http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: fce - Recent Posts en Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:00:57 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/poor-hv30-video-quality-using-fce-35-hd#post-60839 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:27:24 +0000 wtzup 60839@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have a Hv30 and the quality is great. Maybe you have the digital effects turned on.</p> <p>Here is a Video I put on youtube</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljeRzPmjBa0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljeRzPmjBa0</a></p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/zoom-h2-compatibility-with-fce#post-57848 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:34:44 +0000 EarlC 57848@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The Zoom H2 is a favorite of mine. I actually use FCP, but even when I knock out something in iMovie or iDVD, etc. I prefer to drag the H2 files into my Toast software and burn an aiff file CD before I do anything else with it. At that point I've used the H2's internal ability to "normalize" the audio (when needed) or any of my computer-based audio editing programs to do the same.</p> <p>From there, is it a simple matter of dragging and dropping files under my video just as I would if taking something from a commercial audio CD or other source.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/zoom-h2-compatibility-with-fce#post-57821 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:30:50 +0000 Derek Sine 57821@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Yes. You can record in several formats. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/zoom-h2-compatibility-with-fce#post-57808 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:41:45 +0000 WVUToad 57808@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Just curious if the <a href="http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/h2/">Zoom H2</a> compatible with FCE 4.  Will I be able to record audio on the H2 and then add / edit it in a video project?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-drives-for-imac-24#post-55820 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:47:26 +0000 Eventvideoguy 55820@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Is there an eSATA port on it? That is technically a SATA but with a line to the outside.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-drives-for-imac-24#post-55802 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:20:11 +0000 2ten 55802@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I can't speak to the mybooks.  I generally build anything I need including external hard drives.  Can pick up an external enclosure and stick in the drives/sizes you want easier than picking up something at a big box...but that's me and I'm cheap!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-drives-for-imac-24#post-55792 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:04:50 +0000 Don 55792@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>as far as the WD mybooks are concerned... The original ones we bought a few years back are outliving the newest ones we bought last year... quality gone downhill.....</p> <p>g raid and lacie are good.</p> <p>I just set up a dlink323 net as a raid for back-ups, but you'll need a second (go with firewire) raid set up for working on.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-drives-for-imac-24#post-55789 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:51:44 +0000 2ten 55789@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I recommend anything with a Western Digital drive inside.  I have personally had bad luck with Maxtorr, Seagate and never ever buy a DeskStar (nicknamed Death Star they are so bad) drive.  I have had good luck with Lacie drives too.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-drives-for-imac-24#post-55787 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:22:56 +0000 mskvideo 55787@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I recommend the LaCie Rugged.  I've used them all over the world, in extreme environments (hurricanes, war zones) and never had a hiccup.  They're MIL-Spec (MIL-STD-810), USB-powered, extremely portable, and pretty much the gold standard for traveling journalists.</p> <p>I've seen them at Apple stores, or:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/558882-REG/LaCie_301371_500GB_Rugged_Triple_Interface.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/558882-REG/LaCie_301371_500GB_Rugged_Triple_Interface.html</a></p> <p>I believe they have a 1T model out now.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/imac-super-slow-rendering-why#post-52907 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:24:42 +0000 Don 52907@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm thinking there's something wrong with your mac.</p> <p>zap your pram, repair disk permissions using your startup disc.</p> <p>then run a test on your ram.</p> <p>when done that (search apple forms if unsure how) you may want to check out "Onyx" free from Vesrion Tracker.</p> <p>now you got a clean bill of health on your mac,  time to tune up FCE.</p> <p>check your settings to make sure you aren't using your internal drive as a scratchdisc for your media...</p> <p>you may try tweeking your set up to have the audio scratch disk on the 800 firewire disk and your video scratchdisc on the other external drive for example.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/imac-super-slow-rendering-why#post-52904 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:01:22 +0000 8string 52904@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>As Rob says, it could be the format, (could it be the Express product?)  