[Jan Laidlaw]

Thank you. Yes, I only have Motion 4 at the moment.

If I’m understanding the link you provided, it sounds like I would also need a new drive for FCPX since partitioning my original drive is not an option for me? I have other hard disks for my projects but have never installed software on them. Sounds more complicated than I thought, but maybe I am misunderstanding the process.

[Jan Laidlaw]

Mine does this too. Is there any work around to be able to chromakey? What a pain. I know the software is ancient now but this is the only serious problem I’ve had with it so far.

I remember having this problem a few years ago and never was able to figure out why colour picker wouldn’t work.

Or maybe I am the last person still using FCP7…

[Jan Laidlaw]

Thanks Shane Ross, I’m still using FCP7 (more than 2 years after this post!) and have been struggling to get reasonable quality YouTube settings. Saving my QT movie as an MP4 in MPEG STREAMCLIP worked great!

[Jan Laidlaw]

Thanks, yes, I’ve spent a lot of time tweaking without good results so far.

I’ll be syncing audio right now in post, but still would like to hear of any positive results people have had with in-camera audio, or new ideas.

I would particularly like to know if anyone has used any of the Beachtek adapters with some level of success.

Thanks for the input.

[Jan Laidlaw]

I appreciate the response.

I use FCP7 but am considering Pluraleyes. I find it a bit expensive though for my budget.

Found this thread as well: https://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?240822-The-Canon-DSLR-Audio-thread If you scroll down to the video, it basically sums up the post.

I’d still like to find the “best” way to record sound on camera, since much of my shooting will be just a few feet from the camera with a talking head and on a tight timeline.

Thanks again.

[Jan Laidlaw]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I’ve heard that Magic Lantern doesn’t actually allow you to disable the auto-gain though: https://youtu.be/yTDgJBZE4Ww

I am wondering if anyone has used the Beachtek DXA-CONNECT XLR Adapter because that’s an option I’m considering, although I’d prefer a less expensive solution.

I don’t know if my attenuator is faulty but I can barely get any sound from it at any level and nothing comes through the headphone splitter either.

I was able to get some results using an ordinary mini to mini cable as shown here: https://youtu.be/AWi0ahWgoEc, but then I can’t use headphones. (Splitter didn’t work with the mini to mini set up either).

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[Jan Laidlaw]

I am in Color Corrector 3-way in FCP7 and my eyedropper is also behaving this same strange way. I click on gold, I get green. I click on white, I get brown, sometimes purple.

I seem to be totally unable to use match hue and I pretty much stumped.

Did anyone find a solution for this? I’m a little hesitant to delete preferences if that doesn’t fix the problem.

At first my eyedropper wouldn’t pick up color at all. Then when I rebooted I got the strange random colors.

Frustrating!

[Jan Laidlaw]

Well this is what I ended up doing, and it looked reasonable enough once uploaded:

Export using quicktime conversion, click options.

Video Settings:

Compression: H.264
Quality: High
Frame reordering: yes
Enoding mode: multi-pass
Dimensions: 720×480 (640×480)
Scale: Letterbox

Audio settings left as is.

And then I read your latest response – thanks for that.

Hope this will help someone else. Probably me when I go searching for it again in the future. 🙂

[Jan Laidlaw]

Thanks Rainer

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I’ve just started using FCP a couple of weeks ago. How would I make up a new sequence in 4×3? Would I change the sequence preset? And if so to what?

What are the steps to adding 16×9 Quicktime? i.e. is this a filter, a sequence preset…?

Just to clarify, the H264 for Apple TV played fine when I viewed it on my computer but *not* when I uploaded it to Withoutabox. So I’m not sure it’s the best setting in Compressor for this.

File size is also an issue, it takes forever to upload, but also because it’s a screener I want the quality to look reasonable.

[Jan Laidlaw]

Thanks Evan and everybody

I finally decided on

ESATA/USB TO SATA – StarTech SATADOCK22UE
$54.64

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA3 6GB/S 7200RPM 64MB Cache 3.5IN Dual Proc Hard Drive OEM
$119.99

Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green SATA3 Intelli Power 64MB Cache 3.5IN Internal Hard Disk Drive HDD
$119.99

OWC Slim 1 Port 3Gb/s eSATA ExpressCard/34 Host Adapter
$24.99

A friend of mine is using the StarTech SATADOCK22UE with good success. I really only need 2 extra drives and if I have more than one large project, I can just swap drives.

Crossing my fingers everything will work okay.

Thanks again for all the suggestions, everyone! I’ll let you know how it goes, if you want…