http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: FCP - Recent Topics en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:46:28 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/3-way-cc#post-74411 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:03:58 +0000 Josh Tiedt 74411@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm adding a 3-Way CC to clips in FCP and rendering them out.  When done for the night I shut done computer and then open the next day only to find the 3-Way filter no longer attached to clips.  99% sure I save project before shutting down at night.  Where could the problem be?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/overlay-effect-in-final-cut-pro#post-73009 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:28:32 +0000 Ian Cantwell 73009@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I am a student learning to use Final Cut Pro, and I am trying to obtain a certain "overlay " effect. I want to make a music video of myself playing three instruments and another person playing two, and we would all be in the same shot. I would have to play a drumset which is not movable. I have a green screen to use and I vaguely understanding keying. The school only supplies a kodak "Flip" style video camera, yet there are shoulder mounts to use if needed, if camera type matters. If anyone could walk me through how to achieve this, it would be greatly appreciated. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-gy-hm100u-final-cut-pro-presetshelp#post-62011 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:08:20 +0000 simple_dood 62011@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm new to video/editing &amp; I have a JVC GY-HM100u &amp; Final Cut Pro 7. What Presets do I use for the camera &amp; FCP?</p> <p>All I am doing is recording a 1 hour shoot of someone speaking.. weekly. I will be "burning" that video to DVD AND also uploading to a website to view via "QuickTime" player. Can someone please just tell me what presets to use. I don't have a good understanding of video/editing theory knowledge. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-purchasing-mac-for-video-editing#post-63951 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:14:32 +0000 esparra 63951@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi Everyone</p> <p>I am new to this. I need help purchasing a mac for video editing with FCP. I'm an aspiring video editor so befoe I invest in classes/training I need to get the equipment.</p> <p>I was looking online for refurbished macs due to budget reasons however I didn't now whether or not to get mac pro or mac book pro.</p> <p><strong>what "specs" would be the best for editing and running FCP Studio 3?</strong></p> <p><strong>Also what other things would I need to be efficient and productive as a freelance video editor?</strong></p> <p>Thanks in advance for your help!</p> <p><strong><br /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/which-macpro-for-final-cut-and-sony-ex1-in-720p#post-63321 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:03:43 +0000 tardijs 63321@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Need to decide quickly on which MacPro to buy for editing with FCP, footage from the XDCamEX1R – mainly 720p.</p> <p>As well as mixed content from a number of sources e.g. MPEG2, MPEG MTS, flash, ...<br />What is most important: clock or cores?<br />Hard drives internal and/or external? SSD for system?<br />internal Raid?</p> <p>Westemere 3,33 6 core or 8-core Westemere 2,4 ? </p> <p>16 Gb for sure.</p> <p>monitoring output : not using Apple screen !?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/newbie-question-capturing-from-camera-on-fcp#post-58948 Mon, 24 May 2010 11:29:05 +0000 BRoach25 58948@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I recently got a Canon Vixia HF S10 and am using it with Final Cut Pro.   I've learned a lot looking things up online although I don't entirely understand them (for example...I changed the settings to prores, but I'm not so sure why, I compressed to a quicktime movie and entered new settings that meant nothing to me because thats what I supposedly had to do in order to post it HD on to vimeo.)  But at least I know what to do even if I don't know why.....question one...is there someplace online that actually explains compression settings and teaches you when to use what settings on FCP or using the mac compressor.  I've found tutorials that give you a recipe of what to do, but they don't really try to explain why its necessary.  It'd be nice to be able to learn what every setting means so that I can use my own judgement for specific situations and not have to look up the compression setting recipe.</p> <p>Question two: (the probably more naive question)  I've seen on this board people saying that hooking up a camcorder to a computer through a usb or firewire can burn out the connection overtime and to use a deck for this purpose.  What exactly is a deck,  where would I get one, and what type of deck do I get (if there are a lot of different options)?</p> <p>Thanks for any help as always! </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-software-for-capturing-video-dv#post-57568 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:27:20 +0000 jbank 57568@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>what is the best software for capturing and editing Digital Video? </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/blu-raydvd-studio-pro#post-57839 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:58:38 +0000 success999 57839@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi Everyone,</p> <p>I have the latest version of FCP and wanted to know how I can burn a high quality DVD. I don't know if it is possible but can I use a regular DVD and burn HD onto it? The video I want to output is only 30min. Note: I read somewhere that you can tweak FCP and apple DVD studio pro to make such a disk that I am noting here. </p> <p>FYI:The inputed footage to my timeline was HDV 1080i (Sony HVR-V1U). I have a new iMac computer and want to use the DVD burner that is built into my apple computer instead of taking the blu-ray route. