Kevin Monahan
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You might want to repost this on the BOSFCPUG page here on the cow.
Kevin Monahan
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Try tossing your prefs.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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The Preview Disabled problem can be solved by tossing prefs ususally.
This really shouldn’t matter anyway, as footage should show up on your NTSC video monitor regardless. You probably also do not have your speakers properly connected. Ideally, they should be connected to the DV Deck or Camcorder, along with the video monitor.
Many people do not work with FCP set up as a system. Try it this way and I’ll bet things go a lot smoother.
Kevin Monahan
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I’d just grade in FCP. The color corrector is just fine IMO.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Sorry for not offering a better answer than simply, “Don’t use TOD”. That wasn’t very helpful.
What it sounds like you are doing is using Capture Now for capturing your entire tape roll, and this can often lead to problems no matter the TC you are using.
What I recommend is that you capture the clip using Log and Capture (which allows you to avoid when TC goes off the tape, a source of trouble) and then using DV Start Stop detection to lay in markers for each TC Break. Select the Markers then Modify>Make Sub Clips.
Then, all you need to do is synch up each set of subclips in the Multi-clip dialog.
Would that work for you?
Kevin Monahan
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Slower drives, corrupted drives, full drives, daisy-chained FireWire drives, no 911 Oxford chip in FireWire drives, slower camcorder FW port connected to higher speed FireWire drive are all perils of using portable FireWire drives. Internal drives that are not too full and are re-initialized between each major project have much higher rates of success–and that’s what you want. If you are very careful witth the right FireWire drive, you can usually output safely. But all the planets have to be aligned. 😉
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Michael,
Or you can do this dynamically by using the slip tool with the command key held down. Bonus! You get the two-up window in the Canvas.Try doing a search for “Slip” in the manual. You should see all of the techniques listed here. Slipping is one of the basic tenets of the editing trade. Yep, every NLE has several ways to slip.
I hope you won’t take this the wrong way but I bet if you took a certified class in FCP, all of these tricks would be revealed to you. This is definitely in the 101 course material.
I consider it an enlightening thing to take courses, you can never stop learning. I take ’em all the time.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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I point you to my book, because I show how to build a convincing film look right inside of FCP that uses the export to QT as a base. You build up successive layers with comp modes and masks to finish the look. Go ahead and try that if you are speaking my language. 😉
I think this is a cool technique that you can either use as is, or nested and used as a basis for finishing with G Film from nattress.com
So you like plug-ins? Not free, but you a chunk of them free with the book.
These custom plug-ins are called “Telly’s FX”, which were coded by Graeme Nattress. I feel that many of them are useful for things that I could only formerly pull off in After Effects, including random number generators, a better noise generator, vertical and horizontal blurs, diplacement filter with a matte channel that plays back the entire clip-not the first frame and finally, a bump map filter with the same matte channel performance upgrade.
Yep, way cool. Many people underestimate the cool fx you can make with FCP. For Sure!
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Before you do a “crash record” do what most people forget to do. Render video at Full Quality and set the Audio Quality to High. Then do an audio mixdown. Then crash record. This will ensure that you get the highest quality and the lowest overhead as you play out.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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DV Garage is about to release “DVMatte Blast”, which runs in Motion and FCP. It rocks in Motion and it harnesses the GPU, so the adjustments you make are totally RT. Alex Lindsay just showed this to us at SF Cutters last WED. 3 clicks and you’re in the zone. Fewer features than his DVMatte Pro, but also way cheaper, like $99 or something. If you were doing corporate video with a lot of green screen shots and not much time, this would be the ideal tool. Does a good down and dirty job of keying which works well in DV, HDV and HD.
Keep your eye out for it.
If I were you videobiker, and had a dozen shots to key on a deadline–Blast would be the ticket.
BTW, Jerry. I don’t have Motion, so how simple is keying with Primatte and Motion? Quick?
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com