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&bull To make corrections, use the Undo button first.
&bull Save, save, and save. The program can crash and accidents happen often.
&bull If your timeline has gone missing it is going to be in one of two places. Either you accidentally collapsed it, in which case it can be found in the dock at the bottom of the screen. If it was accidentally closed, you simply have to double click the "sequence" from your bin where all your clips are kept.
&bull If any other window is missing, try going to the Window menu at the top of the screen and see if it is listed there.
&bull When you are logging and capturing and there is no picture, make sure that you turn "preview" on. To do this click the Clip Settings tab and check the preview icon and also make sure the audio icon is checked as well.
&bull If a warning comes up that says the capture device cannot be found, make sure the DSR-11 is on and that the cable is connected properly. Then click, "Check Again."
&bull If Final Cuts tells you that the bit rate of your audio files is different from your project, this means that your camera captured audio with a slightly different compression rate. To change your project to the different bit rate, look under project settings and change the audio to the matching number. If you do this, please set it back to how it was before you got on the computer. If only some of your footage is having this issue, then you will have to render is so that it works with the other footage. To do this, click on the clip and the press Apple-R on the keyboard.
&bull If there are dropped frames while capturing, you may have a glitch on your tape. Try capturing it again. If this does not work, you can try using a different capture deck.
&bull For a continual time code, always stripe your tape. To stripe your tape, you should put it in the camera and record over the whole new tape from beginning to end. This will print a consistent time code for the whole tape. Then rewind it to the beginning and its ready to start shooting. Always do this! It will save much time and effort and pain and anguish and possibly some violence.
&bull PAL is a standard of video used in Europe and other parts of the world. The predominate standard in America is NTSC. While final cut supports PAL, and you can change it to do so you have footage shot on a foreign camera, then speak to a lab attendant to get specific advice for your situation. Either way, if you change any setting to PAL on one of our computers, make sure to change it back to NTSC before you leave.
&bull If a transition between clips doesn't seem to work, the issue is most likely there is not enough header or footer on the clips you are working with. Make sure there is at least a few seconds at the beginning and end of the clips you are working with past your in and out points so the program has some footage to work with for the transition.
&bull If your video and audio get out of sync, note the little red time code numbers that pop up on the clips on the timeline. These show how many seconds and frames the clips are out of sync from each other. Realign them (by right-clicking the red numbers) and turn linking back on.
&bull If your windows get all jumbled or you can't find one, go to the Window menu and set it to Standard under "arrange." This will put everything back in place.
&bull If a file goes offline, your scratch discs may not have been set. To fix this, find your clips, even if they are on another computer. Manually drag them into your media folder on your hard drive and then right click the offline clips and select Reconnect Media. In the window that pops up, find your newly-transferred clips and select them.
&bull If a video clip seems to "shimmer" especially if you are using a still image, add the "de-interlace" filter.
