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Tall Jim
July 9, 2013 at 11:36 pm in reply to: Replace Footage behavior

Thanks mister…

Got you!

I actually wound up using Link Media.

What is the functional different between the two ways of reconnecting footage? I’ve just arrived at CC after years of FCP and Media Composer.

If you don’t mind sharing your wisdom?

TJ
Tall Jim
July 9, 2013 at 10:50 pm in reply to: Replace Footage behavior

Wow, I’m seeing this on Mac too.

Admittedly I’m trying to switch from an AVCHD .mts file to a ProRes Quicktime .mov which would make my head hurt too, but honestly…

Would you mind explaining your workaround – I can’t see any text field to type my asterisk into.

Best

James
Tall Jim
February 15, 2008 at 3:40 pm in reply to: Working with 2k files from a telecine…

Hello Gary

Thank you for your time! I did sort of think that the drives would choke…

The scary thing is that 50 frames of dpx, wrapped as Quicktime even manages to kill Compressor on my machine!

I’ve no illusions about the loss of quality but which codec would you recommend I use from here?

All the best

Jim
Tall Jim
December 19, 2006 at 5:18 pm in reply to: Shapening an image

Sorry about your footage!

I had to rescue some tragic archive a couple of weeks back. I found that the sharpen tools overall produced too many ugly artifacts so…

I roughly masked the foreground / important foreground and sharpened it and slightly defocussed the background. With a bit of colour correction to improve the contrast, it was improved a fair wack, and the soft focus didn’t leap out at you any more – or at least your eye stayed on the right part of the scene…

Hope that helps – tell me if you want more how to detail.

Jim
Tall Jim
December 19, 2006 at 8:43 am in reply to: Using Media Manager with audio

Thanks for your reply David.

OMF doesn’t really do the job because it wont import back into FCP.

What I’m really after is a backup technique – I used to do this all the time on Avid and keep a library of media for every mix I finished for reversioning purposes.

Can you suggest anywhere I could go in Apple to get a definitive answer?

Jim
Tall Jim
December 19, 2006 at 8:41 am in reply to: Voice over speed increase without effecting pitch?

You can keep the whole process in FCP – adjust the speed of the clip to fit the gap you have then apply the Pitch Shift audio filter to bring the pitch back down.

Have to agree tho, at double speed, your voice over artist is going to sound like a Dalek! I’ve used it successfully (even in vision) to 105-110%

Jim
Tall Jim
December 18, 2006 at 2:19 pm in reply to: PAL Colour Bars from FCP

Hey All

Thanks for the info, and sorry for the long pause.

My techie manager won’t go to 5.1.2 yet but its good to know the bars are there.

I agree about PAL forum – just a side shoot needed really…

Jim
Tall Jim
October 30, 2006 at 10:39 am in reply to: TIMECODE HELP !!!

Hi Rohan

If I understand you correctly, you want to burn the SOURCE timecode on to your movie, not the SEQUENCE time code?

If that is the case, you need to drop a Video > Timecode Reader effect on to each one of your video clips on the time line. This will read the clip’s source timecode and display it as a burned in a superimposed box.

If you want the SEQUENCE timecode, you need to nest your whole sequence into a new sequence (so it becomes a single flattened clip on the timeline) then appy Timecode Generator effect to the whole sequence (you can set the start timecode).

Hope that helps

James