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/new-yorker-wants-to-learn-fcp-but-no-money#post-52331 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:50:29 +0000 alinaderzad 52331@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'd like to learn video editing with FCP but don't want to pay for it.</p> <p>Any suggestions? Could I shadow someone, be their assistant?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/agenda-set-for-9th-fcpug-san-francisco-supermeet-feb-5-2010#post-54587 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:27:06 +0000 Michael Horton 54587@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The Agenda is now set for the 9th Annual FCPUG San Francisco SuperMeet to be held at the Mission Bay Conference Center on Feb 5, 2010. Doors open at 3:30PM for the SuperMeet Digital Showcase featuring 35 software and hardware developers and the Open Screen Theater where you will be given a chance to show your video. SuperMeet begins at 7:00PM<br /> WHAT’S ON THE AGENDA? <br /> * Smoke on Mac OSX - Alexandre Domingue<br /> * "Destroy Me" - Jordan Livingston (music vid)<br /> * AJA KiPro - Jon Thorn<br /> * Best Workflow for Canon File-Based Cameras - Joe Bogacz<br /> * Motion 4 Does 3D - Mark Spencer<br /> * The Idea behind IDEO's Living Climate Change - Matt Silverman<br /> * The New Speed Tools in FCP 7 - Kevin Monahan<br /> * Hand Held Hollywood - Taz Goldstein<br /> * And MORE<br /> SUPERMEET DIGITAL SHOWCASE<br /> We will have a vendor area we are calling the "SuperMeet Digital Showcase,” with 35 software and hardware developers including AJA, Autodesk, Canon, Avid, Blackmagic Design Footagehead, G-Tech, Matrox, Maxon, Noise Industries, Red Giant and many many others.<br /> OPEN SCREEN THEATER<br /> Local filmmakers can showcase their projects in what we are calling the "Open Screen Theater." Filmmakers wanting to get seen will have up to a 10 minutes to screen their content. All they need do is show up and sign up, get up and show off.<br /> WORLD FAMOUS RAFFLE<br /> We will hand out more than 40K worth of valuable software and hardware to dozens of lucky winners including, a Canon EOS 5D Mark II HDSLR and SO MUCH MORE.<br /> See here for raffle list as of today:<br /> <a href="http://www.supermeet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.supermeet.com/</a><br /> There are less than 100 seats available so get your tickets now. Go to the SuperMeet web site for all the details<br /> <a href="http://www.supermeet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.supermeet.com/</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/internal-drive-speed-for-macbook-pro-running-fcp#post-52828 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:04:47 +0000 Sauce 52828@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I just got a killer deal on the latest 15' 2.8 Ghz MacBook Pro. Core 2 Duo, 4G Ram. 500G 5400 Hard Drive. My question is; do I really need a 7200 internal drive as the OS drive for FCP? I will have a eSATA external drive for my video files. Do I spend $350 to upgrade my internal drive (authorized Mac repair, not to void the 3 yr warrenty) or do I spend that $$$ on upgrading to 8G Ram? Also I will not be doing any major editing... mostly 30 sec.-10min. web videos, no major effects, pretty basic stuff.  Thanks in advance!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/making-a-telephone-voice-effect#post-49703 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:07:05 +0000 ProJuiceTV 49703@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>If you're like me, you probably know how most of the video effects<br /> work in your chosen editing application. But you might not know how<br /> most (or any) of the audio effects work. </p> <p>In this<br /> tutorial, Nick and Arlo show you how to turn a gain filter, high pass<br /> filter and a de-esser into a <a href="http://www.projuice.org/TelephoneVoiceFCP.html">telephone like sound effect</a>.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/streaming-playback-issue-sound-wont-play-through-pc-speakers#post-50801 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:10:59 +0000 sswiller 50801@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I am editing videos using Final Cut Pro v6, exporting them with video at 48KHZ, then transcoding them to flash using Squeeze; the audio is uncompressed. For some strange reason, when the videos are viewed on PCs, the sound doesn't play out of the PC Speaker. It only plays when you connect headphones or external speakers to the headphone jack. I can't figure out why. One thing I've noticed is that when I change the audio panning in FCP to '0,' I get no sound at all. Thanks for your advice.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-imposing-logos-over-footage-in-fcpro#post-51910 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:16:58 +0000 Loucarreras 51910@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have to superimpose some logos onto an underwriters spot I'm editing in Final Cut Pro. I've had some problem with the appearance ( they look too transparent, some pixelate, or they look scratched). I've been working with jpeg. images sent by clients.</p> <p>My questions are:</p> <p>1.) is there a particular format other than jpeg. that I should be using; or</p> <p>2.) am I missing something here, and is there a specific best way of doing it in FCP?</p> <p>I am using Final Cut Studio 3</p> <p>Thanks</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sismo-cuando-ries-music-video#post-51645 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:27:30 +0000 ProJuiceTV 51645@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>This was a project Juan and Jo completed in 2007 over a period of two months for colombian band SISMO. It was done in flash and after effects using a wacom tablet to draw.