but I would just double check that you have disk space on the main drive in the machine. Since you say it's the 'original Intel' you may have had this around a while and if the disk has less than 20% capacity left, you may be running out of disk space. This could lead to more churn between memory and disk, and might be affecting overall performance. Have you watched Activity Monitor while this process was running? Also, how is your paging when this is happening?  Other than that, you might want to run some comparison tests with the same clip being compressed into various formats.</p> <p>I've seen a lot of complaints about the Express version of the product, but not sure what could be wrong with it. Is this version of FPE a true 64 bit app yet? And what OS version are you running? It's possible, that if the app is true 64 now, and you upgrade to Snow Leopard, you might increase your speed of processing, but this brings along a bunch of baggage with other apps you may have, like ProTools compatability, etc ...</p> <p>Going back to basics in that you run comparision benchmarks of this rendering on various platforms, (see if a friend with FCP Studio can run it for you too), will allow you to see if it's the format, the machine, the application, or </p> <p>Anyone know if this is a job for a Matrox w/Max? I'm unclear if starting from AVCHD would require a Matrox...do I just not understand this device? I've been looking at them and if it does what it says, it seems a lot cheaper than a new MPro!  <a href="http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mac/max/realtime/#max_graph" rel="nofollow">http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mac/max/realtime/#max_graph</a> </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/imac-super-slow-rendering-why#post-52902 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:56:00 +0000 robGRAUERT 52902@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>"My machine has the max amount of ram 4 gigs with a internal 250 GB drive. I have several external Lacie drives hanging off of it for storage and backup. One 1TB on the FW800 port One 1TB on the FW400 Port and a 500GB off of the usb port. I have my source video files on the FW800 drive and the FCE project on the FW400 drive with all apps and os on the internal drive."</p> <p>I like the way you are organizing your media and project files, but unfortunately all of that has very little to do with rendering time. Processor speed is where it's at, however, a video of that length should not take that long to compress for Vimeo.</p> <p>I think the issue is that you shot AVCHD video. AVCHD is compressed in a way where video frames share data with one another. If you want to compress video in this format to another, more compressed format, your processor is having to look at many frames at a time to determine how best to compress the video. Does that make sense?</p> <p>If all you are doing is exporting for web, then I suggest editing in DV/NTSC. Yes, it's standard def, but you're only delivering to the internet, and because DV is an I-frame codec, the processor is compressing one frame at a time, rather than looking at multiple frames at a time.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/imac-super-slow-rendering-why#post-52901 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:30:07 +0000 bnixon 52901@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hey all,</p> <p>I have a white 24" iMac (first gen Intel chips) and am running Final Cut Express to do some painting lesson videos. These are pretty basic stuff with minimal effects. They are rendering super slow. A 20 minute video took 24 hours to export using the standard Vimeo HD quicktime settings.</p> <p>My machine has the max amount of ram 4 gigs with a internal 250 GB drive. I have several external Lacie drives hanging off of it for storage and backup. One 1TB on the FW800 port One 1TB on the FW400 Port and a 500GB off of the usb port. I have my source video files on the FW800 drive and the FCE project on the FW400 drive with all apps and os on the internal drive. All of the video is shot in full 1920X1080 HD from a Canon HF100 AVCHD</p> <p>I don't know where the bottle neck is...Bandwidth to the hard drives, lack of memory, or just processor speed. I would like to get this machine to perform reasonable so I don't have to purchase a new one.</p> <p>I am sure there is a way to improve the horrible speed but I am ignorant of how to setup this machine for higher performance. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p> <p>thanks for your time,</p> <p>Brandon</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-compression-software#post-51133 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:30:15 +0000 birdcat 51133@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>What grinner said.</p> <p>Digital Juice has a 50% off deal on Sorenson Squeeze 5 right now - $250 for the regular version, $300 for the pro version.</p> <p><a href="http://www.digitaljuice.com/products/products.asp?pid=1110" rel="nofollow">http://www.digitaljuice.com/products/products.asp?pid=1110</a> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-compression-software#post-51131 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:28:54 +0000 grinner 51131@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Sorenson Squeeze </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-compression-software#post-51129 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:54:46 +0000 henrybenj 51129@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have a movie shot in HD 1 hr and 18min...1.18gb and the client needs it compressed for their website. I used FCE and export to quicktime using low quality internet broadband. Tried the same in iMovie 9 as the client wants files under 10mb<br /> Any better compression ideas?