[Philipp Hahn]

actutally i want to use it with max/msp at a later point but for the time being i would be happy to have it work in any program.
apart: in the meantime i connected it as well to a bmd ultrastudio express which features rs422 deck control but as well, nothing… does anyone know wether this port is bidirectional?
thanks!!
p

[Philipp Hahn]

i did not mean to change it, just to change the keyframe-view in the timeline to check, which clips are rescaled in my timeline…

thanks and best
p

[Philipp Hahn]

thank you for replying!
actually i thought about this too but something like this would just be way to complicated i guess…
the options the operator should have in the end are:
– choose prewritten text (say 1-30) OR enter text (x characters max)
– choose between 2-3 preset positions
– show/hide text bubble

that’s it really. and i wouldn’t really want to use these types of apps in a live environment… apart from that, speed is an issue and if you have to select the preset in the after effects browser it will take ages. best would actually be to directly link the prefabricated texts to some midi input device…

currently i’m looking at vj software like modul8 but somehow i feel their should be some broadcast approach to this too – i mean subtitling with lower thirds has been done for decades, there should be zillions of solutions, shouldn’t they?

any other suggestions? any help still very much appreciated!!
philipp

[Philipp Hahn]

i’m currently without my setup and can not verify it but i do not think i had this problem… just a random guess: could it be you use some plugin that interferes with the mixer tool i.e. bigtime or likewiese?
good luck
philipp

[Philipp Hahn]

hi,
im having the same question… should i just go along with the 50p setup or rather downconvert it to 25 fps? and if so, how would i do that?
thanks for any help!
🙂

[Philipp Hahn]

i got it working… 🙂

fadermaster pro for final cut pro:

– connect only the fadermaster’s output to your midi interface (i.e. a midi-usb cable) since otherwise you’ll have looping problems.
– switch into a p-bank (up/down)
– press “prog” until the fader-led is lit. now you program the faders by pressing and holding the buttons above the faders to define what controls you are changing while using the faders to select which faders and what values:
PARM: set all faders to pb (pitchbend)
CHAN: from right to left 1-8. you can also set the mastervolume which is transmitted on channel 9.
PARM#: irrelevant, set to 0
MIN: 0 (all faders)
MAX: 127 (all faders)
– now you want to solo tracks 1-8 with the buttons above the faders. read in the manual how to program buttons and set them to:
PARM: note
CHAN: 1
PARM#: from right to left 8-15
MIN: 0
MAX: 127

in finalcut, select tools/control surface and set up your device as “mackie control” connected to your midi interface.

enjoy. 🙂

some additional stuff:
– i didn’t get the fadermasters touch-feature to work with final cut. since “touch” only works in the automation banks (which only permit control-infos) i used the open source app “MidiPipe” to translate the control- into pitchbend-infos and back which does sort of work… but finalcut behaves rather randomly and as you need to connect the midi-in on the fader master, i had problems with feddback looping too. i don’t think it’s impossible but i’m just too tired to figure it out this time… if anyone gets this working, please post!
– greatly helpful in the process is a little freeware app called “midi monitor” (https://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/) which shows what is going in and out.
– forget about “Audi Midi Setup”, doesn’t seem to do anything.
– sometimes my fadermaster seemed to get confused…: reset by pressing and holding “down, null, up” while switching it on.

[Philipp Hahn]

i got it er, … sort of… working.

i setup the fadermaster in final cut via “Mackie Control” and programmed the faders to send pitchbend info (which is the midi-signal for the volume control in fcp) on channels 1-8 through the faders. according to my midi monitor app everything is fine and the pitchbend info gets sent properly (always).
now, in most cases in finalcut the faders don’t do anything. the pitchbend infos get sent back and forth through the cable but in finalcut nothing happens.
but sometimes, when randomly switching back and forth between final cut, midi monitor and “Audio Midi Setup”, suddenly fcp goes wild: the master volume (which is on channel 9 but does not get signals by the fadermaster) jumps randomly up and down and the channel 9 midi signal goes into some sort of feedback loop. BUT at the same time (and only then) suddenly the fadermaster has perfect control over all eight tracks and even the automation works perfectly well!
however, when i switch programs once more, or turn off automation in fcp, the charm is gone and final cut and the fadermaster sink back into their sullen disrespect for one another.

i didn’t really manage to systematically reproduce this state of frenzy, it really seems to happen quite randomly and i’m not even sure wether it has really to do with switching programs.
the mergefunction on all faders is set to “off” but that actually doesn’t seem to have much to do with it.
i’m running macos 10.5.8, final cut version 6.0.6.

any ideas?

[Philipp Hahn]

thank you for your quick response!

i have the fcp-mixer window open.

when i set up “control surface” in fcp it shows my midi interface (which is a simple usb-midi cable) but not the fadermaster. i can set up the interface with mackie or logic control and i tried both.

the basic midi connection is working as the fadermaster works fine in avid. there is no other midi equipment connected.

i manually set up the fadermaster in “Audio Midi Setup”. when i use the “Test Setup” function the connection midicable -> fadermaster works (the signal gets sent back because of the fadermaster’s merge function). however, when i move a fader of the fadermaster, “audio midi setup” shows no reaction although the little light on my midicable indicates data being sent. should it? is that any relevant?

any ideas? thank you very much for your help!