Stace Carter
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I’ve just started the Lynda.com materials for FCP and so far, they seem very good and thorough – you can preview some of the materials for free at the site, and there is a host of other titles available if you get the subscription, including the basics of Color, Soundtrack, and Motion.
To answer your question on other apps to study, I’d ‘d say look at what your market has demand for. OTOH, it’s easy to get too wide but not deep enough, so I’d be cautious on that. My guess is if you focus your training within the Studio Suite of products you’ll find a good deal of complementary material.
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Just did this last night on practically the same machine and had the same panic, but I was done with FCP and on to another install in no time (an hour or so). I did skip all the extra Soundtrack media, etc – will pop those on an external HD at a later date.
Cheers,
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I like the sound of that GoDaddy system – I use http://www.yousendit.com – clients don’t need to be “FTP Friendly” to figure it out.
Cheers,
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PJ,
I’ve not tried this from an NLE but have rolled plenty of footage from our SP Deck to the firestore – I would suspect you could simply play from the timeline and manually hit record from the front of the FS? Might need to check to make sure you’re monitoring via firewire.
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I do this all the time in Excel, just Find and Replace (CTRL+F or perhaps Apple+F).
You may even be able to do this in one of the various text editors.
Be careful on how you save out the resulting file though – one little extra space at the beginning or end can wig out your editing app.
Good luck,
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https://www.lqgraphics.com/phototomovie.php
This is a nice, cheap and easy app that does all that work for you, has plenty of customization options but honestly I don’t use them. I just import my audio for synch, tweak durations and let ‘er rip.
This has saved me more time than I could possibly measure.
Cheers,
Stace
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I’ve had this passed on to me by a client:
https://www.rivavx.com/?encoder
It’s a Win App, so I’m also looking for another way. To your question, I’d imagine doing this in Flash is the best way to go, if that is an option you’ve already purchased.
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What you’re looking to do is a compressor “side chain” which is a good idea – in the analog audio world it can be very effective AND save you a boatload of work. Sadly, I’m not sure if you can pull this off in FCP. Look into it in Soundtrack mebbe?
From the Wiki:
Side-chaining:
Side-chaining uses the dynamic level of another input to control the compression level of the signal. This is used by disc jockeys to lower the music volume automatically when speaking, for example (known as ducking). A frequency-specific compressor (often used for de-essing) may be constructed by feeding a high-pass filtered copy of the original signal into the side-chain input of the compressor so that volume reduction on the original signal only takes place when a specific frequency is present in large amounts (such as sibilant sounds that tend to overdrive preemphasized media such as phonograph records and FM radio). Another use of the side-chain in music production serves to maintain a loud bass track, while still keeping the bass out of the way of the drum when the drum hits.
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“But your TV and EVERY other TV in the country will hide it.”…
Yes and no. I think this whole “title safe” thing is going away, with the advent of LCDs and Plasmas. And computers as video playback devices. The only place you won’t see it is on a CRT, so you’d be wise to crop it, just to be… safe.
Any other thoughts on title-safe going away? I’ve been nailed on this now twice, fortunately (or not) the projects weren’t going to broadcast, but I’d think I was in the clear until I played a test DVD back on my laptop or home LCD.
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This makes perfect sense – since you’re going firewire/digital it’s just data, so if you experience dropouts, etc they should be major and noticeable, but that would be an alignment issue and not a “quality compromise” per se.