</p> <p><a href="http://www.projuice.org/Cuando-Ries.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.projuice.org/Cuando-Ries.html</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/h264-exporting-for-vimeo#post-51288 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:03:00 +0000 blindeye 51288@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Ok, I've tried it.  And when I put it up on vimeo, half way thru the playback, I get this hissing sound, the video is there, but the audio just turns to static.</p> <p>Can anyone please walk me thru the export options in FCP to get this to work?</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>k</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/graveyard-train-music-video#post-50802 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:10:43 +0000 ProJuiceTV 50802@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>We recently interviewed Michael Ciccone of Happy Days Films about the production of a new music video for Australian act, Graveyard Train. Well... the music video is finally complete and here for your viewing pleasure. You can catch the interview with Michael next week.</p> <p><a href="http://www.projuice.org/GraveyardTrain.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.projuice.org/GraveyardTrain.html</a></p> <p>It was shot in Victoria, Australia on the RED camera and looks amazing!!</p> <p>Who are Graveyard Train? Graveyard Train ripped chains and hammers from hell to forge Horror Country. They are the pioneers of a new genre that will make you cry and curse and scream. Ghost stories, murder ballads and tales of redemption are crooned through melodies plucked directly from the afterlife. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/editing-a-12-hour-broadcast-doco#post-50700 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:08:15 +0000 ProJuiceTV 50700@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I run Pro Juice with my business and creative partner, Arlo Enemark. It takes up a fair whack of my time. Primarily though, I am an editor and have worked commercially as an editor for about 7 years. So I thought it might of interest to some people (particularly young editors or those just starting out) to share with you what happens in the edit suite on a half-hour TV documentary.</p> <p>Check out my blog here...</p> <p><a href="http://www.projuice.org/Rant_Documentary.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.projuice.org/Rant_Documentary.html</a> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/time-ramapping-in-fcp-techniques#post-50454 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:02:54 +0000 ProJuiceTV 50454@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>We put together a tutorial showing how the time remapping in this music video can be achieved.</p> <p><a href="http://www.projuice.org/Time_Remapping.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.projuice.org/Time_Remapping.html</a></p> <p>In this tutorial, Nick takes you through the steps of creating the time remapping sequences used to simulate the spasms our singer is experiencing due to the voodoo doll being struck with a needle. You might want to check the clip on the Showcase Page if you missed it. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/create-an-original-rolling-bad-tv-effect#post-49947 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:13:39 +0000 ProJuiceTV 49947@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Nick takes us through the steps of how to manipulate the settings in the default Bad TV Effect in Final Cut Pro and create an <a href="http://www.projuice.org/BadTV.html">original rolling analogue TV effect</a>.</p> <p>Enjoy</p> <p>Nick</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-pro-goes-7#post-49647 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:06:45 +0000 Krama 49647@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>New version of FCP with tons of new features.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.krama.tv/final-cut-pro-goes-7/">Read more</a> on <a title="Krama i.news: blog for videomakers" href="http://blog.krama.tv">Krama i.news </a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/fcp-suite-set-up#post-46937 Mon, 18 May 2009 03:21:28 +0000 ProJuiceTV 46937@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I've written a small blog about how i set up my commercial FCP suite. Its got some downloads of file structures and templates too.</p> <p>Check it out here.</p> <p><a href="http://www.projuice.org/Rant_FCPedit.html">FCP Set-Up</a></p> <p><em>"Getting your FCP suite set-up right is an important part of being a creative and efficient editor. It’s<br /> a good idea to get a system in place from the word go so when you get<br /> nice and busy, you can stay on top of the massive amounts of video,<br /> audio and graphical assets you will acquire...."</em></p> <p>Hope some of you find it useful.</p> <p>Nick</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/from-hd-to-dv#post-46066 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:43:10 +0000 kinomatico 46066@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hey guys,<br />i hope i'm posting in the right section of the forum.<br />so, i made a commercial shooted in DVCPRO 720p, and i made all the work in a timeline with the same settings (DVCPRO HD 50, progressive etc.).<br />Now, since i need to make a master that's a 4:3 DV-Pal, i export my timeline and put it directly into a DV-pal one, so that it will directly match the frame size to a 4:3 letterbox. obviously there's a loss of quality since it's a DV timeline, but i can't really understand why the footage suddenly appears to be interlaced, even if the setting of the DV timeline is progressive. i mean, watching it in a TV monitor it has the smoothness of a progressive footage, but some strange lines (really similar to the ones of a bad interlaced) appears in the footage.<br />any idea and/or suggestion? what am i missing? thanks in advance!