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[stevec] “Does FCP 4.5 or Soundtrack have a gate or limiter.”
Yes, FCP has an “Expander/Noise Gate” audio filter.
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FireWire is fully “hot-plug” compatible.
I’d suggest that if you have problems with any software that you’re running when you want to change the FW connection, that you first QUIT the software that is using the FW device before you break the connection.
Then make your FW gear change, and start any software you want to use with it.
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[rob] “i know the camera records at 48 kHz”
The camera can record EITHER.
Its easy to have it set to 32kHz by mistake.
That would account for the FCP timeline “beeping” at you (it means the audio need to be rendered.) -
1. I’m betting your camcorder audio recording was preset to 32 kHz your FCP timeline is set to 48 kHz.
(Or your FCP timeline is 32 kHz and your tape is 48 kHz.)2. “Sync-slippage” can happen during some longer captures, and has been more prevelent using fottage shot on Canon camcorders.
To avoid it, break your captures into sections no longer than about 10 minutes each.
You can then “reconstruct” the full tape’s recording (or any longer takes) quickly if you need to.
Mark (and log) your first clip to End (Out-point) about 10 minutes or less from its In-point.
Continue to mark (and log) your clips this way throughout the rest of the tape.
Just make sure the In-points of the subsequent clips are EXACTLY ONE FRAME LATER than the Out-points of the previous clips.You can do all this while actually scanning the tape(s) or just by inputting arbitrary TC numbers, logging them… then use Batch Capture to bring in all of your clips.
Its very easy to then “reconstruct” the shorter clips back to any “continuous” length you want on the timeline by just “clicking” them on in order.
EVEN FASTER… select ALL successive clips at once in the browser (with the browser column-order set to “Media Start” highlight all clips) and drop them, all at once, on the timeline… they’ll all pop up in continuous order. -
[Curt Massof] “Any ideas on what is going on?”
I have learned to avoid using very similar names for clips (especially for the FIRST few words).
i.e.
I do NOT use:
Singing Waiter Tk 3.ws
Singing Waiter Tk 3.ms
Singing Waiter Tk 3.cuI will NOW use:
ws.Singing Waiter Tk 3
ms.Singing Waiter Tk 3
cu.Singing Waiter Tk 3I find that FCP suffers fewer “confused connections” with that way of naming clips.
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This is commonly called the “Pleasantville” effect, named after the film.
(Am I the only person in America that disliked this film?
It was very cynical with a distasteful amoral message… but I digress.)This is a common question with many answers. Here are a few links.
https://www.geniusdv.com/bw-tutorial.php
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_pleasantville_look.html
https://www.lafcpug.org/tutorials/basic_pleasantville_print.html
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Add a diffusion filter (I use a square of diffusion or “spun” light “gel”) over the front of the light.
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It varies.
This is actually such a small difference (PEAKS are very “wild”) that I wouldn’t sweat it.
You might “err on the safe-side” and make it -12 (its easier/safer in digital to later turn UP the level a few dB, than it is to try to turn it down (especially if its distorted).
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[Erik J
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[Christian] “What happened was that she had moved some jpgs (some of which were the base of a slideshow in fcp) from her internal hd to a firewire disc”
Ah, now we see that these were not captured media files or FCP project files.
We know what kind of drive they were on.
We know how they were erroneously trashed and emptied.
(It might even be that the folder IS somewhere on either disk…
further more intense searching (by, say, a NAME of a single “lost” file) might yield surprising results.AND we know that Jpeg files WOULD actually be much easier to “recover” in a usable form for FCP
(even if some might need another “trip thru Photoshop).More INFO posted is always better… so we don’t spend too much COW-time speculating.