Simon Hustings
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Hey Mike,
Is this problem on the same system as your previous Preview thread? If not, can you give us your hardware spec? Always helps to know what is connected to where! -
Have you tried these?
You only get a timeline on the screen when a sequence is open in any project. So double click any sequence in the Bin to see if that opens up the shop. You mentioned that viewer, timeline and canvas windows are checked in the Window Menu, just to double check, the shortcut keys for the viewer window and the timeline are Cmd 1 & Cmd 3 respectively. Try toggling them on with that.
Also, depending on your brother in-law’s screen resolution, the windows may just be off the screen, try selecting one of the standard screen layouts from the Window>Arrange menu.
One question though, you said only the canvas window appears, you don’t even get the effect tab or a bin when you open any project?Simon
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I had a similar issue when subbing an english doco into greek and turkish too.
We searched around for a possible automated solution for the translations, even looked at babel fish, but in the end, the best way we found was to hire a human translator, as a word for word translation engine might misread something you type. EG: Read and Read; you might mean present tense, but the app might take it as past tense, and translate incorrectly.
Another reason for using a person for translation will mean that they can craft the words a little more to fit the prose/grammar of the final language as often times a word for word translation just doesn’t evoke the same message.
So for our Turkish & Greek translations, they then re-worded the script, typed it up in Word, then it was just a matter of copy and pasting the correct words (and accents etc) into FCP. (we needed embedded subs on video otherwise we would have done it in DVDSP as an independent sub track on the DVD)
The only issue I can see for this method, is whether FCP or DVDSP supports Cantonese/Mandarin/Korean character sets. Can anyone else answer that?
Anyway, paying for a translator for every project may be more expensive than using a less accurate one-time cost application, but in my experience, bad subs, like bad audio can really bring down good pics and the viewers whole experience.Simon
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Hey Mitch,
This was my workflow for interlaced DV PAL 4:3 > DV NTSC 4:3 using Compressor 3.02
1) I exported a self contained QT file from FCP, as DV PAL 48Khz (the timeline settings)
2) Created a job in Compressor, and selected DV NTSC from the Apple\Other Workflows\Advanced Format Conversion\Standard Definition presets folder.
3) I turned Frame Controls on, changed resize filter to Best, Rate conversion to Good and left the other settings alone.
4) Hit Submit and am waiting for the results. (As of writing, 3 hours to go)I have also just finished rendering the doco using Nattress’ plugin, and I have to say it looks great. So far I have yet to see any artifacts visually, although it did take approx 5 hours to render. I’ll know more after Compressor finishes, but as of right now, I think they are both going to look about the same.
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Hey Uli,
My PAL DV footage is Interlaced.
And I’m pretty confident about my settings. I followed the instructions word for word that came with the Nattress plugin. And I’ve researched on Lynda.com the way of converting PAL to NTSC using Compressor.
But Compressor still seems faster to me. It’s almost a real time process. The one minute clip was taking 1.07 to complete, whereas FCP was taking approx 3 minutes for the same clip. I know FCP is limited to using 4Gb of System RAM, is compressor limited the same way, or is having access to that 5th GB of RAM making all the difference?
Even though there is a render time difference, I’m not seeing anything visually to distinguish one from the other. I always heard Nattress Standards Converter was the way to go, but is this evidence of Compressor finally catching up in quality and surpassing it in speed?
Cheers,
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I didn’t use FCP Rescue, I just trashed the prefs following steps on Ken Stone and then FCP re-calibrated RT Extreme. That went well, reached 100% and my project opened. But no change from before. Still dropped frames etc.
Are there any known bugs in FCP 6.01 when using a Power PC G5 running the Radeon X800XT card? Or again, am I missing something really simple? This seems such a weird problem. Why would installing a better AGP reduce performance?
Any help would be appreciated!
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Ah, well that answers that then!! Cheers!
The only thing left remaining to be answered is why a new graphics card with 4x the RAM would show a markable reduction in quality & framerate over the original 64mb card. Any suggestions?
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True, but I thought that increasing the power of the AGP would have an overall improvement on the system in general, certainly not a noticeable decrease!
Shouldn’t the card still show up as one of the options in the drop down menu in the Effect Handling Tab of System Settings? I thought unloading some of the number crunching from FCP onto the GPU would only help improve things??
PS: I tried trashing my FCP prefs in a hope it would refresh the Effect Handling Drop down list to include my card, but no joy there either!!
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I should also add to my previous Post that in the Effect Handling tab of System Settings in FCP6, the only options in the drop down menu are Final Cut Pro or None. Should the X800XT show up here as an option too?
And if it should, how do I add it?
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Although Motion is 2.5D and you can’t create of manipulate true 3D objects, you can cheat a little with cubes or any other flat sided shapes.
For a cube, you could create the 6 seperate sides of it in Photoshop as 6 flat layers (with transparent, or alpha BGs) then import each layer as seperate objects into Motion and rotate the sides through the relevant XYZ axis’ to create the 3D cube.
As I said, this only works with flat sided objects: cubes, diamonds etc.. but it still lets you add a little 3D that you wouldn’t normally be able to create. Ok maybe not true 3D, but at least 2.75D.Simon.