Just initialize it as one partiton. No need to make it bootable.
Leave FCP where it is on the boot drive.

Then in FCP, set your scratch disk to be the new internal disk.

'Scene Detect' in FCP HD?
 

In Premiere Pro, there was a 'scene detect' feature where it would detect everytime the pause/record button was pressed. It would then seperate the files each time it was pressed...

Select a clip, go to Mark->DV Start/Stop Detect. This will insert a marker for each start/stop. You can turn these into subclips with Modify->Make Subclip.

Zooming in on a still photo in FCP
 

Could someone please tell me how one goes about zooming in on a digital still photo in FCP?

Do a search, this has been discussed many times. You may find the tutorials here helpful.

FCP needs to remain in the default install location. It will cause issues in the future if you move the application.

Did you call Apple?

If I'm not mistaken, could'nt you use export to compressor FPC 3
and still have function of FCP?

I thought that Soundtrack only worked with loops? Can you use the program to generate individual notes of midi data or do midi sequencing with it (or similar)? If you can't, it's not really professional, unless your really just a D.J. type available loop/fx mixer, as opposed to someone actually trying to "score" a movie. I wouldn't be able to come up with my own melodies or anything.

So far I can't find features in Soundtrack capable of what I'm talking about. Do you know if you can do this?

I think that Logic Express would be the next step up in this direction http://www.apple.com/logicexpress, followed by Logic Pro http://www.apple.com/logic

In the Display preferences set up the 2 displays in mirror mode. This is the only way I've gotten this to work. You might get it to work by making the external display the "master" display as well...

Got it to work
 

Hi Mark

I meant to post this earlier but there is a way in quicktime.

Select Movie | Present Movie...

This dialog shows the layout of your external monitors and lets you choose the one to play to. You can also select to go full screen or whatever on it.

It's pretty cool and is exactly what I was looking for. Note that I'm using Quicktime player 6.5.2 in case it matters.

One another note, the Apple DVD player can do this as well as I found out this evening. I have version 4.0 of it in case that matters. Normally when you select full screen it will go to primary monitor but if you drag the DVD viewer window to the external monitor and then select full screen it will do it on that monitor.

This is how it should have worked in Quicktime but anyway. Hope it helps some of you...

Donie

Sorry. Don't know. (Was compressor available with FCP3?)

Possible up-rez method?
 

I just recently heard that they have out DVD players with a RGB output that does upscaling to 1080i and 720p. Would it make sense to take a feature shot on 24p, transfer it to DVD and then play it out from these players back into FCP HD for up-scaling? Or is this a lame idea and why?

Thanks!

Why would you want to do it? Just use one of those upscaling hardware DVD players or any popular DVD software for upscaling when you would like to play it back.

If you want to upscale it to mix it with HD-footage then I'm sure you can do that digatally in the computer.

Think I messed myself up
 

I think I might have messed myself up on my first short film in FCP 3, hopefully someone can tell me if I did or not. I shot with the dvx100(not A), but I'm editing with FCP 3. I captured the footage, but when I did, I'm pretty sure I captured at 23.98 instead of 29.97, which is what I think you're supposed to do with FCP 3 since it doesn't have a 24p timeline capability. I've edited my whole project already (about 15 min. long). The sequence is a 29.97 sequence, but my clips are 23.98. Did I actually mess up? If I did, what do I need to do? Will I have to recapture my footage and start over, or can I somehow change the footage rate to 29.97 within FCP 3 (if I need to)? Is there any way I can salvage all of the work I've already done?
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks
Nathan

This is not an expert comment since I have no experience on your problem.. but, if it looks and sound right, it probably is. if it didn't you would have discovered that before right?

Again, wait for somebody with the same set-up to be sure!!

You may want to check out this thread at DVXuser:

http://www.dvxuser.com/cgi-bin/DVX2/...num=1097870435

Some great results with a program called PhotoZoom Pro.

How did you capture it? IF you did a straight capture and did no conversion with CT, then your footage should be 29.97. If you open the bin and scroll down to the right, there is a column for frame rate...look as see. You can also Control-Click on the clip and select Item Properties and see what the frame rate it.

If you did a straight capture (FCP can't remove the pulldown during capture, that option came out in Version 4) then your media is all 29.97. If is all was 23.98 and you dropped it in the 29.97 timeline, it would have had a red bar and needed rendering in order to play properly.

insufficient disk space.
 

This started today.
Have 291 GB avalible on striped Medea Raid.
Have 3.5GB to capture.
All of a sudden message say 'insuffient disc space remaning in capture scratch.'
WTF?
I'm lost as to what to do next.

