[Tom Wolsky]

If I understand the question, the answer is no. It’s like saying can I have a round ball that’s square. DV uses rectangular pixels. You can make a square pixel sequence, but DV will not fit it correctly.

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]

They’re just indicators. You can ignore them if you want. Anything that needs to be rendered will have to be rendered for output. Green means real-time preview. Red means must render for playback. Orange means real-time preview but with dropped frames, so switch off the dropped frames warning. Yellow means real-time proxy settings, basically it will only play the default version of the effect or transition, not all the detail of what you applied.

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 FCP license only allows the installation of the product on one machine at a time. Within the terms of the license you have to uninstall it from the desktop before installing it on the laptop or vice versa.

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]

Click on my head at the top of the forum.

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]

I can’t see how that can happen. Could you send me the project 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]

Again, did you record with an external microphone attached to the camera?

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]

That information is not available within FCP.

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]

When you play the tape in the capture window do you see the audio meters moving? Are they both moving? After you capture the clip and open it into the Viewer what do you get, one tab marked Stereo, two tabs marked Mono (a1) and Mono (a2)? Is there audio in one tab and not in the other? Or in the Stereo tab is there audio displayed only on one track and not on the other? The more detail you can give the better. Like how are you monitoring the sound in the computer? What’s happening in the meters when you play the audio back?

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]

Are you sure there’s audio on both channels? Did you use an external mic?

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]

File>Export>quickTime Conversion. Set the Format popup to Still Image. Click Options to pick a file type. You might need to resize the image compensate for the rectangular pixel aspect ratio.

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