[Paul Boone]

Thanks for the workflow breakdown. very helpful. Any tricks you can think of, like keyboard shortcuts that are not as well known but really helpful?

thanks

[Paul Boone]

Beats per minute, is just like frame rate. you get a bar, and you can choose how many notes or frames you want in it

I’m talking about “quantize note timing”, in which.. I’ll use it in the example of what I’m trying to do now. On garageband, record my guitar along to the corresponding track. When I’m done, because I’m not a perfect musician, there are will be notes that are not on beat. “Quantize Note Timing” is an pulldown menu in the edit track window. Lets say i was playing 4-4 time (4 quarter notes); so my notes are not on the quarter notes where they should be, so i set “quantize note timing” to kind of magnetically put the notes where they should be.

So in Final Cut Studio I’ve made a music video, but the musicians were not always on beat (wayy better than me though). If there was like a behavior in motion or FCP that analyzed the waveforms and moved a keyframe with the beat, where it should go, therefore the time % would be altered on the left and right side of that keyframe, usually slightly. it puts keyframes from one frame in your footage to a totally different frame magnetically

[Paul Boone]

Oh, I forget to say that. They’re playing to a track from a cd.

They’re pretty decent, but they’re sometimes off beat which throws me off.

I have to get this done by tomorrow afternoon for a press release, and if its good muchmusic wants to play it. Somehow I’ve stumbled onto making a music video of a song that’s been #1 in the inspirational section of itunes for 10 days (possibly because I work for free and they were desperate to take advantage of their chart position quickly), but I’ve only worked for a summer camp and a church, and never done something that involved such exact timing.

Needless to say, I’m kind of panicing about blowing an opportunity I probably won’t get again for some time, if ever.

Also.. What television standards should I be aware of for something like this? Title safe zones for text I suppose

[Paul Boone]

Thank You!!

[Paul Boone]

Ok.. well maybe its not RED footage perhaps. That’s what i was told when I was given the footage, but I think its likely he was mistaken. This is a project that I found out about yesterday, and involves all different kinds of footage that I have about 2 days to edit, so I’m just going to have to do what I can with what I have. The nature of the video is very home video style.. so I can get away with a little more. The RED footage, or so I thought, was footage of the recording process. Clipwrap it is.

Thanks

[Paul Boone]

Hey Shane,

I installed the RED FCP Log and Transfer Plugin

I tried using Log and Transfer, but all the files are greyed out.

I don’t actually have the RED camera or memory card it came from. I was just given a hard drive that has a bunch of .mts files within a folder.

There’s no specific folder structure from the RED camera. I tried to just select the folder itself, but I got the error message:

“Stream 2” contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media.

Can I create a directory.. or is there a workaround for this? I have no contact with the people who actually made the files originally

[Paul Boone]

I think at least for this project I’ll be limited to stock AE effects etc. to get this done. Newton is sweet though, I’m looking into for future projects.

Is there any other way, even if its lamer and cheesier that would be kind of close? Its kind of a cartoony style project so I could get away with a bit of cheese

[Paul Boone]

Nice. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Ben

[Paul Boone]

sweet, that’s a lot easier than using control+8

[Paul Boone]

Awesome, this sounds like exactly what I was looking for. I’ll have to play around with it a bit before I really understand the relationship between them, but this is great.

Thanks