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Setting up FCP

Setting up FCP. Setting up FCP -- Starting a new project. Open FCP Go to File -- Save Project As Title your project as follows: Producers’sLastName Period# PSA Group # i.e. Cheby02PSA01 (if I were a producer in period 2, group 1). Setting up FCP -- System Setting.

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Setting up FCP

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  1. Setting up FCP

  2. Setting up FCP -- Starting a new project • Open FCP • Go to File -- Save Project As • Title your project as follows: Producers’sLastName Period# PSA Group # i.e. Cheby02PSA01 (if I were a producer in period 2, group 1)

  3. Setting up FCP -- System Setting • Go to Final Cut Express HD menu -- System Setting • Go to Scratch Disks Tab • Check all boxes and Set disk to “LaCie Disk Funal Cut Pro Documents Folder” • Set “minimum allowable free space” to 56275 MB (never fill drive over 75%)

  4. Setting up FCP -- System Setting 2 • Go to Final Cut Express HD menu -- System Setting • Go to Search Folders Tab • Set disk to “LaCie Disk Funal Cut Pro Documents Folder”

  5. Setting up FCP -- System Setting 3 • Go to Final Cut Express HD menu -- System Setting • Go to Memory and Cache Tab • Set Application RAM to 90% • If using at LOT of stills, bump Still Cache to 20%

  6. Setting up FCP -- User Preferences • Go to Final Cut Express HD menu -- User Preferences -- General tab • Change levels of undo to 25 • Keep audio quality to low (only effects playback, not final audio) • Check limit real-time video and set to 25 MB/s • Uncheck “Open last project on application launch”

  7. Setting up FCP -- User Preferences 2 • Go to Final Cut Express HD menu -- User Preferences --General Tab • Under autosave vault -- Change save copy to ever 15 min., keep at most 15 copies., a maximum of 10. • Under editing TAB change Still frame duration to 00:00:05;00. Change pre-roll to 00:00:02:00

  8. Starting with the video: Overwrite: Video is cut into timeline at in point and covers up anything under it. (TRT stays the same). Insert: Video is cut into timeline at in point and pushes everything else down the timeline. (TRT gets longer).

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