Problem applying music to fce project

I have a .mov and want to apply a song to it. The problem arrises in both FCE and iMovie that the 8 minutes song is clipped to 2m:16sec. Other 5 minute songs are imported just fine. The song is not drm restricted, it was an mp3 in iTunes, i converted it to .aif. thanks.

still didn't work. it still says 7:58 in itunes, but only 2:16'12 when imported. i'm lost and going back to the artist to get a different copy. it's got to be the file.

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Adding audio (music)to my project

I am trying to create a highlight video of all my sons football games. After spending hours learning ( new user for PE) I finally figured out editing out my highlights , it was much easier placing my clips in the timeline. I did not figure this out until half way through my project. I am all finished with my 10 minute video and unlinked the video from the audio. After reading some of the comments in the forum I might have a problem adding music into my project. The first part all my clips are in different tracks and the 2nd half of my video are in 1 track. Before I spend many hours again learning from my mistakes am Igoingto have problems adding one or two song to this video. If I am, what is the easiest way to solve this problem. Please any help is appreciated!!

No need to solve it. It's not a problem having your clips on whatever tracks you want, as long as it looks good to you on playback.

Importing music to my FCE project

Hello,
I am having trouble importing a song from itunes. I have put the song into itunes for the purpose of importing it into my FCE project. I save the song on itunes, go to FCE and import file, gives me the selection up until the song and it is not highlighted.
Should I be doing this another way?
Todd

Is this a song purchased from the iTunes Music Store?
http://www.fcpbook.com/Audio4.html

How to connect two iMacs to the same FCE project?

Hello All,
Right now I have an iMac that is about 1 year old. I'm about to purchase another iMac. What I want to do is run FCE on both and work on the same video project on both. Is this possible?
So the idea would be that I one person A could color correct and person B could edit and perform other functions on the second iMac. Can you hook them up by firewire and do this or is this beyond what you can do with FCE and two iMacs?
Thanks for your help.
Mike

Hello Michael,
First, you will need two fully licensed copies of FCE, one for each iMac. Each license allows you to install FCE on 1 Apple desktop + 1 Apple laptop as long as you own both computers and do not use FCE on both at the same time. But it *does not* allow you to install it on 2 Apple desktop computers (eg iMacs).
Second, in order for two people on different computers to access the same project, you would have to store all the media & scratch files in a common location, and set up each copy of FCE to access the files from that location. The problems with this approach are 1) FCE cannot do this over a network, 2) you cannot connect an external FW drive to both computers at the same time, 3) FCE prefers that your FCE Project file(s) be on your system HD.
You could use an external FW drive to store your media & scratch files; then connect the FW drive to the computer that is going to work on the project - but not to 2 computers at the same time. You will still have to copy the FCE project file between the two iMacs each time you swap from one to the other for editing.

Help! FCE project files converted to unix executable files

I recently added a USB external drive and put my FCE project files on it. When I rebooted, the files now are unrecognizable by Final Cut Express as project files. In the finder they are now recognized only as unix executable files. Is there any way to reverse this problem. I really can't afford to lose all that work! Thanks

How is the drive formatted? If it's not Mac formatted you may have a problem. It may be recoverable. How many project files are you talking about? What about the media?

Problem with the% deviation from Project Server 2010 field

hello
I have a problem with the% deviation from Project Server 2010 field.
Within a file or project, this project contains tasks.
Each task has completed the field% deviation.
Within the row "Summary" in the field of% deviation does not perform the sum of all fields of tasks.
Only occurs on certain projects, these projects have the view of PR Progress Report
Anyone know happens?
thank you very much

Hi
Sorry, I'll be more specific now.
Within the field% deviation. Your settings in PWA is:
The formula for field% Deviation:
Str (IIf ([Job baseline] = 0; IIf ([Working] = 0, 0, 100); IIf ([Working] = 0; -100; Int (100 * ([Job] - [Work Online base]) / [Working baseline])))) + "%"
Under the heading rows Calculation Summary:
> Use formula.
Within the field Allocation Calculation of rows:
> It is labeled the "Apply unless you manually specify".
The field [Job] and field [Job baseline] are fields Pack project server.
The error is in project, in the list of tasks.
In the top row, this row summary makes the sum of the ranks of the tasks of the file.
But in my case only in the summary field the same value appears in the tasks.
In all the cells in column% deviation appears the same value.
I hope it helps.
thank you very much

Why do I get an error message when attempting to download music into a project in Ellements 13?

