Mark Raudonis
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While at MacWorld I visited the booth of Lynda.com an online training company. They have an extremely deep list of training topics… everything from FCP to After Effects etc.
One of the free “samples” that anyone can access is a clip from Larry Jordan’s “FCP beyond the basics”. This segment just happens to address exactly the question of how to setup FCP for multiple audiotrack output. There was stuff in this tutorial that I didn’t know about. It’s worth a look. Here’s the URL:
https://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=180
Find “Setting up for multichannel output” and click on it.
Enjoy.
Mark
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Dave,
Here’s the simple list.
1. all media (QT)
2. Project file
3. Any grfx imported
4. Any music used
5. Render files (Optional: Most people just redo them locally)Thats it. I’m sure your next question will be, “How do I relink these files on the new system?”
mark
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It’s you.
Mark
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Steve,
An SDI signal contains BOTH timecode and audio within the signal… all on one cable.
Your BlackMagic card should easily decode that info upon digitizing.
mark
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Here’s a pretty amazing site. It has the logs and type faces of just about any tv show or movie you can think of.
https://typenow.net/themed.htm
Enjoy.
Mark
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Googling “Final Cut pro for Avid editors” yielded over one million hits! Obviously, there alot of interest in this topic.
To help you get started, I’d suggest a book titled “Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors” by Diana Weynand. It’s sole goal is to translate FCP into terms and concepts that Avid users are comfortable with. It’s a fine book and a Diana’s a great teacher. When we switched our entire company to FCP a few years ago, we hired Diana and her company to come in and personallly lead the transition. We haven’t looked back since.
In your post you say, “Honestly, FCP looks a bit slow and disorganized at first glance.” I would caution you that you’re trying to compare ten years of Avid to ten minutes of FCP. Don’t underestimae the learning curve. You can get up and running in a few minutes, but it will be weeks before you truly feel comfortable and actually understand the subtle difference in philosophy behind the interface design. We’ve transitioned over a hundred “die-hard” Avid editors over the past few years, and they all “hit the wall” after about two weeks. “Arrrgh! I’ll never understand this!”. Once they stop trying to “make it work like an Avid”, the smiles appear and the “Arrrghs” turn into “Ahhhhs!”.
I would also strongly suggest NOT trying to do the transition yourself. There’s a certain synergy that takes place with a teacher by your side to immediately offer help, suggestions, and techniques to keep you from learning “the wrong way”. Three days with a teacher probably equals three weeks on your own.
Good luck. Learning FCP is a great New Year’s Resolution.
Mark
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[You Can Call Me Al] “However they didn’t like it as best as I can tell”
They shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Why do you care if they didn’t like it as much? Screw them. You did them a favor. Look at it this way, they probably won’t ask you to do another!
I usually deflect these kind of requests by finding out what the “requestor” does for a living and asking for a similar amount of “free” services.
“You’re an attorney? Great. Let me ask you about my will. Do you think you can just write one up? For free? It won’t take long with all those new fangled “digital lawyers” they’ve got now days. ”
Stops ’em cold every time.
Mark
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Might be that your clip is corrupt. Look at that clip in the finder level. Is it OK? Does it play in QT player? If not, your clip is corrupt and your only choice is to redigitze. If it plays OK in QT, then try Charlie’s suggestion: new pref’s and restart.
Mark
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make sure that your deck is properly configured to send DV 50 down the firewire. It may be set to DV 25 and then you’ll be chasing your tail trying to get the clip settings to match a signal that’s NOT there.
mark