wanted it to look better because we are going to do more to the image and in 3d you can see the foot being at wrong angle to leg
I seem to remember one of my friends using a tool to select the one corner of image and lock the other corners to distort just the top of image is that even possible or am I wrong in how I thought he did that?
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Son of a b*** thats such an easy obvious fix! Damn thank you after reading that I’m thinking wow thats simple I was over complicating it. Thank so much that will work. I haven’t done it but I know it will work. Your awesome thanks
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When you re-install your media will be preserved it only removes the program files from your HD not the project files or the media. You should have everything on a separate drive then your program drive though just as back up. For example I have my boot drive that ONLY has programs on it. I then have a separate drive only for project files .fcp .motn…. then I have another drive with my project file media, footage, assets. Finally I have a separate drive where all my programs save my auto-saves to. Now this is four layers of protection not everyone needs I’ve just been screwed and I edit for broadcast daily so I actually have another layer where my server is backed up exactly the same way with the four drives (even boot drive) so fi I have catastrophic failure I’ll (always) be protected. Not everyone needs to be this paranoid but I absolutely suggest that you NEVER have your project media on your boot drive with the programs. Eventually after extended use it’s recommended by apple to keep media and programs on separate drives so your not running a program that is pushing in and out of a drive then the media is doing the same thing. Then eventually you can have bottle neck and burn a drive. I strongly tell you this because it happened to me once. The more layers of protection better because you don’t want what happened to me having a show going to air in t minus four hours and boot drive failed with the media drive and thankfully I am paranoid and had sandbox drive and media backed up.
If you have the separate drive back it up anyway. But when removing FCS programs it only touches the top layer of your drive where the actual system files to run program lay.
I know that I am going overboard but it’s always best to have backups of everything you’ll thank yourself when you do have a failure. I run my machine top notch and it happens to me every three years.
IF you haven’t removed the program try deleting your preferences. Digitalrebellion.com offers a wonderful preference manager tool to remove them all with button click.
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Well I just captured some new footage in 1920*1080 and I almost always work in that format but this one project it was hdv. But the new 1920*1080 pro res I just captured and put in timeline it won’t play back the video it will jump to current frame on pause but it wont play any of my 1920*1080 or 1440*1080 timelines to my qc monitor
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What level of applications are you looking at? Make sure your looking at top layer HD apps not your user level apps. Final Cut Studio 2,3,x are compatible with Lion. There is no problem on the compatibility front with why it shouldn’t be working. Like Mark said we need more information. Version of Final Cut and Motion are the most important because that will dictate troubleshooting patterns. Also before you ever re-install delete preferences first