Editing Tips

Hi, Just wondering. Only just started using Lightroom this week. I also heard of Bridge just this week as well. What is the normal sequence for uploading and editing images? Do you open Bridge, then browse images - find the image you want do some basic editing in Camera Raw and then open in lightroom? I have no idea....

Thanks for the response, but I have access to the FCP user manual and have already read that. I usually only come here as a last resort. I'm hoping somebody can actually answer my two specific questions vs. directing me to a user manual that I already have. Specifically the two questions I asked above with a simple set of instructions on how to accomplish both, it either is at all possible. The user manual did not provide those answers for me and if it did, I'm not understanding it.
And if what you are saying is I can import, or 'log and transfer', all of the footage from one card as one long clip then treating it like it's DV 'log and capture' footage I'd love to know the settings on how to accomplish that as well. I tried that and looked for settings and read the manual and I'm not seeing where that is possible.
I'm not a Hollywood film producer, so spoon feeding might be necessary! I'm hoping to get 'on the fly' help and advice from others that might know what I'm trying to accomplish and do it themselves all the time vs. sitting in front of my editing stations for a week trying to figure it out on my own after reading a vague user manual.

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See this excellent tutorial by David Smith on macProVideo.com about storyboard editing tips and tricks: on this page at macProVideo.com.

General Editing Tips ...

Hi,
Does anyone know where I can get some general editing tips? I have just started editing my sisters wedding video for her after the main editor messed it up but I realised I just want to do some simple (I think?!) editing but not too sure how to do it. For example. I've seen people do this shot where they have a picture in the background and a drop of water falls on the picture and sends water ripples through it?
Ali.

I'd suggest you spend some time with a trainer, or buy some training material and learn... it's not tough, it's a lot to learn, but not hard.
Buy this book: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Pro-Training-Final-Cut/dp/0321502655/ref=pdbbs_sr1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203344688&sr=8-1
To make the pond ripple effect, choose it from the transition effects menu... and add it to a cut point.
Jerry
Message was edited by: Jerry Hofmann

Failover in 10g Standard Edition tips

Hi guys,
We have an Oracle 10.2.0.5 Standard Edition Database in a Windows Server 2008 x64, and we were looking for a Failover solution. The idea is when the primary server could have a problem, automatically open in read/write mode the standby DB, and after repairing the primary DB, propagate the changes from the standby to the primary.
After researching, we had decided to create a Manual Physical Standby Database in another server, following this guide
We are now testing it and seems to work with no problems, but we like to know some tips or advices for that solution, or if it exists one better option for Failover in Standard Edition, from some experienced dbas from this forums. Can somebody help us with that?
Thanks in advance!
Juan Alvarez

user13325846 wrote:
How to programatically partition table in 10G standard Edition ?I had no idea (reading this thread) that 7.3's partition views were still supported. At the time (back in the mid 90's), we were explicitly told not to use this option for a large OPS data warehouse, by Oracle experts that assisted us in building and tuning the system. So never really used this option and thought it deprecated ifo proper partitioning introduced with v8.
I currently roll a my own partition-like feature on 10g SE - using dynamic SQL where a function is used to determine the table name. As all access to the tables are done via PL/SQL, this works fine (and bind variables are used all the way). On the client reporting side, we use APEX. APEX has the option of using a function (supplying the SQL) for reporting region, instead of coding the actual SQL. Again, PL/SQL is used to construct the source SQL (for the appropriate table) and given to APEX to parse and bind and execute as a report.
Of course, this is not nearly as flexible as the Enterprise partitioning feature, but it works fine for the (limited) job required.

Care 2 share favorite audio editing tips (think Aphex, Squarepusher, B.T.)?

Anyone here do tons of constructive/destructive audio editing in Logic? I am determined to kick my Pro Tools habit and embrace Logic's audio mangling capabilities once and for all!
Any tips or shortcuts you can't live without would be much appreciated (especially from Pro Tools users who have learned to adapt without having 'tab to transients', 'Grid mode', etc.).
Gracias

