Kevin Monahan
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You’ll need a video capture card.
Kevin Monahan
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Pete,
Check the manual on page 55 for proper set up. A PDF of the manual is in the Help menu.Basically, you need to hook up the dazzle to the computer via firewire, not USB.
Hopefully, that will get you started.Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Yes, but I use the “Make Offline” dialog box to trash my media and the Render Manager to trash render files.
Kevin Monahan
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Along with the project file, you may want to back up any corresponding graphics or audio (music). Along with project file, and the original source tapes–that’s all you’ll need.
Kevin Monahan
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If fixing latency is all you’re looking for, check out the low cost cards from BlackMagic, like DeckLink. If you need SDI, you may need a more expensive card.
Kevin Monahan
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If I were editing in a hotel room, I’d get some mini-portable speakers. I have some Sonys that fold up into the size of two packs of smokes. They are much louder than the camcorders built in speakers or the powerbook’s tiny built ins.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Also make sure the Sequence > Render menus have the dark green “FULL” bars checked and that your timeline RT Pop Up menu is in Safe RT. Ditto what Frank said about having the x,y coordinates on whole, even numbers. Make sure that your imported graphics are not overly huge. No more than 2X the native frame size. For DV that’s 1440 x 960 at 72 DPI. You optimize images to that size and resolution in Photoshop.
Also, and maybe most importantly–only judge the rendered quality of the graphics in your video monitor, NOT the computer monitor.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Yes, Thax’s info is solid. I would say that the above info is probably the #1 confusion experienced by new FCP users. You see this problem every day, without fail, on all of the FCP boards. Now that you are armed with the info, you can go forward in understanding just how FCP works.
Just so you know, proper setup is explained on page 55 of the manual. Have a look!
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Check out my book for a full chapter on speed fx and two tutorials on how to use the Speed Tool for time remapping. (click my sig file).
Also, an article on my site explains the nuts and bolts. https://www.fcpworld.com/fcpfx_2.htm
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Yes, use Title Crawl. It’s part of Boris Calligraphy–if it’s not installed look in the Extras folder of the install disk. It has a deflicker option.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com