[Julie Bigford]

Nevermind, I’m going in another direction with this.

[Julie Bigford]

Nesting will work if you have gaps, you don’t need to use slugs.

I was going to suggest the “past attributes” method, but Zak got there first. I love that feature and use it all the time.

[Julie Bigford]

I’m using two 17″ monitors. I adjust my layouts depending on what I’m doing. When I’m first cutting a project together I have everything on the left monitor except for the canvas, audio meters, and tools. Blank space can be used for scripts, etc.
https://ebaudio.com/Normal.png

When I’m editing the audio I have just the timeline, audio meters, and tools on the left, everything else on the right:
https://ebaudio.com/Audio.png

And when I’m color correcting I have everything on the left but the video scopes (I don’t worry about having the canvas or viewer being big because I have my NTSC to see details with):
https://ebaudio.com/Color_Correcting.png

[Julie Bigford]

It asks for the old serial number, I don’t think it looks for the old version on the hard drive. I could be wrong on that though.

[Julie Bigford]

Thanks guys! I guess I just didn’t do my homework on compatibility as well as I thought I did. I had talked to a colleague about it and we thought we were running the setup so I thought I’d be ok. But I guess that while we’re both using FCP 5, he’s using 5.1.

Well, maybe this will help my “we should upgrade” case with my boss 😉

[Julie Bigford]

I’ve been using it for a long time now with no problems, though. They only started when I upgraded to Leopard. So are my only solutions to either upgrade to FCP Suite 2, or downgrade to the previous operating system?

[Julie Bigford]

I thought that by changing my easy setup to PAL, I was working in a PAL sequence. I guess not…

I started over and made sure that I made my sequence AFTER I changed my easy setup (I now see the dialogue box telling me that only new sequences will be affected by the change) and hot damn! It worked!

Thanks everyone for all of your help and patience!!

[Julie Bigford]

Sorry for asking so many questions! I just want to make sure I’m doing it right, I’m not getting the same results as you did in the tutorial :S

1. I exported the sequence to an uncompressed QT.
2. Opened a new project in FCP and imported the QT
3. Changed my easy setup to DV-PAL
4. Placed my QT on the timeline.
5. Nested the clip: In the Nest Items dialogue box, it is set at 720×480, NTSC DV (3:2) Aspect Ratio. But in the tutorial, your dialogue box had the dimensions/aspect ratio already set to PAL. Have I done something wrong at this point? Or do I just need to change the aspect ratio to CCIR 601/DV PAL (5:4)?

If I change the aspect ratio to PAL and I complete the rest of your instructions, this is what I get. (I can’t get the link to work, here’s the page: https://ebaudio.com/NTSC_to_PAL_img_1.png) Note how the scale is at 83.33%, and the clip is not as wide as the canvas. Is this right?

Sorry for bothering you all, I’m just not really sure of what I’m doing! Thanks!!

[Julie Bigford]

Excellent! Thanks so much!!

[Julie Bigford]

The video tutorial on nattress’ website showed me how to covert a single clip. I have about 1 minute of clips on a timeline that I need converted. Can I do the whole timeline at once? Or do I have to do each clip individually?

I ask the question because in the tutorial, one step is to take the original clip from the browser and drag it into the “Source Clip” value in the filter. This makes me think that I have to convert each clip individually. I’m just hoping that there is a way to do the entire sequence at once.

Thanks!