T. Payton
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[Andy Neil] “Would be nice to be able to add the note in the Timeline Index as well”
Can’t you already do that? Just click on it and hit return and you can modify it. You can also click right on the red mini icon to mark it completed.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
This is also working in 10.0.8 with OS 10.7.5. The Touch is installed on this machine too.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I would stress that good audio is almost more important than a good picture. For your interviews it matters what our subjects SAY not if they are looking to perfection.
I have a “low budget” setup also using a Zoom h4n. I mic my subject with a wireless Lav Mic, Shotgun, and the built in Zoom mics (which record great stereo ambient sound). With 4 channels of audio, I have options and a backup just in case. There have been to many times when a ruffled shirt would have ruined an interview, but with the shotgun also recording I can use it to save a shot. Then again sometimes a shotgun captures a more natural sound and is a better choice than a lav. Of course FCP X is unmatched in syncing and handling of multichannel audio. Don’t be freaked out.
Also the standard for corporate work is clean DSLR with a shallow depth of field. I don’t know of a dedicated camcorder in your price range that can pull it off without a 35mm adapter. WIth a DSLR you can accomplish this with a Canon in your price range with a rather inexpensive lens. For interviews I often use a 1.8/50mm that cost me a whopping $80. Also the Canon’s record audio just fine, and with a splitter you can feed it multiple sources, but monitoring and seeing live levels vary my model. Plus the Mic Preamps in a dedicated recorder are just going to sound better.
On the visual side, the difference between a DLSR and a sub 2K camcorder is night and day. Also DSLRs work great for green screen.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I can think of a few possible causes for this:
1- You might have the monitoring angle set incorrectly in your multicam clip. To fix, open the angle editor and right click on the icon next to the angle name. There you can change what is the default audio angle that will be monitored.
2 -The audio channels for your clips could be set incorrectly. This is unlikely, but I would check it anyway in the inspector in the angle editor.
3 – Your car is on blocks and your wheels are literally spinning for hours. 😉 Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Let us know if this doesn’t do the trick.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Make that 709.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
FYI, I had a bunch of Arri test clips, I think from Blackmagic for the sample footage for Resolve. I reimported 8 of them and just one gave the Log option. Here is what the option looks like:
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
It looks like this is indeed a maintenance release for just a few things. That nasty green frame being the biggest one.
At first glance
– launch times is better
– event browser is scrolling through multiple events quite smoothly
– keyboard commands for changing the appearance of the timeline (but for some reason clip height adjustment by keyboard is missing. Perhaps I just missed it.)Hopefully there is a lot of little bug fixes that we will discover in the next few days.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
[Mark Dobson] “The reason I’ve gone with the Matrox unit is because of the colour calibration capability.”
Indeed. That is why I got the MX02 in the first place. It is not perfect, but can make a consumer TV in the ballpark of 701.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I concur. In fact that is just what I do to archive a project.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
[Jordan Mena] “Also, if you are changing frame rates in between projects you have to set it inside System Prefs and not inside FCPX. That drove me crazy before I figured that out.”
That is how Matrox works too. I think that is just FCPX.
So does BlackMagic let you do any kind of calibration with your HDMI display?
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque
