Zach Love
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I have always liked the editing in “The Limey”
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Easy, just make a new title CG for each frame. How long can that really take? 🙂
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A couple things…
Like mentioned above, Media Manager is your friend. Finder & Spotlight are pretty good, but Media Manager will handle your FCP files a LOT better, because FCP keeps track of all your media files.
Also, when using Media Manager, it is a good idea to only COPY files & not MOVE files. If something happens mid-move (power outage or something), it will be a lot easier to continue if all your source files are still in place.
Next, EVERY Apple FCP trainer will tell you this (I’ve heard it from at least 3 or 4 reps), when you start a new project, reset your scratch disk.
For Project “Friend’s Wedding,” have the Project file, Capture Scracht, Render Files, EVERYTHING in one giant “Friend’s Wedding” folder. When working on “Action Movie,” have everything in the “Action Movie” folder.
Downside to this is that you have to remember each time you start working on a new project you have to re-set your hard drive, but keeping ALL the files in ONE place will make things easier.
Now for your problem, try out Media Manager. It is a feature that isn’t too hard to figure out. If you still need help, post back.
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Can you reset the properties of the audio to be 29.97? Or just re-import the audio?
If not, this might not be the best way, but if it works…
Try exporting all the 24fps content as one video, and all the 30fps as another. Then take those clips and put them in the same timeline and hopefully FCP syncs them up together.
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One thing I would suggest is to wait a couple weeks. Unless you NEED your system ASAP, there seems to be a good chance that a new Final Cut will be coming out soon (possibly at NAB in April).
The world of HD has changed a lot since FCS 2 came out, so hopefully Apple will put in a lot of needed upgrades & features in FCS 3 that will make life a lot easier in the video editing world.
The iMac you mention should be pretty good, if you really want a top of the line system go for the Mac Pro, but that will easily double or triple the cost. I would say just max out the RAM and be ready to wait for renders on larger projects.
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One more thing, unless you already own FCS, I would say wait a few weeks. There is a fairly good chance that Apple will announce a new Final Cut Studio at NAB in April.
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My understanding is that w/ FCP 6, it converts AVCHD into Pro-Res, so transfering (or capurting) footage takes a little longer than real time b/c it has to transcode the footage to a different file type.
I don’t know all the specs off hand for FCS 1, but I’m guessing you should be able to find somewhere online raw clips right off the card that someone shot w/ an AVCHD camera. Download those clips and see if you can get them into FCP 5, you might have to go through compressor or something like MPEG StreamClip, but once it is in a format that FCP can use, you’re all set.
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For the same reason why someone will spend $6,000 on a video camera and not know what an F-Stop is. Or why someone will purchase a $50,000 sports car to drag race and want an automatic transmission.
If you don’t know what an “In Point” or “Out Point” you need to take a step back and find a community college w/ intro-to-video-editing 101. If the local community college doesn’t have any courses, look online for a good book or something like Lynda.com w/ online classes.
Final Cut Pro is a pretty intensive program and takes a while to learn. It can do some great stuph, but it will take hundreds of hours to really get into FCP.
If you’re looking for something to make home movies as a hobby, iMovie is the way to go.
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I had a guy in the Apple store tell me a year ago that Final Cut Studio won’t let you install it on a Macbook. I stopped asking questions after that and left shortly after that because the twitch in my eye was getting bigger and I didn’t feel like making a scene.
The twitch in my eye came from the fact that I had just installed FCS on a Macbook a couple weeks prior w/ no problem what-so-ever. Add to that, I used that MacBook off and on (when I was freelancing for a company) editing DVCPro and HDV w/ no problem.
Now all the editing I did was very simple, cuts only, a dissolve here and there. Just about any Mac out today will be able to handle that. But once you start getting into graphics, Color, rendering, etc. etc. you will see the MacBook come to a halt with a lot of HD.
It really depends on what you are doing and how much you can live with rendering. Any Mac has its limits, I’ve slowed down a Mac Pro w/ a graphic intensive timeline to about 0.5fps until I rendered. If you are a student, you can probably live with a MacBook and the limits it comes with.
I would say, buy a last Generation Macbook if you go that route. Firewire is NEEDED for video and Apple disowned FW400 w/ the latest release of Macbooks.
If you go the MacBook Pro route, you’ll have an easier time editing & such, but go for the 17″ or the 15″ w/ extra video RAM. The extra video hardware in the MBP will make a difference and is worth the money if you have it.
If you don’t have ANY money, I wouldn’t be surprised if you can edit w/ FCP on a Mac Mini. Although Apple will probably never admit to it from their sales department.
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Can you give us more info?
DV, HDV, 24p, 60i…? Did you export the audio to Soundtrack and now are trying to re-import? Did you re-capture lost footage? Change hard drives? Re-name clips?
Did you change the frame rate?
Maybe project was 30p and now something happened and it is 24p?
If this is the case, and the original timeline was 30p and 100sec long you’d have 3,000 frames. If FCP puts that 3,000 frames onto a 24p timeline, legnth is now 125sec, but 100sec of audio is tripping FCP up, giving errors and sync issues.