[Tom Wolsky]

Did you set your screen resolution before capturing to a standard frame resolution? Are you editing in that resolution? What specs are your captured material? What format are you working with in FCP?

High resolution computer screen do not translate well to video unless you take into account the limitations of the medium throughout the process.

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]

The yellow warning just means the file has been done and cannot be redone without renaming the file or changing the destination.

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]

This is a major mess. The sequence is DV NTSC 4:3, your media is PAL anamorphic, different frame rates, frame resolutions, and aspect ratios. It looks like your media was captured in iMovie or some such. It’s in a different format from that used in FCP. Your media is .dv rather than .mov. You also have some PAL DV50 and NTSC DV50, which is a different codec as well. You also have some other truly bizarre video that probably will not work in FCP with no codec and a frame rate of 6fps. That’s not useable in its current form.

I would suggest taking all your media into Compressor and converting it into one format, probably DV50, either PAL or NTSC depending on where you are and what you need, and then edit in a format that matches that.

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 in the wrong format.

Please give the exact item properties of the clips you’re editing and the exact item properties of the sequence in which you’re editing.

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]

Are you editing the audio into the timeline? Do the meters move? Is the audio on the media files when played in QuickTime?

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]

This is common in material digitized from analog sources. It’s outside the scan area of a television.

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]

Convert the 44.1 to 48. Simple to do in Compressor. Makes it easier on the application and the editing process.

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]

The yellow triangle has nothing to do with the problem, but the naming convention as I said earlier. I don’t know why your audio isn’t being processed. Is it switched off in the timeline? Did you try exporting to QuickTime Movie? Do you get a complete file, audio and video, in the QT player?

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]

First thing you need to do is to convert all the files to the same format, QuickTime, using the same codec. Some of the files are in compressed forms of HD, others are in SD, and others are in format not known to man. They all look as if they’re PAL based so convert everything to 25fps.

Are you really working in Final Cut Pro 3.5.1? The OS and QuickTime versions may be too modern and this application, but try anyways.

I would suggest converting everything using MPEG Streamclip to DV50 PAL. This is a high quality video format. Set the frame size to 720×576. For the media that’s widescreen click on Options next to the Compression popup and select 16:9.

You have to decide how you want to edit this media, whether you want the material to be 4:3 with the widescreen media letterboxed, or if you prefer to edit in 16:9 and have the 4:3 media pillarboxed. Probably it depends on what is the largest type of media you have.

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]

Flickr or PhotoBucket are the easiest.

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”