Is it possible to make a Final Cut Template?

The idea in my head is a little vague right now so suggestions are appreciated. My church is looking to post our sermons online. My goal is to make the workflow process as seemsless and simple (read: volunteer friendly) as possible. The editing will be very simple and basic - cut everything before the sermon, cut everything after, add a fade-in/fade-out at the begining and end and add a title overlay five seconds in.
I am not sure Final Cut is even the right solution for this but I am hoping to achieve is to auto generate the effects, the fades and the title screen. That way, all the volunteer has to do is just decide were to cut. Thoughts?

Very simple. You make the template project with a placeholder. Add transitions titles top and bottom, music, whatever. Import the video. Select the section you want. Drag onto the placeholder. Select replace. The project length will adjust itself to the new length of the clip. Done.

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What SACRIFICES do you make using Final Cut on a Mac Book Pro ?

I have a somewhat similar question to one posted below...
(http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8156488&#8156488)
...but it seems like a broad question resulted in broad answers so let me pose it a different way.
I need a machine to handle HD video and I'm also considering a Mac Book Pro because of space considerations and the fact that it seems handy to be able to pick it up and take it to a coffee shop should need be.
But WHAT WILL I BE SACRIFICING as compared to an iMac or Mac Pro if I opt for portability? Will, say, renders take twice as long, crashes happen twice as often, etc.? Any Final Cut Pro users with both desk and laptop out there that could advise of the difference?
Thanks.
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You are not sacrificing anything you can't deal with sacrificing. I have both systems, and the only drawback I have had yet is that you can't connect a laptop to a fiber network. But you can still connect through gigE. If SAN and distributed processing are not part of your workflow this doesn't concern you. The processor is a bit slower, but if you plan your time well you won't miss your deadlines.
There are not 8 processors in a MacPro. There are only 2 processors with 8 cores. A core is not an individual processor. But the MacBook Pro only has 1 dual core processor. So you have 6 less cores and 1 less processor. But the MBPro is still very fast. The DVD burner in the MacPro is faster, but the one in the MacBook Pro is a better drive. YOu can get a better graphics card in the MacPro, but if you're not doing graphics or 3d design the MacBook Pro will do wonderfully. An extra monitor makes the MacBook Pro just as easy to use as a tower but, like you said, you can unplug the monitor and take the computer with you, which is very convenient.
My recommendation is, relative to the criteria above, to get the laptop if you can only get one. Use the extra money to buy some accessories like a keyboard, mouse/tablet, monitor (Dell 2408 is a fantastic monitor and inexpensive), and a fast external hard drive. Lacie makes a nice drive called Little Big Disk and comes at 7200 RPM (necessary for video editing) and as large as 640GB in capacity. And it takes power from the Firewire 800 port. It also has eSATA, so with an express34 card you can get incredibly fast transfer rates.
The towers are great, but unless you need King Kong strength in your system, you're better off with the laptop.
Just my thoughts. I just sold my G5 'cause I haven't used it since I got the laptop. I have two MacPros and I usually just use them to add to my distributed processing. I do all my editing from the laptop.
Hope this helps.

Is it possible to Upgrade FROM Final Cut Pro 2 TO Final Cut Express 3 HD?

I have FC Pro 2 on a crashed-harddrive MacPro...
Can I use that serial number and upgrade to FCExpress 3 HD?
Or can you only upgrade Pro to Pro and Express to Express?

Hi
I doubt - as FC Express is one line and FC Pro/Studio is another.
It has not worked for me - so I've got up-grade to FinalCut Express 4 and FinalCut Studio 2 - non of them or previous version was able to upgrade to the other.
Yours Bengt W

Is it possible to install Final Cut Pro on a External TB Hard Drive

I would like to buy an external TB drive for my iMac and was wondering if it is possible to just run Final Cut Studio and all of it's apps off of a TB drive?

No. The Final Cut Studio applications must be on the same volume as Mac OS X.
You can put the accompanying content, such as motion templates etc on another drive.

Final Cut Studio 2 -can't make good slide shows?

Greetings,
As I understand it, getting a good quality DVD produced in FCP from digital slides isn't possible.
Having acquired Final Cut Studio 2, I hoped to avoid more software purchases.
Do I really need a third party application such as Fotomagico to produce quality video from digital slides?

No you can do it in FCP.
From what I've read about Fotomagico, that program will do it much quicker.
If you can pre-format all your pictures and use tiffs or pngs instead of jpgs then you're better off with FCP. But I've used jpgs. Just used used about 2000-3000 of them for a family project.
I don't advise using that many, but if you create lots of different sequences and put them all together at the end it's doable...also you will need to dramatically increase your Still Cache memory in the Memory and Cache Tab within your System Settings.
Good luck

DNxHD footage transcode in Final Cut Server?

I'm looking at setting up a directory watcher which will automatically transcode footage from HDV to Avid DNxHD.
Is this possible at all within Final Cut Server? It seems Final Cut support all of the codecs I have installed except that one.