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-express-capture-question#post-41894 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:16:22 +0000 robGRAUERT 41894@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>You are referring to "batch capture." Years ago when I was using FCE, it did not have batch capture, but maybe it has changed by now. If it's there, a "batch capture" button will be available in the Log and Capture window. Check the manual to be sure too.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-express-capture-question#post-41893 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:13:26 +0000 chikers 41893@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Is there a way in FCE to just list the in/out time codes and let it capture all of them at the same time?</p> <p>I have been marking one, then it captures. Then I mark the next one and then it captures...etc. I usually have a shot list with the time codes listed, I just want to type them in there and then come back when it has all been done.</p> <p>I hope that makes sense. Any help would be greatly appreciated. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/poor-hv30-video-quality-using-fce-35-hd#post-41678 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:46:00 +0000 petervi 41678@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I use a Canon HV30 in DV mode. Edit with FCE 3.5 HD. When viewed on full screen, or when written to DVD using iDVD, video is jittery, very pixellated.</p> <p>Tried filming in HD. Captured in FCE 3.5 HD with 1080i60 codec. Same problem. Video is very jittery and pixellated. Not much difference in quality between HD and DV. Both are poor quality video.</p> <p>I've read lots of forums that say HV30 has great video quality. I haven't experienced this when editing. What a I overlooking or should do differently.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-express-35-vs-4#post-40760 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:25:45 +0000 jdbaum42 40760@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm planning to purchase FCX for my office. We do only a very little video for our retail website, but iMovie just isn't cutting it. I've seen some people complaining that 4 cut Soundtrack and LiveType. Is is worth getting 4, or should I try to find a used copy of 3.5?</p> <p>I have some experience with FCP, so I'm not a total n00b, but just unfamiliar with the Express product. </p> <p>Thanks </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-drives-for-imac-24#post-40677 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:54:03 +0000 augiecrazy8 40677@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I have a 20" iMac (with several upgrades), but I use a Western Digital 500GB external hard drive and have never had a problem with it.  Works great, and I got it for $75 at Best Buy.  With Time Machine, my entire hard drive is backed up, and all my projects (video, graphic &amp; web design) are all saved on here with no problem.  It sits on my desktop and is easily accessible... plus it simply plugged in with a USB firewire.  </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-drives-for-imac-24#post-40675 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:26:00 +0000 robGRAUERT 40675@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Those are all reliable companies. The only comment I have is to get a big hard drive. 1TB may be way more than you need, but hard drive space seems to be so cheap these days; used to be a dollar per gig.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-drives-for-imac-24#post-40669 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:33:03 +0000 peachydingo 40669@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>My office bought an iMac 24" with FCE. And it has USB 2.0, FW400/FW800 ports, and a single internal hard drive.</p> <p>Every single training book or video tells you to run your files off a separate hard drive, so I want to add an external drive. I'm looking at LaCie, G-Raid, and OWC externals. If any of you have any comments about these drives, please post your opinions. Thanks!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/fce-or-fcp-to-post-production-to-broadcast#post-38900 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:41:24 +0000 Dallas 38900@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Totally depends on what you want to do with it, what the and what the post production person/facility is doing, broadcasters standards are.</p> <p> </p> <p>What are you doing and what is the post production person/facility doing? What do you mean by "post production"? That will effect the reply greatly.</p> <p> </p> <p>If you are doing the post production yourself, think about this: </p> <ul> <li>Many broadcasters have a high audio standard, that may, or may not be hard for you to achieve depending on your source material. This is what Sound Track is for.</li> <li>Will FCE give you the export options you need? FCP had more than you will know what to do with.</li> <li>Does FCE give you the look you want, is live type good enough? Or do you need Motion?</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Disclaimer: I have never personally worked with broadcast.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/fce-or-fcp-to-post-production-to-broadcast#post-38250 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:42:19 +0000 khunjimk 38250@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi. I am currently working on a travel documentary. I am editing in FCE . Should I upgrade to FCP or stay with FCE  before approaching a professional post production person/facility for preparation for output to broadcast? TY for your reply.</p>