Between your posts today I'd say the effects you want can be created pretty quickly with strip silence, divide multiple, AU hosting batch processor, EXS24. Kontakt is actually pretty quick at this becase it's got a built in ReCycler, then you can just throw the pitches and loops in whichever direction you want, just set the polyphony low (often mono) for alot of this. Logic doesn't really handle file based effects (then it was easy-like PT's AudioSuite). Lowering the Tempo in 2 and then recording, chopping and then flipping the tempo up is also good, set regions to auto xfade like 5ms. Alot can be done in the arrange, yes but the samplers should not be overlooked. Basically sound like you're going through 30 different sounds all at one as 1 instrument. I have set up templates with FX where sounds basically "reproduce", this is really easy in Logic. Record or setup sounds by some timebase, scribble some automation in for a few plugs, bounce, divide multiple, send through batch processor, load into sampler, it may not sound like much but you can make hundreds of unique sounds in a few minutes. All you have to do after that is listen and choose. But obviously you don't want to stop there so you can start drawing (honestly, I think the Matrix is where I'd do the arranging/sequencing-just load up a few samplers but for processing/chopping arrange is really fast). I even do this with guitar tracks. With your sample regions now in place you can just change the pitch on the sampler and set the loop values to musical and nonmusical values easily. The arrange is fine for placing but when you get into all the effecting it's handled better by a sampler, IMO. Logic can make easy work of the effecting, dicing, and sequencing. Export regions as audio files, and open in external sampe editor, EXS mapping 128 notes at once. ReCycle. Kontakt has alot of the stuff you want-it could replace ReCyle and EXS24, and it's got the script processor.

How can I turn off editing tips in iMovie?

Every time I movie more than one clip in iMovie I get the same stupid tip about not moving all the clips to make a better movie. I would love to turn it off before it drives me crazy!
Thanks,
Dan

Set Settings->Messages->Send Read Receipts to Off.

Editing tips for slowing down HD (flash) clips? Trimming HD clips?

Hello all... I'm new to HD flash content and have a couple of questions about some techniques that could speed up my workflow. I'm used to 'log and capture', but just now beginning my first projects ever using 'log and transfer' of HD content from flash cards. Anyway, here's what I'm hoping I could do:
1. In the past with DV tape, I would drop an entire captured clip (usually and entire tape worth of video) into my Sequence then change the speed of that entire clip from 100% to 80% for my editing needs before cutting it up for editing. With this new log and transfer, it takes every clip between takes and makes them their own independent clip (IE- each time you stop recording on the shoot it makes what you just recorded a clip, whether it's 10 seconds or one hour long). So instead of having a hour's worth of footage with pink break point markers after doing a 'DV Start/Stop Detect' function, you get a boat load of 10 to 15 second individual clips.
Question: Is it possible to select all the clips or set something in the sequence settings to change all of the clips speed from 100% (real time) to say 80% (bit of slow motion) without having adjust each individual clip one-by-one?
2. In the past with DV tape, after slowing down my entire clip I would then go through and make cuts a second before and a second after each and every break point (or pink break point marker after doing a DV Start/Stop Detect). Maybe I've always done this the hard way, who know, so I was wondering if there's a way to select all of this HD content in my Sequence (the individual clips as described in my first question) and automatically have FCP trim a second off the start and finish of each clip (whether it's been slowed down or not)? This obviously would accomplish being able to add transitions between clips (unless there's another way to accomplish adding transitions between clips without trimming them?).
Anyway pointers would be great! I love the HD flash content, but now I'm just realizing my old techniques with DV when it comes to the basic editing isn't going to work with this HD content from flash cards, making my job take 2-3 times as long as it would in the past. So I'm hoping FCP has added these kind of 'shortcuts' much like they did with being able to apply a single transition to a selected batch of clips.
I'm up to date on all software and what not... running FCP 7.0.1.
Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the response, but I have access to the FCP user manual and have already read that. I usually only come here as a last resort. I'm hoping somebody can actually answer my two specific questions vs. directing me to a user manual that I already have. Specifically the two questions I asked above with a simple set of instructions on how to accomplish both, it either is at all possible. The user manual did not provide those answers for me and if it did, I'm not understanding it.
And if what you are saying is I can import, or 'log and transfer', all of the footage from one card as one long clip then treating it like it's DV 'log and capture' footage I'd love to know the settings on how to accomplish that as well. I tried that and looked for settings and read the manual and I'm not seeing where that is possible.
I'm not a Hollywood film producer, so spoon feeding might be necessary! I'm hoping to get 'on the fly' help and advice from others that might know what I'm trying to accomplish and do it themselves all the time vs. sitting in front of my editing stations for a week trying to figure it out on my own after reading a vague user manual.

Audio editing tip

Ya know, I'm feeling really stupid. After editing in fcp since version 1 I finally realized that you can keyframe audio levels at subframe intervals in the viewer. Need to dip the audio at the beginning of a clip cause the interviewer is stepping on the subjects answers? double click on the audio in the timeline, and keyframe a tiny fade in. I guess I blame avid habits. Couldn't do this kind of trick in the avid, But this is really cool.

