Neil Patience
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This sounds like the bug that causes the clip to be truncated if you do anything else in FCP while the log and transfer tool is transcoding.
Try setting it running and just not touching the computer at all.
If it is that you should find it works fine.
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Ok I think the thing that you are describing is possibly the thing that
they call “The Slip Tool” thing.If you look at your tool pallete thing its the 5th thing down that looks a liitle like a pair of glasses.
Click the clip in your timeline that you want to slip and then slide left or right.
The in and out points will change but the duration and position of the clip remains constant.
Is that the thing ?
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Sadly Richard is right in terms of cheap.
FCP Studio 3 will indeed run on Lion quite happily. It is still available to buy as a full version only but is obviously no longer being developed so it is pretty much obsolete. However if you can get enough use out of it in the next couple of years or so then it may be worth your while.
Another option of course is eBay – you will need either:
a full version of FCP Studio 3or
You could buy a full version of FCP Studio 2 or any full version of FCP stand alone and then also a FCP Studio 3 upgrade. (only available used not from Apple now)
This can work out cheaper as the early full versions, especially the FCP stand alone rather than Studio tend to go pretty cheaply.
The upgrade version of FCP Studio 3 is cheaper too so if you get lucky and can find those it can work out less overall.You need to make sure that you get a tranferable license from both versions and just use it as means to upgrade. Load the upgrade directly, it will then request 2 sets of serials, its own and the older full version. (You dont need to load the old software first and cant on Lion in any case)
For example
or this
together with this
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Final Cut Xpress will not open Final Cut Pro projects, however Final Cut Pro can open Xpress projects.
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4115
Final Cut X is not compatible with either of these products in terms of projects.
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Neil
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You should be able to tell the format for the recording by looking top left of the viewfinder just under the battery meter.
If it is HD it should say 1080i – it may also say DVCam or DV in which case your recording is not HDAlso as Shane points out it can also be set to downres HDV to DV so look at the iLink menu and see if that has been set to convert, If the viewfinder says 1080i but it is outputting DV then this is the reason.
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Neil
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If you have 6.06 you can either buy an upgrade or a full version.
If you buy an upgrade then you just load that – when it comes to entering the serial number it will first ask for the FCP3 (V7) serial, recognise that as an upgrade and ask for your FCP2(V6) serial.Or if you buy a full version – just load it and it wont ask for the 2nd serial number.
The software itself is identical in both cases and there is no need to load the V6 first (you cant anyway on Lion without a lot of hassle and meessing about with Rosetta) you just need the serial.
Hope that clarifies it.
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Neil
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The only way you can really tell what your text and pictures look like is to check them on a proper television monitor.
Most computer monitors do not conform to the native sizes of tv pictures so things can look a little odd if say you are viewing a 720 x 576 or 1920×1080 picture on a screen that nativly displays 1680×1050
TV pictures will look better on some computer monitors and not so good on others depending on how much resizing is going on but usually there is some pixel mashing to make them fit your screen so sharp edges like text is the first to suffer.You should get a good idea what your captions look like of you set your canvas window to 100% and make sure everything is rendered.
When you view them try to view them at native size if not you will find that 50% size looks better than some arbitary 65% size or whatever.
But for consistant results a monitor that can display native tv size pics will serve you best.
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Neil
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Yes you can do this pretty easly.
Firstly set up what you would like to be your default layout.
Then under the window menu select arrange.You can then name, save or recall your layout.
You can also choose some preset layouts there.
You can use the shortcut ctl u which will return your window layout to a standard setting.
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Neil
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[tom bailey] “Is there a program that will drop or merge those two extra frames… but without going all jittery?”
The problem you have is that by turning 27fps into 25 fps its not that you have 2 spare frames the the other 25 match each other.
Each of your 25 frames is in effect 1.08 frames of your 27 frames, so the 2 “extra frames” are kind of spread across the 25.
Thats why it is slightly slowed down. Its like if you shot at 50 fps and then played back at 25 it would be half speed.
I have to be honest I have never in 20 years of editing been given 27 frame material as it, as far as I know, does not conform to any technical standard in any television system or film standard.
So I am not quite sure what you would use to do this standard conversion as everything is geared around going from 30 to 25 or 24 to 25 etc but 27 is an odd one.I understand the idea of using it as a way of avoiding lighting flicker and the small change in frame rate is probably largely inperceptable in terms of motion.
Maybe they would overcrank film cameras back in the day to achieve this but a more usual way with video is to use a shutter that negates the flicker.If the pictures look smooth as they are how about attacking it the other way and slowing the audio down for those shots ?
Timestretch in Soundtrack Pro could be helpful
or you could slow the audio down in FCP by I think 92.59% then use pitch shift to make it sound correct. Try about -80 ish as a pitch filter value but you will need to experiment.best wishes
Neil
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A friend of mine wanted to get LiveType to work on Lion and he told me he did manage it.
I am pretty sure it was FCP6 on Lion 10.7.1
First you must install Rosetta which I am pretty sure is a seperate app on the Snow Leopard install disk.
One you have Rosetta then you can install FCP6 on Lion.
Apparently he installed FCP6 Live Type and Cinema tools and while not really totally testing it out said FCP seemed to run OK but Cinema Tools crashed a lot.So possibly a mixed result I certainly wouldnt be suprised if other things did run smoothly but it seems it can be done.
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Neil
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