The codec doesn't show up as a valid codec in the list when I try to make the custom transcode setting.
I'm doing the following:
SysPrefs -> Final Cut Server -> Automations -> "plus" -> File System Watcher -> Set up the watcher filter -> Responses -> "plus" -> Copy Response -> Transcode source to -> NO AVID CODEC in list.
Am I in the right place to be setting this up, or is there somewhere else I can make sure the codec appears?
We have set the threadsafe bit to see if that made a difference but there is still nothing from Avid in the list.
It shows up just fine in the other apps on the mac, is it an incompatibility with FCS and that codec?
Your help is greatly appreciated,
Chris.
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Upgrading Final Cut Studio

I have Final Cut Studio with FCP 5 and Motion 2 can I upgrade it to FCP 6 and Motion 3?
I see where the Apple Site has a Final Cut Studio upgrade which includes FCP 6 and Motion 3 will it work?
For some reason I have not been able to get my Motion 2 to work which messes up my entire editing process with FCP on a project I am working on. I have reinstalled the original disks but no luck.
I am thinking that upgrading to the next possible "free" upgrade for Final Cut Studio might work and make my Motion 2 (upgraded to Motion 3) functional.
I would appreciate any suggestions I can get.

What you said is exactly what I am worried about. I found a FCP 6 download on Apple's site. If comes with FCP5 and Motion 3 but I do not know if it will blow up my system which is:
Machine Name: iMac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac8,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 2 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 512 MB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.5f1
I don't know much about the "technical" aspect of the machine, it is just that I need my FInal Cut Studio to work and it won't because something happened to Motion and it WILL NOT UPLOAD from the original disks which I have. So I thought maybe FCP6 and Motion 3 would work better for me.
My I MAC IS NOT AN INTEL but I really don't know what it is!

DVD Studio Pro - Final Cut X

so, if one purchases final cut x and sells off their final cut suite 3 with DVD Studio Pro, how does one do a professional DVD authoring? that is, what is everyone doing to author DVD's that they make in Final Cut Pro then compress using Compressor or just import right into DVD Studio Pro?
i actually didn't like this product (DVD Studio Pro) when it came with my Final Cut Studio 3, preferring to keep with my former Avid based product, but after someone showed me how to use it, i fell in love with the thing and DON'T want to be without it although I'd like to sell my MacPro with FCS3 included in the purchase price when i put it on eBay.
hope i can get some help because this is ALL that is holding me up from doing the APP store puchases of the new FC products and getting my new MacBook Pro i7 machine.

QUOTES...
Ian R. Brown wrote: Have you tried iDVD which is quite a fantastic app? Otherwise if you want to stay legal you will have to keep FCS3.
tjwaldo wrote: No, iDVD is not a fantastic app. It's a consumer app. I don't understand the concept that if a client received DVDs from all sorts of video editors with the same theme how that could possibly be considered professional?.....
RESPONSE...
so far i would have to agree that iDVD is a neat app, great for family video's, some customization maybe, but the few times I've tried it AND the DVD's ive gotten from competitors or collaborators who use it exclusively, i guess in part i know why people have picked my performance result with DVD SP. ive had clients even tell me, "i hate your delivery and your continual excuses and delays in delivery, but your qualty is two heads above everyone else so we have to keep using you, can't you do something about better delivery?"
so admittedly im a procrastinator but in the end, the result ive found in DVD SP is heads above anything ive personally tried BUT admittedly also, i don't look around a lot for other products when i find a winner.
now on fcp x, if it delivers as good an output as final cut pro 7, and with all the bells and whistles in fcp x, i have to say i WANT all that ease, magnetic performance, and built in GREAT looking titler and color grading, let alone auto motion control. im sold on fcp x ... NOW THAT ... it has multicam, importing of fcp 7 projects, and well . . im just sold BUT without DVD authoring its a bust for me. 99% of the projects i do are DVD delivery and now fastly BluRay delivery (about 5-10% at the moment) and thus i HAVE to have not just a DVD authoring program but one with all the bells and whistles that do almost anything and everything that i want . . and . . together with Compressor, i'm just shy of in editor heaven. however, i AM going to go to fcp x if for no other reason (now that multicam is included) rendering, ease of turning down the rez for editing only then render out full rez, and ease of importing canon 5dm2 and 7d footage as compared to final cut pro 7's ... hmmmmmm ... 3 different ways (or more) and even then not knowing if i picked the right one.
so as "tjwaldo" indicated, unless there is some other totally professional option, i guess i'll keep my fcs3 whether i want to or not just for ONE APP ... DVD SP because i won't take anything less than that kind of control and customization :-(
my appreciative thanks to both "Ian R Brown" and "tjwaldo" for the great input . . any others??

Final Cut to iChat???

Yesterday, quite by accident, I discovered something.
My DV deck was connected to the G5 via firewire as I had been capturing.
I plugged in my iSight to chat with someone and discovered that it was, instead, looking at the DV deck.
I played "live" video from the deck through iChat.
I have done this with QT movies through ShowMacster, but not from a connected video deck.
My question (Ralph) is... could it be possible to play a Final Cut timeline directly into iChat?
I have a number of clients with Macs and it would be great if I could show samples without having to first encode to mp4 and then emailing or ftp-ing the files for review. Any thoughts?

