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Steve Eisen
May 17, 2012 at 1:31 pm in reply to: Edit to Tape – timecode showing up but video is black/blank when played back? Any thoughts welcome

[Rob Simpkins] “DVC pro tape on a DSR 1500AP DV cam deck”

This deck cannot record to DVC Pro Tape. It can only playback. Use DVCAM Tape.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
Steve Eisen
May 17, 2012 at 3:28 am in reply to: MC6 or Symphony

You can’t beat the $995 crossgrade price for Symphony! They dropped the price to compete with Smoke 2013.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
Steve Eisen
May 16, 2012 at 1:15 pm in reply to: Best Export Settings

Do not use Export Using QuickTime Conversion. Export QuickTime Movie and do NOT change anything.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
Steve Eisen
May 16, 2012 at 4:42 am in reply to: Best Export Settings

First thing is to export QuickTime Movie and make self-contained. This will be your digital Master.

Drop that file into Compressor. Use Preset for DVD (MPEG 2) and h.264. 6 MB/s is a good bit rate for Vimeo/YouTube.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
Steve Eisen
May 15, 2012 at 5:51 pm in reply to: Compressor failed”-Quicktime movie file with issues.

[Paul Zwicker] “t’s too large to save to a FAT32 hard drive (for client’s Windows laptop).”

ExFAT

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
Steve Eisen
May 14, 2012 at 5:52 pm in reply to: Can I purchase Stuido 3 or FCP 7 cheaper than Apple; new or used?

[e. hamilton] “I’ve gotten burned on software that was pirated.”

Learn from your mistakes. You get what you pay for.

[e. hamilton] “I considered the Academic version but not having the ability to update it is a problem.” Again, there are NO MORE updates. Apple is NEVER going update FCP 7!!!

If you are a serious editor, invest in a software that you are comfortable with. There are free trials of Premiere and Media Composer.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
Steve Eisen
May 14, 2012 at 5:42 pm in reply to: scratch disk issues

I would try to avoid daisy chaining your drives. Work on one project at a time and keep all the assets from each project on the same hard drive. Your permissions got screwed up somewhere. Could be the daisy chain. Try connecting each drive individually to find out.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
Steve Eisen
May 14, 2012 at 5:37 pm in reply to: fuzzy pics everywhere, have tried everything!

[Samuel Frazier] “I’ve tried everything you mentioned except view through a Kona/ Decklink/ etc device.”

This is the ONLY way to judge how your video will look. If you have it, use it. This will show you full detail if rendered properly on a calibrated TV monitor. Keep in mind you are working in an SD format. Your images are not going to look as good compared to HD.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
Steve Eisen
May 13, 2012 at 9:16 pm in reply to: using FCP and after effects plugins

You have to check the specific plug-ins. It’s plainly written out what systems they work with. It’s a simple Google search. Type in FCP and After Effect plug-ins.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
Steve Eisen
May 13, 2012 at 9:09 pm in reply to: Converting MP4 HD files from a Blackberry Playbook to edit in Final Cut?

Assuming you have FCP 6 or 7, you would use Compressor (free) to convert your footage.

ProRes is an excellent codec. As far as quality, the saying garbage in/garbage out still applies.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

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