Roger Poole
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As far as the Mac is concerned and FCP legacy, you need to follow the procedure which is as follows. The Mac can be on, but FCP not running. Connect the camera to the Mac with a firewire cable. Turn on the camera and put it into vtr mode. Launch FCP, then when you go to Log and capture you will see the Camera present. FCP grabs the firewire ports when it launches and wont accept any firewire connections made while it is running. Hope this helps.
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Sorry, misread. But under the same process you can make changes to most anything.
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Go to settings. Choose the 48k pre set. Duplicate it then change the sample rate to 32k. Save that setting as whatever 32k and it will be available to you.
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Whilst I’m a relatively newcomer to FCPX I have been editing for more years than I care to remember. Greg’s concern was about the project file, as in FCP7. That as we know is just a database of all the edit decisions we made, where, when and with which clip. I think we all know to keep the media files on an external disk of one sort or another, whatever system we are using, and as Greg states, that is where his are too. But he seems to have some confusion about the project file in FCPX. My FCP7 project files also lived on my boot disk – Documents – FCP Projects, and this is the problem that Greg was asking about. Compared to FCP7, in FCPX the project is called a library and the timeline a project, which is indeed stored within the library along with all the imported media. What in FCP7 terms is the “Project file” is now called the “backup file” in FCPX terminology. Nobody was addressing the project file question and this was what I was trying to do. Hopefully this will clear it up.
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Yes Jeremy, like the old FCP7 Project file was. Where you could copy it to a thumb drive at the end of the work day as a safeguard against catastrophic failure, or hand it over to another computer. No?
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but regardless of where the library is, the small “project file” that we were used to is stored on the boot disk – Users – FCPX backups > My Epic. date/time. Or words to that effect.
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It sounds like this is to be used somewhere like a football stadium. Yes, up close, each pixel will be the size of a laptop but from a good distance it will look ok. They seem to know what they are doing with their display so I would give them what they asked for.
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Regarding the, at the time, groundbreaking Bohemian Rhapsody video it shouldn’t go without mention that it was literally knocked together in an afternoon for the BBC’s Top of the pops program and the avant garde edit was done by Barry Stevens at the BBC. When the edit was complete it was so, at the time, radical in style that nobody knew if it would make it to broadcast, but it has now become iconic and paved the way for everything which has come along since. I just goes to show that forward planning doesn’t produce something which breaks the mold. But putting together a bunch of talented people and giving them the freedom to do it their way sometimes does. Barry went on to work for Avid in the UK but I’ve not seen him around for a while, probably retired now, but what an achievement to look back on from that fateful afternoon.
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Nick, thanks for posting the solution. Now we all know.
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As Nick said, he’s erased the original disk. So only the new SSD to work with.