[Tom Wolsky]

Do not work in other applications while you’re capturing, particularly audio applications. It is liable to screw up the capture. In the log and capture window, in the clip settings pane, there is a checkbox that will turn audio playback off during capture. It should be off by default.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

There’s no way we can guess what the effect is without seeing your viewer?

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

What I’d suggest would be to recapture that 10% of footage that you need in FCP using the ProRes setting. Unless you need to go back to tape, then I’d suggest recapturing using the native HDV codec.

Very pretty video.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

It depends how far into the process you are. If you’ve already edited then I’m stick with AIC. Also depends what you need to do, if there’s a lot of graphics or compositing them it might be worth converting.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

View>Looped Playback. Switch it off.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

Linked selection. Button in the upper right of the timeline. Shift-L.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

It’s the version. The current version does it as I describe. The old way: put the playhead at the beginning of the section you want to apply the transitions to. Select the clips. Drag from the timeline to the canvas and drop on overwrite with transition. This will apply the default transition.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

Dreadful shoot out. Couldn’t believe the FCP editor was doing everything with drag and drop. He’s used the color corrector filter, not 3-way, which is realtime. He’s clearly uncomfortable with the computer, which has been set up with Expose hot spots. He’s dragging clumps of timeline to make room for clips. Dragging whole clips into the timeline and dragging to cut them up. Doesn’t know how to do a ripple delete. If one guy gets to send to AE the FCP editor should have been allowed to send to Motion for the cartoon effect. It looked like he did the PIP in the viewer rather than with image+wireframe right in the canvas. It looked like he added transitions individually rather than selecting a section and pressing a shortcut. A Premiere evangelist against a run of the mill editor. Maybe Soule against Nick Meyers would have been interesting. This was a pretty bad display and nothing like what you would see from an experienced FCP editor. He did pretty well considering his technique. The rendering at the end is really what killed it.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

What version of the software? Select all the clips and select the transition from the menu, or drag from the transitions folder, or Cmd-T for the default.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

Cmd-1 is the viewer.
Cmd-2 is the canvas.
Cmd-3 is the timeline.
Cmd-4 is the browser.
If the viewer or canvas or ttimeline are active the Q key will toggle viewer to canvas and back.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”