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Jeff Greenberg
July 1, 2011 at 12:14 pm in reply to: Eliminating Overexposed White Areas

There is no easy/magic way to fix this. It’s blown out.

The way that will cause the least amount of notice isn’t easy – you’d track the window using mocha and do some sort of replace. It’s hard to get it to ‘look’ realistic.’ Google Sky replacement mocha and you’ll get an idea of what’s possible (A version of Mocha comes with AE.)

In the future, the choice is to change the camera setup or gel the window (I know, i know, too late.)

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
July 1, 2011 at 11:59 am in reply to: offline hd codec

There isn’t an internal codec for Premiere Pro. Probably your best bet will be cineform (which you’ll have to pay for; decoder is free.)

Which is the reason you’re doing this – the smaller file (makes sense) or the export? The Export size, using previews will accelerate the export (if you’ve rendered) – but at the cost of quality.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
July 1, 2011 at 11:54 am in reply to: More Like FPC7

The concept here is this:
Stereo clips can only go on stereo tracks.
Mono clips can only go on mono tracks.

The default presets only start with STEREO Tracks – which is why you should modify the default timeline.

Once on the timeline, you can’t modify the original clips audio – because it’s on an audio track that would no longer match if you were to modify it.

Luckily, if you use a clip, it shows you what sequences it’s being used in.

Another dirty trick/tip I learned is to duplicate the clip…and modify the duplicate. THAT it will let you do.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
July 1, 2011 at 11:48 am in reply to: Black and White Border in Final Cut Pro

Yup.

Layer a clip on top of itself.

On the top clip, put the widescreen matt effect. Set it to 2:35:1 (or anything more than 16×9). Give it a border in the widescreen effect.
On the bottom clip, put the desaturate effect.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
July 1, 2011 at 11:46 am in reply to: Problem adding transitions

King,

A transition requires footage from past the edge of the clip. If you use the last frame of a clip, the transition cannot extend beyond that point – as there is no material to draw from. The concept is called a ‘handle’ – the unused footage.

There are a couple of ways to deal with this. IF you use the blade tool and cut 15 frames off the ends (shortening both clips) you’ll be able to create a transition.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
July 1, 2011 at 11:42 am in reply to: DNxHD a bit choppy on Mac

Yes, it’s just QuickTime not playing nice. Doing this in QuickTime X or QuickTime 7?

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
July 1, 2011 at 11:39 am in reply to: using directional keys in timeline

Scrubbing is off. Shift S.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
July 1, 2011 at 11:38 am in reply to: Can I change audio from a stereo pair in a clip from the bin that im looking at in the viewer?

Noam,

First, you should know that FCP7 doesn’t handle native AVCHD video well; everyone pretty much transcodes it using compressor, mpeg streamclip or a couple of other tools.

But the quick answer to your question is to pan the stereo clip center – putting both tracks (the one with audio and the empty track) panned center. Modify>Audio> Center Pan. Another way to handle this would be to modify the clip and tell it to no longer be a stereo pair. Modify> Stereo pair.

A stereo pair by definition is two audio channels. What you really want is to either remove the other audio channel (can be done on the timeline, IF it’s modified to be no longer a stereo pair.) When you do this you have two mono clips that both have pan and volume capabilities independent of each other.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
July 1, 2011 at 11:20 am in reply to: final cut pro x problem with templates, generators and titles

John,

I haven’t forgotten about this – merely busy.

If it works in a new user but not in yours, the problem is limited to, essentially, your user’s library.
Your HD/Users/JohnW/Library

There are two or three major items in there; the preferences, the application support and the caches.
The first play was for a couple of preferences – it could be a silly/dumb one that I’m not expecting (such as some QuickTime pref- but I doubt it’s that) that’s involved with the drawing of motion items. It could be a cache that wasn’t created correctly.

And yes, it could be the famous ‘disk permissions.’

That’s at least where this leads. I’d have more but it’s a crazy day (considering it’s 7am now…and I’ll get a chance to breathe around 6pm tonight – and then there’s the 3 day weekend.)

I just wanted you to understand where my head was at since I’m not giving it my full attention.

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer | Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC | Adobe Cert. Instructor
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Jeff Greenberg
June 30, 2011 at 5:17 pm in reply to: The best codec to use in Premiere?

Stuttery – Drop the playback to 1/2 or 1/4

QuickTime – you have to build it custom by 2x clicking the preset. Then you’ll have to go to the Video tab. Pick a different codec (what kind of video are you trying to make? The default of DV is always 720×480 in NTSC). I picked animation (for example) and the width/height became free for me to make changes)

That should get you started.

Best,

Jeff G

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