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  • Robert Olding

    May 6, 2025 at 4:00 pm in reply to: FCPX templates

    MotionVFX has quite a few great templates.

  • Robert Olding

    January 25, 2024 at 3:54 pm in reply to: Default description/creator/tags for Shares?

    It’s done on the Project level. Select a Project in the Browser and then in the Inspector window you’ll see the three-arrow icon. It’s called the “Share Inspector”. You can fill out the fields there and FCP will remember your custom settings for that particular Project.

  • Robert Olding

    October 2, 2023 at 4:28 pm in reply to: Transcode not enough space

    It’s probably the cache location. Most applications use both RAM and the cache location as temporary storage while they’re processing files. My assumption is that your cache is set to the Library or some other place on your local disk.

    If you’re able, you should purchase a really fast separate 1 to 2 TB drive and use it only for the cache location.

  • Robert Olding

    September 20, 2023 at 5:38 pm in reply to: compressing to match video formats

    As Doug stated, there is no need to compress or change the resolution of any of the files. Import the video files, and then set your project to the resolution you want (based on your original question, I’m assuming it 1920×1080), then start editing.

  • Robert Olding

    April 13, 2023 at 3:08 pm in reply to: AU Eval Bug in FCPX since Ventura 13.3.1 update

    Most of the recent crashes and hangs are related specifically to the discontinued Accusonus ERA audio plugins. This video from Matthew O’Brien explains the process of making sure you find all the pertinent files to remove the plugins and fix the situation.

  • Robert Olding

    April 13, 2023 at 3:07 pm in reply to: Crash Report Help

    Most of the recent crashes and hangs are related specifically to the discontinued Accusonus ERA audio plugins. This video from Matthew O’Brien explains the process of making sure you find all the pertinent files to remove and fix the situation.

  • Robert Olding

    November 2, 2022 at 3:01 pm in reply to: How best to white balance for candle light

    I’d bake it in. Candles and incandescent bulbs should look warm to the eye. But I wouldn’t balance for daylight, the warm tones from the candles would probably be too strong. If you trust the on-set monitor, play around with the balance until it looks good to your eye. I suspect it will be somewhere between 3600k and 4500k. This will also give you a bit more latitude for adjusting it in post.

  • Robert Olding

    July 20, 2022 at 4:01 pm in reply to: Color Wheels not showing up to install

    Do they show up in the inspector window? If not, trash the preference file and see if that helps.

  • Robert Olding

    July 15, 2022 at 3:31 pm in reply to: 1200 dpi TIFFs?

    FYI, DPI is a term from the print world; it stands for Dots Per Inch. It pretty much translates precisely to the digital world of PPI, Pixels Per Inch.

    Super 35mm film is 24.89 mm by 18.66 mm (0.980 in by 0.735 in); if your client wants 1200 DPI/PPI, all you need to do is the math. It works out to be 1176px by 882px.

    I’d double-check with the client and confirm that’s what they want. They might have an actual dimension in mind, such as 10 inches on the long side. If that’s the case, then the DPI/PPI for an image file scanned from a Super 35 frame to make a print 10 inches on the long side would be 12000px by 9000px.

    1200 DPI/PPI is an odd request for print as the industry standard is 300 DPI/PPI.

    You mention 2K in your post. If you are scanning Super 35mm to standard video 2K resolution (1920px on the long side), your numbers would be 1920px by 1440px.

  • Robert Olding

    June 23, 2022 at 3:21 pm in reply to: Thunderbolt Adaptors?

    I did some digging around about the Mac Studio TB4 ports and buses. All current “M” Macs have one TB4 bus for each port. So, the M1 Max will have four TB4 buses, and the M1 Ultra will have six TB4 buses.

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