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Jeff Greenberg
June 27, 2011 at 1:18 pm in reply to: Hello from FCP

Just a short summary given that Job and Dennis gave such great answers:

Anything imported to MC is turned into a video resolution. Depending on the format switch when you imported – either SD or HD.

The Pan & Zoom (avid) plugin allows access to larger than video sized stills specifically for Pan & Zoom movements.
The BCC version (which is bundled with the paid product, along with Sorenson Squeeze) permits easier/more powerful pan and zoom options on stills – but is still linking to the original sizes outside of the software.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 27, 2011 at 1:14 pm in reply to: Script Sync question

Not really true.

What Avid has (and used to be free) is scriptsync. Give it a script and it can ‘sync’ to the script based on the phonemes of speech (engine provided by Nexidia.) It’s used on TV shows (and films) everywhere, just for this killer integration. Multiple takes, shifting between takes etc. It’s no longer free because nexidia changed the price of their licensing – but you get a 30 day trial to figure out if it’s right for you.

Adobe has their own speech recognition engine. When it’s against a script it has some of the ability of scriptsync. Without a script it’s so-so at best. With a script, it has its own workflow for different takes. For example, working off a single script doesn’t happen – you attach a script for each take. Very different workflows.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 27, 2011 at 1:09 pm in reply to: Xpress multimonitor

Not sure what version of Xpress you have.

If you have a Toolset menu – you can choose a toolset, move the windows around and then save the Toolset.

If you don’t have a toolset menu…the way to do this is more difficult – via “Workspaces” in your settings.

Activate a workspace. Move the windows where you want. Duplicate it (and use the duplicate for configuring a different look – say for audio or effects). Last: open the workspace and tell it not to update it anymore.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 27, 2011 at 12:58 pm in reply to: Workflow for 2 people anylysing and clipping interview material?

[Mark Dobson] “I presumably would still copy the interview media onto the laptop which also has FCP X on it.”

Yup, just copy any events into the Final Cut Events on a drive. Make sure it has the NAME.fcpevent and the Original Media folder.

[Mark Dobson] “Can she then create an event that can be emailed or transferred?”

I’m pretty sure that if you grabs the Folder with the name from the Final Cut Projects, that can be emailed. You probably don’t need the render files that are in there. it’s the folder + the NAME.fcproject file.

[Mark Dobson] “How does one create subclips?”
Closest I’ve been able to get is to select parts of clips and either Favorite or keyword them.
Then create a smart collection of the favorites or keywords

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 27, 2011 at 12:04 pm in reply to: How to backup FCPX application to DVD?

1) I think you can just drag and drop it to a DVD. Anything else there will be reinstalled in its first startup.
2) Yes, you should be able to download it from the APP store (to, as I understand it) on 5 different CPUs.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 27, 2011 at 11:48 am in reply to: Compressing Flip Video from Final Cut

The solution here isn’t going to be pretty.

FCP wasn’t meant to ever edit the footage out of a flip camera (h.264) – the general consensus is to transcode it to prores.

I can hear you though – what do I do now?

Try exporting as a QuickTime export from FCP – Make sure it’s set to Make movie self contained.

This should create a new piece of QuickTime media that Compressor should be able to handle.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 27, 2011 at 11:42 am in reply to: Quicktime wont install on my MAC

Romi,

For the future – don’t delete Apple technologies (Safari, QuickTime, Mail, etc) – they are upgraded/handled by the OS itself. I don’t think you’ve deleted QuickTime – merely the Application that resided in your Application directory. The underlying QuickTime libraries, codecs, etc should still be there.

I don’t have a box with 10.5.8 installed – but here are a couple of ideas

First, there is a program called Pacifist that will allow you to go back to your OSX install disk and pull out QuickTime – then you can go and just do software updates.

Second idea, download the COMBO updater for 10.5.8 from here– this is every change since the 10.5.0 release – and may just reinstall QuickTime.

Last (worst) idea: Reinstall the OS – and do a migration of all your stuff back.

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer | Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC | Adobe Cert. Instructor
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Jeff Greenberg
June 27, 2011 at 11:18 am in reply to: Toggling Visibility, Killing Time

On the bottom left corner of the timeline there is a little tiny speaker. Hit that.

This opens the timeline audio panel. There are buttons there for mute and solo – exactly what you’re looking for.

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer | Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC | Adobe Cert. Instructor
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Jeff Greenberg
June 27, 2011 at 11:16 am in reply to: Exporting a self-contained QT file from FCP

Your original problem was that you exported the materials in a QuickTime codec that your friend didn’t have. Certain codecs like XDCAM, DVCProHD and some others are not free – they require a license.

Instead of using QuickTime export or QuickTime conversion – just punch it over to compressor – use the Youtube preset (it’ll produce a decent quality QuickTime file with the codec h.264)

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
June 27, 2011 at 11:13 am in reply to: Audio tracks

Select the clip, press Control Period – you’ve just panned it center.

Best,

Jeff G

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