http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Forums » Tag: FCP - Recent Posts en Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:47:51 +0000 http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-imposing-logos-over-footage-in-fcpro#post-52422 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:28:19 +0000 XTR-91 52422@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>You should try using the Bitmap, TIFF, or even the compressed PNG files that result in no loss. Also don't be deceived by the automatic (or user-defined) "preview quality". The image settings or video affects might also be causing the problem.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-imposing-logos-over-footage-in-fcpro#post-52415 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:38:40 +0000 grinner 52415@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> any uncompressed image with an alpha will work fine.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-imposing-logos-over-footage-in-fcpro#post-52410 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:36:17 +0000 newberry94005 52410@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Do you see this distortion in the Browser window while you are editing or only when you finish the product?</p> <p>I use a PSD file and only import the "layer" needed.  Do not use too many PSD's as this is tough on FCP.</p> <p>If this happens after compressing, try setting the compression settings field order to upper or lower depending on your sequence settings.</p> <p>JPEGs almost always mess up in FCP.  They are not the best format to use.  I get "jumpy" pixels on bright colors or some distortion on movement like you guys have described.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/new-yorker-wants-to-learn-fcp-but-no-money#post-52332 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:08:01 +0000 robgrauert 52332@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I guess you could just bang on some doors and see if someone will let you start as a post production assistant. From there you can work your way up to an assistant editor and then eventually to an editor. </p> <p>I don't know how far you will get without prior knowledge though. Your best bet is to at least by Final Cut Express along with a lower end Mac and learn some of the basics that way.</p> <p>You're not going to do much without spending money in this industry. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/new-yorker-wants-to-learn-fcp-but-no-money#post-52331 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:50:29 +0000 alinaderzad 52331@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-imposing-logos-over-footage-in-fcpro#post-51930 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:55:26 +0000 Eventvideoguy 51930@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I think the issue your are having is the same problem I'm having.</p> <p>When I add a JPEG (or any other photo format) image with text, it is all interlaced looking. I haven't been able to correct this.  It doesn't matter how hi or low the resolution on the image is.</p> <p>This also happens if I add text titles into the video.</p> <p>If I want the text to scroll up the screen, it almost waves as it goes through fields and up the screen.</p> <p>I wish I knew how to correct his.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-imposing-logos-over-footage-in-fcpro#post-51923 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:13:50 +0000 joespain 51923@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Try using tiff images, or even just a .psd document with an alpha channel in Photoshop. Make sure when you import it that you keep the alpha channel. If you're still having problems with pixelation, try making the image bigger than you need, then shrink it to the right size in FCP.</p> <p> </p> <p>Here's a site that explains alpha channels: <a href="http://www.axialis.com/tutorials/tutorial-misc001.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.axialis.com/tutorials/tutorial-misc001.html</a></p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-imposing-logos-over-footage-in-fcpro#post-51917 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:20:07 +0000 Evan 51917@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Well, I would suggest using motion to make an overlay. You could even use a jpeg image in motion if you need a certain image. I suggest motion because the graphics are designed to be used with fcp.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-imposing-logos-over-footage-in-fcpro#post-51910 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:16:58 +0000 Loucarreras 51910@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sismo-cuando-ries-music-video#post-51645 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:27:30 +0000 ProJuiceTV 51645@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/h264-exporting-for-vimeo#post-51377 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:46:07 +0000 EarlC 51377@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>It seems to me, and a host of others lately, that Vimeo quality has turned rather sucky. I've noticed some issues on virtually everything I've viewed over the past few months.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/h264-exporting-for-vimeo#post-51367 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:08:05 +0000 OSD 51367@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>You can find the compression guidelines for Vimeo at:</p> <p><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/help/compression" rel="nofollow">http://www.vimeo.com/help/compression</a></p> <p>This should do the trick.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/h264-exporting-for-vimeo#post-51288 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:03:00 +0000 blindeye 51288@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/graveyard-train-music-video#post-50965 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:48:45 +0000 ProJuiceTV 50965@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Michael Ciccone creates, develops and produces documentary, drama and multiple forms of other programming, at the highest standard for Melbourne's Happy Days Films.</p> <p>Check out his latest clip for Graveyard Train. It was shot on Red and looks amazing.</p> <p>[url=http://www.projuice.org/GraveyardTrain.html]Graveyard Train[/url]</p> <p>We also have an interview with Michael on how he got into film and what it took to make this great new clip.</p> <p>[url=http://www.projuice.org/MichaleIV.html]Interview[/url]</p> <p>Hope you enjoy. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/graveyard-train-music-video#post-50802 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:10:43 +0000 ProJuiceTV 50802@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/streaming-playback-issue-sound-wont-play-through-pc-speakers#post-50801 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:10:59 +0000 sswiller 50801@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/editing-a-12-hour-broadcast-doco#post-50719 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:19:57 +0000 grinner 50719@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>wow.<br /> A month to cut a show.<br /> Nice budget. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/editing-a-12-hour-broadcast-doco#post-50700 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:08:15 +0000 ProJuiceTV 50700@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/time-ramapping-in-fcp-techniques#post-50454 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:02:54 +0000 ProJuiceTV 50454@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/create-an-original-rolling-bad-tv-effect#post-49991 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:07:55 +0000 zoobie 49991@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> looks like the vertical hold tube is going bad again, nick</p> <p>andy kauffman would have liked it...</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/create-an-original-rolling-bad-tv-effect#post-49947 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:13:39 +0000 ProJuiceTV 49947@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/making-a-telephone-voice-effect#post-49703 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:07:05 +0000 ProJuiceTV 49703@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-pro-goes-7#post-49649 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:11:02 +0000 tomskowronski 49649@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>hmmm tons?</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-pro-goes-7#post-49647 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:06:45 +0000 Krama 49647@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/fcp-suite-set-up#post-46937 Mon, 18 May 2009 11:21:28 +0000 ProJuiceTV 46937@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/from-hd-to-dv#post-46116 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:16:59 +0000 kinomatico 46116@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>i thought to use that... now i'll give to it a try. thanks</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/from-hd-to-dv#post-46067 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:54:46 +0000 robgrauert 46067@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I would try using a compression program. If you're using FCP, then use Compressor.</p> <p>Bring your HD video into the compression program and export it as DVCPro50 PAL (as opposed to regular ol' DV PAL). DVCPro50 is twice the data rate of regular DV - DVCPro50 is 50Mbps and DV is only 25Mbps, so DVCPro50 will give better results.</p> <p>Also, try setting up the export to be anamorphic instead of 4:3 letterbox.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/from-hd-to-dv#post-46066 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:43:10 +0000 kinomatico 46066@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-fake-a-killer-guitar-riff#post-45975 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:28:59 +0000 ProJuiceTV 45975@http://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://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-blow-out-lights-in-fcp#post-44259 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:16:01 +0000 ProJuiceTV 44259@http://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>