Intro to 4D

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Homework due 12.18.12 (after Final Reviews)

Congratulations on some great performances yesterday! Isaac and I were super impressed with what you accomplished in a very short period of time. If I don't see you next week, have a wonderful break.
-Norene

1. Assemble and review your documentation (video, photos, etc.). If you have video, do a basic edit, and burn a quicktime file to DVD. If you have photos, please edit them down to the best 10-15, and burn to CD/DVD.

2. Deliver a CD/DVD with your performance project documentation (photos and/or video) to my locker in Fine Arts (instructions for accessing the locker will be emailed to you) by 10am Tuesday December 18, 2012. If I do not have documentation of your performance, I cannot submit your grade. You can also drop off additional DVDs with projects you have reworked/revised, or DVDs of projects that you didn't turn in. I will use the newest DVDs to calculate your final grade.

3. Watch and give feedback on Vito's performance video, and stop motion project videos by Alma & Vito. YouTube links will be emailed to you early next week.

4. Fill out the online course evaluation for this class.

Making a Mastered DVD for any DVD Player

These are basic instructions for making a DVD with a menu that will play anywhere (any TV, any computer, and any DVD player). DVD's are by their very nature just Standard Definition (i.e. NOT HD). iDVD will take your HD movie and down convert it into interlaced NTSC Standard Def video. In order to record HD video onto a physical disk you need a Blu-Ray disk and Blu-Ray burner, not something that is standard on Apple or owned by most people. This is why you are making BOTH a full quality Quicktime file (preserving HD as needed) AND a mastered DVD of your projects.

1. Export your projects as full quality Quicktime files and burn them to DVD so that you have backups (http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/10/fcp-exporting-high-quality-quicktime.html).

2. Copy all of your Quicktime files to Work in Progress on one of the New School's computers (don't try to burn DVDs from your hard drive!) and open iDVD. Click "Create New Project." If you are asked, keep the aspect ratio Standard. (In order to properly display widescreen DVDs, the DVD player and TV must be able to read the widescreen aspect ratio and properly display the full menu, which most TVs and DVD players cannot do. Widescreen DVDs suffer from significant cropping when displayed on regular 4:3 TV sets.)

3. Go to iDVD> Preferences. Under "General" uncheck "Show Apple Logo Watermark."

Under "Projects" change the Encoding to Professional Quality and DVD Type to Single Layer. Name your DVD.

4. Click on "7.0 Themes" and change to "All." Scroll down to "Portfolio Color." Drag and drop your Quicktime video projects into the main area. They will appear as icons with text below.

5. To edit the buttons, click "Buttons" on the lower right to choose the shape. Then Control-click on the image and choose "Show Inspector Window" which will allow you to adjust the size, etc. of the button.

To edit the text, click twice. You can choose font, size, etc.

6. Click the Play button on the bottom right to preview your DVD.

Once it's ready, click the Burn button next to the Play button. Insert your DVD-R DVD and get out something to read because THIS WILL TAKE A LONG TIME (20-30 minutes maybe more!). Then voila! You have a DVD. Burning subsequent DVDs takes a lot less time, so make duplicates NOW.

7. Make as many of these DVDs as you need. They burn much more quickly after the first one.

Video tutorial:

PDF tutorial (you don't need chapter markers, so start from page 6):
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/iDVD_tutorial.pdf -from http://www.bgsu.edu

Ken Stone is also an excellent resource for all things FCP and iDVD related.

Detailed iDVD tutorial from Ken Stone's web site:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/idvd_6_stone.html

iDVD 7
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/idvd_07_stone.html

**There are some options for burning Blu-Ray material onto a standard DVD in a format that Blu-Ray players will recognize in FCP, see this earlier post: http://introto4df11.blogspot.com/2011/10/burning-mastered-dvd-directly-from-fcp.html. Only do this if you have a Blu-Ray DVD player, it will not play on your Mac!

