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Herewith workflow for capturing canon 24f7 sound in FCP
I have been struggling with FCP capture of 24f Canon footage and, due to enormous help from people on various bulletin boards such as Barlow Elton and Greg Huson, have now got a workflow for which I have sweated blood.
I am using a Blackmagic Decklink HD Pro and Mac G5 dual 2 gig.
It’s a bit wierd, but here goes:
1. SDI from camera to B/M card. (By the way, that’s the BNC connector on the extreme right if you’re facing the rear of your computer).
2. In FCP Set “EASY SETUP” for “B/M 59.95 1080i DVCPro HD”. You may need to download this from the B/M site.
3. Go to ” Audio/Video Settings” in FCP and toggle “Audio Playback” to “Built in Audio”.
4. Now go to Capture presets (also in A/V settings) and check that you have the correct setting (B/M HDTV 1080i 59.94 DVCProHD).
5. See the “Edit” box, below. Hit that. See “Quicktime Audio Settings”. Make sure that this says “Built in Audio” and “Line In”. Don’t change anything else. Hit OK.
6. Connect Audio from camera RCA outputs to Mac mini jack input.
7. In FCP go to LOG and CAPTURE screen. In CLIP SETTINGS, make sure to tick the little Preview box. Capture settings should be “Non controllable device” and B/M HDTV 59.94 DVCPro HD
8. Capture your material. You will probably NOT see it on your computer monitor, but should see it on your external one. You should be hearing your sound. And for goodness sake capture to your internal drive. I thought my G-Raid 1TB would be fast enough, but I struggled with dropped frames which screw up the frame cadence, or whatever it’s called
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I am working with the Canon HD1 at the moment (PAL 25fps) and this is the work flow –
1./ Capture rushes via firewire downconverted to DV standard def via camera setup
2./ Edit. Make audio OMFI and stereo mixdown of offline sound. Make QT of DV timeline for sound post and as a reference file
3./ Media manage project file to create 1080 50i Uncompressed 10bit 4.2.2 without media
4./ Batch recapture HD SDI 1080 50i Uncompressed 10bit 4.2.2 off the camera’s HDSDI into B/M card, controlling the camera via firewire.
Bingo HD pics that sync to the stereo mix file. Grade and titles from offline are all there but now apply to the HD files. Tweak grade & titles, pictures done! Drop sound post facility mix file into timeline, replacing the offline sound. Make QT using current settings. Send to facility with HDCam or D5 and dub to tape.
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