Why do I get an error message when attempting to download music into a project in Ellements 13?

cornman30
What computer operating system?
And, where is the music coming from, iTunes? If so, that is a known problem with Premiere Elements (just about any version).
The answer has been to convert the iTunes music to the wav version in iTunes.
The following is the iTunes' document how to.
iTunes: How to convert a song to a different file format - Apple Support
Any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
If other than above, please supply more details to help us help you.
Thank you.
ATR

Too much compression on FCE project

I have a FCE project that is 14.4 min long and 3.81 GB. When I us DVDSP to create the menu and DVD it ends up as a 995 MB DVD. Compared to the original FCE project, it looks really grainy. I upped the encoding as high as it would go, but I can't get it larger than 995 MB. Since it is the only movie on the DVD is there anyway to get DVDSP to not compress at all?

DVD footage is most often compressed to MPEG2, but the bitrate can vary widely up to 9.8Mbps if you use a replicated disc. Additionally, you can also use MPEG1 on a SD disc, which is not as high a quality, but can allow you to fit vastly more minutes of video on the same size disc.
If you are burning a DVD on your mac then anecdotal evidence suggests that a video bitrate of no more than 7.4Mbps is prudent. More than this and the disc may 'choke' in some players.
This isn't necessarily to do with the laser, so much as the reflective properties of the re-writable disc not being as good as a replicated one. All DVD players should be able to cope with 9.8Mbps from a DVD-Video disc (although sadly not all do, surprisingly), but keep in mind that a DVD-R is not a DVD-Video disc.
If your pristine footage is coming out as grainy when you encode then you really ought to check the settings that you are using. Is the source footage and lighting good quality for the footage? Have you applied any filters or effects? Are you using a good quality encoder?
The final size of the file produced will vary according to the encoding used. The higher the bit rate the larger the file size will be. Audio files add to the overall bit rate on a disc, to, so using AC3 (Dolby Digital) is a very good idea - they have a smaller file size, lower bitrate and can allow you to increase the rate for your video to gain quality.
Be aware that the visual difference between footage encoded at around 7.4Mbps, compared to that encoded at 8 or even 9Mbps is so slight that most people won't notice. There appears to be a law of diminishing returns in operation - you really don't gain anything by encoding at much higher levels, but you will prevent some players playing your disc back reliably.
If you've not yet used Compressor then you really ought to be looking at it. If your results are coming from Compressor, then it is about time you looked at BitVice and if necessary used the DVNC setting there to reduce the noise on the final output. There are other encoders, but none so easy to use as Bitvice, IMO.

Final Cut Express malfunctions completely with older FCE projects

Hello,
I have a fairly major problem with FCE (computer and software specs below). About 3 years ago I edited a documentary in 14 separate FCE projects and saved them with many backups.   I returned to editing this recently and was disturbed to see that none of the old projects will load properly and I tried a number of the back-up copies. Here's a rundown of what happens --
- Load a project in FCE, first a warning message "The file format of this project is from an earlier version. Would you like to update this project file?" The only way to proceed is by choosing "Yes". There is a further warning about saving all of your old projects if you want to retain the 'older' version formats.
- At this point there are a number of things that malfunction:
1) FCE has lost the connection to the source files.   This should not be an issue b/c I did not move or touch any source files.
2) Some projects are completely missing the timeline that was built (kind of important) as well as the canvas.
3) It appears that when I attempt to reconnect projects to source files the edit points have changed or the project is using the wrong source file.
I'm guessing one possibility is that in the 3 years since I created the original projects I may have allowed Apple to do an update to FCE which caused FCE to become corrupted . . . I can't imagine an update would cause 3 year old versions of projects to fail so spectacularly though.
In the last couple of months I have created and completed a couple of video projects with FCE without any problems.
If you have knowledge about this particular problem, suggestions for solutions or other forums I would be most grateful. I think it's possible that an uninstall and reinstall might do the trick, please feel free to weigh in on if/how this should be done so that I don't make things any worse.
Thank you!
-Rob
Specs:
Hardware: iMac 10.5.8, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM -- Original specs
Software:   Final Cut Express -- Original CD: 4.0 (Purchased from Apple) Current Version is: 4.0.1

