Kevin Monahan
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I guess this is for dodgy audio, eh? For instance, the audio guy recorded at too low a level, right?
I haaaaaate that, damn audio guys!
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Well, selecting a gap with Mark Clip is just like selecting a clip with Mark Clip. Park the playhead in the gap and tap the X key. Then you’ll have an in and out perfectly marked for the gap (no need to go left one frame with the playhead for the out point). The only caveat is that you have to have the proper track auto-selected.
There are a couple of reasons to mark a gap, one is to find out the duration of the gap, so you can narrow down which clip is long enough to fill it OR you simply want to make an edit into the gap with a 3 point edit.
Hope that makes sense.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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I like the idea of internal storage or an array. Do you have to have portable drives? If stability is the issue rather than portability, go with internal drives or an array so you can do 8/10 bit or one of the other formats with very little trouble. FW800 has enough throughput for most jobs, but I still feel better with SATA internal drives. Plus, FW drives take up room in the office while internal drives stay tucked out of the way.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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I’ve heard that speed mods are supposed to be fixed, but I have not tried it yet.
Wayne, your problem is that you are missing the crucial step in that you need to “Make Sequence Clips Independent”. It’s a required step introduced in FCP 4 around 2003. Many people get tripped up by this because you don’t actually perform the step in the media manager. You do it prior to media managing a sequence.
It’s all spelled out in this article:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/FCP_4_trim_dang_it.htmland, of course, in the manual. 😉
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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“Good” is a relative term. Give us your real budget with real numbers brotha’.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Can’t you guys just zoom in on the track?
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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X will do it. You just have to have the track where the gap is located Auto Selected.
Just a reminder if you use your playhead to mark in and outs on gaps. When you mark out, you MUST go left one frame prior to marking out to accurately do so.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Josh,
First of all, you probably are not rendering properly nor are you monitoring your rendered effects properly.Peter is correct:
First read this:https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/rendering_rt_fcp_4_balis.html
What should you learn from that article?
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[nevo] “we make content for a super wide screen projection screen and use custom sequence settings to acheive this. Our sequences are 2160×576 PAL DV. each piece is 3-4 minutes long. we are having several issues when it comes to exporting quicktime movies”
I’m curious about the “super-wide” projection. What kind of machines playback this huge sequence, anyway?
[nevo] “sometimes part way through the render it will just choke and give an out of memory dialog box. I though this could mean we have a corrupted file or clip – but its way too random for that – sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt.
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Which codec are you using? Animation at custom size?[nevo] “the third issue is that the quality of the final quicktime movie is poor – looks like its been rendered to medium or preview quality”
OH…you probably just need to enable the High Quality viewing option in QT. In QT, type CMD + J > Video Quality > High Quality. Try that.
I have experience with oversized sequences, but I usually use them to pan/scan them through an SD frame.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Roy,
First of all, you probably are not rendering properly therefore making your NTSC preview faulty.
First read this:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/rendering_rt_fcp_4_balis.html
What should you learn from that article?