[Tom Matthies]

There are many controls in the menu of that camera for modifying the look. He should be able to dial in just about any look you would like and save it to a card. No tweakers needed as in the analog days. Just a knowledge of the menu items.
Tom

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Nothing in there that can’t be done reasonably well right in FCP. Use Boris’ Charcoal Sketch for the moving person effects. FCP’s Edge detection won’t do it for you. Unfortunately the Charcoal Sketch filter is part of Boris’ Continuum collection. It might be available separately, however. Check their website.Borisfx.com
There is already a cheesy page turn effect in FCP and more available as free downloads-Google it.
The alarm clock is just a combination of keyframed effects. Edit together the numerical time elements as a separate track and motion track it onto the alarm clock face. Or compose the entire clock bit as a standalone clip and import it back into FCP. Then you can add motion/garbadge matte keyframes and everything will still line up perfectly. You might want to to build the numerical elements as a stand-alone clip and then do a speed ramp on it to get the speed up effect. Use the Charcoal filter again to create the clock and then transition to the video of the clock. Use a keyframed garbage matte to open up the clock as it comes forward to full video.
The rest of the graphic elements can be easily created using Photoshop or another graphics program where you can compose type/graphics. Possibly even just using the included Boris Title 3D that comes with FCP.
Some of the clips will be easier to use if you either Nest them and/or export them as separate clips and then import them back into the project. Make sure you leave a little extra pad on both ends of the clip for the transitions. It will make the page turn section painless.
All in all, it’s actually pretty easy video to reproduce. Have fun.
Tom

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[Tom Matthies]

Check out the Society of Broadcast Engineers website (https://www.sbe.org). Lots of good info there and they’re international as well.
Tom

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I agree. I still use my trusty old Tektronix 1740/760 combo. I also have a Magni SDM-560M SDI analyzer that all my standard definition video takes a trip through to make sure that everything is as it should be before sending it out.
Why do I still do this? I’m not all that sure anymore since no one seems to care about technical issues these days.
Tom

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I’ve had this problem in the past.
Try going into your System Preferences and change the resolution of your monitor(s) to some resolution lower than what you normally have it set at. See if it helps the white screen problem when you launch FCP. After I changed the resolution, it worked fine. After I changed it back to normal, it still continued to work.
Also try creating a new user and open FCP logged in as the new user. That’s worked for some.
Tom

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What David says. I always use Taiyo Yuden DVD-R’s and never have a problem. Haven’t burned a coaster in a long time.
Tom

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[Tom Matthies]

Go to your Sequence settings for Audio Output. There are a number of options there for outputting multiple channels of audio.
Tom

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[Tom Matthies]

Bob, sometimes your posts are less than helpful.
No more coffee for you!

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Speed will also depend on how full the drives are. Are they all new or do some drives have more data on them than the others?

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Did you drag it onto another folder by mistake?
Tom

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