T. Payton
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If the color picker is busted, I think something else must be broken also but why don’t we try this. Shoot me an email at my name creative cow name without the period or space at onecreative and then not dot com but dot net.
Perhaps i can just sent you replacements for the color picker and the nut will be cracked much faster.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Mark,
That narrows it down to a system level problem.
I would try to do a Lion “Restore Install”. Boot up and hold Command R, when the recovering menu comes up choose to reinstall Lion. Make sure you don’t erase your disk just install over your current. It will do its thing for quite a while (like a good hour, it will download Lion from Apple) and replace the core system components and leave all your data in tact.
Oh before you do that I would ensure you have a good time machine backup of your Mac.
Here is some more info:
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
When you say it quit working do you mean the app would open but the window would be blank?
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Try creating a new user account in Lion. See if it still has a problem with the new user account.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Don,
Mine did the same thing last week. I actually got busy with project and didn’t get around to fixing it and then suddenly it started working again. Did you repair permissions or perhaps just do a simple restart.
I’m surprised no one at Intelligent Assistance got back with you. Let me try to contact them on your behalf.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
If disk permissions doesn’t work, create a new user account and then see if the problem persists in the new user account. Then let me know the results. Also what version of the OS are you on?
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Let me take a shot at this. However I’m not sure I understand about your audio situation. Did you record double system sound, and therefore have video as well as audio for the interviews? If that is the case I would actually tackle most all of it in FCP X but leaving the option to send it out for someone else to tweak the audio.
1. Import your footage and sync wav audio to video as synchronized clips. Disable your camera audio and apply Modify > Auto Enhance Audio to just get your WAV audio in the ballpark for editing.
2. Create an audio role for each interview, and assign it to your WAV clips. (just in case you need to export as stems)
3. Put each Synchronized Clip inside a Multi-Angle Clip (just select in event browser and choose, “Create Multi Angle Clip” it will copy the synchronized clip into one angle of the multi angle clip.
4. Now use those “master” multi-angle clips of the interviews to edit your project. You won’t do any switching just normal splicing and trimming.
5. When you are ready to sweeten/repair the audio, you can go back to your master multi-angle clip for each interview and apply filters, etc. to try to get the audio for each interview to be the highest quality you can. Since they all live in multi-angle clips all the changes you make to the master clip in the event browser will be reflected wherever you used the clips.
Since FCP X has most of the stock logic plugins you could probably get help from anyone with audio mixing experience as they will know how to work those plugins. (You could also bring the WAV files into a DAW like Soundtrack or ProTools and clean up the entire interview track, then resync them by adding the repaired audio to the angle editor. In that case you would need to change the audio angle for each interview clip by selecting all clips of one interview in your timeline and in the inspector changing the audio angle. )
6. Tweak the levels for each interview further in your timeline to ensure the levels match as best they can interview to interview.
7. Group the entire timeline into a compound clip and add a brickwall limiter such as the Logic Limiter included in FCP X. Export.
8. Get some sleep and move on to another project.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Mark,
Is your color picker only broken in FCP? Did you try it in something like TextEdit?
That sounds like something on the OS level.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
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Humm. I’m using the same workflow as you but don’t having trouble. You might try to work with the time-lapse natively in FCP X.
Import your stills and make them into a multiangle clip. If you check out this video there is a brief demo of at about 50 seconds:
https://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/whats-new/#multicam-learn
Once that clip is in the timeline retime as necessary watching the selection details at the bottom of the timeline. If you have to do an extreme retime of over 2000%, it might be best to adjust the duration of individual shots in the multi angle editor to get the complete duration in the ballpark. Select all of the shots and then control-d to set the duration of each frame.
I hope this helps!
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque