Steven Gonzales
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You can do this manually, but it’s slightly risky because mistakes are hard to find.
If the film lab reels were telecined continuously (and correctly), and there is a hole punch frame, then you can create a list of hole punch frames and their film edge code (keycode) manually from the negatives (or have someone at the lab do it).
Then you could capture in complete lab reels to Final Cut. Then make a note of the video timecode at that hole punch frame. Export the captured clip info from FCP browser as a batch list and import into Cinema Tools. Within Cinema Tools you can manually set that punch frame within the database to have the proper video timecode and film edgecode (keycode).
Of course, if any frames were dropped during capture, this could present problems. You might want to digitize from the “monitor out” of your capture deck, and turn on the timecode display, to get your own version of timecode burn in.
Also, I think some negative cutters offer the service of making their own database (timecode to keycode relationships) and this might work to allow them to cut negative correctly.
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If you want to understand the capabilities and limits of effects in FCP, you should get Kevin Monahan’s book “Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro”.
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A virus works on the operating system level, so the change in microprocessor from IBM Power PC series to Intel won’t affect virus vulnerability.
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I don’t know whether things have changed in FCP 5, but I’ve always contended that it is best to break the feature down into different project files to keep the size down.
For example, I’ll have a capture project with all video and audio. Then I’ll dupe that and sync in another project. Then I’ll take the sync clips and keep just them in another project, splitting them into scene bins. If there was a tremendous amount of footage, I might consider splitting scene ranges into their own projects. As I move along, I may dupe the project, and delete all the old sequences from this new dupe. I also try to keep the minimum number of sequences open at a time.
Since more than one project can be open at a time, I can always go find old things if I need them.
This is my superstitious, non-scientific preference, but perhaps this might help.
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I started running FCP 5 on OS 10.3.9, had some problems (I am using an external SATA drive array for this project), and switched to 10.4 and everything is running great.
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I believe most people are using the USA-28X usb to serial adapter from Keyspan. This plus a mini-din 8 cable to 9 pin, and the software drivers from keyspan, should do the trick.
https://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/USA28x/
cable source:
https://www.addenda-elect.com/product.htm under Serial Cable products, mac to RS-422
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I bought a 300 gig drive, put it in my firewire enclosure, and formatted it with two partitions of 150 gigs.
Then I used carbon copy cloner to clone my system drive to one partition to run Panther and 4.5. To the other partition I loaded Tiger and FCP 5. The I pulled my old system drive, and put this new drive in its place.
I just boot to the system I need for the particular project. The old drive is my backup until I decide to use it for something else.
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I previously had tightening in my wrists, and I did two things that helped:
1) Switched to an ergonomic mouse from 3m: https://www.3m.com/cws/renmouse.html
2) started a regular yoga practice. If there’s no teacher nearby, here’s some stretches: https://www.mydailyyoga.com/yoga/rsi.html
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Instead of using the effect called border, try using video filters > matte > mask shape and choose round rectangle for the shape.