[Robin Lewis]

So anyone know the recommended partition size if you were to have a Snow leopard partition with FCP 7 on it???

Only have a 500GB 7200PRM hard drive in my Macbook pro

[Robin Lewis]

I know but I thought you could click on a clip and see what you have not used and be able to roll it like you can when you double click where two clips meet.

[Robin Lewis]

fab thanks

[Robin Lewis]

Thanks, so you can not click on your clip so it will open up the whole original clip so you could change the in and out point or roll the image?

[Robin Lewis]

I have gone back to my original FCP7 workflow as I can not figure out what FCP X is doing with the footage.

In FCP 7 if I (which I wouldn’t)but if I did Put a 60FPS shot in to a 25FPS timeline Finalcut would apply a pull down pattern to that media and it would look correct. Yet in FCP 10 yes I can put the native 60FPS media in to the timeline and select “Conform speed” which gives me good slow mo. But then if I want to speed ramp in to that slow mo the “normal speed” looks wrong and sped up it looks like all 60FPS have been crushed in to 25 rather than the sequence applying a pull down pattern to it.

The other problem with “Conform speed” is that you can not do this on your Rushes to see what it looks like, you have to have it in the timeline.

So I have gone back to Converting to Prores and the using cinema tools to change the Time base to 25FPS. Now I just got to figure out what percentage speed up I would have to do to make the speed ramps from on-speed to slow mo.

I know this is not the best way to do it and i’ve probably got my facts wrong but at this moment I can not find a better way, I would love for someone on here to rush to my rescue and enlighten me.

Thankyou hope some of this at-least made some sense.

[Robin Lewis]

seems it was just something funky it did whilst it was analysing the clips.

[Robin Lewis]

Hi,
Thanks for that it certainly does the job within the story line which is good and fun but not perfect i need to see the rushes as they where intended to be viewed slightly slowed down in the event browser.

Also something crazy has happened, after playing with the time line the clips in the Event browser seem to be playing back at double speed and now so do the master clips if i open them from finder in to Quick time. I can not explain this but due to FCP not showing me the Clips timecode in playback i can not see what is happening, not to mention the Lion Quicktime player will not show you the play back rate only the clip TC. It used to say the clip is 25FPS and it is playing back at 25 FPS ETC. If i had these options i could at least see what craziness is going on, has FCP changed the clip data??? what has happened to the play back speed ETC….

This is crazy lol

Fare too late for this.

Thanks

[Robin Lewis]

Do not worry i have never use MP3 i convert what I decide to use to AIFF.

Using a FCP project is not a bad idea!! that could work yet i would have to convert everything and it does not alow for easy browsing.

Alos when working with Avid and premiere i would have to hope they have a FCP computer near.

[Robin Lewis]

So if in an old Event I have used Keyword space 1 as “City wide” in event two can i delete that description and replace it with a new one with out it changing the “city wide” meta data I had laid in my old event??

Also i wasn’t so impressed with the auto analysing and smart collections, it took 3 hours to scan all my media and got pretty much none of it right for instance almost all of the shots just have one person in it and it found two shots for this smart collection! the shot size’s it got totally wrong dont think ill use this function again.

[Robin Lewis]

I have a MAcbook pro 15″ i7 top spec and ram, it does struggle when opening the WHOLE SFX Library.

An extra question tho, how do I navigate to my own SFX folder thatIi keep on an external drive? ( this also applies to the music folder and pictures, i do not like the fat they seem to be locking us to Iphoto and Itunes)