Hi Al,
Thanks for writing and the suggestions, I appreciate it.   I've got a question and some comments about what I've already tried:
When you say 'Trash the FCE Preferences', should I go to the Preferences panel in FCE and reset everything or are you recommending something more direct like going into the filesystem and completely erasing a FCE Preferences file or folder?
Permissions for all the files are the same as before. Source files were always read/write for 'user', and read-only for 'group' and 'others'.
All projects were saved in .FCE format so I can't open them in QuickTime. I've noted that QT has likely changed so I may experiment with that a little bit.
> 1. Have you moved any files with the Finder that FCE uses or changed names?
I didn't move any source files or anything related to the projects. I was very meticulous about this as I had to leave the project for some time and wanted to make sure everything was in place so I could re-commence without inconvenience.
I have opened an old project and done a 'Save As' and re-opened. The only problem is that the problems still remain -- disconnected source files, misplaced edit points -- all the problems that I had before are still there and the project is essentially unusable.
I may have a follow-up question in another day or so, hopefully I can get things working. I'll need a little time to try all of the options . . . I'm walking on eggshells with this one as I don't want to lose anything or make things worse than they are.
Thanks again for your thoughts.
Best Regards,
Rob

Archiving a FCE project

I know that in iMovie I can easily archive Events by going into iMovie, finding the external drive and dragging events from the internal hardd rive folder into the external drive folder. Is there an equivalent in FCE?
I have about 35GB of elements (video clips, music, etc.) that FCE knows where to find on my internal hard drive. I'd like to store these on an external drive. How can I move them to the external drive so that FCE knows where they are? Or do I just move them off, and then if I ever need to use them again, move them back onto the internal drive?
Thanks in advance for whatever advice you can offer.

Hello Roger,
To archive an FCE project you need to keep the _FCE project file_ and any _source media_ that you used (video clips, stills, audio files, etc).
Normally,
FCE project files are in the +Final Cut Express Documents+ folder
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How to apply music from itunes to my iPad without erase existing app

How to apply music from itunes on my pc to my iPad without erase existing app

Thanks a lot Ralph9430!
I did manage to solve problem of music transfer iPad mini-PC, however I didn't succeed in approaching iTunes Store and there is nothing in the manual about it.
When I open application I have iTunes U interface and cannot move anywhere but close app. I did try to re -enter pass and ID in iTunes Store app settings but nothing changed.
Does anyone have any idea what to do in order to have approach to ITunes Store.
Tnx!

I was nearing final completion of an FCE project then.......

I was nearing final completion of anFCE project that I have been involved with for over a year and thenthe unthinkable happened. The project was at the 99.9% completionstage so I wanted to output it to DVD and have the general publicgive me some feedback.
I had FCE output a quicktime movie.
**Now here is the first thing that Iforgot what I did.. I either clicked hide FCE or I quit FCE.
I then opened Toast Titanium anddragged the project to it and clicked the button to make the DVD.
**For the first time Toast did notrecognize that there was an external DVD burner connected so I usedthe internal burner.
Toast completed the DVD and I could notget it to eject the DVD.
I could not force quit any program...In fact force quit did not recognize any programs active besides'finder'.
I could not shut down the computer.When the shut down command was clicked it just did nothing. Even whenyou held the power up button in it did **** down but when pressedagain it acted like it was in a sleep mode not off.
I had to shut the power off, to shutthe computer down.
When I restarted the FCE desktopproject icon had changed from a black box with FCE in it to thestandard FCE icon with the project name under it. When you opened itit was to an earlier edition of the project, about 7-8 months ago. Ican not find any FCE project folder that does not point back to thisearlier edition. I assume that all the current clips, V/o, stills,music etc are still on the drive but I can not figure how to get tothe latest edition of the project.
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Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. I am not a professional. I do this in a cabin in the remote Alaskanwoods for my pleasure, sanity and hopefully one day recognition.
Direct contact via [email protected]

Final Cut Express has an Autosave feature. Hopefully you had it set in preferences to autosave a copy of your project file at reasonable intervals. Look in the Autosave Vault (location is also set in preferences) and try opening the most recent Autosave copy of that project.
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-DH

CS4 Master Collection - Problem Applying Updates

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I'm running the CS4 Master Collection on Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit, SP2.
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I am having the same problem. I found a forum that suggested this. Apparently it worked for some people, but not for me. Let me know if it does:
1. Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
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3. Run as Administrator (even if you are logged in as Admin. You need to run in the Black Command Prompt, not the White one)
4. Run: regsvr32 JScript.DLL
5. Then run: regsvr32 vbscript.DLL
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I need a solution of this complicated problem to finalize my final project

