Nick Toth
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Beauty!
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[gary adcock] “1) I do not know what kind of hardware you are working with or what your system is- so how can I tell you anything of value? “
I was not asking questions of you Gary, just making some general commentary.
Everyone’s situation is different. I still edit on FCP 4, 5 and 6 on different systems belonging to different clients. The job still gets done.
Whatever happens, happens as far as where FCP and Apple go from here. I’m sure some of us will take it in stride and continue on and others will fall by the wayside.
“Embrace Change” is the motto of the new corporate America. Too bad the change is often brought on by those who have no idea what is going on in the real world.
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Gary – I would like my recently purchased Kona cards to give me broadcast video out with FCP X if that is at all possible. Since there has been no definitive answer at this point the possibility still exists. If it ends up that my current Kona cards will not work then I will take whatever steps are necessary to continue with the FCP X since I have been using it and like it. I’ve been through bigger changes than this.
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As far as exporting a still it’s under “Sharing”. It seems to take longer than it should FYI:
Export an image from your project
You can save a single image file of any video frame in your project.Save a still frame
Select the project, and in the Timeline, place the playhead at the frame you want to save, and choose Share > Save Current Frame.Choose a format from the Export pop-up menu.
To see details about the file that will be output, click Summary.
To scale the output file to use square pixels and maintain the original aspect ratio (which results in an increase or decrease in the number of horizontal and vertical pixels), select “Scale image to preserve aspect ratio.”
The checkbox affects only projects whose video resolution uses non-square pixels, such as NTSC and PAL formats. If the checkbox is not selected (the default setting), the output file uses the same pixel aspect ratio and has the same number of horizontal and vertical pixels as the original video.
Click Next.
Type a name and choose a location for the saved file, and click Save.
Final Cut Pro renders and saves your still image file.
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I recently queried Larry Jordan about AJA and Blackmagic and got this reply:
“As of now, video out from FCP X is not possible, according to both Blackmagic Design and AJA.”
While I would say this is a non-answer because it doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know note that the qualifier “as of now” is basically the same as “at this time” which Jeremy mentioned.
Having edited nonlinear for nearly 20 years I look forward to where FCP X is going. Avid and Premiere have never been my cup of tea. FCP X is a lot more powerful right now than many give it credit for (given my two weeks experience with it).
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Moving any file to the trash can be destructive if you empty the trash. This has been in the Mac OS since the beginning. If you don’t want to see a clip in the event library mark it as rejected and choose “hide rejected” (control H). No destruction necessary.
The loss of a link means the referenced media has been moved or altered in some way. That would typically be something you did purposely. Otherwise you can search the clip name and re-import. I suggest using FCP X’s file and folder structure. If you do you shouldn’t have any problems.
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Agreed on all points! Thanks guys
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Using the Adjustable Frame is definitely more fiddly than using the drop zones but the results are worth it. Hope they get the issue with the drop zones straightened out. There’s some great potential there. Thanks!
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Simon – thanks for taking the time to put that together. It starts out OK but the video slows over a 10 second interval to where it goes more and more out of sync. I’ll try it to get the same effect with the Adjustable Frame. I’ll let you know how that goes.
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I guess you’re right. The new frame effect is probably more flexible. I think you’re right about taking the footage from the browser versus the timeline because I did a quick test that seemed to work OK and I think that was the difference.
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