Final Crit Schedule

Isaac's schedule for tomorrow is below. Email us ASAP if there are any changes or concerns. We are starting at 9am in 2 W. 13th St. room 811. Get here EARLY so that we can start right at 9am. The class will go until 3pm, so that we can fit everyone in. If you have to leave earlier, please let me know in advance. Due to the size of the class and our time constraints, you will only be allowed to perform for 5 minutes. PLEASE REHEARSE, we don't want to have to cut you off. Everyone had some great ideas last week, really looking forward to seeing your projects!

-Norene

TIMES:

Performance Classroom (2 W. 13th St. room 811)
9.00 - 9.20 Elsa
9.20 - 9.40 Sarah (documentation)
9.40 - 10.00 Rob (video)
10.00 - 10.20 Vito (video and possible performance)
10.20 - 10.40 Alma
10.40 - 11.00 Gabby
11.00 - 11.20 Athena (laptop/projection)
11.20 - 11.40 Rusty (video OR performance)

BREAK

Presentation Space (Installation Space A, Fine Arts, 25 E. 13th St., 4th floor)
12.20 - 12.40 Manuel
12.400 - 1.00 Kerim
1.00 - 1.20 Georgia (video)
1.20 - 1.40 Lola (video)
2.00 - 2.20 Damasia (projection + installation)
2.20 - 2.40 Sahar
2.40 - 3.00 Erin (video)

Friday, November 30, 2012

More Performace Art References

Cheryl Donegan
http://www.ubu.com/film/donegan.html

Marina Abramovic's Balkan Baroque
http://vimeo.com/38023444

Thu Tran's Food Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XfTaH9Tg3E

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Homework due 12.06.12

1. Finish your performance piece. The guidelines are posted here: http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/11/project-3-performance-due-120612.html. *It must be 5 minutes or less.*

2. Arrange documentation of your performance piece (if you are performing it live).

3. Make sure you have signed up for a space/time via Isaac's google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18ZrBwJEM32jj8Jjfw1u8PNxUyEZIb6KMFtqfT8dLdec/edit.

Reminder: New classroom and meeting time

We are going to start class at 9am tomorrow in our performance space in 2 W. 13th St. room 811. There's a lot to cover so please be on time. Looking forward to hearing your performance ideas!

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Homework due 11.29.12

1. Think/Draw: Develop ideas for performance project (drawings & notes in sketchbook).

2. Look: Go see one of these performances: http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/11/performance-do-over.html.

3. Read: The next installment of Roselee Goldberg's Live Art http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/readings/TheLiveArt-1970-80.pdf.

4. Watch: There is a super concise history of performance art posted to the blog. Choose one piece to discuss with the class next week.

Performance Art: 1950's-1970's
http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/11/performance-art-1950s-1970s.html

Performance Art: 1980's-Present
http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/11/performance-art-1980s-present.html

Performance Art: 1980's-Present

1980’s

Tehching Hsieh
1980-81 One Year Performance” April 11, 1980 - April 11, 1981
http://vimeo.com/16280427
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hcqweHEWec
Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh
1983-84 “Art/Life: One Year Performance (a.k.a. Rope Piece)” 4 July 1983 – 3 July 1984 http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/montano_tehching_ropepiece_1984.jpg

Laurie Anderson
1981 “O Superman (For Massenet)” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VIqA3i2zQw
1986 “Home of the Brave” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osHBA6YAHAo

Paul McCarthy
*1995 "Painter" http://www.ubu.com/film/mccarthy_painter.html
documentary “Destruction of the Body” (2001) VCA14303 http://www.ubu.com/film/mccarthy.html

1990’s

Andrea Fraser

1989 "Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk"

http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/fraser_museumhighlights1989.jpg

2003 “Untitled” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/fraser_untitled2003_01.jpg http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/fraser_untitled2003_02.jpg

Coco Fusco & Guillermo Gomez-Peña
1992 “Undiscovered Amerindians” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLX2Lk2tdcw
“The couple in the cage [videorecording] : a Guatinaui odyssey“ VCA4352 http://vimeo.com/7319457
“Operation Atropos” DVD10349
Interview with Coco Fusco DVD10118
2009 “A Room Of One's Own: Women and Power in the New America"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Voh4nLWIw

