[Steven Gonzales]

You need to carefully and thoughtfully go through a tutorial on this program.

Or you need to sit down with someone that knows the program and can explain the concepts to you.

It’s like two pieces of rope 1 foot long. If you lay them end to end, you have 2 feet of rope laid out. If you want to tie a knot, you use up some of the rope doing that, and it won’t be 2 feet long anymore.

A rope piece is a clip. The knot is your transition. Even if you don’t measure the very beginning part of the first rope, and don’t measure the end part of the second rope, if the two cut ends in the middle are laid out continuous with each other, there’s no room for a knot.

[Steven Gonzales]

For another view on using FCP, I would highly suggest the October 2005 DVD from LAFCPUG where Sean Cullen and Walter Murch discuss editing Jarhead on FCP.

https://www.intelligentassistance.com/shop/lafcpug.html

I recall that they talk a lot about sound. I believe they were using a digital pipeline for sound (using tapes is starting to be an old fashioned way to work).

I believe there are some hardware cards that will do the 23.98 to 29.97 conversion on the fly. I believe you can also export a sequence at 29.97, bring that back in and play it to tape, or paste to a 29.97 sequence and render.

However, using After Effects is a very easy method also.

Avid is probably an easier system to use if you haven’t completely figured out your workflow ahead of time, as it is more tested. However, as Walter Murch and Sean Cullen show, if you are organized and test every aspect, you can be innovative and succesful using Final Cut for a film.

[Steven Gonzales]

I found this using Creativecow search forum function:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=8&postid=888077

Go to /Library/Application Support/Pro Apps and trash the Final Cut Pro or Studio System ID. You’ll be asked for a new serial number when you next launch the application.

[Steven Gonzales]

I’ve done this before with applescript.

1) got to applications-applescript- and open the script editor application

2) create a new script, and hit record. Rename a test file and you will see the script:

tell application “Finder”
activate
set name of document file “file old name” of folder “test quicktimes” of disk “Sata1” to “file new name”
end tell

3) open text edit, then make another script in Scripteditor to get the current file names for your quicktimes and put them into textedit, then run this new script:

tell application “TextEdit”
activate
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to return
try
set the text of the front document to (list folder (choose folder) without invisibles) as string
end try
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to “”
end tell

4) export a batch list from final cut with all the final cut names.

5) now you have all the info you need. In excel (or some other program) open the batch list from final cut. Get rid of all the columns except the name column.

6) cut and paste the list of quicktime names from text edit into excel in another column.

7) Using text to columns in excel, and cutting and pasting, manipulate each line in excel until they match the applescript renaming format.
All the first column cells would say — set name of document file ” —
all the second column cells would be the old names
all the third column cells would say — “of folder “test quicktimes” of disk”Sata1″ to ” —
all the fourth column cells would be the new names
and all the fifth column cells would say — ” –.

In the last column, concatenate all the columns into one, which is a properly formatted rename command. (The formula would be — =A2 & B2 & C2 & D2 & E2 — This last column would be what you could cut and paste into your applescript.

8) paste this list of rename commands into an applescript and run.

This seems a lot more complicated than it actually is.

[Steven Gonzales]

Go up to the mark menu, select next, and pick either gap (shift-g) or track gap. You can also look backwards, using mark menu, previous gap (option-g) or track gap.

[Steven Gonzales]

You might want to consider a program that will save to Windows Media format, such as Flip4Mac, because a lot of laptops and pc’s in general don’t have quicktime installed.

[Steven Gonzales]

Check the toolbar track select tools. There a tool for “all tracks from the click location to the end of the timeline” in each direction. After selecting, you can just drag the whole works to open some space.

[Steven Gonzales]

Could you give more information about how the movie will be used? It’s tough to give specifics without knowing your intended use. How will the CD be used?

[Steven Gonzales]

I thought that 2k referred to the film image being scanned to approximately 2000 lines of horizontal resolution:

2048 x 1536 pixels for a 1:1.33 aspect ratio, or 1828 x 1332 pixels for a 1:1.37(academy) aspect ratio.

[Steven Gonzales]

This thread might be helpful, and is fairly recent:

https://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux/browse_thread/thread/f3445e576bac436b/47afc884c5c62e58?lnk=st&q=samba+2+gig+file+limit&rnum=24#47afc884c5c62e58