Introduction
This project revolves around an important text processing task, text compression. In particular, you will be required to encode a sequence of words read from a source file into binary strings (using only the characters 0 and 1). It is important to note that text compression makes it possible to minimize the time needed to transmit text over a low-bandwidth channel, such as infrared connection. Moreover, text compression is helpful in storing large documents more efficiently. The coding scheme explored in this project is the Huffman Coding Scheme. While standard encoding schemes, such as Unicode and ASCII, use fixed-length binary strings to encode characters, Huffman coding assigns variable-length codes to characters. The length of a Huffman code depends on the relative frequency of its associated character. Specifically, Huffman coding capitalizes on the fact that some characters are used more frequently than others to use short codewords when encoding high-frequency characters and long codewords to encode low-frequency characters. Huffman coding saves space over state of the art fixed-length encoding and is therefore at the heart of file compression techniques in common use today. Figure 1 shows the relative frequencies of the letters of the alphabet as they appear in a representative sample of English documents.
Letter     Frequency     Letter     Frequency
A     77     N     67
B     17     O     67
C     32     P     20
D     42     Q     5
E     120     R     59
F     24     S     67
G     17     T     85
H     50     U     37
I     76     V     12
J     4     W     22
K     7     X     4
L     42     Y     22
M     24     Z     2
Figure 1. Relative frequencies for the 26 letters of the alphabet.
Huffman coding and decoding
Huffman’s algorithm for producing optimal variable-length codes is based on the construction of a binary tree T that represents the code. In other words, the Huffman code for each character is derived from a full binary tree known as the Huffman coding tree, or simply the Huffman tree. Each edge in the Huffman tree represents a bit in a codeword, with each edge connecting a node with its left child representing a “0” and each edge connecting a node with its right child representing a “1”. Each external node in the tree is associated with a specific character, and the Huffman code for a character is defined by the sequence of bits in the path from the root to the leaf corresponding to that character. Given codes for the characters, it is a simple matter to use these codes to encode a text message. You will have simply to replace each letter in the string with its binary code (a lookup table can be used for this purpose).
In this project, you are not going to use the table given in Figure 1 to determine the frequency of occurrence per character. Instead, you will derive the frequency corresponding to a character by counting the number of times that character appears in an input file. For example, if the input file contains the following line of text “a fast runner need never be afraid of the dark”, then the frequencies listed in the table given in Figure 2 should be used per character:
Character          a     b     d     e     f     H     i     k     n     O     r     s     t     u     v
Frequency     9     5     1     3     7     3     1     1     1     4     1     5     1     2     1     1
Figure 2. The frequency of each character of the String X.
Based on the frequencies shown in Figure 2, the Huffman tree depicted in Figure 3 can be constructed:
Figure 3. Huffman tree for String X.
The code for a character is thus obtained by tracing the path from the root of the Huffman tree to the external node where that character is stored, and associating a left edge with 0 and a right edge with 1. In the context of the considered example for instance, the code for “a” is 010, and the code for “f” is 1100.
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Problem statement
You are required to implement the Huffman coding/decoding algorithms. After you complete the implementation of the coding/decoding processes, you are asked to use the resulting Java code to:
1.     Read through a source file called “in1.dat” that contains the following paragraph:
“the Huffman coding algorithm views each of the d distinct characters of the string X as being in separate Huffman trees initially with each tree composed of a single leaf node these separate trees will eventually be joined into a single Huffman tree in each round the algorithm takes the two binary trees with the smallest frequencies and merges them into a single binary tree it repeats this process until only one tree is left.”
2.     Determine the actual frequencies for all the letters in the file.
3.     Use the frequencies from the previous step to create a Huffman coding tree before you assign codes to individual letters. Use the LinkedBinaryTree class that we developed in class to realize your Huffman coding trees.
4.     Produce an encoded version of the input file “in1.dat” and then store it in an output file called “out.dat”.
5.     Finally, the decoding algorithm will come into play to decipher the codes contained in “out.dat”. The resulting decoded message should be written to an output file called “in2.dat”. If nothing goes wrong, the text stored in “in1.dat” and the one in “in2.dat” must match up correctly.

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I need a solution of this complicated problem to finalize my final project The solution:
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Can I edit FCE projects when the files are on a External HD?

Hello,
I've recently reinstalled Snow Leopard. Since I have a clean start, I'm thinking about new ways to manage my video files for FCE editing.
Video projects take up most of the space on my HD, so I'd like to keep them on an external drive this time.
Is working on FCE projects while all the video files are saved on an external drive a bad idea? Or will this work out just fine? This way I don't have to first save them to my internal HD, finish the project, move video files to the external HD, and point FCE to where they're saved again. There just on the external HD from the start and while I'm editing the video! I can get a HD with firewire too.
Thanks.
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Is working on FCE projects while all the video files are saved on an external drive a bad idea?
Not at all. This is the correct way to work with a laptop.

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