Kevin Monahan
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Which flavor of uncompressed HD do you want to run? How much do you want to store? You’ll need a few terabytes, probably. I like Xserve RAID–but others will have some suggestions, I am sure.
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How does it look on the video monitor? Do you still see the dropouts?
No Audio? Make sure the speakers are connected to the deck/camcorder.
Kevin Monahan
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Use Disk Utility’s “Restore” function. Very simple!
Kevin Monahan
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Do a find for Boris Title 3D prefs and trash ’em.
Kevin Monahan
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Suggest you up your dosage my good man.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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I’ve found that a lot of FireWire drives get corrupted by people not unmounting their drives before disconnecting them. I do this every time before shutting down or when swapping drives. Most novices do not do this, because they don’t know they need to. If you unmount drives before disconnecting them, you’ll never fry your b-tree. A fried b-tree can usually be salvaged with Disk Warrior–but not always. Re-initializing is often the only thing you can do. This means you’ll have to recapture your stuff is all.
Kevin Monahan
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My article on kenstone.net should help you.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/chroma_key_fcp_hd_monahan.html
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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You simply select the items you want to nest and type Option + C. They then collapes into a single unit and appear as a sequence inside your timeline and Browser. If you want to use these as a “template”, you’ll have to Duplicate the nest, then change the items inside the nest, such as new names, etc. Do not Copy/Paste them, duplicate them–or else ALL your nests change.
Personally, I build lower thirds using cropped color mattes and Title 3D–then nest them. I like to be able to have a drop shadow playing onto the color matte.
Hopefully, this makes sense to you. Otherwise, you might try reading up on nesting in the manual. I also wrote a book which explains it succinctly.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Did you upgrade to QT 7 per chance? If so, reinstall FCP.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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It’s also described in my book, with a step by step and footage you can use. Please check it out if you like to do a lot of FX. It will save you a lot of trouble and give a deeper knowledge about how effects work with FCP. That way, you can figure out a lot of this stuff on your own–and that is empowering. 😉
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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