Greg Leslie
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I’ve been in touch with Wacom this past week as well, they’ve had me try several standard troubleshooting things (no USB hub, repair permissions, reinstall driver) , but the latest communication from them indicates my tablet (an older Bamboo model MTE-450) has obsolete technology.
Which tablet are you using?
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The step-to-edit keys only work if the tracks are “active” — that is, click on “Video 2” on the left edge of the timeline and highlight it to allow stepping to edits on that track. Activate several tracks and they will all step.
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Ha! I remember reading about your “quad split” in a broadcast trade and doing a forehead-slap. What a great idea!
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As the others have said, some things will be greatly accelerated, some things will pep up a little. A couple weeks ago I replaced my ATI 5870 with a GTX570 from macvidcards and I’ve been very pleased. Feels great to put a little new life in an older machine.
The only thing to watch out for is make sure you have the correct model of the 570 — there are several. The super-clocked version (model 1573) of the card was very crashy in my Mac Pro. You want the 1579, which is stock speed.
Greg Leslie
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Have you heard any news about this? The audio keyframes snapping away from the pen tip is driving me nuts.
Also, dragging any of the values in the Title Tool has the same problem. Drag the position, the element moves as you drag, but when you release the pen tip, the value jumps — if you’ve moved the value a lot, the jump is large. If you move the value a little, the jump is small.
Greg
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My bad. I don’t use X. Apparently that was fixed in 10.0.1.
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If you are fading out or dissolving from a multi-layer sequence, I’m saying it looks bad when editors put a dissolve transition on EVERY layer — as it dissolves out, you see THROUGH each layer to the background.
The layers should be treated as ONE IMAGE, either by nesting, or by putting the next shot ABOVE the outgoing layers and only dissolving IT in. Follow me?
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That’s a big pet peeve of mine — seeing someone fade to or from black (or dissolve to another clip) by putting a transition on every layer involved. Seeing the layers “melt apart” during the transition is jarring to me.
Does this bug anyone else? Just seems sloppy to me.
Greg Leslie
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Usually, I put a burn-in on a project so a client can reference shots or changes he or she wants to make. In that case, you’d want to nest your sequence and put a “Timecode Reader” filter on it (instead of Generator), so the displayed timecode matches your sequence. It doesn’t really matter if the burn-in is on the slate or black that precedes the piece.
And no, I don’t think there is a way to make the Timecode Generator plugin correctly display time leading up to whatever hour you’ve preset.
You can set your sequence starting timecode under Sequence -> Settings -> Timeline Options tab. In your case you’d start at 59:40:00. (assuming you’re in FCP7 — I don’t think you can change the starting timecode in FCPX)
best of luck,
Greg Leslie
Tulsa