[Pat Defilippo]

Well, David, I hope that the jaw dropping announcement is in fact that FCS is now “One App” – or even better than that per whatever Apple has in mind!!!

I watched the Editor’s Lounge Parts 1 and 2 yesterday (Thursday) and, other than some posts from Walt yesterday and others here on the Cow, plus Larry Jordan’s blurb about it last month, I haven’t read or heard anything from “the street” including anything at all about “One App”.

Sometime shortly after FCS2 was released, I started thinking “what if” and more about this One App concept. I don’t think I heard it from anyone else at the time or since then, but I might have. When FCS2 was released, I was “the raffle guy” for the Chicago Final Cut Pro User Group. So, the One App idea might have actually come from somebody during a discussion there, but I don’t think so. Plus, I haven’t been connected to CHIFCPUG in any way in over a year.

Every time that I invoke “Send To” from Final Cut Pro, I’ve thought about “One App” in greater detail (which I hopefully clearly explained above) and how much nicer and tidier FCS can be!

Hopefully, by late night Tuesday, we’ll all know what’s really new!
-Pat

[Pat Defilippo]

Hello,

I’m having the same problem – I have the content and templates on a separate drive, and I went to Motion’s preferences and re-directed Motion’s “Library Path” to this drive. However, when I re-open Motion and go to the “Library” tab, the “Path” is blank and there is nothing displayed in “Content” and six other groups.

Would anyone know how to fix this? I tried trashing Motion’s preferences and re-directed the Library Path back to the external drive, but I get the same result.

Thanks,
-Pat

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[Pat Defilippo]

Thanks, David,

I had meant to follow-up with this post, but handn’t got to it.

I back-tracked my stepsto MPEG Streamclip and the original DVD. It occured to me to select DV (720×480) instead of selecting 10-Bit Uncompressed (720×486), since the original is on DVD anyway.

Once I brought the exported QT into FCP6, re-marked in and out points, changed the speed to 10%, sent it to Motion for Optical Flow, waited for the render (!), and then watched it again in FCP6, it worked perfectly.

If there were any frames shifting, they were shifting forward instead of backward and they looked very clear. Just for kicks, I compared it to the original 10% speed change from FCP6 and, of course, there was no comparison!

Optical Flow in Motion is the hands down winner between the two.

Thanks again for your help,
-Pat

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[Pat Defilippo]

Hi Sam,

If your sync audio problem appears to be on ALL clips and it appears to be off by just a few frames, try going to Final Cut Pro->System Settings->Playback Controls and taking a look at “Frame Offset”.

My first guess is that it is on 0 right now on your system. On mine, using an AJA IoLA, I have it on 4 and audio appears pretty well globally synced to video. I seem to recall something like 7 being a popular starting number, and then you can adjust up or down from that. The frame offset varies from suite to suite and it depends on how your suite is wired.

I hope this does the trick for you,
-Pat

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[Pat Defilippo]

Hi Dave,

Yea – your answer is pretty much what I was afraid of. I’m sure the client will understand!

Thanks!
-Pat

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[Pat Defilippo]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your reply! Sorry – I didn’t make myself clear enough.

What I’m wondering is if there is a setting (in Compressor or somewhere) that will allow you to listen to an audio file (an MP3 or whatever is as universal as possible) for ONLY 30 days after it is first used before it won’t play again?

For example, let’s say someone downloads the file on August 15 and opens it right away. Perhaps they listen to it in iTunes, perhaps they listen to it in Windows Media Player, whatever.

When September 15 comes, however, that file will not play any more because it is 30 days old. “This tape will self distruct in 30 days” is what I’m looking to achieve.

Is there somewhere, perhaps during the compression stage from FCP via Compressor, where I can make this happen?

If not, is there another way to do something like this?

Thanks again,
-Pat

G5 Quad 2.5 Desktop with 4GB Ram, 500GB HD & Fiber Card ~
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[Pat Defilippo]

Hello,

I have edited several pieces this way and know that what Jeremy says is 100% correct.

However, if your two people were close in proximity, you might want to blade the audio tracks when one stops talking and the other starts. Then, bring the audio channel of the person NOT talking to zero. This will get rid of any echo that you’re picking up and dramatically improve the quality of your audio.

