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Thank you kindly for that information! I agree, that is not well documented at all! After sitting there for a good 8 minutes with the relevant portions of the menu ghosted, I finally yanked the firewire out and suddenly they were available to be changed.

Just for anyone else who ever has this issue, I found the solution to my problem was two fold. I had the FCP settings correct (capture, device, capture preset, etc…) right, then I fixed the play back options on the camera, but then it still didn’t work! At my wits end, I threw away the FCP preferences and that did the trick.

Thanks for your help all!

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Let me know if you think of something else!

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Thanks, Chris. I’ll try that!

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Hey alichek,
Thank you so much for your advice! I have a question about #2 of your response. When you say:

“2. color correct the two clips you cut between, keyframe the tail and head of the respective clips to increase brightness and saturation and flash to white or near white with a burn-out effect. takes time but it’s all internal to fcp, no plug-ins or stock footage needed.”

Are you talking about the 3 way color corrector, or? IF you are, which layer of it are you key framing when you do this? (There are so many elements to that filter.)

Thank you and thanks to everyone for the valuable information!

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