First off, congrats to Frank Capria for starting this listserv. As for my question: Is FCP3 really limited to just 2 audio outs, or is there a hardware...
David Gluck
dhg2@...
Feb 18, 2002 4:47 pm
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At this point there appears to be no such audio solution. The limitation is QuickTime and I understand that work is in progress to allow more channels in...
H. Spencer Young
cinematech@...
Feb 18, 2002 4:50 pm
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I have a number on non-techie clients with access to a BetaSP deck and a Mac. They would like to log footage prior to their FCP session...is there any...
Bill Davis
BillDavis@...
Feb 18, 2002 4:51 pm
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Pinnacle has a breakout box in beta testing that has four channels in and six out. Hardware's there; they're just waiting on Quicktime to support it. Anyone...
Bill Davis
BillDavis@...
Feb 18, 2002 4:54 pm
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If you do a google search you'll probably come up with lots of hits . . . I don't have a recommendation though. . . -- H. Spencer Young Editorial Digital Video...
H. Spencer Young
cinematech@...
Feb 18, 2002 4:56 pm
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Thanks for the reply. So what do people do when they require additional output channels of audio? We need to deliver 4 channel Beta (for international...
David Gluck
dhg2@...
Feb 18, 2002 4:58 pm
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Yes it does seem lame. Some aspects of FCP are lame. ... -- H. Spencer Young Editorial Digital Video Specialists Apple Solution Experts (212) 229-1469 ...
H. Spencer Young
cinematech@...
Feb 18, 2002 4:59 pm
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Another possibility is to do the layback twice and physically patch the output on the second pass to channels 3 and 4 on the deck. This has worked nicely in...
Bill Davis
BillDavis@...
Feb 18, 2002 5:03 pm
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It shouldn't be too hard to set up an Excel macro that would take an Avid ALE file and convert it to the proper tab-delimited text file. I've been meaning to...
That seems to be the only way to go right now. It's a real pain in the neck doing two passes for each split track dub. As soon as QuickTime supports more...
Does anyone have an exact release date for Avid Xpress DV3? Mike...
mike
mikeparsons@...
Feb 18, 2002 5:39 pm
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I'm a first-time FCP user diving into a 30-minute doc -- a personal project that I'm doing on my days off at home on a TiG4 powerbook. I'm amazed that I can...
dabel@...
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Feb 18, 2002 6:02 pm
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... Congratulations to the FinalCutPro-L on its first OT post. Makes the Avid-l'ers feel right at home. curtis...
Doug, How are you getting out to NTSC from offline resolution? The big issue with offline res for me on my G4/733 is having to render to go out Firewire. I ...
My feeling is that you probably aren't going to get anything usable out of that offline res codec for full screen viewing - the blowup alone should make it...
H. Spencer Young
cinematech@...
Feb 18, 2002 6:37 pm
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Are there any FCP specific reasons to work in OS X vs. OS 9. I gotta admit I love OS X, but FCP seems a bit less responsive in X. I'm also having OS X ...
I really like the multitasking frank . . . It pretty much rocks . . . I mean, capturing and surfing the web at the same time? Pretty ridiculous - not I only...
H. Spencer Young
cinematech@...
Feb 18, 2002 7:20 pm
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Frank are you not aware of 2.pop? -- H. Spencer Young Editorial Digital Video Specialists Apple Solution Experts (212) 229-1469 hsy@... NYC...
H. Spencer Young
cinematech@...
Feb 18, 2002 7:24 pm
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... Yeah I am... I almost never get an answer I am looking for there. A couple of years ago it was a great resource. Now it seems to be geared at entry level...
... Likewise on the networking thing. I just keep forgetting where stuff is. I'm not aware of anything OS X-only with FCP 3, although quite a few things (eg....
Tim Wilson
tim@...
Feb 18, 2002 7:32 pm
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Aren't you guys just doing apple+k to go to the network interface? What can't you find? -- H. Spencer Young Editorial Digital Video Specialists Apple Solution...
H. Spencer Young
cinematech@...
Feb 18, 2002 7:34 pm
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... Just an observation from many hours on the road with FCP groups all across this great land of ours -- as many as *half* of the people at the FCP groups I...
Tim Wilson
tim@...
Feb 18, 2002 7:59 pm
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... I agree. My experience is that FCP in OS X is a little slower. There are the "I can work in some other application while rendering in FCP" type advantages...
Philip Hodgetts
philip@...
Feb 18, 2002 8:11 pm
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... Apple recommend mirroring out to an NTSC monitor via the video card - the TiPB does it natively while for desktops they're recommending a video card with...
Philip Hodgetts
philip@...
Feb 18, 2002 8:12 pm
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On digibeta and especially hdcam timecode is not constant. Is there any software or fcp plugin that could capture a whole tape at once and still have accurate...
Pekka Lampela
pekka.lampela@...
Feb 18, 2002 9:38 pm
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How are you controlling your deck? USB to serial adapters are EVIL! You would have much better luck with a true serial port that replaces the modem. Bill...
Bill Davis
BillDavis@...
Feb 18, 2002 9:49 pm
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... I'm running a mixed platform environment. All the Windows machines are on an AppleTalk network through PC MACLAN. I have had a lot of trouble getting OS X...
on 2/18/02 1:45 PM, Philip Hodgetts at philip@... ... I've tried that with my second monitor card (ATI Radeon PCI) and it works... BUT: ...
Bill Davis
BillDavis@...
Feb 18, 2002 10:29 pm
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First, let me say this list is most excellent. I've been hanging out at Creative Cow, but it's getting too busy over there, which makes its web-based message...
