Recent content by Irish Paul

Bear with me on this one guys...Its a thinker!! After happily editing away with my MBP hooked up to my PAL monitor, i have gone in today to find something strange...When i open up FCP now, the footage doesnt appear on the monitor - just my MB screen. The monitor is connected ok as the desktop...

Newbie question... Ive been happily editing all day my 16:9 PAL footage with no problems, until i started a new sequence. Now my canvas has started displaying my footage with letterboxing , which is annoying, and also renders them in the final QT movie when i export. The first sequence is...

Heyyulp! When I capture footage from my mini dv camera onto FCP 5.1, nasty wobbly horizontal distortions appear al over it. It's worse when there's movement in the shot, i.e. during a camera pan or someone moves across camera. I know this must have something to do with interlacing. The...

Hi Guys, Can anyone recommend a good mouse for using FCP 5.1? Ill be using a MBP. Ive been looking at the mighty mouse from apple as the 360 degrees scroll button seems like a good idea, (and I like the minimal design!) yet it seems to get pretty poor reviews due to its non-ergonamic design...

Hi All Quite new to this , so be gentle! Im waiting for delivery of my new MPB 17 and am considering going for a HVX as well. I have always used PCs and so the whole shift to Apple and its software is a very new thing for me. I have always edited using Avid Xpress on mini DV and so am...