Zane Barker
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[John Kis] “the way we are going to do it is for her to export the footage as one big clip off her timeline and I will import it into Premiere.”
Not a vary productive way to do it. With doing it that way you might as well start over from scratch.
As I see it you have 2 options.
1. Come to the light and use FCP to finish the project.
2. Use media manager in FCP to convert all the captured material to ProRes, export a xml file from FCP. Then install the ProRes codec for windows on your machine, and continue corking on the project in its current state using Premiere.
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Oh one more thing to note about video from Flip cameras, it sends to be vary shaky if it was filmed hand held, so you may need to use the motion stabilizer on it.
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[Elizabeth McGraw-Austin] “We converted the Flipcam file to a .mov file”
Like the others said your not converting it to a FCP friendly codec.
Simply convert the videos to match your FCP time line.I once had to use a small amount of video from the FlipUltraHD I converted the files to ProRes and they worked fine for me.
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If you don’t need it animated in any way then photoshop is great. If it needs to have some movement then Motion is simple enough.
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[April Hill] “I have a few seconds of footage of someone writing on a dry erase board and am looking to darken the actual text she’s writing, or at least have it pop more (it’s a light green on a white dry erase board)”
April you issue is not really a darkening issue, but a color issue. I believe that your best results will come by using Apples Color program. Where you can select one color in your image (the light green marker) and then change the hue of that to make it look like any other color you choose.
This video I found on youTube shows briefly how to change just the skin tone of a person blue and leave the rest of the image normal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaIi2xjk6ok
The same thing can be done with your video, and you could change the light green to say blue or another color that is more noticeable.
Best of luck.
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[Charles Ferran] “can I get a confirm of that if it is the case”
I confirm h.264 is a delivery codec and it is never recommended to edit in that codec.
It is best to convert to a proper editing codec before editing.
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The Apple Certification books published by Peachpit are really the best way to go other then a class.
40-50 bucks for those books is really not a bad deal at all, in fact it is quite a deal considering they come with a DVD that contains project files and media assets to work with.
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if that USB cable you are refering to is how you connect the hard drive you store your media on to the computer, then just a heads up that USB is not recomended for video editing drives. They can be problamatic for the needs of video.
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What format are you using to edit in FCP?
Depending on the format, some of those codecs only come with FCP.
However if you use ProRes then you can download that codec for windows.
Do a search on the cow and you will find a link for the ProRes codec for windows.
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Sorry but Final Cut Experss ONLY supports DV and HDV captured in the Apple Intermedate Codec.
If you want to use P2 you will have to move up to the full Final Cut Studio.
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