[Nick Derrico]

I really think that Adobe is gonna step up and fill in all the gaps with CS6…

CS5.5 was written before Apple made their decisions to part ways with FCP as we know it. Now that this is known, I hope Adobe goes and gives us the [few] missing holes in PPro that FCP7 offered. Then they need to advertise the crap out of it and maybe even re-offer the 50% deal (which is what got me to switch).

My list is pretty small, I’ve submitted my requests, hopefully other people have the same requests and Adobe listens.

– More stock transitions, even cheesy ones (I don’t have a good answer when my client can do something in iMovie that I can’t do in Premiere Pro haha)
– Easier way to set and change duration for still clips and transitions
– More control of transitions (like what direction a clip moves with the Push transition)
– Snap to the razor blade tool
– Ability to change the audio format (mono/stereo) AFTER the track is imported
– More than 4 cams in multicamera mode

Just little things like that would be great. Make sure you submit:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

Thanks,
Nick

[Nick Derrico]

Definitely sounds like a codec thing.

Windows doesn’t really include a whole lot of codecs(although 7 includes way more than previous versions), so chances are some software you had installed previously added those codecs.

I’m not sure of the solution to your exact issue, but just see if installing more codecs solves the problem first before you start pulling your hair out. Check it and install https://www.mediacodec.org/ and see if that helps.

Good luck!

[Nick Derrico]

To make a motion favorite you can just hit Control+F while the viewer is active. Those motions settings will then be in your favorite effects folder.

[Nick Derrico]

Yes, every parameter of the AUPitch plug-in is keyframable, you should be able to do that easily within Final Cut Pro.

[Nick Derrico]

MPEG Streamclip is the best way to go for everything. I would convert everything (the DVDs and the AVIs) to Quicktime files in the proper parameters for FCP to natively work with it with no conversion or rendering. I run into a lot of situations where clients have footage from all sorts of sources (FLV, WMV, etc.), and this seems to always work best. You may have to download Perian to get the AVI files to import (it’s free).

I would create a preset for the following settings for Export Quicktime:

Compression: Apple DV/DVPRO – NTSC
Quality: 100%
Sound: Uncompressed, Stereo, 48 kHz
Frame size: 720 x 480 (DV-NTSC)
Frame rate: 29.97
Interlaced Scaling: Checked
Reinterface Chroma: Checked
Field Dominance: Lower Field First
(Leave all other boxes unchecked and leave the rotation, zoom, and crop settings alone)

That should give you nice (but big) .mov files that FCP will handle like a champ. Hope this helps!

[Nick Derrico]

I don’t know of any automatic way of doing this, but you can always just create a Favorite Motion of the the video zoomed in so it fits how you want it, and then just apply that favorite motion to all 16:9 clips.

[Nick Derrico]

If everything is working fine except for the warning, then just go ahead and ignore the message. I’m not quite sure what the purpose of the message is or what it exactly means, but I’ve ran into it before, and it no effect on my project.

[Nick Derrico]

Right-click on the clip in the Browser
Go to Item Properties
Format…
Click next to Anamorphic, a check mark should appear
Click OK

That should make the clip widescreen, which when dropped into a 4:3 sequence should automatically letterbox it.

Hope this helps!

[Nick Derrico]

Thanks for your response…

Yes, I am reselecting the timeline prior to starting playback.

For all its worth, I created these multiclips in FCP 6.0, and now I’m editing them in 7.0. I’m not sure if that makes it difference, but it might be worth noting.