Hi Rick,
This is one of those things where technically it is possible but you would have to write the software.
For instance ChatFX contains loads of samples of Quartz Composer tweakes to any Video input you select.
(Quartz Composer is part of the Developer Tools
Install Developer Tools
Go to the Folder where ChatFX stores the Quartz files
Duplicate the one you want
Open it (Double click) in Quartz Composer and play around with it.
One choice is the Desktop.)
Showmaster has an option to display part of the Desktop as the Live feed.
I have not tried this witha Video window actually run as that part of screen space but might be worth a trial.
What is needed is for you to be able to grab and split the Video from Final Cut and feed it to iChat.
Showmacster invokes Quicktime to play movies which shows that something can be done.
At this point I don't have that knowledge or even the knowledge to point you to anything I know that already does this. Having siad that take a look and Marratech from this list http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/EZJim/EZJimpage7.html
As I hinted at above the closest I know that might work is the Showmacster with the Desktop option.
This would require a fair amount of processing power as you would be processing the same video twice/three times. (Final Cut/Showmacster/iChat)
Oh, One thing on the ChatFX front.
The Quartz Composer only does the Video.
For iChat it still takes the sound form the Mic.
I could not comment on anything said about Desktop Sharing in any forthcoming OS
10:06 PM Tuesday; April 17, 2007

Final cut pro x dvd menu with personal backgrounds and music?

is it possible to create with Final cut pro x dvd menu with personal backgrounds and music?

THANKS Tom! I miss my NERO... ;-) ... At least personal background... Can you burn the DVD then directly from final cut or do I need another program to burn...? Cheers...

Upgading Final Cut Express to Final Cut Pro

I bought Final Cut Express HD 3.5 yesterday.
Is it possible to upgrade to Final Cut Pro. Apple store sales guy said I can. But I dont see this possibility in the apple website.
Mac powerbook G4 12" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I would return it today. And I'd get the name of whoever told you this.
Good Luck
Z1&V1user

Converting Final Cut Express to Final Cut Pro

Is it possible to open a final cut express file in final cut pro and edit it using the pro appilcation?

Really!! That's what the guy at the Apple store told me too, so I bought FCE 3.5. But, when I tried to open a FCE 3.5 timeline in FCP 4.5, it DIDN'T WORK. I got some error message about the file being too new for FCP to open.
Is there some trick that I don't know about? I'm working on a project this week for a client and it has a pretty quick turnaround. I would appreciate a solution to this if there is one.

Final Cut Pro 10.1.3 - Choose another SAN location

I have just upgraded to 10.1.3 and Final Cut Pro still cannot update ALL my projects and events that are in the Old Final Cut Projects and Events on my 2T My Passport external HD.
I get a message that this location - My Passport - is not a valid and that I should choose another SAN location or folder.
I'm at a loss here. I have always been able to use the external HD when using Final Cut Pro.
I have watched Final Cut Pro how-to-update videos, have searched these discussions but to no avail.
Any help most welcome!

I moved the Final Cut Events and Final Cut Projects out of the My Passport Old Final Cut Projects and Events. Now I don't get the message saying it is not a valid SAN, but when I try to update the Projects and Events I get a message that there was an error when updating and another My Passport Old Final Cut Projects and Events is created.
This looks like Catch 22!
Is it possible to downgrade to Final Cut 10.0.9?

FINAL CUT EXPRESS 4.0.1 WON'T OPEN!!! DESPERATE HELP!!!!

Every time I open Final Cut it says "Final Cut Express cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer to make sure Final Cut Express works with this version of Mac OS X. You may need to reinstall the application. Be sure to install any available updates for the application and Mac OS X." There isn't anything in the Waveform Cache Files, Autosave Vault, Thumbnail (except Final Cut Express Thumbnail Data), Audio Render Files, Render Files (except Constant Frames), nor is there anything in Capture Scratch. I have been clearing up space on my hard drive recently, and I think I might have deleted the Capture Scratch contents (if that does anything). Do I need to reinstall? If so, how? And, also, I have installed it on my old computer once and my new computer (old one broke from stupid HP Printer) with the same disk, does Final Cut Express 4.0.1 only come with two Serial Numbers?

Was FCE working before (on this Mac), and is this a change in behavior? Or did you just now install FCE and can't get it running the first time?
Exactly what model MacBook do you have, and exactly what version of 10.6 is installed on it?
If your MacBook originally had Leopard (10.5), was FCE installed before you upgraded your MacBook to Snow Leopard? If so, you really should uninstall FCE and reinstall it from scratch.
Also, FCE has to be installed in an admin account, and must be run at least once in that same account before you can run it in any other accounts on your Mac.

From After Effect to Final Cut?

It's possible to export from Final Cut to After Effects timeline?

> (Whatever happend to Automatic Duck?)
Adobe acquired the software from Automatic Duck and hired Wes and Harry Plate. The Pro Import After Effects feature in After Effects is the updated Pro Import AE functionality previously sold by Automatic Duck.
BTW, you can download other Automatic Duck software from their website for free these days.

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