Richard Day
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Go to User Preferences in FCP and make sure you have “show tooltips” checked. (By the way, I checked this on my system and for some reason the Tooltip guide did not pop up even though “show tooltips WAS checked! I quit and relaunched FCP and then they worked.)
And what I do is this: because I’m rather fond of the Expose keyboard shortcuts, I’ve moved my Insert and Overwrite FCP keyboard commands to F9 and F10 respectively, so I can continue using the Expose commands of F11-13. (I don’t use Replace Edits much so I can live without that shortcut in FCP.)
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I use a Canopus ADVC-300, which has a TBC built into it. It digitizes analog video to the DV codec. Costs a few hundred, though. (It’s possible their model 110 has a TBC, but I doubt it.)
If your sync is way off, I’m not sure a TBC will fix this.
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Hope this clarifies my issue:
Before I left my previous place of work, I was using a Mac Pro and occasionally sending playback from FCP through a DeckLink card to a Panasonic DVCPro 450 using SDI. Then I would check all titles and graphics with fine horizontal lines to make sure they would not flicker, using an external CRT monitor attached to the DVCPro.
This is the issue where fine horizontal lines flicker as they shift from one scan line to the adjacent one, and I wanted to do at home what I was doing at work. It proved very successful there, and I could apply a FCP Flicker filter (or a mild Gaussian Blur) to stop or greatly reduce flicker problems.
I will not be buying a *CRT* monitor at home for this purpose!
Lately I’ve been wondering if a little 8″ or 9″ Ikan LCD monitor might do the trick — they are often used for a field monitor or big “viewfinder” perched on top of a camera. I could use this device for this purpose (on or attached to a camera) and also check for flicker when editing. Certain models support 4:3 video. Now I’m concerned that these might try to “fix” flicker problems, as you seem to suggest in your post.
Shane Ross has a “stock Answer” #8: External Monitor Viewing. I’m essentially trying to follow his suggestion, but using an LCD monitor. Previous posts indicate an HD TV would be a bad idea, which is why I’m thinking about the Ikan.
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Having nothing to lose (Compressor’s been giving me trouble with Leopard, the latest being simply stalling while the remaining time keeps going up), I installed QT 7.4.5 and then the Pro Apps update.
Now Compressor works properly!
G5 dual 2.5, OS X 10.5.2, FCP 6.03