NLE Mac / Final Cut questions from 2004

Kevin Lawson · March 31st, 2004, 11:48 AM

Or create one in CG. Do you know anyone who has/works with a 3D program? There are a lot of them out there, and what your asking for is pretty straightforward. The rendered image could be ketyed into the corner as you'd like.

If you'd like, I'd take a crack at it for you. I have some 3D software, and I think I have some time next week.

Let me know!

Joe Gioielli · March 31st, 2004, 01:32 PM

Jeff, no I didn't log out. Sorry, let me give you a step by step.

I quit FCP.
I fiddled with the files as above.
Brought up FCP to check it. No audio.
Quit FCP.
Put files back.
Opened FCP no audio.

I never turned off the computer, restarted, went to sleep.

BUT WAIT!
Lastnight I read about the sound being funneled back to the VTR (In this case, my Sony VX2K) . So afterlunch I fired up the G4, opened FCP, unplugged the firewire from the VX2K, AUDIO! (I'm still just working in the FCP window, I haven't gone to QT or burned dvd yet.

So the problem is gone, but I would still like to know what I did wrong. Unless that is just what happens if you leave it plugged into the camera.

BTW I really love FCP. This is a great NLE program.

Thanks
Joe

Alfred Tomaszewski · March 31st, 2004, 01:32 PM

the time was somehow taken off my toolbar. how do i get it back? sorry for this question that is irrevelant to editing. when i go into system preferences and then into date and time and click on show date adn time in menu bar nothing happens and when i go back into it the selection is not selected anymore.

Jeff Donald · March 31st, 2004, 01:46 PM

Apple Menu>System Preferences>Date&Time Preference Pane>Clock Tab>check the "Show Date & Time box>Quit System Preferences.

Jeff Donald · March 31st, 2004, 01:48 PM

Ah, editing while I'm replying. Click on the Lock in the lower left corner. Use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions. Restart.

Alfred Tomaszewski · March 31st, 2004, 02:02 PM

that didnt work either. just to make sure i did it right, it should be locked or opened? should the lock on the disk utility be locked too? if it helps all fo the status icons are gone. (like the one that says if i am available or not and the volume)

Alfred Tomaszewski · March 31st, 2004, 03:22 PM

i called apple care. turns out it was a corrupt system preference. thank you for your help jeff. this post can be deleted.

Jane Regan · March 31st, 2004, 08:24 PM

Hello! A call to the vendor of our original system (PROMAX, I must give credit where credit is due...) said it might be a THUMBNAIL CACHE problem. Yes... that was it.

I had to trash preferences, thumbnail cache and a few other things. It is apparently a common problem in FCP. On the mac.com website under FCP it is the second think on the faq or problem-solving list.

So I am much happier here.

For those interested in what is going on and what we do with our Canon DV1-S and our mac, see www.wozoproductions.org and click on the videos page.

Thanks everyone and talk to you soon,

Jane

Kirsten Scully · April 1st, 2004, 06:10 AM

Hi,
I´m editing material shot on DVCam using the anamorphic button on the camera. I copied this onto miniDV and I captured some of the material without having the correct settings (DV Pal), realized my mistake, changed them to DV Pal anamorphic and continued. In my browser, in the anamorphic column, I ticked the clips that I had capured in normal mode.
I started a sequence in FCP 4 and everything seemed to be fine. I opened another sequence and did a copy-paste from sequence 1 to sequence 2. Suddenly some clips were distorted as if they had become super, super wide. My sequence looks like a terrible mess jumping from normal looking to super wide. It´s a mess.
Does anybody have any idea what is happening?
Thanks,
Kirsten

Galen Summer · April 1st, 2004, 11:02 AM

Hey guys,

I am buying a second hard drive for my FCP 4 editing setup, which consists of a Mac G4 with one ATA 80gb HD. Should I get a FW drive or another internal one? I have read some articles that say FW drives have problems with dropped frames and less real time effects etc., but there seem to be a lot of people using them for capture and playback. When I was in school we used FW drives for media capture and storage on our avid system, and that seemed to work fine.

Basically, I would like to know if you guys recommend internal or FW with price and performance in mind, performance being more important. I know it should be 7200 rpm, 911 oxford chip, 8mb/sec etc. Thanks, and if there is already a post that covers this exactly I apologize.

Galen Summer
Summertime Productions, Inc.
Denver, CO

Imran Zaidi · April 1st, 2004, 11:41 AM

Hi, and welcome to the forum. You may want to do a quick Search up top for firewire - this exact topic has been discussed a few times in just the last month. Even just earlier today.

