Zak Mussig
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Hey Trip,
It’s worth keeping the second copy if you ever see bouncing between your two computers working on different elements for the same project. You can install on both with one license, but you can’t use both (have a pro app running) on both at the same time while both machines are on the same network.
You could take one off the network, but that’s both inconvenient and shady. If you’ll never have both systems running a Pro app at the same time, then there’s no reason to keep it.
Zak
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I run into the same issue from time to time when I try to update QT files I’ve rendered out of Motion. DVDSP is the best with this… if you update files in a DVDSP project it says “hey, this file, like, changed and I’m going to use the new one. kthnxbye.” I don’t think it’s an error so much as it’s how FCP works with media.
Using the “Make Offline” command to delete the media and then reconnecting to the new version would work. I usually use the “Open in Editor” command, which tells FCP to allow and watch for changes to a file. When you come back to FCP, it updates automatically.
You have to set your external editors in the preferences to use this. If you’re exporting from AE you could just have the file open in AE, close it, overwrite it and go back to FCP.
Hope that helps,
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Walter,
The dock on the side was changed last-minute. It was 3D in all but the last seed or two, but people hated it so much that Apple changed it.
I tend to agree. The 3D dock looks nice, and I’m sure lots of people will have in-store experiences with it like I had with magnification in the 10.0.0 dock before I even knew what Mac OS 10 was, but it isn’t useful. First thing I’ll do when I get Leopard installed is use the little terminal command to make the dock on the bottom look like the one on the side.
I’m sure that the same command could be changed to give you 3D on the side if you’d like it.
Zak
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Chris,
According to the awesome Ars review of Leopard, the new OS uses system-level text rendering that was in Tiger but wasn’t system-wide. This might account for the percieved difference in text rendering.
Zak
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Hey,
I remember working with HDV being a painful and traumatic experience before we got a Mac Pro, so I may be way off here.
That said… when I saw “workflow” in the title of the post I thought, what workflow… just export it. Have you tried just exporting using Compressor? Nest your sequence and apply your TCR filter to the nested sequence. I’d go with plain ol’ MPEG 4 over H.264. This is anecdotal, but I feel like it exports MUCH faster.
I feel like exporting and reimporting is overly complicated if you’ve been able to play back HDV well enough to edit and hour-long doc, I feel like it should export quickly enough.
Zak
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We don’t have great monitors here, and since we don’t do any broadcast work, I doubt we’ll get any. *sigh* I’d never heard of TVLogic before, and their monitors look awesome. But I think the best part has to the gloriously Korean comic with one dog explaining to another why their monitors are so great.
Awesome.
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Freeze fames have been jacked up forever in FCP. Is there a real reason, from a workflow standpoint, to have a freeze frame be independant from the source clip? Making them a product of the sequence and locking them at the resolution of the sequence when they were made seems to make their use pretty limited.
With re-timing built into FCP and Motion, it makes more sense to me to have the freeze frame command give you a re-times clip whose start and stop frames are the same. It could be whatever length you need and would play nice with Motion and the Media Manager.
Maybe speed / re-timing support is on deck from FCP XML Interchange yada yada version 5. It sounds like the issue isn’t the Media Manager so much as how FCP handles some of these things and some missing features in the XML format.
Zak
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If anyone is using Bootcamp, I recommend MacDrive.
I was able to format my Windows partition as a smaller FAT32 volume that OS X can read and write to since Windows could read and write to all of my HFS+ drives. which took a big headache out of sharing files between OSs.
Zak
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Walter,
How is Encore working out for you? I thought I remembered you saying that you weren’t 100% pleased with it. Also, does it support any of the advanced features of the spec (RT composited menus w/ bitmap overlays, etc.)?
We got Roxio’s DVD IT Pro which runs in XP via Bootcamp to do our first Blu-ray. Because of the software, it’s basicly going to be a DVD on a BD with HD assets, but it’s what we can do for now.
Zak
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In case the manual isn’t clear, you export single frames by parking on a frame and using the export > quicktime coversion option. Make sure to set the output to still image and choose the format you’re like.
Large batches of stills get trickier. When I did this before I made a bin for the stills and then took freeze frames from the clips I wanted and dragged them from the viewer into the bin. When I had all the images I wanted, I batch exported to some still image format. Because of the nature of the project, I needed a still from every frame in the timeline and the first was as good as any, so I was able to automate the process with a keyboard and mouse recorder.
The searchable PDF manual is your very best friend.
Hope that helps,
Zak