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FCP 6 and A-frame broken code. A warning.
Just a warning to some of you:
Our workflow has always been to load our dailies at 24fps. That is, if you make a custom capture preset at 23.98fps, and capture your 30fps dailies on the “A” frame, you get nice tidy 24fps media. No Cinema Tools nonsense needed.
Timecode would hold up fine, that is every :00 would match up, and it was a very simple matter to get back to the dailies 30fps code for telecine lists or online.
But FCP 6 doesn’t work. Timecode is all over the place. We’ve got clips that are a full 2 seconds off in the timecode (vesus the burn in).
Be warned. I’m a little disappointed. It was a great workflow.
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Is this using ProRes? Have you tried another codec?
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DV50 @ standard def. Haven’t tried anything else because we’re already deep in editing (which luckily, it still edits correctly despite rotten timecode). It’ll be a hand typed EDL at the end of the day!
whoo! it’s friday!
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Are you using capture hardware for this?
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Aja Io. Latest drivers. Tiger and FCP 6.0.1.
There might be a workaround, but we’ve literally been doing this exact workflow since FCP 4.5, and it’s worked without hiccup. Now it’s broken and I’ve got 3 editors who are ready to go back to FCP 5.
I understand FCP 6 works great for a lot of things, and perhaps our workflow is a little esoteric, but it worked.
I’ll try loading Monday with a Kona system, and then a DVCAM-firewire connection. Perhaps with ProRes? But I have a suspicion it relates to that QT timecode issue I was having earlier this week with Combustion.
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Mmm, not so sure on that one. The problem is, is that there’s not really been an FCP 6 driver released for the io. The io driver hasn’t been updated for a year and a half. A lot has changed with FCP, QT, OS and everything else since then, for instance, the addition of adding ‘real’ timecode to Quicktime. I would bet that it’s the io in combo with FCP6. This will work with a Kona system as the hardware/drivers are up to date. Did that pref trash work for your easy setups by the way?
Jeremy
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