[Winston A. cely]

OK, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FTO0EZ5-F8

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

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[Winston A. cely]

What type of deck are you using? Can you view the TC on the deck? If so, check the dv tape by scrolling one frame at a time around where FCP says there’s a TC break.

On a not too distantly related topic, we shot hours of footage on BetaSP, in a news broadcast studio (an affiliate of one of the big TV companies). We got the tapes back and were trying to capture them but were constantly getting TC breaks…. in what seemed to be a pattern. Turns out, the cameras and the actual recording decks were set differently. One to drop and one to non-drop. So no matter what we had bad TC. On top of that, our producer did a paper edit to TC window dubs of the tapes, so we were screwed if we wanted to just capture while ignoring breaks. We eventually did that, which meant twice as much edit time.

The studio was super accommodating. Before we knew what the problem was they sent us one of the decks they had used, so that we could capture directly from it at no charge, and eventually a deal on billing was made (we had used more of their equipment than we said we would, and our shoot had gone long as well).

Moral of the story is never assume something is going to be done right, even with professionals. No matter what systems are in place, there’s one major flaw in them all, humans.

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

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[Winston A. cely]

Many many thanks to you!!! I’ve now got the system set up properly.

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

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[Winston A. cely]

Forgot my signature.

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

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[Winston A. cely]

OK, I’ve taken a stab at it. How should I post it for everyone to view? I don’t have a .Mac account.

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

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[Winston A. cely]

“I’m not Mr. Lebowski! You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me, or his Dudeness, or Duder, or El Dudareno…. if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.”

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

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[Winston A. cely]

I agree that nesting is super dangerous at times. From experience, never media manage a sequence that has nests in it. That will totally screw everything up. We use plug-in’s here and Digital Heaven, or CGM work great!

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

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[Winston A. cely]

I’m actually considering their Conduit program that works inside Motion. It looks to be a powerful, but simple and quick alternative to Shake. Of course it’s not as robust, but I’m hoping it’ll be a good base to learn on and possibly change to Shake after I’ve got a handle on Conduit. Conduit seems to have a great keyer built in. They’ve got a demo of Conduit in action, and might be worth a look.

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

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[Winston A. cely]

I agree with Matte on this one, but if you’ve got to use the built-in text generator, try clearing out your prefs and maybe even your cache for FCP and then restart FCP. Sometimes that works. (If you haven’t already done that.)

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

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[Winston A. cely]

Holy mulit-layer DVD, Batman! 8 to 20 layers! That’s just crazy talk.

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

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