3 ways of doing this...
1. you can use the Audio Mixer, by going to your tools menu and choosing it, even better theres a window layout, just go Window > Layouts > Audio Mixing.
from here you can click the add key frames when u dip the audio, click the button in the top left. it looks like an audio speaker and a keyframe diamod icon.
2. you can use the pen tool, turn on the "clip overlays" command in the bottom left of the timeline window. or press Option+W. from there press p to open the pen tool or click on it in the tools pallet, and create audio keyframes from the timeline.
3. easiest, add a audio fade in transision.

Any Photo editing tips to help with my wildlife photo contest entry?

I'm admittedly not the greatest with Photoshop, but I'm definitely an excellent photographer. Is there anything that Photoshop can offer in terms of making my wildlife photos look more 'life-like' for when I enter these photos into a wildlife photo contest? Any help is appreciated.

You are only allowed minimal adjustments in every Natural History competition I have ever heard of. Brightness and contrast sort of thing, and maybe - at a stretch - tone down distraction elements. But competions bring out the worst in some people, and I know a few who cheat.

How to edit a photo in Lr4, continued...

The purpose of this thread is to continue the Lr4 editing tips & tricks started in the beta forum.

How to adjust highlight tone
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Highlight toning is vastly improved in Lr4, by way of:
1. Automatic highlight recovery and clipping protection (roll-off...)
2. The whites slider.
3. Highlights slider.
4. Locals.
re #1: You don't have to do anything to take advantage of this, but it allows you to do things you couldn't do before, namely up the whites, exposure, (contrast), and/or highlights without excessive clipping, and without having an ugly transition between clipped and un-clipped whites, and without losing good tone and detail in the highlights.
re #2: Arguably, the most important slider in PV2012 is the whites slider. Definitely the most important slider when it comes to optimizing highlight toning in PV2012.
re #3: Since the highlights slider is the main slider for controlling highlight "recovery" and setting level of highlights, most people discover it pretty quickly. But using it in conjunction with whites (and exposure) opens a whole new set of doors that are absolutely essential to getting the most from PV2012.
re #4: Because one can readily tweak highlights using the locals (without much affecting midtones or shadows), one can push global highlight toning much further when locals are to be used too. Of course one can take advantage of the locals even if not pushing global adjustments too hard ;-)
To make a short story long...
In Lr3, one had to use the highlight recovery to recover highlights, or decrease exposure, and/or keep brightness and contrast low. In Lr4 most highlights are recovered for you automatically. The rest can be recovered by:
-highlights
-exposure
-whites
Or any combination of the above (even if in conjunction with positive values from some of the others).
Highlights slider:
-highlights: pulls highlights leftward, doing a combination of recovery and stratification, but will not decrease midtone contrast in the doing.
+highlights: increases highlight level while attempting to minimize compression of highlights/whites. Like everything, protected by automatic roll-off logic.
Exposure slider:
+exposure: increases all tones smoothly, from low to high, but protects highs from getting too too bright. Some like to think of it as being somewhere between PV2010 exposure and PV2010 brightness. The exposure slider has been designed to complement the other sliders. For example, increasing exposure increases highlights in a way that -highlights can bring back down. And since -highlights does not reduce midtone contrast, one can use +exposure -highlights to brighten the midtones in an image without making it look washed out like increasing brightness in PV2010 would.
-exposure: decreases all tones smoothly, but tries to keep highest tones from getting too dim - this is a big difference between PV2012 and PV2010.
Whites slider:
+whites: stretches entire tone curve rightward, smoothly - whites most, blacks least. Very much like a white-biased version of exposure. Very similar to the right-side equivalent of blacks slider. +whites also supports graceful driving into clipping. Use a brush with -highlights to recover highlights driven a little too far.
-whites: recovers clipped highlights and moves them leftward along with all other tones smoothly, all the while and nevertheless attempting to keep highest tones high, after they've been recovered.
PV2012 includes some fancy programming that allows us to do things that were not even close to possible in PV2010. The fact that the positive function of the sliders is not necessarily the exact inverse of the negative functionality is representative of this sophistication. And the slider behavior can change dynamically depending on image and other settings... This can make it tricky, but also makes it much more powerful than one might think given it's modest basic slider set.
In Lr3, fill always did the same thing, and highlight recovery always did the same thing. While predictable, they did not allow one to optimize image quality and tone, nor provide the same level of flexibility as PV2012.
One of the things I don't like about PV2012 is that the highlights, by default have a muted or processed look I sometimes describe as "powdery", as opposed to unadulterated and glowy - more detailed to be sure, but a bit flat.
One of the things I do like about PV2012 is that the whites slider allows one to restore much of the original highlight quality, and more.
To shorten a long story:
===================
I strongly recommend to use +whites to the extent the image allows in order to have maximally shiny and detailed highlights (unless that's not what you want of course). You may have to decrease exposure and/or highlights, and increase shadow level as compensation.
In a nutshell:
+whites is good - use it to it's fullest!
And on the flip side:
Sometimes -highlights just won't cut it. Either it just can't do the job (long story not told) or it produces too much highlight stratification. In either case, that's when -whites steps in. Knowing when to use -whites is as important as remembering to use +whites whenever possible, but is required far less frequently on most images.
Summary:
========
To increase intra-highlight detail and/or unflatten highlights: +whites, usually accompanied by some combination of -exposure and/or -highlights, and +shadows as compensatory adjustment.
To recover highlights that would otherwise be too hard to reach, (or in cases of unusual tonal distribution, when -highlights compresses shadows too much), and/or to compress tonal range from the right-end leftward: -whites.
In PV2012 it is generally not necessary to reduce contrast to recover and stratify highlights, although you can if you want ;-)
Advanced bonus formula:
+whites +highlights -exposure +blacks +shadows +contrast (-saturation) to unflatten highlights, but minimize highlight stratification.
Explanation:
+whites: the workhorse - required for unraveling auto highlight recovery which is primarily responsible for the flattening.
+highlights: keeps highlights from being separated as much when +whites is done.
-exposure: keeps top end from being too bright due to the above, but also darkens bottom end.
+blacks +shadows: raises bottem end back up and pushes on highlights re-compressing them from the left.
+contrast: further compresses highlights. Note: due to +blacks +shadows, +contrast won't darken bottom end too much or stratify midtones as much.
(-saturation): keeps +contrast tonal.
Try it!
OK, enough for now - sorry for putting you through all this.
Rob

