Tom Matthies
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Just a shot in the dark. How many physical disks do you have? Are they the Apple originals? Are you sure that this is FCP Studio3 you are trying to install and not FCP3, the older, non-studio version? I don’t think FCP3 will run on an Intel based machine. Just a thought…
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We use an Omneon server for playout here. We do all of out editing in FCP using ProRes for the production. After the project is finished we convert the file to mpeg2 for import into the Omneon. We have a watch folder setup using Flip Factory to do the conversion. You can also do the conversion using Compressor. If you enable the virtual cluster function it tales only a minute or two to convert a 30 second spot. Stay out of the mpeg2 format until the last minute and you’ll preserve the most quality.
The finished format for Omneon needs to be mpeg2 (actually Omneon’s version of it). You can do the editing in any format you like.E=MC2+/-2db
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Click on the track. Hold Option/Shift and drag the track downward to a new track. It will make a copy of the track and be in sync with it. Just link them and make a stereo pair and pan to center.
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Do your photos on three layers. One for the background color and one each for the two sides of the montage. Add a fourth layer for your titles on the very top. Once you have all your moves the way you’d like, nest each layer (separately) and then add a crop to the sides of each nested layer to prevent the overlap. If you crop before nesting, you will need to track each cropped edge for each photo. If you nest them first, then a single crop is all that will be needed. Simple and easy.
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You should be able to assign any keyboard command to a button on the Shuttle Pro 2. It comes with a driver that allows you to reassign the buttons at will and also allows you to store a complete setup for different processes. You can have a setup for editing and a different setup for capture and so on. I find that the most useful remapping for me is the jog remapped to zoom into and out of the timeline. I use it constantly when editing longer form projects like TV shows. I’m also a keyboard shortcut kind of guy and use the keyboard shortcuts extensively. Between the Shuttle Pro, the mouse and the keyboard, I can edit very quickly indeed.
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I use the Shuttle Pro 2 and have for the last two years or so. I’ve remapped many of the functions, for example, I use the Jog wheel to expand the timeline rather than using CMD+ and CMD-. I’m so used to it that if I edit on a different system, I’m constantly reaching over to my left for the wheel and buttons.
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Also if the audio is muxed as it is in some compressed GOP formats, it won’t play in FCP. Convert to ProRes using Streamclip or a similar program and it should work.
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Actually, if you want to edit at 23.98 with HVX-200 footage, wouldn’t you want to shoot at 24PN rather than 24PA? 24PA is still 24 over 30 video just with a different pulldown cadence I believe.
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After nesting the clip with the 360 rotation, when you move the nested clip to the right or left and adding the rotation keyframes to the nest, make sure you are moving it by adjusting the ANCHOR POINT of the clip and NOT just by adjusting the x/y coordinates. Moving the anchor point will cause the clip to orbit around that point rather than around the center of the clip. It should be pretty straightforward.
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Would it work as a switch? Probably. Is it the right way to do it? Nope. While it might work for short distances, the cables you are probably using aren’t designed to carry a high definition signal and the two signals will not be in time with each other when you throw the switch. It will cause a big glitch when you switch between your sources. If you are feeding a monitor or a projection system, it will look bad but do no harm. If you are feeding a recorder or digitizing it into a computer, you can cause yourself a whole world of hurt with a bad recording or a corrupt file. Since it’s just a mechanical switch, it will pass the signal, but it’s not designed to carry the kind of signal you are sending through it. Proceed at your own risk.
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