Sean Lander
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Ah so this explains why when I sent an Uncompressed quicktime to someone on a Pc they couldn’t read the file.
I imagine there are no Uncompressed 10bit codecs for the PC either.So I guess I should save it as an animation?
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Or you could just download Marcus Herrick’s free plugin for FCP from https://haiku.com.au/
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I would avoid using an Avid set up. It in not intuitive. My recommendation for switching between viewer and canvas is to use “q” and avoid Apple 1 & 2. I’ve mapped the toggle screens to SHIFT and SPACEBAR. I must say I hate the way FCP automatically takes you to the Canvas window when you do an edit. Would rather it stay with the viewer. Ala Avid.
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Initially you try and make FCP to work like an Avid. (Which is easy) Later on you try to make Avid work like FCP. (Hard)
If your experienced with Avid you shouldn’t have too much trouble. The main difference is the amazing amount of things
you can do directly in the timeline with FCP. Probably the hardest thing to get used to will be dragging in the time markers area (FCP)
as opposed to dragging on the timeline tracks themselves (Avid)I guarantee once you get used to it you won’t want to go back. Hopefully the project your going to be working on will give you the time
to really come to grips with FCP. I reckon it takes about a month before your completely comfortable with it.
That was my experience.Good luck.
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Yeah I’m certified and agree with Tim. You will pick up the odd thing or two in the course. However don’t expect it to be a license to print money. It hasn’t made one iota of difference to me. (not that I was expecting it to) Nothing like when I became Avid certified. Now that was a big benefit. I think because getting to Avids and Avid instructors was not easy. Hence not cheap. Today anyone can get their hands on a copy of FCP and run it on just about any decent Mac. The program is so intuitive you can have a fairly good grasp of it in a day or two.
Usually the training I do now-a-days is getting those self taught guys and gals to unlearn all their bad habits and start doing things properly. And to broadcast standards. 😉
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Be prepared for heaps of problems using high dpi images in FCP. DPI does affect resolution.
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I understand the logic. There will be most likely be issues in the online suite when they open your 4.5 project.
In particular if there have been any speed affected clips. By you upgrading and sorting these issues out yourselves you will be able to fix any issues much faster than in online as you will know how the shots should look, sound etc. I don’t like upgrading in the middle of a project but if you have no choice, then this IMHO is the best way for you to do it. Remember 4.5 and 5.1 can co-exsist on the one computer so you could still keep your 4.5 project as a reference. 5.1 is a great upgade to FCP and well worth having.
If you do decide to go this way make sure you select BEST quality for you graphics when opeing the 4.5 project for the first time. They will look much better than 4.5. -
Depends on what you want to do with the photos. I usually make them at least double a television frame and make sure they are all 72dpi. Any format will do but I prefer .tif or .pct
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Glad to have helped. Be careful when using BWF it can be a bit flakey as I found out. Especially if you use the method of making alias movies.
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sebsky tools is your answer here. Unfortunately it won’t be developed further, but I used to convert broadcast wave files (6 channels) to QuickTIme movies that I could then import and synchronise using timecode. Worked perfectly.