Janine Antoni
1992/93 “Loving Care” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/antoni_lovingcare_1993_01.jpg
1992 “Gnaw” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/antoni_gnaw_1992_01.jpg
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/antoni_gnaw_1992_02.jpg
1993 “Lick & Lather” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/antoni_lickandlather_1993.jpg

Matthew Barney
1987-ongoing Drawing Restraint http://www.drawingrestraint.net/
Short interview about Drawing Restraint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83WTxmkye04
2005 Drawing Restraint 9 Trailer http://vimeo.com/23751206
1994-2002 Cremaster Cycle http://www.cremaster.net/
2002 Cremaster Cycle Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_aZQffIBw0
Cremaster 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y9tM8dcyuk
Cremaster 2 http://www.youtube.com/user/LeRareMovies#p/u/27/v6rD4y7ZltY
Cremaster 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VpXpMJzPVc

Contemporary

Miranda July
2000 “Love Diamond” performed at The Kitchen (excerpt) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuU99STtP2s
2007 “Things We Don't Understand And Are Definitely Not Going To Talk About” performed at The Kitchen (excerpt) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8OQassYB_4

Patty Chang
*2003 “In Love with Patty Chang” short documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LeEMWNqjJw

Sharon Hayes http://www.shaze.info/
2003 “Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Screeds #13, 16, 20 & 29“ http://www.shaze.info/projects/sla_video.html
2007 “Everything else has failed! Don’t your think it’s time for love?” http://www.shaze.info/projects/eehf_audio.html
2009 “In the Near Future” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/hayes_inthenearfuture_2009.gif

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
2009 “Never Mind Pollock” http://vimeo.com/10953391
2011 “Afghan Hound” http://vimeo.com/31501248

Tino Sehgal
2007 “The Kiss” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/sehgal_thekiss_01_2007.jpg
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/sehgal_thekiss_02_2007.jpg
2010 “This Progress” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/sehgal_thisprogress_2010.jpg

Ernesto Pujol http://ernestopujol.org/
2010 “Awaiting” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-npj7cgGI

Nick Cave
2010 “Soundsuits” interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwupTQt9zxY
performance UCLA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksm7LkzyFrk

Performance Art: 1950's-1970's

Project 3: Performance (due 12.06.12)

Einhorn (Unicorn), Rebecca Horn, 1970

For your final project, create a five-minute (or less) piece that explores performance. We are defining performance as "the execution of an action" so your project has a wide range of options and influences: Rebecca Horn (prosthetics), Marina Abramović (direct use of the body), Adrian Piper (confrontation/politics), Robert Whitman (interaction with projections/media), John Cage (sound), etc. This can be a recorded performance or a live performance.

The key to many successful time-based artworks is documentation. Think about how you are going to stage it, and what exactly you want the audience to see for your final critique: Is it a live performance? Are you showing only evidence from a past performance? Are we watching a video of the performance? Is there an installation component?

The project is due on 12.06.12 and you have a maximum of five minutes to perform/present your piece. You have a choice of two rooms:
55 W. 13th St. room 404
2 W. 13th St. room 811
*any other room/space must be ok'd by Norene & Isaac, due to time limitations

Please plan in advance. Check out the available rooms, and consider how, when, where and what equipment (camera, TV, DVD player, LCD projector) you will need. Your performance must be thoughtfully documented. Arrange for one of your classmates to video/photo it, including reserving the video camera and tripod. The documentation will then be edited and burned to a DVD due 12.18.12.

Isaac will be organizing the crit schedule and equipment, so you need to let him know ASAP what your room and equipment needs are.

CLASS SCHEDULE

11.15.12
Critique of finished stop motion projects
Introduction: Performance History (50’s-70’s)
HW: Develop ideas for performance project (drawings & notes in sketchbook). Go see one of these performances: http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/11/performance-do-over.html

11.22.12
Thanksgiving NO CLASS

11.29.12
Introduction: Performance Now (80’s-Present)
Movement exercises
Review preliminary sketches/concepts
Work time
HW: Finish performance project. Bring any necessary props. Sign out equipment and plan for documentation.

