[Rienk Leendertse]

shot in the dark:
>>Million of colors +…

Why not use Millions of Colors, without the plus sign.
To have an alpha channel (the ‘+’) on a final video output seems not logical.

Rienk

[Rienk Leendertse]

Hi Anna,

I think the advise you describe is from someone who had difficulties with Autosave. These difficulties are not from FCP directly. My AutoSave works like a charm and saved me couple of times! So NEVER turn off AutoSave. Make it Autosave every ten minutes (or when your doing very fast compositing, with multiple keyframes etc, every 5 mintes).

So to summarise Olivers and my post a few advises:
1. Always Turn ON Autosave Vault.
2. Put the AutoSave files on a different disk (not a different partition)than the original project file. You will always have a pretty recent projectfile if one of the disks is crashing…)
3. Make a manual backup every (Half-)day with the ‘save as’ command. (After that don’t forget to close the project and re-open the original file.)
4. If you need an autosaved file just open it from the finder, rather then restoring it from within FCP. After opening it, directly give it the original filename. (To be honoust: I had problems with Restore myself in the past, so I got used to just open the autosaved files and rename them. It could be that it works now, but I just found another way of doing it).

Now to clean up your mess:
You can consider to put all render files in on render folder. All the captured material in one Capture Scratch folder, etc.
Files will be then get offline, but FCP will probably be able to automatically reconnect.
‘Probably’… So if it’s not really necessary, leave it as it is: It’s possilble that there are double clip names, etc, so that it will be hard, if not impossible, for FCP to reconnect.
‘If it aint broken, don’t fix it’.

But in the future use the given workflow.

All the best
Rienk

[Rienk Leendertse]

About the playhead:
Would be nice if the view followed the playhead, but be aware that you already CAN slide the slidebar on the bottom of the timeline WHILE FCP IS PLAYING BACK.

Rienk

[Rienk Leendertse]

…also read the pretty recent “Modify TC start in browser”-thread started by Scott Witthaus

Rienk

[Rienk Leendertse]

Hi Guy

It’s in the main menu:
Modify > Timecode. There you can change the value if the current frame or from the first frame.

If this offset is the same for all clips, then obviously you’ll need to adjust your capture preset.

Rienk

[Rienk Leendertse]

There was a report last week about spyware erasing software for the PC. Norton came out as being the worst of them all (finding almost no spyware).
I hate to say it, but the Betasoftware of Microsoft turned out to be the best (removed 80% or so, whcih of course is still too little). It’s called Microsoft Antispyware.

Rienk

[Rienk Leendertse]

What do you want to do? Capture live switched footage from a switcher?
In that case a DV output to the Mac would be your FCP monitoring during capture now.

Or if you are searching for multicam functionallity in FCP:
Buy FCP5

Rienk

[Rienk Leendertse]

If I understand your post correctly you have your FW cam connected to the Blackmagic.
But in the Blackmagic you have: Video input SDI

Should that not be: Video Input DV NTSC?

Rienk

[Rienk Leendertse]

Sorry,

Just understood that you were talking about title rolls. Obviously you didn’t. So forget about the calculations (or actually: don’t forget it, remember it for another time).

About scaling:
Do I understand you correctly that you create a title and then scale it down with the Motion Tab? Why do you do so? That will give bad results. (no subpixels). Just take a smaller fontsize in Title 3d I’d say, but maybe I’m missing the point again…

Rienk

[Rienk Leendertse]

First of all:
Do a thorough search on tgis topic. There are tons more of things you can do to reduce jittering (like adding a blur for instance).

And on the ‘even’ lines topic:
Interlaced video only gives pretty nice titles if you make sure that the titles move up exactly 2 lines per frame (or 4 or 8 or x*2). That’s NOT the same as just making sure that you only enter even numbers.
In order to have a proper roll on a PAL project (25 fps) you can move a rolltitle:
4 lines per frame *
25 fps *
duration of 10 seconds (for instance) = 4 * 25 * 10 = 1000.

So the y-value in the first frame must be -500.
The y-value in the last frame (10 sec’s later) must be +500.

Only then you get rid of the whobbeling/floating effect in your text.
But still the edges can look pixelated from a bad render. (but they will have the same pixelation in every frame). This is where you can add some blur to smoothen the edges.
Also it’s good not to use pure white, but 90% or so.

Hope this helps

Rienk