Had the Mac G4 dual 1.25 ( the system we are talking about) looked over and checked out by a Mac guru yesterday.
All he ended up doing was disabling a bunch of fonts in
Fontbook.
So now the fonts are back in my generator.
Are the 2 in any way connected?

Freeplay & FCP 4
 

How do I import the .m4a music files from my .mac account into Final Cut Pro without it cutting out every 5 seconds. I read that I have to convert it to an .aif file, but can I do that without QuickTime Pro?

Any other suggestions?

Compression on DVD will eliminate any advantage. Best route currently would be a hardware scaler such as a Snell & Wilcox. FCP is bad, AE ok, Shake a bit better still. I'm working on a super-scaler for Mac users as a stand alone video aware application that promises to do great things, but is a long way off being usuable by me, never mind anyone else!!

Graeme

DVDSP 3 and De-interlacing Problems
 

I've been working on a DVDSP 3 project that has about 20 movies in it and 5 or 6 menus. It's our demo reel. We work with beta sp and capture footage through an AJA IO as Uncompressed 10 bit. we edit in FCP HD. I'm actually new to DVDSP but have picked it up pretty quickly in the last week.

The problem we are having is that some of the movies play back properly de-interlaced on a TV but others have bands of interlaced and de-interlaced sections when there is fast movement or horizontal pans.

I've checked the properties of all the clips in QT pro and all are 720x486 Uncompressed 10 bit 422. I can't figure out why some play back fine while otheres don't.

My encoding settings are set to 2 pass VBR with low at 4 and high at 7mbps. I'm not at work right now so I can't remember the setting but it's called something like motion mapping or movement mapping but I have it set to Best. Field order starts with lower field as do our FCP sequnces.

My boss e-mailed me tonight saying that one of the problem clips when encoded in iDVD looked fine.

Any help would be appreciated.

I've heard that you can do this directly with QT, but I've never figured out how so I do this from iTunes.

Make sure your Importing ("ripping") preferences are set to AIFF. Select the files from the iTunes library that you want to convert and choose the menu item Advanced->Convert to AIFF. iTunes will do the conversion, change the suffix to .aif and leave the results in the library.

Go to FCP and Import the converted files.

Mike.

I only have FCP 3.x but it CAME with a Quicktime Pro code... I'd say copy the file to your desktop, convert it with Quicktime to AIFF and then put it in a folder with your project. A way around this, if you don't have Quicktime Pro or Toast, is to put it into iTunes and burn an audio CD with that as a track. Boom, AIFF conversion.

What do you mean "all of a sudden"? Was it capturing and just stopped in the middle? Can you find what it DID capture? Are you sure you have your scratch disk set to the array?

Moving fonts shouldn't be a problem. Have you trashed the FCP Preferences?

I suspect 7mbps is too high. I rarely go over 5mbps.

Jeff,

7 mbps may be too high but do you suspect it is the cause of my problem? If so, why would it effect some clpis and not others?

It would be the first place to start looking. iDVD uses lower bit rates by default.

alla of a sudden as in one boot up to the next.
Creted scrath disk on all 3 drives..to no avail.
will trash prefrences...allway a little scary though.

importing jpg file to browser
 

Greetings---
For some reason, my standard procedure of importing a 48K jpg file to my hard drive, and then dragging it into an appropriate browser folder in FCP, is met with an error message "error: unknown file". The jpg file is originating from a CD-R which I inserted into my OSX disc drive, then dragged to my hard drive, but rejected at the final step of bringing it into the browser. Any thoughts?

I'm at work now, I'll give it a try and post a response.

FCP4 or HD: Zooming in without jitters
 

How would you make it so you can have video playing then pause and zoom in without it jittering while it zooms in?

Make sure it is an actual copy of the file and not an alias. That is my first thought...

motion import to Final Cut pro HD
 

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody could tell me how to import a motion project to final cut pro HD. Basically it is an annimated banner I need to superimpose over some DV footage playing in the background.

For some reason it doesnt work though even after the render. Could somebody kindly tell the sequence. I must be doing something stupid.


Best

Jonathan

Use "Get Info" (Apple Key, "I" key) and get the size etc. How big is it?

You should try out a program called Atlantis2 (http://www.dvfilm.com/atlantis/index.htm).
It is basically a program (Mac and PC) that can convert from PAL to NTSC and vice versa. I have had pretty good experiences with it. I have tried at various post houses to get the conversion done more professionally, and Atlantis2 comes pretty close at a fraction at the cost at a post house.
Thomas

Most pro production monitors support PAL and NTSC. For a deck, look at a Sony DSR-11 or DSR-25 which are both PAL and NTSC. To convert from PAL to NTSC for DVD, check out my standards conversion software at www.nattress.com which does a great job for this.

Graeme

Encode in compressor not in DVD SP 3 as it can often guess the wrong field order.

Graeme