11.30-12.05.12
Norene & Isaac available by appointment for extra feedback

12.06.12
Critique of final performance projects
HW: After reviews, edit performance documentation and burn to DVD.

12.13.12
Fine Arts Department Final Reviews

12.18.12
Deliver a DVD with your project to Norene's locker in Fine Arts (instructions for accessing locker will be emailed to you)

Performance Do-over

If you could not make it to Isaac's exhibition, please choose one of the following ongoing performances/exhibitions to attend. Make notes in your sketchbook, and be prepared to discuss in class 11.29.12. If you went to Isaac's exhibition, you are welcome to attend one of these for extra credit.

1. Martha Rosler
Meta-Monumental Garage Sale
November 17 to 30, 2012, MoMA
Wednesday–Thursday, 12:00–5:00 p.m.
Friday, 12:00–7:30 p.m.
Saturday–Monday, 12:00–5:00 p.m.
Closed on Tuesdays and Thanksgiving Day, November 22

For her first solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Martha Rosler (Brooklyn, New York) will present her work Garage Sale in The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium from November 17 to 30, 2012. Rosler, through her artistic practice, teaching, and writing, is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of her generation. For more than 40 years, Rosler has made “art about the commonplace, art that illuminates social life,” examining the everyday through photography, performance, video, and installation.

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/garagesale/

2. Krzysztof Wodiczko
Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection
November 8 - December 9, 6-10 PM daily, Union Square Park North at 16th Street passageway

Beginning November 8th, voices of recent veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will animate a bronze commemorative statue of Abraham Lincoln that has stood silently in Union Square Park since 1870.

For thirty-two days, the memories and feelings of ordinary Americans will speak through Lincoln as part of an outdoor public art installation by Krzysztof Wodiczko, an artist renowned for his large-scale light projections on architectural facades and monuments. Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection marks a return of sorts to Manhattan for the artist, whose last monumental work here was the influential and still often cited Homeless Project (1988).

http://www.moreart.org/artists/krzysztof-wodiczko/

3. Performing Histories (1)
September 12, 2012–March 11, 2013, MoMA

Performing Histories (1) is the first part of a two-part exhibition of media artworks that engage with history in various ways. These works, which have all recently entered the Museum’s Media and Performance Art collection, represent a wide range of perspectives, reflecting the diversity of the artist’s practices and backgrounds. The featured artists are Kader Attia (b. France, 1970), Andrea Fraser (b. USA, 1965), Ion Grigorescu (b. Romania, 1945), Sharon Hayes (b. USA, 1970), Dorit Margreiter (b. Austria, 1967), Deimantas Narkevičius (b. Lithuania, 1964), and Martha Rosler (b. USA, 1943).

The practices, exemplified in these works, of revisiting existing narratives and examining one’s own cultural, social, and personal history are not bound to any specific medium; they are part of critical artistic practice, in general. In recent decades, artists have increasingly chosen to employ performance in conjunction with cinematic mediums, such as film, slide projection, video, and photography, in orderto create multifaceted narratives and provide new readings of past events.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1312

*There is a related conference about performance art today this Friday and Saturday, but it's sold out. You can still go the day of, and try to get in.

How Are We Performing Today?
New Formats, Places, and Practices of Performance-Related Art
November 16 and 17, 2012, 1–7pm

How Are We Performing Today? examines the shifting conditions and rising popularity of performance-related art, and its evolving—and frequently ambivalent—relationship to the museum. Drawing on the double meaning of "performance" as both a live element in the arts and a benchmark for economic productivity, the conference seeks to understand the character and consequences of new performance formats and strategies used by artists, curators, and institutions. Moreover, it explores how performance is tied to the experience economy—in which memory itself is a product—and how it is framed institutionally. The program of prominent scholars, artists, and curators addresses questions including: Where and under what conditions does performance art emerge today? How can artists and institutions address performance's migration from the margin to the center of contemporary art discourse? What kinds of transformations or conditions might be necessary to create a meaningful or critically engaged performance art program within the museum?

Through this conference, MoMA's Department of Media and Performance Art seeks to deepen its engagement with the theory and practice of performance-related art—reflecting on the medium's changing parameters, modes of production, and presentation.