Glenn Chan · April 1st, 2004, 06:37 PM

A FW drive is an ATA drive inside an enclosure. ATA is definitely cheaper, faster, although you don't get the portability of firewire drives. Portability is good in a school situation since you can quickly "transfer" files around.

Alfred Okocha · April 2nd, 2004, 06:33 AM

Hi.

I just went through some material that I captured to the hard drive aa couple of weeks ago. There appeared two drop outs that hasn't been there before.

Is this common? (It's not a big deal, just to recapture but annoying and time consuming!)

Thanks.

(FCP 3 on a 1.25 iMac with a maxtor harddrive)

Travis Cossel · April 2nd, 2004, 02:48 PM

One advantage to an internal ATA drive is that you can stripe a pair of drives together with disk utilities (I think that's what I used) and the G4 will see the two drives as 1 drive, which is helpful for capturing lots of footage in a large project.

Marco Leavitt · April 3rd, 2004, 12:08 AM

I have a G4 500 MHZ dual processor and am trying to capture an audio signal from the optical output of a minidisc deck. The USB interface I have outputs at 48 kHz, but I can only get my computer to capture at 44.1 kHz. Why can't I capture at 48? I don't like upsampling to 48 (the minidisc outputs at 44.1) and then downsampling to 44.1 at capture only to have to upsample to 48 again to make the AIFF file. This just seems like a bad idea. Should I send back the USB interface and find one that samples at 44.1? If I could find a way to get the computer to capture at 48 I guess that would work too, but it also seems like it would be better to add dither when I upsample, which is why I want to capture at 44.1. Help. This is more than a dyslexic person should have to try and comprehend.

March 31st, 2004, 01:32 PM	#407
Joe Gioielli Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: New Port Richey, Fl Posts: 142	Jeff, no I didn't log out. Sorry, let me give you a step by step. I quit FCP. I fiddled with the files as above. Brought up FCP to check it. No audio. Quit FCP. Put files back. Opened FCP no audio. I never turned off the computer, restarted, went to sleep. BUT WAIT! Lastnight I read about the sound being funneled back to the VTR (In this case, my Sony VX2K) . So afterlunch I fired up the G4, opened FCP, unplugged the firewire from the VX2K, AUDIO! (I'm still just working in the FCP window, I haven't gone to QT or burned dvd yet. So the problem is gone, but I would still like to know what I did wrong. Unless that is just what happens if you leave it plugged into the camera. BTW I really love FCP. This is a great NLE program. Thanks Joe __________________ Why ask me? I thought you were in charge!

March 31st, 2004, 01:32 PM	#408
Alfred Tomaszewski Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Shelby Twp., MI Posts: 112	help with the clock. the time was somehow taken off my toolbar. how do i get it back? sorry for this question that is irrevelant to editing. when i go into system preferences and then into date and time and click on show date adn time in menu bar nothing happens and when i go back into it the selection is not selected anymore.

March 31st, 2004, 01:46 PM	#409
Jeff Donald Warden Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Clearwater, FL Posts: 8,287	Apple Menu>System Preferences>Date&Time Preference Pane>Clock Tab>check the "Show Date & Time box>Quit System Preferences. __________________ Jeff Donald Carpe Diem Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Where to Buy? From the best in the business: DVinfo.net sponsors

March 31st, 2004, 01:48 PM	#410
Jeff Donald Warden Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Clearwater, FL Posts: 8,287	Ah, editing while I'm replying. Click on the Lock in the lower left corner. Use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions. Restart. __________________ Jeff Donald Carpe Diem Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Where to Buy? From the best in the business: DVinfo.net sponsors

March 31st, 2004, 03:22 PM	#412
Alfred Tomaszewski Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Shelby Twp., MI Posts: 112	i called apple care. turns out it was a corrupt system preference. thank you for your help jeff. this post can be deleted. __________________ Alfred Tomaszewski (Scrambled Visual Entertainment) Scrambled Visual

March 31st, 2004, 11:48 AM	#406
Kevin Lawson New Boot Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Northboro, MA Posts: 21	Or create one in CG. Do you know anyone who has/works with a 3D program? There are a lot of them out there, and what your asking for is pretty straightforward. The rendered image could be ketyed into the corner as you'd like. If you'd like, I'd take a crack at it for you. I have some 3D software, and I think I have some time next week. Let me know!

