Ron James
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I’ve found the ease-in/out for motion has always been faulty in FCP. Not sure if that’s the case in recent versions, but it used to be that x and y values would compete at the final frame, creating a bump. Someone smarter than me could explain it better, but I’ve found much better results with other 3rd party plugins.
Not sure if this is what you’re referring to exactly?
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I guess it’s safe to say nobody has seen it before.
Too bad, I’d love to know what this Editor did to get this error. He’s a former Avid editor and has no idea what he’s been doing. Should be interesting when it goes to Online.
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Yeah, but you can’t use the trim window then. I love rippling and rolling in the trim window. I also like keeping everything on one track if possible for EDL purposes.
Whatever works best for your own style is the way to go, though.
Don’t you like the trim edit window, though, Debe?
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“There is nothing “obvious” about rendering.
There are countless posts here where the user did not render effects.”I personally find the rendering (since the introduction of RT) to be more confusing than it needs to be. To me, when you highlight a clip or range and hit Command-R, it should render! But chances are, you have your RT set in such a way that it *won’t* render. So the only way you can render is to hit option-r and render EVERYTHING or waste time digging into the render sub-menu in order to select the unlimited RT or whatever. I like having unlimited set so I can work fast, but if I want to preview something at full quality, I also want to do it fast.
And what’s the point of hitting command-r and FCP responding by doing nothing? Dumb logic. Unless I’m missing something?
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I LOVE my iMac Intel. It would indeed be great for presentation. I put some cool pictures on the desktop of the 20″ screen and my 2nd flat-screen and they look like picture-frames. FCP seems to like it, too.
Had a weird problem with my Airport disappearing. I was sure it had built-in airport, but the profiler said there was no hardware detected. Thanks to a quick search of another online forum, I found I wasn’t the only one. A four-chime PRAM zap did the the trick and restored it.
No doubt, the iMac is amazing bang for the buck.
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Thanks a lot for the quick response. I’ll give this a try. It sounds like it makes perfect sense.
James
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[Borjis] “They’re REALY picky when it comes to the power source and unless you have a really expensive high load rated battery ups or surge protector”
I just worked on an G5 running off an APC $100 unit and had no problems. In fact, it saved me a couple of times. The office is in a 100 year old building and the electrical can be unpredictable. One night, the power dropped three times for about a minute or two each time and the G4 (and all attached FW drives and lights) kept chugging without missing a beat.
I went out and bought myself a smaller APC unit for home and it’s worked great, too. I’m going to get one for every computer from now on!
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Yep, exactly! I’m so glad they improved this. It works great now and can be a HUGE timesaver. It’s saved me a LOT of grief.
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Does this happen when you keyframe the dissolve? I don’t think I’ve used the stock dissolve filters since v.1 or 2. Never did like them, except for rough offline work. I’m guessing you wouldn’t have this problem with keyframes?
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I forgot to mention, also…
Some of the things you’re blaming on FCP are probably limitations of your deck. If your deck isn’t very robust, then your crappy tapes are going to cause you even more problems.
This isn’t an FCP problem, although that’s another reason FCP gets a bad rap: so many people using flaky hardware.