Peter Gruden
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The author Alex Snelling is an excellent FCP lecturer, which is quite evident from the text – start easy and simple, so that everybody feels confident, and then you don’t even realize when it becomes quite complex.
He is also an experienced filmmaker.I had a pleasure to attend his week long FCP 7 seminar in Prague a couple of years ago. Personally, he is a nice and laid back guy.
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I don’t mind events if they would be transparent for metadata. Right now they are more like physical folders and unnecessary limitation to the metadata concept, as is the search function.
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I’d prefer to have all the applied keywords listed somewhere, perhaps in Show clips menu, and when you select a keyword, all clips across all events with the same keyword applied would appear on the list.
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[Steve Connor] “I regularly export AAFs from FCPX to Protools and now there’s XML to Logic Pro. FCPX might be an island, but there’s a bridge and a ferry to get you off of it!”
Yes you can export AAF with X2Pro or Automatic Duck (not sure if it still works), but it should be part to the program like in Premiere or Avid. But yeah, X2Pro is the solution for the time being.
XML to Logic is fine, but you don’t see Logic in post or film studio that often.
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[Oliver Peters] “No tracks, non-functional audio mixing, an island when it comes to the rest of the pro world. “
I think you are right, but if you think about it, audio tracks are not directly compatible with FCPX metadata system. For example, roles and tracks could send the same clip to different output buses.
I think the only way this would work is if tracks would override the roles where the parameters cannot be combined, just like groups override some track parameters. It still could be a potential mess.
What I would really want is a solid AAF export to Pro Tools and Nuendo, just like the old OMF in FCP 7 was.
Audio in any video app (except Vegas) is a crap. I wouldn’t mix the simplest project in any of them, so I don’t really care about it. And I know I can’t expect them to be perfect and they will never be. But you should at least have the direct connection to the outside world.
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Agree. Better find another app for surround.
Surround panner in Premiere is just too basic. Adobe default surround mapping is neither film nor SMPTE/ITU. And you can’t simply change sequence from stereo to surround and then import finished surround mix into a project. I could go on..
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It looks everything ok for Saffire.
Did you open track mixer (not clip mixer)?
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The original question was how to make a dvd from HD video, with proper fullscreen menu, without black borders.
I’ll decribe my very simple workflow in pal.
I first resize HD video uniformly to 1024×576, and then horizontaly to 720X576, for 16:9 anamorhic format.For menu creation, there are two ways.
I create 720×576 Photoshop document with pixel aspect ratio D1/DV Pal widescreen. However working with wide pixels does not look nice in Photoshop.A better way is to create menu in Photoshop with 1024×576 square pixels and then squeeze it horizontaly to 720×576. The final quality is better and I can work in Photoshop with undistorded material. Pixel aspect ratio of the exported 720×576 psd should be set to D1/DV pal widescreen, for Encore to interpret it correctly.
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I have Kona LHi and I see the same slow scrubbing and general less responsive behaviour. This is in Aja sequence preset, when viewing video on a video monitor. It happens either on Mac or Windows.
In Premiere sequence preset, the same video scrubs a lot faster.
I beleive a faster CPU will help.Peter
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In fact this is nothing new.
I have been using Xena LHe on Mac for much more than a year now. It is identical to Kona LHe. I suppose the same goes with Xena 2k.
Peter