Jeff Carpenter
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Ivan is correct that the “N” key turns off snapping, but I’m not positive that’s what you’re talking about. Snapping is when you drag things around the timeline they will jump to the edges of other things. “N” will toggle that feature.
But it kind of sounds to me, Ed, like you’re talking about when you drop a long clip on the timeline and the playhead jumps to the end of that clip. If that is what you’re talking about then no, you can’t turn it off. But you CAN hit the up-arrow key to move you to the start of a clip. So just drop it and then hit “up.” It’s not quite as good as turning that off, but it’s the next best thing.
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You should start by using Disc Utility in the APPLICATION/UTILITIES folder and repair permissions on your drive. That’s a good first step for these kind of problems.
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1) The iSight is seen by the computer as simply a firewire camera. Becuase it can only deal with one firewire camera/deck at a time you’ll have to pick one or the other depending on what you’re doing.
2) I know for a fact that you could play a tape in the DSR-11 and someone could watch that over iChat but I don’t know that they could watch live editing. That would require the video to go OUT of the computer from Final Cut and then back IN to the computer in iChat. I think only one application at a time can play with a device so I don’t know that it would work. Now, if you had a SECOND Mac you could run the firewire out of the first Mac into the firewire and iChat of the second Mac and you’d get that result.
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Hey, that’s pretty cool.
Off the top of my head I was going to suggest an average of 2.5 and a max of 6 and that page suggested 2.28 and 6.30. So that looks like a good guess!
No matter what I or that site says, Brian, be prepared for some trial and error. Depending on how much motion is in your video that might not work or it might work TOO well and you’ll end up with a 3 GB DVD.
Be ready to adjust it slightly up or down after your first test to get as close to 4 GB as you can. There’s no way to know for sure what your video is going to come out as so you’ll just have to do it 3 or 4 times and pick the largest file without going over.
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I can’t really say for sure, but I would suggest putting the FX-1 furthest away from the action. I suspect it will look slightly sharper than the other cameras even if you shoot in DV mode, but since the long (zoomed in) shots tend to look a little softer anyway it should serve to simply help to make the back camera look a little better…look more like the front camera.
If you put the FX-1 up close to the action then your close up shots will be even sharper than the back camera than they already are and that’s when you’d probably notice a difference, I’d guess.
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Is it an MP3? Convert it to a 48 kHz AIFF file either in iTunes or in Quicktime BEFORE you bring it into Final Cut
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Even though the RAM doesn’t help your render times, it does sound as if this RAM is hurting yours!
If the 5-minute dissolves started when you put them RAM in you should take it back out and see if that fixes it. If it does then the RAM is causing that problem somehow. If you’re certain you’ve followed Apple’s instructions correctly (in other words, filled in the correct slots and left the correct ones open) then you should probably contact the place you got it from and ask to exchange it. There could be something wrong with it.
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Or not, now that I’ve thought about your question a little more. I see you’re looking for a key to hold. “n” will toggle it on and off, which is close, but not exactly what you meant. I don’t know the answer to your question.
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I think “n” is what you’re looking for.
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If you’re buying an old machine from Apple then they often include all of that, yes.
But if you’re buying it from somewhere else then I doubt they would. How could they know that no one has been using the computer all this time? As far as they know it’s the same as any other Mac they sold last year.