Steve Eisen
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Have you looked at the text in Motion?
Boris Title3D is included with FCP 7.Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Mark, I know your projects are large. You have your workflow down to a science.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
[Mark Raudonis] “146 Mb is NOT that big”
For project size it is very big.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
[James de Boer] “I am running the footage off a seagate usb harddrive”
Nothing you can do but wait…and wait…and wait. I warned above that you should NEVER use USB drives. USB is very very slow as you see.
If you can find an external FW800 drive soon buy it. It’s going to be very expensive now that hard drive prices have sky rocketed due to the floods in Thailand. If you can borrow one for this project do it now.
Working off your internal drive is also not a good idea to do. It can corrupt your system software.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Glad to help. A word of advice from an expert. Know your stuff before you get onsite. Better yet, hire someone who does.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
I couldn’t even take a wild guess. I do not know what your computer specs are, hard drive etc…
40 minutes shouldn’t take more than a few hours on a decent system.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Correct workflow is key.
[James de Boer] ” I know H.264 is the go to codec for exporting and then you just change the dimensions to fit your need”
This is NOT the way to do it.
Export a self contained QuickTime Movie from FCP. Export/QuickTime Movie (check self-contained) do not change any settings.
Drop that file into Compressor and create an m2v and ac3 for a DVD and h.264 with a bit rate between 2k and 6k for h.264. Once again do not change and dimensions.
You will end up with a Self Contained Movie (highest quality), a DVD and a compressed version (h.264) of your project. All three are options for playback.
Do not work with USB hard drives. FW800 minimum.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
[Mitch Hardison] “Where online is the best place to buy FCP 7”
Any place you can find it!
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
[Bruce Assardo] “We copied the contents of the cards onto my firewire drive. Is there a missing component i can add now? A Last Clip kind of thing?”
The Last Clip is needed. Not all is lost. You can recreate the Last Clip. Google for the answer.
This is how it should look:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1847Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3672
https://www.rippletraining.com/categories/free-stuff/fs-oldies/fcp-7-ichat-theater.html
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group