[Susan Wilcox]

Thanks for the responses. I’ll check out the skin tone suggestions of Facelight and Shefflieldsoftworks!

Susan
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[Susan Wilcox]

I’ll give Facelight a look! Thanks, Susan

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[Susan Wilcox]

I’ll give Facelight a look! Thanks, Susan

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[Susan Wilcox]

I don’t have a broadcast monitor any more as I downsized my office and am doing only web and YouTube productions. Maybe that was a mistake, but I don’t have room for the monitor anyway. I am looking at the video in FCP. I tried the three-way color corrector and it didn’t affect the facial tones at all (as far as I could tell). Thanks for your idea about the spotlight layer (“you could add a mostly opaque spotlight layer to him, you could create a soy edged mask and color correct only within the masked area”). I didn’t know I could add a picture. Here is the link to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRq3wfYH_KQ.

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[Susan Wilcox]

I posted this long ago. No, I don’t have a 13″ Apple Book Pro but a 15″ Apple Book Pro that I bought in I think 2009. It has 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB memory (1067 MHz DDR3–whatever that means). I have been very happy with it. I can do editing on it without requiring a additional monitor and keyboard. I appreciate your description of the kind of work you do and I do something similar, documentary without fantastic effects. I’ve done a few extra bits in Motion and imported them. I alternate between my laptop and a MiniMac for editing. They both work great for me. However, the 15″ using FCP is not the best for showing clients the final product until you make it into a DVD and show them full screen. You can see the results of my work at my website fullduck.com>Portfolio>Ethnic Expressions>and then any entry. i don’t know that I’d like to condense my editing down to the 13″ screen using FCP. I’m not sure what you are asking but maybe this will help. Write back if you have other questions. Susan

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[Susan Wilcox]

Here’s another update. I continued to have some problems, so I checked FCP User preferences. I changed the item that allowed FCP to save up to the dropped frames. I unchecked “Abort capture on dropped frames.” Now it has been working perfectly, so this may have been the major cause of my problems! I hope this post helps someone else who is struggling with this problem.

Susan

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[Susan Wilcox]

Tom:

Yes, I tried the MacMini and was able to record the first 15 minutes with no dropped frames! Since it failed in the first two minutes previously, I think that, along with proper settings, is the answer. Thanks for your help and inspiring me to keep at it! Having someone to ask questions to is a huge help!

Susan

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[Susan Wilcox]

You were right that I had forgotten to set the device to non-controllable, but I’ve tried that twice now and it still is dropping frames. Any other ideas? I know that this system has worked before for me, but that was a couple of years ago and I haven’t used it recently nor on my laptop. Perhaps I should try my miniMac instead. Would it be more stable?

Susan

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[Susan Wilcox]

I’m working on a MacBookPro laptop, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo using OS 10.6 and FCP 6.0.6. I’m using Firewire to connect everything. I’m playing the DVD source material from a Samsung DVD and VHS consumer model deck into the Canopus 110 through an S-video and single audio connection. The deck is also connected to my monitor so I can see what is happening. The Canopus 110 is connected to a Lacie 1 TB external HD via FW. The LaCie is connected to the laptop via firewire. The Sequence and Capture sequences are both DV NTSC 48 kHz and the Device Control Preset is Firewire NTSC. Is there anything else I can tell you?

Susan

[Susan Wilcox]

Thanks, that does help. I’m realizing that I need more than a css to do this. I’ll try some of these other avenues.

Susan

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