Roger Poole
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I have to admit to never hearing of Abe Kislevitz. FCP7 color correction tutorials will be a bit hard to find as the likes of Macbreak Studio and Lynda.com moved to FCPX a few years ago, but it’s worth checking.
Color correction in it’s basic form is quite easy, but working at an advanced level is something of a black art. However, if you are looking at white balance and basic color adjustments then the 3 way color corrector will do the job. If you are familiar with color correction in Photoshop, levels or curves, you will find the 3 way CC in FCP familiar. Each of the 3 color wheels has an eye dropper so setting the white and black points is a very easy and quick way to remove color casts. That being said, you can’t really trust your computer display for accurate color correction, you need a calibrated external video monitor to be sure.
Now that I’ve said all that, I think the eye droppers are one of the components broken under the later operating systems.
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Daniel, good to hear that you managed to complete the export. Did you make the mpeg4 too?
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Hi Daniel, I looked up error 60 and it’s a master directory block error, which means a problem with your hard disk, so some maintenance is due by the sound of things. I take it you have plenty of free space on the destination volume?
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Just a thought. Did you use the “send to compressor” method. That can be problematic.
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What I do is export to quicktime without conversion. That way you would have a full resolution version of the sequence which you can then use for various purposes. That export would be quick but compressing to H264 can take forever, and for that reason many set things up and leave it overnight to compress. Doing it directly from FCP means having that running too but seeing that you are well into the conversion you might as well leave it to run. Hopefully all will be ok but it might have been better to test a small section first in case you need to tweak the settings a little. Also, if the file size is too big you can knock the frame size down to 720p, which scales very well to a 1080 TV.
Good luck.
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It should look great. Try a small section as a test.
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Mpeg4. (H264)
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Good to know you are making headway Michael. I’m a big fan of WD black series drives. I have a 4 disk box containing 4 WD Blacks which lasted 5 years until one drive dropped out about six months ago. Now just sitting there as I should change all the disks, but they served me well. FYI Drives with fractional spin speeds such as 7210 don’t RAID well.
keep us posted.
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Chris, thanks for the info. Those are impressive speeds for a two disk raid. The info I found was for a single disk Lacie. Hopefully Michael has the single disk model which would account for the slower speed he is experiencing.
Here the year is 2010 and has been for quite a while, so Thunderbolt has not been invented yet. :o)
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Interesting, thanks for the link. It sounds good in the main article but reading further down it seems things are not quite so simple. For now, I’ll be using spinning disks for storage for the foreseeable future, they are big, reliable and cheap.