November 16

Introduction
Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, MoMA

Keynote Address
Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley
Shannon Jackson, Professor in the Arts and Humanities, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator: Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, MoMA

Session 1: The Places of Performance
Rachel Haidu, Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
Andrea Fraser, Artist, Professor for New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles
Moderator: Johanna Burton, Director, graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College

November 17

Session 2: New Formats
Pierre Bal-Blanc, Director, CAC Brétigny, Paris, France
Boris Charmatz, Director, Rennes and Brittany National Choreographic Centre (Musée de la Danse)
Tim Griffin, Executive Director and Chief Curator, The Kitchen, New York
Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator, Hayward Gallery, London
Moderator: Ana Janevski, Associate Curator of Performance, Department of Media and Performance Art, MoMA

Session 3: New Artistic Practices
Film screening: Grand Openings. Return of the Blogs, by Loretta Fahrenholz
Jutta Koether, artist, writer, and Professor, Hochschule für bildende Künste (HfbK), Hamburg
Jay Sanders, Curator of Performance, The Whitney Museum of the American Art, New York
Simon Leung, artist and Professor of Art, University of California, Irvine
Emily Roysdon, artist and writer
Moderator: Claire Bishop, Associate Professor in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, New York

Archival Case Studies
Jonathan Lill, Project Archivist, MoMA
Michelle Elligott, Archivist, MoMA
David Senior, Bibliographer, MoMA

Organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, and Ana Janevski, Associate Curator of Performance, with Leora Morinis, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art.

How Are We Performing Today? is made possible by MoMA's Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation.

Live-stream the conference at MoMA.org/live.
Find out more about the symposium and other performance-related events at MoMA.org/performance.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Homework due 11.15.12

1. Finish your stop motion project. Bring in your project as a QuickTime file on a DVD in addition to your hard drive http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/10/fcp-exporting-high-quality-quicktime.html.

2. Read this excerpt from Roselee Goldberg's Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/readings/TheLiveArt-1950-60.pdf. Be prepared to discuss in class.

Revised Timeline

11.08.12 Critique of finished stop motion projects, Lab time
11.15.12 Critique of finished stop motion projects, Intro to performance
11.22.12 Thanksgiving NO CLASS
11.29.12 Develop performance projects
12.04.12 Norene available 10:30-12:30 by appointment for extra feedback
12.06.12 Performance and critique of final performance projects
12.13.12 Fine Arts Department Final Reviews
12.18.12 Deliver a DVD with your projects to Norene's mailbox

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

SexEd: extra credit and Collab course

SexEd http://sexedproject.org is an ongoing quest to expose the current state of sexual education in the US, encourage a public discourse around the topics of sexual health and education, and develop a sex education curriculum that is artist-inspired and community-based—something currently not in existence in the United States. The SexEd project launches at Cuchifritos gallery on the LES in February 2013.

Need extra credit?
Make a video for our YouTube open call:
http://sexedproject.org/youtube-video-calls

With Liz Slagus, I'm also teaching a SexEd Collab course through the Fine Arts department at Parsons next semester. Students will be making SexEd-themed video work that is screened at Cuchifritos on selected dates, curating screenings of video work submitted to the SexEd project website via the open call, and creating a pop-up YouTube booth for public interventions. For more info go to http://sexedproject.org and/or email me for the syllabus.

Homework due 11.01.12

Finish your stop motion project for the crit next week. Export it as a high quality quicktime file, burn it to a DVD, and bring the DVD and your firewire drive as a backup: http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/10/fcp-exporting-high-quality-quicktime.html.

FCP: Exporting a High Quality QuickTime file (2)

1. Once you are finished, save everything, then make sure that your final sequence is open in the Timeline.

2. Go to File>Export>Using QuickTime Conversion. In the dialogue box:
Save As: give your movie a title like "time_final_highquality.mov" so it is distinguishable from your other video exports.
Where: Save it to your FireWire hard drive.
Format: QuickTime Movie
Then click on Options, and a new dialogue box appears.

3. Under Video choose Settings
Compression Type: Apple ProRes 422.
Click OK, this takes you back to the earlier dialogue box.

4. Under Video choose Size. Change as needed to match your project settings.

5. Click OK again, then Save. Your file will begin exporting. This takes time, be patient! Do not click on the file, even if it appears in the Finder, until FCP is finished.