How does one edit workflows?

I've recently been made aware of the bug in the Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder workflow and was hoping to do a quick edit. I even found some edit tips online. Easy peasy, no?
The problem is, Automator opens the workflow and it simply must be incomplete. There is only one step in the workflow ("New Folder" which creates the new Web Receipts folder) and *nothing at all* in the Actions column. When I opened another workflow ("Mail PDF") to double-check, I get the same problem: only one step (this time it's "New Mail Message") and no actions listed.
Any guesses? I am a vet programmer but new to Automator. Am I overlooking something?
Thanks,
J.

Thanks for your response Bob.
Yes, should Apple not offer the complete feature set for the technician / traveler in the field on an iOS device, for a price perhaps. After all, Apple is so into making money now!
What is the real meaning of this very poor half baked release? Protection for the simple, less experienced? Perhaps a wise effort.
And ... What about that cutting the cord effort? Well, sort of, doesn't quite get there!
Sigh! Yes, I submitted a request for a finished version of the app to the hedge.
Sorry! What happened to the 'It just works!' Apple we used to know?
So... must have an AirBook as the iPad toy is just not ready for prime time in the enterprise, yet!
Michael

VMware Edition Faulty downloads crc errors

Hello - I have been trying for days to download the software at this site>
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Error: CRC mismatch in file "SLES10SP1_Test_Drive(2)-s008.vmdk"
I have a high speed connection and I nad downloaded part 8 and Part 7 quite a few times just to have the extract blow up.
It would be nice to be able to add this to the download manager and to have the MD5 or SHA-1 hash checks for these files.
Are there any other mirrors to download these files?

Hi Joseph,
as far as I know there no mirrors for that but some others complained about CRC errors as well.
have a look at there SDN links;
Where to download SLES10 SP1 SAP Version?
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 - Java and ABAP Trial Version on Linux - VMware Edition - Tips & Tricks
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Tutorial with great tips CS6

Tutorial - Some great editing tips that feature new CS6 features
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Best Video Editing Tool For MBP

Hey Fellas recently i switched from a windows pc to MBP. I have a small business of making motion movies for various clients of mine. On windows based platform i used "Pinnacle Studio 15" for editing my videos And it worked fine there. Now as i switched to MBP, i also transformed to pinnacle studio for mac. But there seems some kind of error when i go make movie option, the movie doesnot proceed at all.
Really frustated for this kind of problem as i have tried many times and also replaced the clips many times but its doesn't work.
Please help me, fast answers would be really appreciated as i have many more projects to cover up.
Thanks

mac-a-damia wrote:
I do not have pinnacle installed on my computer right now. Check this out maybe it can help you http://www.wondershare.com/video-editing-tips/pinnacle-for-mac.html
Thanks for the link mac-a-dania. But these are only tips for running the studio but not the problem that i m asking.
Thanks anyways.

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