[Tom Wolsky]

Lay out the browser columns they way you want them, delete any you don’t need, and use File>Export>Batch List. It’ll produce a tab delineated text file.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

If you want to backup the media as well, but trim it down to just what was used in the final edit, use Media Manager. Select whatever you want to back up, run Media Manager and choose the copy function. Check delete unused and make a new project with that material. Burn the copied material to a DVD.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

Please give full specifications of your system, computer, drives, decks, how everything is connected and the settings you have on your material and the settings you’re using in the application.

It would also be helpful to know which application you’re using.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

LiveType and After Effects are different. In LT you should use the DV setting for the project.

The project itself should be imported into FCE. No rendering or output needed. The material gets rendered in FCE into DV. FCE only edits in DV or HDV. Those are the only two setups you can use.

You export QuickTime Movie from FCE to go to iDVD.

Look at your work on a video monitor while you’re working.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

If you’re exporting using Animation because you need transparency you’re moving a lossless high resolution image to FCE. There you’re compressing it to DV. Then you’re compressing it again to MPEG-2 for the DVD. Yeah, it’s not going to look as good as the original Animation. That’s why you have to work with a video monitor. That’s the only place where you can tell what the material really looks like.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

https://www.fcpbook.com/Effects3.html

What do you want to backup? The project files, audio and graphics are what you need to backup. Burn them on a disc.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

You need to render in AE to the DV specification. There is a comp preset for that in AE. That’s what you should use, nothing else, unless you need to carry transparency, then you should leave the other settings but set the codec to Animation.

One more time, are you looking at the FCE output on a video monitor?

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

What codec did you use in After Effects? Does the material need to be rendered when you put it into the FCE sequence? Are you looking at the output on a video monitor?

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

You can’t learn any application quickly if you need to use it professionally. If you comfortable with Xpress, stick with Xpress.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

Depending on where the media is relation to where you want to put it you can mark an In point or do a Lift edit before reinserting it.

Write up exactly how you want the keyboard shortcut to work and put it into Feedback.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD