John Pale
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I knew that, but did not think he was referring to thumbnail view. Perhaps he was though….I shouldnt assume.
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You can sort them alphabetically, by timecode, label, and a bunch of other ways, but not randomly by dragging.
If you need them in a specific order that is not a standard column, put numbers in the comments column and sort that way.
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[CathyCam] “I’m surprised Apple doesn’t mention that minor detail in their system requirements for FCP Studio.
“If you read the setup guides in the FCP manual, use of dedicated media drives is pretty clearly stated.
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It should work. Its 10 bit and 4:2:2. Not as good as Uncompressed, but probably a noticable improvement….BUT only if you don’t master back to DV…then you get the compression hit again.
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Me too. DVCPRO HD 1080i…all realtime.
I’m on a “lowly” dual 2GHZ G5.
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[Bob DeLano] “Are the video scopes in v6 real-time or the same as v5? “
The scopes in FCP 5.1.4 ARE realtime. You may have not noticed. The scopes in FCP 6 are the same.
Color has its own scopes, which are better and are the same as in FT.
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These are the actual media files for the “unrendered” , ‘media offline’, black clips, bars, etc. Its normal. if you delete them, they get recreated. Its normal, just let them be.
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The cancel and pause buttons are supposed to work (an usually do for me). They may not work instantly though…sometimes theres a bit of a long delay.
Once or twice, I had this problem and used Activity Monitor (Utilities folder) to cancel all Compressor related processes.
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Good idea, rendering your DV project in an uncompressed timeline. The color correction should hold up better. Make sure you are staying within legal boundaries…dont oversaturate or crush the blacks too much.
If your project is only 20 minutes, set Compressor to encode at a bitrate of 6.5 CBR (thats one pass constant bit rate). Encode your audio to AC3, not AIFF. That should yield good results. Do not use the “Best Quality” VBR settings. VBR is best for longer projects where you can save space on the disc using a lower bit rate in low complexity areas of the program, while using a higher bit rate for the more difficult to encode areas. This is unnecessary for a short program…just use a higher bit rate for the whole thing….but be careful…do not crank up the bitrate to the maximum. Recordable DVD’s cannot handle it. If you encode with too high a bit rate, the DVD player may exhibit artifacts…skip…or freeze.
You are basically saying you are getting poor results with every piece of software out there and you are surprised that nobody else is complaining.
The reason for this is simple… the software generally works well for most people. You just haven’t really learned how to use it yet. Nothing wrong with that.
[Shiloh] “It is connected via the apple DVI to S-video adapter (it treats the monitor as a second computer monitor unless FCP is open with digital cinema desktop preview activated for that monitor). When I connected it, I calibrated it through the system prefs menu in OSX, for contrast and brightness and then using FCPs NTSC bars and tone in the monitors Blue Only mode.”
This is not a good way to monitor your image. Computers use a different color space than regular video equipment. You will not be able to fix that just by “calibrating” your monitor. Connect your video monitor to a DV camcorder (connected to your mac via firewire) or DV to analog adaptor. The proper way to set up your system is in the manuals.
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If no alpha channel Apple 8 Bit Uncompressd (or Kona Software Codec equivalent on PC). The software codec for windows is available on AJA’s website.
If there is an alpha channel, use the Animation codec.