[Tom Wolsky]

What’s a J30? Are you running uncompressed video? You really can’t do that with an iMac. The drive won’t sustain the throughput needed for that kind of data.

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’re not using the composite modes correctly. The matte layer has to be underneath the video and no composite mode is applied to it. It’s set to normal. The video is on the layer above and set to Composite Mode>Travel Matte Alpha. Does that do what you’re trying to do?

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]

Make sure you update to 2.0.3.

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]

Depends on the Windows user. No two are alike. The current export preset for FCP for the web uses H.264 as the codec. This is an outstanding codec, probably the best so far for web compression, much better than anything else that has come prior to it. The user however needs to have QuickTime 7 installed. You could put a link on your page to the QT download page, or you could use some other, now pretty crappy codec, that’s readable by older versions of QuickTime. Or you could use Flip4Mac or PopWire to make a Windows Media Video version of your file. OTOH many Mac users would not be able to read the 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]

Was the file created on a PC? It has to be saved in the Mac version. It also has to be 8-bit RGB.

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]

The image mask filter does not require the matte layer to be in the timeline. It uses an image well, but it’s not animateable. The technique you’re using sounds like you want to apply a travel matte, luma or alpha, to the top layer with no composite mode applied to the matte layer on V2.

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]

MPEG Streamclip

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]

Neither. FCE does not work with either MPEG formats. It only works with DV or with HDV.

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 might check on the Shake forum, but I’m pretty sure you can set the anamorphic flag for the material inside Shake.

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]

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