Peter Dewit
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Ok a little more background. The tech stuff I’m pretty wellcovered since right now I work as a tech. If need be a could dissect an Avid down to nothing and put the entire thing back together without any trouble. I’ve found that having tech skills is a plus and a minus. So few people really seem to understand things like deck operations and wiring that’s what they always want me to do. Trouble is I find it to be a tad dull and as far as I’m concerned a dead-end professionally(what am i going to do hook up the same wires in bigger places?).
And alan to answer your question I’m in NYC
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Ah the wonders of film production slave labor.
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I have a copy of xpress pro at home. I was actually thinking of just farming myself out as a free editor at colleges to build up some materia l. Think that would be a decent way to get some work?
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Have you checked if the TC at the start of the tape is consistent. It might just be a TC break. You can try to enable capture across TC breaks in the User preferences if you’re not sure.
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I’m with you on the project opening thing. I think FCP is a great program but it doesn’t seem to handle huge projects(with load times or organization ability) nearly as well as Avid does.
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if you’re really desperate in a pinch you can loop the component signal through a deck. Just go component into the deck and take composite out the deck into whatever you’re dubbing to. This may not be as good as using a real trascoder and may require you to lock the video with a black burst generator.
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What is the video file you are using?
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Not my choice but it’s what a client wants to do
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I’m assuming you’re connected via firewire. Is this FCP 5?
If so it sounds like you didn’t delete all your preference files. Here’s what you wantto do:
Quit FCP
go to your HD and go into Users/Name/Library/preferences
Trash “com.apple.finalcutpro.plist”
Go to Final Cut User Data in the same folder
Trash “Final Cut Pro 5 Prefs”, “Final Cut Pro Obj Cache”, “Final Cut Pro Prof Cache”
Go back into FCP
Reset your scratch disks
Empty Trash AFTER you reenter FCP not before. If you do it before it will jsut recreate the same bad pref files. -
Is slowing down the footage to make the strobe effect less pronouced a possiblity?