March 31st, 2004, 02:02 PM	#411
Alfred Tomaszewski Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Shelby Twp., MI Posts: 112	that didnt work either. just to make sure i did it right, it should be locked or opened? should the lock on the disk utility be locked too? if it helps all fo the status icons are gone. (like the one that says if i am available or not and the volume)

March 31st, 2004, 08:24 PM	#413
Jane Regan Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti Posts: 30	SOLVED "offline" clips crisis Hello! A call to the vendor of our original system (PROMAX, I must give credit where credit is due...) said it might be a THUMBNAIL CACHE problem. Yes... that was it. I had to trash preferences, thumbnail cache and a few other things. It is apparently a common problem in FCP. On the mac.com website under FCP it is the second think on the faq or problem-solving list. So I am much happier here. For those interested in what is going on and what we do with our Canon DV1-S and our mac, see www.wozoproductions.org and click on the videos page. Thanks everyone and talk to you soon, Jane

April 1st, 2004, 06:10 AM	#414
Kirsten Scully New Boot Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Jerez, Spain Posts: 19	Editing material shot in anamorphic mode Hi, I´m editing material shot on DVCam using the anamorphic button on the camera. I copied this onto miniDV and I captured some of the material without having the correct settings (DV Pal), realized my mistake, changed them to DV Pal anamorphic and continued. In my browser, in the anamorphic column, I ticked the clips that I had capured in normal mode. I started a sequence in FCP 4 and everything seemed to be fine. I opened another sequence and did a copy-paste from sequence 1 to sequence 2. Suddenly some clips were distorted as if they had become super, super wide. My sequence looks like a terrible mess jumping from normal looking to super wide. It´s a mess. Does anybody have any idea what is happening? Thanks, Kirsten

April 1st, 2004, 11:02 AM	#415
Galen Summer Tourist Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 3	Hard drive for media storage, Firewire or ATA? Hey guys, I am buying a second hard drive for my FCP 4 editing setup, which consists of a Mac G4 with one ATA 80gb HD. Should I get a FW drive or another internal one? I have read some articles that say FW drives have problems with dropped frames and less real time effects etc., but there seem to be a lot of people using them for capture and playback. When I was in school we used FW drives for media capture and storage on our avid system, and that seemed to work fine. Basically, I would like to know if you guys recommend internal or FW with price and performance in mind, performance being more important. I know it should be 7200 rpm, 911 oxford chip, 8mb/sec etc. Thanks, and if there is already a post that covers this exactly I apologize. Galen Summer Summertime Productions, Inc. Denver, CO

April 1st, 2004, 11:41 AM	#416
Imran Zaidi Trustee Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 1,315	Hi, and welcome to the forum. You may want to do a quick Search up top for firewire - this exact topic has been discussed a few times in just the last month. Even just earlier today.

April 1st, 2004, 06:37 PM	#417
Glenn Chan Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 4,750	A FW drive is an ATA drive inside an enclosure. ATA is definitely cheaper, faster, although you don't get the portability of firewire drives. Portability is good in a school situation since you can quickly "transfer" files around.

April 2nd, 2004, 06:33 AM	#418
Alfred Okocha Major Player Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: London Posts: 427	Dropouts after capturing? Hi. I just went through some material that I captured to the hard drive aa couple of weeks ago. There appeared two drop outs that hasn't been there before. Is this common? (It's not a big deal, just to recapture but annoying and time consuming!) Thanks. (FCP 3 on a 1.25 iMac with a maxtor harddrive)

April 2nd, 2004, 02:48 PM	#419
Travis Cossel Inner Circle Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 2,933	One advantage to an internal ATA drive is that you can stripe a pair of drives together with disk utilities (I think that's what I used) and the G4 will see the two drives as 1 drive, which is helpful for capturing lots of footage in a large project. __________________ Black Label Films www.blacklabelweddingfilms.com

April 3rd, 2004, 12:08 AM	#420
Marco Leavitt Inner Circle Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Albany, NY 12210 Posts: 2,652	Minidisc audio capture problem I have a G4 500 MHZ dual processor and am trying to capture an audio signal from the optical output of a minidisc deck. The USB interface I have outputs at 48 kHz, but I can only get my computer to capture at 44.1 kHz. Why can't I capture at 48? I don't like upsampling to 48 (the minidisc outputs at 44.1) and then downsampling to 44.1 at capture only to have to upsample to 48 again to make the AIFF file. This just seems like a bad idea. Should I send back the USB interface and find one that samples at 44.1? If I could find a way to get the computer to capture at 48 I guess that would work too, but it also seems like it would be better to add dither when I upsample, which is why I want to capture at 44.1. Help. This is more than a dyslexic person should have to try and comprehend.