[Steven Cohen]

It seems you had no problems, but if the drive were damages it would have happened at the crash and not at the re-boot.

When the crash happened the drives were in effect taken off line improperly anyway.

Steve.

[Steven Cohen]

My first thought was a mask, but that would have to be animated as the text come out to stay in position.

2nd thought is a little more complicated.
Take the layer of video (the women) and double it up, put the text behind or under that layer and then crop the top layer of video to the edge of the graphic image.

so you are going to have a bottom layer of video, middle layer of text and then a top layer of video cropped to the edge of the graphic which is on top of everything.

Steve.

[Steven Cohen]

Select all the clips in the sequence.

Go to reconnect them and then there will be 3 button on the upper right side.

Turn off the Online and Render buttons and it will only try to reconnect those that are offline.

Steve.

[Steven Cohen]

You didn’t state what version of FCP you are using, but you can pretty much assign any action to a keystroke in the keyboard layout.

Steve.

[Steven Cohen]

I haven’t tried it in FCP 7, but 6 will take CC that is embedded into the QT and output it to tape.

Just make sure you do not crop any of the top video lines because that will cut it off.

The process that Jessica was talking about is to add captioning to an uncaptioned QT or timeline.

Steve.

[Steven Cohen]

Dave maybe right, but something to try is Sound Track Pro.

It has the ability to sample a section of the noise only and then remove that or those frequencies from the main clip.

It has worked pretty good for me in the past but depending on the the amount of noise and how much it intrudes on the voice range it may be a lost cause.

Steve.

[Steven Cohen]

Yes 1 GB is way to low for a scratch disk.
Also I’ve heard that it is not a good idea to render and edit to you computer HD.

Steve.

[Steven Cohen]

There are many different ways.
It can be done in Final Cut, Motion, Live Type or After Effects.

It depends on how complicated you are going with it and what program you are more comfortable using.

We use Live Type for our Lower Thirds because that is what we have setup and with the amount of segments and show we pump out it is fastest for us.

If you want to use After Effects you needs to export it as a QuickTime Animation codec with millions + colors in order to get the Alpha channel.

I think After Effects is over kill for what you say you are trying to do, it can easily be do in Final Cut with elements created in Photoshop and then animated using the motion tab.

Steve.

[Steven Cohen]

[Jebster Kropf] ” I’m using FCP 7 on Snow Leopard. Its a stand-alone….I don’t have motion. “

Everyone had great suggestions, but the original question said he had a stand alone version of Final cut and did not have motion.

I’m not sure how that is, unless he just didn’t install it, because I didn’t think Final Cut came in a stand alone version anymore.

Steve.

[Steven Cohen]

I’ve done it on 2 different systems the way Steve suggested.

I actually have to separate drives that I installed the OS on each on separately, ran all updates, installed FCS 2 on 1 drive updated it, then installed FCS 3 on the other drive and updated it.

Works fine.

Remember anything you do you need to do 2 times, drives, plug-ins, fonts.

Steve.