[Nick Meyers]

you might be able to address this by taking the clip into Motion,
and using a more detailed approach:
adding tracking markers, perhaps,
or editing the tracking keyframes.

(also it would probably have been better to start a new thread for this)

nick

[Nick Meyers]

you might be able to use paste attributes for this.
but ONLY IF all your existing titles have the same basic motion.

park on your first subtitle,
set canvas to image & wireframe,
hold shift,
and drag the wireframe down in the canvas.

now open that subtitle into the viewer,
go to the motion tab,
and make sure the x and y co-ordinates are whole, even numbers
(this should look better)

now, in the timeline copy the clip,
select all other subtitles (use the track tool)
and OPTION v to paste attributes: basic motion.

HOWEVER:
if you have already played around with the text generator’s motion settings,
like maybe you used this to create single and double line positions,
then pasting attributes wont work.

probably safest to work on a COPY of your original timeline.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

i just noticed some weird payback issues with FCP7.
they’ve come about after i’ve left FCP idle for a while,
and a re-start fixes it.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

sounds like someone has modified your keyboard to avid settings:
B & V being insert and overwrite.

don’t know why you cant change them, though.
do you have your “international” system prefs set to American?
if not, saved keyboard layouts made on another system wont load on yours.

maybe someone has locked your FCP prefs?

maybe you should trash your FCP prefs.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

you might have to open an autosave version of that project to get back to it.

not sure what to do about fixing the pixels.
how large is the project (file size)?
maybe do all that work in a new, stripped-down project.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

no, this is the same in FCP7.
video mixdown, or auto-bake would be a neat idea.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

i believe there are ways to find out exactly what version the project was created on by reading some of the metadata in the project file,

but i don’t know what they are, sorry.
simpler would be to contact the person who’s machine you were working on.

you might as well use software update to upgrade to the latest version of FCP6.
(you wont be able to get FCP7 on your PPC)

if the project IS FCP7
you’ll have to open it on an FCP7 system,
and save it out as an XML file, version 4.
this you could open into FCP6.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

Shane’s way is probably the simplest,
but here’s an idea:

doing your edit at 24 will definitely be simplest as the pictures will sync to the audio.
the simplest, fastest, cleanest, and cheapest way to get that to 25fps is to conform the final export in CinemaTools
but this will result in the audio speeding up.

so go ahead and cut your video at 24fps,

make a version of the AUDIO that plays SLOW

to do this, put the audio track in a 2fps sequence, with some slug, or a title generator,
export, open in Cinema Tools, and conform to 24.
(you need video for the conform to work)

when you have locked off your clip, cut against the correct audio,
copy the sequence,
replace the audio with the slowed down track,
re-adjust your cuts to maintain sync.

(obviously this wil be easier if there are quick cuts)

export, open in CT and conform BACK to 25.

am i crazy, or would that work?
you should test this with one take of the sync performance, if you have that.

oh and your footage may actually be 23.98, so double check that, too.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

Hi, Jason.

that’ll make more sense when you get past the assembly stage.
double clicking a clip into the viewer gives you a platform to work on that clip.

have a closer look at a clip you;ve opened it the viewer from the timeline.
there is a double row of grey dots in the white scrubbing area.
a clip opened from the browser, or the finder will just have white.

anything you do to a clip opened in the viewer from the timeline is actually happening to the clip in the timeline.
well it IS that clip in the timeline.

so the viewer is where you can tweak and fine tune filters, motion effects, volume.

you can also affect in & out points in the viewer instance of a timeline clip.

i will often use this to edit audio,
as the trim window doesn’t show waveforms.

exampe – slide:
there’s a mic bump between some words, and i want to replace it with clean fill.
blade either side of the bump,
double click into viewer,
holding SHIFT,
grab with the in or out point, and drag to a clear patch of audio.

pus you can invoke the ripple and roll tools while in the viewer,
and actually edit/trim your clips, while looking at the audio

nick

[Nick Meyers]

“An AVID editor missing AVID :)”

ah, yes…
well, in avid you can extend your subclips,
in FCP you cant.
the boundaries are hard.

however you can REMOVE the subclip boundaries altogether:
select the clip, Modify Menu > remove subclip limits.

cheers,
nick