6. Check your exported video -- open it in QuickTime, it should look fabulous. If not, check your settings and try again. You can also try using H264 for compression instead of Apple ProRes 422.

7. Burn this file to DVD. It will be big, several gigabytes. This is your backup, you can use this file to make mastered DVDs, and to import into other versions of FCP/FCP Express. Make 2 copies, 1 for me and 1 for you. Bring the DVD with you to class next week for the crit, as well as a backup on your firewire drive.

Friday, October 19, 2012

FCP: Setting up your HD stop motion project (with photos only)

1. Open FCP, in the first dialogue box "Format" choose Apple Pro Res 422 and set the primary scratch disk to your FireWire 800 drive. The program should open.

2. In the upper left choose Final Cut Pro>System Settings. Make sure that all of the options are set to save to your FireWire drive.

3. In the upper left choose Final Cut Pro>Audio/Video Settings. For your sequence preset choose Apple ProRes 422 1440x1080 30p (*not* Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)). For your capture preset choose HDV-Apple ProRes 422. For your device control preset choose non-controllable device. Video playback should be set to none and audio to default. Then click OK.

4. Go to Final Cut Pro>User Preferences. Click on the Editing tab and change the Still/Freeze duration to 1 second (the default is 10 seconds, way too long!).

5. Go to File>New>Sequence. A new sequence "Sequence 2" should appear in your Browser. Double check that Sequence 2 has the correct settings by going to Sequence>Settings. Your sequence should be 1440x1080 29.97fps and the Compressor Apple ProRes 422. Then go back and delete your first sequence, "Sequence 1," and rename Sequence 2 something you'll remember.

6. Go to File>New Project, then immediately save your project to your FireWire drive.

7. Import the folder with your stop motion photos by going to File>Import>Folder and choosing the folder with your photos.

You're all set! Start editing away. Try and remember to save your project often -- computers crash, especially when they are editing video.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Homework due 10.25.12

Finish your shooting and import your images into FCP.

Instructions for setting up your project are posted here:
-if your project only uses photos http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/10/fcp-setting-up-your-hd-stop-motion_19.html
-if your project uses photos and HD video http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/10/fcp-setting-up-your-hd-stop-motion.html

Instructions for working with photos in FCP are posted here:
http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/10/fcp-tips-for-working-with-photos.html

Please have them imported (or at least attempt it) BEFORE class next week. Isaac and I will help you troubleshoot during class time.

FCP: Additional resources

The AMT computer lab at 2 West 13th St. on the 10th floor has FCP and access to LYNDA (http://www.lynda.com/). Go on over and ask a technician to log you in. There are all kinds of tutorials for FCP and other software.

FCP: Setting up your HD stop motion project (with live action HD video)

1. Open FCP, in the first dialogue box "Format" choose Apple Pro Res 422 and set the primary scratch disk to your FireWire 800 drive. The program should open.

2. In the upper left choose Final Cut Pro>System Settings. Make sure that all of the options are set to save to your FireWire drive.

3. In the upper left choose Final Cut Pro>Audio/Video Settings. For your sequence preset choose Apple ProRes 422 1920x1080 30p (*not* Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)). For your capture preset choose HDV-Apple ProRes 422. For your device control preset choose non-controllable device. Video playback should be set to none and audio to default. Then click OK.

4. Go to Final Cut Pro>User Preferences. Click on the Editing tab and change the Still/Freeze duration to 1 second (the default is 10 seconds, way too long!).

5. Go to File>New>Sequence. A new sequence "Sequence 2" should appear in your Browser. Double check that Sequence 2 has the correct settings by going to Sequence>Settings. Your sequence should be 1920x1080 29.97fps and the Compressor Apple ProRes 422. Then go back and delete your first sequence, "Sequence 1," and rename Sequence 2 something you'll remember.

6. Go to File>New Project, then immediately save your project to your FireWire drive.

7. Import the folder with your stop motion photos by going to File>Import>Folder and choosing the folder with your photos.

You're all set! Start editing away. Try and remember to save your project often -- computers crash, especially when they are editing video.