Recent content by videojoe03

yeah, bad workflow yeah, bad workflow i agree, bad workflow, but i guess its what you get when a client with no FCP experience decides they want to offline...haha. ends up that it was just a couple of shots the producer wanted audio from....whooo, dodged a bullet there. thanks, joe

i had a client decide to offline a project themselves and bring the project to me to polish up and online. she used a ton of cover shots that were captured with NATS audio but when she dropped them on the timeline, she didnt want the nats and deleted the audio channels for the clips. now her...

HDV colorgrading HDV colorgrading jsut a warning, you cant output HDV realtime using firewire like you could DV. it takes too much system resources so there is no real time output for colorgrading using firewire. might want to look at one of those cheap HDMI output cards for output to...

DVD ripping DVD ripping i have had great luck with "hand break". i t can be found at handbrake.m0k.org it transfers the DVD to a selection presets of MPG files that you can customize. it will only let you convert to MP4 or one other but you can get the video off or DVD here and them open the...

Credits Credits usually, FCPs internal CGs suck but, if you need a good cinema style credit roll you can use the FCP title generator called "Scrolling Text." A feature that most people dont know about with this generator is how to do that format where, let say you have the titles on the left...

Has any one else noticed this. If you capture DV using firewire, which you would think would be the best quality because it keeps the DV in its native "untouched" format, it doesnt look that good, but.... If you go out of your DV deck using component or SDI, and capturing in the format of your...

sounds like what mine used ot do the fist time i tried to use a USB external drive. both usb and usb2 are not fast enough to handle any decent format. not even DV. alot of people dont know how to reset perimeter ram on the mac. this usally fixes any sort of wierd behavior on a mac. just...

Buying FCP Buying FCP the last time FCP was available as a stand alone was with FCP 4.5 i have a full licensed copy with box, manuals, discs and everything if your interested. i dont use it any more since i have a full CP studio. its universal binary. let me know. joe@josephmullins.com

Sniper View Sniper View i would create the sniper sight in photoshop, adding a green circle in the middle of a black field and what other detail you want. make a transparent hole in the black layer that matches up to the green circle. take this file into FCP, and place the picture you want...