I’ve been very busy with my full time job. I can’t really complain, it’s hard to find a steady job out there.
I am lucky being able to upgrade from my Sony V1u to Z7u. Also, I have purchased FCP 7, but I need a new machine to install it.
Since I’ve gotten Sony Z7u, I’ve done a lot of weddings, 48Hours Film Fest and reality shows.
Shooting 60i, 30p, 24p taught me a lot of things. This Christmas, my goal is to do a tutorial for the workflow of Z7u on FCP 6.
I get this title from the following blog:
http://alex4d.wordpress.com/
It’s my favorite blog for quick tricks & tips on Final Cut Pro. It’s enough information for me to say, Aww…. I like that Alex put tutorials for AVID for FCP users. I used AVID before, so to go back and learn it again, it’s kinda nice. I like their tutorial, cause it’s easy to understand. There’s one group on Facebook: http://csun.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4857646823, which has the video of how to use AVID for FCP users, but it feels kinda slow. The problem is I already know how to use it, I just need to remember some of the stuffs. If I can just skip to page 27, I would like that. I just need some quick tips.
Unfortunately, I can’t find a way to RSS Feed from Alex’ blog. I think he should open another blog called….. Ready for this… AskAlex.com! Yup, just like any other AskYourName.com.
So, if you are an advance user of Final Cut and can’t find any answer here or from me, maybe should try Alex.
Good luck.
I was thinking to show how to do capture Now option on FCP, but I thought I do this one first. How to capture from Sony V1U on HDV format. Not AIC, but HDV native format.
To capture from Sony V1U it’s kinda hard, but not really. More like confusing.
I shot this color bars on 1080/30p.
1. Open up FCP.
2. Click on Final Cut Pro -> Easy Setup (^Q).
3. Make sure on Easy Setup, the Format is set to ALL FORMATS, to make sure the setup we’re going to use is available.
4. Click the arrow on Use and select HDV-1080i60. If you are wondering why am I shooting 30p and capture on 60i, that’s because the tape is still running on 60i rate, with 30p or 24p looks. For tutorial on how to capture and edit on 24p timeline, go to: http://digitalcontentproducer.com/hdhdv/depth/edit_v1_final_cut_052907/index1.html
5. If you get any of these errors, just click OK or Continue.
6. Why is FCP not recognizing my camera, you asked? The camera thinks there’s a signal in. We need to change this.
7. You need to setup the In/Out Rec on V1U, to make sure you are sending the right signal: (I can’t embed revver video. Sorry)
http://revver.com/watch/504681/flv/menu-setting-v1u/
8. You need to press play on V1U to send out the signal, so FCP would recognize it. (I can’t embed revver video. Sorry)
http://revver.com/watch/504687/flv/press-play-v1u/
9. Click File -> Log Capture:
10. Now, you are up and running, the play button going to play automatically. Click on NOW, to capture now. The capture window looks slightly different then DV-NTSC. It’s more 16:9 and has a few more controls
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11. You’e capturing.
Good luck.
Capturing (Digitizing – if it from analog)
I was working with Alycia Cooper, and she had her friend edited a webisode for her. However, she wants it shorter. So, she came to me, with all the FCP projects, but no video project. I’m guessing she doesn’t know where are the video files.
On FCP, and other NLE programs, the video you see on the program is a link to something else. If you Blog or do Website, you can understand this a little better. After, you idle for a while, when you start working on FCP again, it takes a while to load up a video, that because FCP is reading the directory of the file and trying to view it for you.
Anyway, to understand where is your video goes, here is a step how to capture a video on FCP. It starts with the scratch disk. This instruction is to capture tape.
1. Open Final Cut Pro from Applications.
2. If you are missing a scratch disk or this is the first time you open FCP, this window will show up at your screen:
3. For the purpose of this tutorial, click Reset Scratch Disks.
4. It will show this window, this is where you setup the video files go:
5. Click on Set:
6. Choose a folder where you want your Video file to be capture (Capture Scratch folder) and all the render files later to be stored (Audio Render Files and Render Files folders).
7. When you are done choosing the folder for the basic stuffs, click choose and you are going back to this window:
8. You can pick where all the other Caches and Autosave Vault would go. I would recommend to a different Folder, so if you lost the drive, you have the Autosave Vault.
9. I put Minimum Allowable Free Space On Scratch Disks as whatever the FCP decide. I uncheck Limit Capture/Export File, cause an hour of DV footage takes about 13 GB, and I don’t want to limit it. You need to limit it if you don’t have enough space on your drive. I uncheck Limit Capture Now To, cause I capture usually HDV/DV, so it will stop automatically when the tape has ended. Unless, you are going to use capture now, on mostly analog signal, the computer can understand when the tape is over. Now, click OK.
10. We are back to beginning of the program again, now Click Continue:
11. If you’re FCP open right away,
to set where your video folder will go click on Final Cut Pro -> System Settings…
12. It will bring you back to step 4
13. If you are using FCP version lower than FCP 6, you need to do the following to prepare Final Cut Pro of what kind of video format you are going to edit. Click Final Cut Pro -> Easy Setup…
14. This is will avoid editing NTSC format on PAL timeline, where it will require renders. Click OK when you have picked your video format.
15. Time to capture your video. Go to File->Log and Capture
16. My screen maybe a little different of what you seeing on your screen. This is a screen shot of the HDV format capturing. It’s basically the same, with a little differences. If you want to change where your video files going to be save, go to Scratch Disks on Capture Settings and go back to step 4.
17. Click on Now, if you are going to capture your whole video non-stop.
I will talk more detail about capturing on another forum.
Good Luck!
Final Cut Pro: iOverview
Final Cut Pro is a pretty easy program to figure out, if you have used other Non-Linear Editing (NLE). I started with linear editing, tape-to-tape, and then move to NLE with Premiere (self-taught) then moved to AVID.
When I moved to LA, I need a computer and an NLE program that is cheap. I picked FCP. When I started with FCP, Premiere is not as advance as AVID, well, at least not that I remember. I learned more things on FCP technically, by myself, just by trying, reading forums and thanks to Michael Wohl, I’m reading his book on how to do things now.
This Blog is to help you with everything I know about FCP and how I do things on FCP. If you look at my REEL, it’s all done with FCP products, and some Photoshop.
Before we start, let me start list of equipments I use a lot:
If you are wondering why I list compression program, DVD programs and cameras, I need to list these for how it works with Final Cut Studio.
Most of these method work with FCP 4.5, 5.0.4, 5.1 and 6.0.1
Good luck!
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