[Ken Pugh]

Burn to CD first, then import. If using dv or similar codec remember to convert to 48K as well.

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

This I don’t understand!

I usually modify a clip by double clicking it in the timeline, this brings it into the viewer window (player) – where I add filters, movement etc. I can’t see how to bring a clip into the canvas (recorder) window. I thought this window just played the timeline…. but I must be missing something – having recently transfered from another edit system that did not have the source / record metaphor that I assume FCP has.

How do I access keyframes in the canvas?

In ignorance,

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

Yes I tried that – I only have the option to clear. You can add smooth keyframes to opacity, drop shadow and crop, but not to motion or distort.

Best,

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

Thanks for the tips – I’ll try them.

Best,

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

I have also now discovered that the waveforms were not caching correctly as the drive designated for these files was almost full. This was partly due to about 5 gigs of past projects in the autosave files in the vault!

Many thanks for all the suggestions, speedy timelines with waveforms and instant previews have returned – it seems FCP can emulate just about any other non-linear system, if you know where to look….

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

That’s it!

Many thanks, now to solve my sluggish audio waveforms…. maybe that’s alll the exuse i need for FCP5….

Cheers,

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

I’m finding that every time I move the timeline, and then return back to a section with a previously drawn waveform it re-draws again. I’m sure the waveforms used to cache, but for the last 6 months they always re-draw… and although I’m on a G4 D125, I do have a 128 Meg memeory card and 2 GIGs RAM. With eight tracks of audio zoomed out to show say 4 minutes I have to wait around 20 seconds every time I move the timeline!

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

Thanks, I use the waveform already, by using the follow function and putting the clip into the viewer window – I find the timeline waveform slows my system down too much. The K key is a useful tip too, thanks.

While I’m on the topic…. I wonder if you know of another function I’m trying to emulate – first the scenario:

My DSR570 camera tends to give me a blue fringe on certain edges – especially where light and dark edges meet and the image is over-exposed (like the leaves of a tree against the sky).

In Media 100 the colour corrector allowed me to reduce the blue, in YUV colour space using the ‘blue’ channel only at luminance values above say 90% only. It worked really well. I’ve tried the ‘desaturate highlights’ filter in FCP, which seems similar, but it doesn’t quite do the trick.

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

oops – found it! Buried in one of the folders I had not opened.

Thanks,

Great tip for striping dv tapes in the DSR-11.

Ken.

[Ken Pugh]

I can’t get simplevideoout to run! There does not sem to be an .app file in the bunch of files that I downloaded from apple. Can you tell me which file should work? Three of the files try and run graphic convertor, so maybe I have some resource fork issues??

Thanks,

Ken.