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Michael Colin
July 29, 2012 at 5:44 pm in reply to: Is it really worth upgrading to CS6?

PP6 is excellent software. I’m doing an offline edit of RED EPIC 5K footage on a 2009 17″ MacBook Pro. I have to use 1/16 resolution, but coming from the earliest days of lo-rez AVID editing, that’s nothing. And it’s not just cuts-only, I can use simple transitions, effects and motion parameters. All with software-only Mercury Engine. Pretty amazing.

Michael Colin
Michael Colin
January 21, 2012 at 12:32 am in reply to: Proapps Quicktime Codecs 1.0 Glitch?

Thanks for the response, Shane, but the problem is not with Quicktime. The clip looks the same in FCP and QT, it’s Compressor where the clip appears darker.
Michael Colin
June 25, 2011 at 2:58 am in reply to: Reference Movies

Reference movies have been a CRITICAL part of my workflow for years. It’s the dirty little secret I’ve always kept from producers who are SO impressed at how I can work in FCP while also working in Compressor, DVDSP, After Effects, etc. This is one of my biggest disappointments with the new version. (Second biggest is apparently not being able to use Photoshop files with layers. Jeez….)
Michael Colin
April 26, 2010 at 1:40 am in reply to: copy/paste keyframes in FCP

I’ve been using FCP since version 1, at which time (coming from AVID) I renamed it Workaround Pro. But I love it as much today as I did in V.1, workaround warts and all, and will gladly live with the workarounds before I jump ship and go back to AVID or Premiere. (Although the Mercury Engine in Premiere CS5 is making me THINK…!)

Yes, they’re all just tools, but, dammit, FCP has…character! AND I get the job done! Ever see something like Bruce the Yak in AVID or Premiere?

Girding myself for the flame war….

Best,

Michael Colin
Michael Colin
April 22, 2010 at 5:00 pm in reply to: Reference Movie with XDCAM and FCP7

Appreciate all the feedback. The reason I’m still puzzled is that I RECOMPRESSED the XDCAM sequence to ProRes with Media Manager and rendered all. Even then, trying to output a reference movie took a very long time.
Michael Colin
April 22, 2010 at 3:07 am in reply to: Reference Movie with XDCAM and FCP7

MPB 2.8GhZ Core Duo, 4GB RAM, G-RAID FW 800, OSX 10.5.8
Michael Colin
April 22, 2010 at 1:57 am in reply to: Reference Movie with XDCAM and FCP7

Okay, so I transcoded the XDCAM material to ProRes 422 and rendered. Then AGAIN tried to export a reference movie. Instead of the mere moments I’m used to waiting for a reference movie of this length (4 mins), the sequence again started to back up to something like an hour.

I’m thinking my beloved reference movie function has been hamstrung in FCP7….

Best,

Michael Colin
Michael Colin
May 18, 2009 at 7:09 pm in reply to: Convergent Design Nano Flash

Michael, how did you get your hands on one of these? I thought the nanoFLASH didn’t ship until June.
Michael Colin
September 10, 2008 at 1:42 am in reply to: Text in DVCPRO HD

Hi, Shane. It’s a sans serif font (Arial?), white on black, pretty small size (22 points or so). Just using the FCP text generator. Also tried using a Photoshop file and a Shake-generated clip. It looks okay in the native format, but looks pretty bad at the DVD stage. Thought it might be the codec, but I guess not.

Thanks,

Michael Colin
Michael Colin
July 23, 2008 at 6:14 pm in reply to: Slo Mo 24PN in FCP

Thanks, Shane. So maybe convert the footage to 60i and mess with then, huh?

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