<br />michele</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-fake-a-killer-guitar-riff#post-45975 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:28:59 +0000 ProJuiceTV 45975@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>New tutorial from the team at Pro Juice!!</p> <p>Arlo writes...</p> <p>This is a trick that changed the way I wrote music.</p> <p>With this simple example, you can see how electronic music is limitless. We don't have to make 'techno' that sounds like vintage synths and old drum machines, just because we write electronically. There are truly infinite textures to explore.</p> <p><a title="Guitar Synth" href="http://www.projuice.org/GuitarSynth.html">Check it out here</a></p> <p>Don't think just because you work alone in a home studio, you have to make a certain genre of music. All the instruments in the world have been recorded at some point. So with a mixture or sampling, synthesis and creativity, you can turn your computer into a metal band, a Jazz Trio or an orchestra. That's when you can make true expression because, you're not bound by tone or genre.</p> <p>Pro Juice TV<br /><a href="http://www.projuice.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.projuice.org</a><br /><a href="http://www.animusindustries.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.animusindustries.com</a><br />Online portal and television series about music, video and multimedia for ‘guerrilla producers’ that want to make, distribute and market their media.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-blow-out-lights-in-fcp#post-44259 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:16:01 +0000 ProJuiceTV 44259@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Hey everyone</p> <p> I've created a great little tutorial that shows you how to blow out stage lights using the Knoll Light FX plug in FCP. Check it out and tell me what you think. We used the effect in a low budget music video that just didn't have enough lights on stage to get the effect we were after!!</p> <p> You can see it here... <a href="http://www.projuice.org/Tutorial002.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.projuice.org/Tutorial002.html</a></p> <p><strong>Pro Juice TV</strong></p> <p><em><a href="http://www.projuice.org/">http://www.projuice.org</a></em></p> <p><em>Music Video Multimedia</em></p> <p><em>Pro Juice is a weekly presenter driven online portal and television series about music, video and multimedia for ‘guerrilla producers’ that want to make, distribute and market their media </em></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/fcp-vs-premiere#post-38905 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:45:47 +0000 JoeLouw 38905@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm just starting off with my video career, As a professional photographer (use to Adobe Photoshop), I'm now looking into finding the best Video editing software. I read a few forums regarding this issue of FCP vs Premiere (one of them will be my choice) and it sounds it's more a PC vs Mac issue.What I could figure was that both FCP &amp; Premiere are great, with the FCP exception working great on Mac (as it's ONLY for Mac).</p> <p>I work on PC currently but is due for a major upgrade soon, my decision has been made it will be a Mac this time around, as all my friends tell my I could have just as well bought a Mac every time I build up my PC, because my PC's I've build up are so huge and expensive, and I use it only and ONLY for editing (not even e-mail &amp; internet, for that I still have a separate PC) you might as well use Mac. So I’m going that route soon by buying the latest, biggest iMac. My question is I need to make a decision on an editing software package, FCP or Premiere. As I’ve hear great things from both, and also Premiere is NOW ready for Mac, <strong>I've not found anything comparing FCP &amp; Premiere on the same platform (Mac)</strong> also you hear of big company’s using FCP on Mac AND/OR Avit on PC, so where is Premiere?</p> <p>The thing is I need to buy the software and also get training on it, so I would like to make the right choice from the start and not waste any money as we are talking big bucks. </p> <p>Thanks in advance for everyone’s help coming my way.</p> <p>Joe Louw</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/fcp-capture-issue#post-41357 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:21:52 +0000 bmills 41357@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I am having a recurring problem with FCP..  When I go to capture, sometimes FCP will be unable to recognize my capture device (which is a Vixia HV30 camcorder) and then other times, it will time out and say that there is not enough or no information coming in from the capture device and it tells me to check and see if my capture device is playing anything or is connected properly (which it always is)...  Keep in mind, there is absolutely nothing wrong my capture device...  When I go to my other editing station, the device captures fine in FCP or iMovie and on the computer I have troubles with iMovie always works....</p> <p>Any suggestions/help? </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> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-studio-upgrade#post-35181 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:25:27 +0000 cornervideo 35181@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I bought this only to find out that it will not work with my older version of Final Cut.  Paid $699.  Asking $615 includes Domestic US Priority Mail shipping.  Will accept paypal or money orders</p> <p><a href="mailto:cornervideo@charter.net">cornervideo@charter.net</a></p> <p>314-503-0981</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/data-code-with-fcp#post-35069 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:12:58 +0000 augie5 35069@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Is it possible to get the time and date "data code" from a videotape to show after download to FCP?</p>