Mike Barber
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FYI, here is an excerpt from the EDL:
001 001 V C 11:02:08:14 11:02:20:00 01:00:00:00 01:00:11:11
* FROM CLIP NAME: VX348-1.MOV
* COMMENT: LENS_DEFOCUS_DIRTY002 001 V C 11:40:53:24 11:41:00:16 01:00:11:11 01:00:18:03
* FROM CLIP NAME: VX348-1 PT2.MOV
* COMMENT: DIRTY_DEBRIS_01
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Yes, but that’s in the export, not in the import.
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One is the Viewer (you’re preview viewer), the other is the Canvas (your timeline viewer). You are able to simultaneously see the different multiclip angles in the Viewer, but not in the Canvas.
If it is a split-screen look you are looking to achieve, try playing with the controls in the Motion tab of each clip. You’ll have to have the clips on separate layers.
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Basically, the client (who uses Avid) sent me a bunch of QT dailies in order to pull selects. After going through a few dozen clips with the VFX supervisor, I assembled the sections of the clips we wanted onto a timeline in FCP and then exported the EDL (as well as a QT) with a brief yet unique description for each clip as a comment.
I send this EDL and QT to the client who then has the DPX sequences generated and delivered to us. I’m not sure if there is a better way to do it, but I am always open to new/better ideas.
So, I take it that we shouldn’t expect the comment fields to be retained?
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There is no function within FCS that will do periodic/scheduled cleanup. For this you need to do some Unix scripting to set a Cron job to look for media that is a certain age and delete it. This can be dicey, best practice is to remove files manually.
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Using one of the Generators (under the Effects tab), create a solid colour and place it on the V1 track, then place your title overtop on the V2 track.
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Can you elaborate on what you mean by a “warped” movie? How many times did you try the iPhone preset? Was the result the same every time?
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Apparently we currently do not have a support agreement… at this time. I understand that will be renewed sometime soon. I think I found the problem in FrameCycler’s XML file (the .ircp doc) — but it’s the “what”, not the “why”… the “basefolder” node is being set to “.” rather than the path, despite my various experiments.
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“It looks like the Frame Cycler is converting the 1:00:00:00 start tc of your edl to the 90000 frame count.”
Right you were, Bob. When I changed the Final Cut Pro timeline TC to start at 00:00:00:00 rather than 01:00:00:00, FrameCycler started its timeline at frame 0, rather than frame 90000.
Still tracking down the other issue, haven’t had any luck finding a FrameCycler forum, can you believe that?!
Thanks for your help Bob!
Mike Barber
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Salut Oliver (je suis dans Montreal),
In FCP menu, go to View > Range Check and select Excess Luma.
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In the Canvas, click on the right pulldown menu (the zoom level being the left and the playhead control being the middle) and select Show Excess Luma
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With either the Canvas or Timeline selected, press ^Z (control+Z)
When you enable this you will see either a green circle or a yellow triangle in the Canvas as well as some zebra bars. A yellow triangle is accompanied with some red zebra lines; the red zebra lines indicate the overblown areas. If you see these, then you need to bring the whites down.
This is a quick way to check. Another way (the best practice) is to check your picture through the waveform monitor in the scopes window which will let you see just how much you are excedding the legal limits. FCP documentation has a decent write up about using the scopes. I encourage you to read up on them and how to use them in conjunction with the 3-way Colour Correction filter.
Mike Barber