Scott Witthaus
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also, can I re-dig just subclips? It seems to default to the master clip when I try this. Thanks.
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Thanks John –
I just want to tell FCP to start re-digging at 00:00:10:00 versus 00:00:00:00. Will what you explained do that? There is no rollover on the tapes. Thanks.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
Greybox, LLC
Richmond, VA USA
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Do these all need to be rendered out for playback or will the card handle it in real time from the timeline?
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I think Erik’s point is that FCP’s internal text tool lags far behind avid…and Avid’s is not great, but at least it is WYSYG. You should not have to hop out to external programs just to get decent text!! The controls are nice in FCP for text, but the text looks lousy and its a pain to position. Should have been fixed a long time ago.
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Is Title 3D excluded from Academic versions? I don’t seem to have that.
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OUr FCP systems are very solid. The one time I had problems on a laptop system is when the Ram was bad…not in matched pairs, etc., Are all the other programs running on the G5 doing well?
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[Ren Hinks] “But the 2-boot drive concept certainly seems sound even if no AVID editor I know of would put up with a Media Composer upgrade that caused this much grief.
“Ren –
I have been with Avid products since they came to the market and I think you have a bit of rose colored glasses look going. Yes, avid is a great product and led the way, it took more than a few tweaks and adjustments for upgrades.
First was the tens of thousands of dollars for a major hardware/software upgrade. Second was the annoying habit of waiting weeks and weeks and weeks after Avid sales pressure to then get your software and hardware. Avid support is mostly worthless, except for the old Softimage/DS group out of Montreal. The only reason to pay the $2500 is for software upgrades each year…especially when using a Mac based system. Hmm, that equals 2 more purhcases of FCP5… I was a beta site for many versions of Avid DS and I can tell you, not all the bugs get washed out in beta testing. Hell, pop over to the XpressPro bulletin board and check on the Domain Copy bug or the runaway playback bug that has haunted that software for several versions. Avid editors are puttingup with that! Oh, and talk to the early adopters of Adreanline…especially on the Mac platform…not a pretty picture. Early DS v 6.0? ouch. So to say FCP5 is unique in quirks duing a major software and OS change is not totally accurate.
That being said, I still think it is wise to do the upgrades when your business model demands it, not because its new and cool. And especially not during active projects!!! Don’t get caught up in all the cool NAB demos…have patience and let the others take the beating!
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[Steve Connor] “Good point, all software especially from Apple SHOULD work perfectly straight out the box on a .0 version, no bugs, no problems but it doesn’t, no software does. The public beta test every single piece of software released on the planet!”
yeah, show me any software that works perfectly at ANY version! LOL
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[Jerry Hofmann] “That said, no one is putting thumbscrews on you to get you to buy the latest software when it comes out. YOU make that choice. “
Jerry is right. FCP5.0/Tiger is a classic early version release to stay away from if you can. New software on a new operating system…Danger Will Robinson!!! I will certainly do the upgrade and maybe add another suite (take the place of the old Avid), but I will watch from the sidelines for a while and watch the ‘bleeding edgers’ figure it out and de-bug.
‘Patience is a virtue.’
‘Save and save often’
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[chris lambert] “why did i install Tiger”
did you have to do it? As noted above, some folks are running fine. Others, like myself, will wait a little bit and then install the x.1 versions after the ‘pioneers’ have done the dirty work on x.0!!! LOL
Now, if you have any experience with PC/NT world and the constant SP issues, you may not be complaining about operator error with Tiger!