Make sure you go to your sequence settings and turn on audio waveforms because they will definitely help your audio editing. Also, I have used fades to “ramp” up and down audio levels where two people talk at the same time. You might want to play with that if a straight cut doesn’t sound right. Cutting will usually do the job for you, though, as it keeps the ambience at the same level throughout.
-Pat

G5 Quad 2.5 Desktop with 4GB Ram, 500GB HD & Fiber Card ~
30″ Cinema Display & 17″ Sony SVGA ~
Swift Data 200 Internal 1.6TB SATA II RAID 0 ~
AJA Io LA ~
Final Cut Studio 2 ~
Sony UVW-1800 Beta-SP ~
Sony DSR-40 DVCam ~
2.33ghz MacBook Pro 17″ (with FCS2) ~~~

P D Post Productions, Inc. ~
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E-mail PD@PDPost.com ~
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Business/Cell Phone (847) 275-5671

[Pat Defilippo]

Hello,

I have edited several pieces this way and know that what Jeremy says is 100% correct.

However, if your two people were close in proximity, you might want to blade the audio tracks when one stops talking and the other starts. Then, bring the audio channel of the person NOT talking to zero. This will get rid of any echo that you’re picking up and dramatically improve the quality of your audio.

Make sure you go to your sequence settings and turn on audio waveforms because they will definitely help your audio editing. Also, I have used fades to “ramp” up and down audio levels where two people talk at the same time. You might want to play with that if a straight cut doesn’t sound right. Cutting will usually do the job for you, though, as it keeps the ambience at the same level throughout.
-Pat

G5 Quad 2.5 Desktop with 4GB Ram, 500GB HD & Fiber Card ~
30″ Cinema Display & 17″ Sony SVGA ~
Swift Data 200 Internal 1.6TB SATA II RAID 0 ~
AJA Io LA ~
Final Cut Studio 2 ~
Sony UVW-1800 Beta-SP ~
Sony DSR-40 DVCam ~
2.33ghz MacBook Pro 17″ (with FCS2) ~~~

P D Post Productions, Inc. ~
TV~DVD~VHS~CD~WEB
for Corporate Communications, Commercials, Infomercials, Television Programs and Family Occasions since 1983 ~
E-mail PD@PDPost.com ~
Website http://www.PDPost.com ~
Business/Cell Phone (847) 275-5671

[Pat Defilippo]

Hello,

I have edited several pieces this way and know that what Jeremy says is 100% correct.

However, if your two people were close in proximity, you might want to blade the audio tracks when one stops talking and the other starts. Then, bring the audio channel of the person NOT talking to zero. This will get rid of any echo that you’re picking up and dramatically improve the quality of your audio.

Make sure you go to your sequence settings and turn on audio waveforms because they will definitely help your audio editing. Also, I have used fades to “ramp” up and down audio levels where two people talk at the same time. You might want to play with that if a straight cut doesn’t sound right. Cutting will usually do the job for you, though, as it keeps the ambience at the same level throughout.
-Pat

G5 Quad 2.5 Desktop with 4GB Ram, 500GB HD & Fiber Card ~
30″ Cinema Display & 17″ Sony SVGA ~
Swift Data 200 Internal 1.6TB SATA II RAID 0 ~
AJA Io LA ~
Final Cut Studio 2 ~
Sony UVW-1800 Beta-SP ~
Sony DSR-40 DVCam ~
2.33ghz MacBook Pro 17″ (with FCS2) ~~~

P D Post Productions, Inc. ~
TV~DVD~VHS~CD~WEB
for Corporate Communications, Commercials, Infomercials, Television Programs and Family Occasions since 1983 ~
E-mail PD@PDPost.com ~
Website http://www.PDPost.com ~
Business/Cell Phone (847) 275-5671

[Pat Defilippo]

Kent,

Unfortunately, manually and one at a time is the only way to do it. However, the new timeline will “snap” to the markers in your nested sequence and you can just hit “M M” from there for each one.
-Pat

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Swift Data 200 Internal 1.6TB SATA II RAID 0 ~
AJA Io LA ~
Final Cut Studio 2 ~
Sony UVW-1800 Beta-SP ~
Sony DSR-40 DVCam ~
2.33ghz MacBook Pro 17″ (with FCS2) ~~~

P D Post Productions, Inc. ~
TV~DVD~VHS~CD~WEB
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