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Firestore and FCP Easy Set up
If I’m shooting 720/24p on an HVX200 to a Firestore, does anyone know what my Easy Setup should be?
I set up my East Set up and i keep getting this message that reads:
Unable to locate the External Devices
DVCPRO HD (720p/60) (1280 x 720)
DVCPRO HD out
Your system configuration may have changed, or your deck/camera may be disconnected or turned off.I just bought Kadner’s FCP hvx200 and he doesn’t speak much about the firestore so I’m curious if there is a specific mark I need to hit in order to not receive this pop up.
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First things, first…
Backup your Firestore data to a hard drive or to Blu-Ray (if you can).
[Joy Marzec] “I set up my East Set up and i keep getting this message that reads:
Unable to locate the External Devices
DVCPRO HD (720p/60) (1280 x 720)
DVCPRO HD out
Your system configuration may have changed, or your deck/camera may be disconnected or turned off. “This is because the Easy Setup assumes that you have a DVCProHD deck attached. Do you have one?
If not, then ignore the message. But you are probably picking the wrong Easy Setup.You should be using the Easy Setup – DVCProHD 720p/24. UNLESS you have a capture card, then set it to its optimal setup.
After this, you use the Firestore for Log and Transfer only. Its not a deck.
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Hi,
Thanks for responding.
In response to me having a DVCpro deck- Unless a firestore is considered a dvcpro deck then, no, I don’t have one.
I do have my easy set up configured to 720p/24.So I’m still not sure why FCP is popping up with that message when I set up my east set up.
Is it possible I’m receiving that message because it thinks my play back output video is set to 720/60? Would that have anything to do with me receiving that message?Thanks.
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As Wayne said, that message only pops up if you don’t have a Panasonic deck attached. Ignore it. As far as the Easy Setups, you can use either 23.98 or 59.94. Both work fine. and always set your Firestore to capture Quicktime Pn. That way you can drag your clips straight into FCP without having to bother with the Log and Transfer step.
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Oh my goodness! I’m so glad you said set your firestore to quicktime pn because i discovered something yesterday that has led me to not do that.
For the past two weeks I’ve been playing with my camera and shooting iwth my firestore set to quicktime PN. And then when I would go and enable to my MBP, there would be nothing in the Contents Folder and a last clip.txt did not exist. My footage would be stored in a folder titled the same numbers as my first clip. (make sense?) If the first clip i recorded was 0218, then the folder that contained all of my clips would be title 0218. I was becoming frusturated by not having any of my footage in the Contents folder.
A couple days ago, I decided to experiment and I set my firestore to p2 pn and when I enabled on my computer, I then had all of my footage in .mxf format stored correctly in the Contents folder and I finally had a lastclip.txt. So, Im not sure if I was doing something wrong when shooting to quicktime pn, although, all of my footage was intact and nothing seemed wrong, but I’m feeling safer shooting to p2pn and having the correct format for everything.
did you ever come across this problem shooting to quicktime pn, because, like you, everyone says shoot on a firestore to quicktime pn.And my camera was definately set to 720/24p not 720/24pn which I know is incorrect.
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You just need to become more familiar with how the Firestore saves your data(footage),as you have stated. When recording in QTPn you don’t have a Contents folder or lastclip.txt file. That only happens when you shoot in P2 mode. Your folder with all the clips will have the date, hour and minutes you were at when you started shooting, and all your QT clip files are in that folder. Just drag that folder into FCP [after transferring to your media drive(s)] and start editing. You don’t ever have to worry about the Contents folder, lastclip.txt file OR the Log and Transfer process this way. That is the beauty of the Firestore workflow.
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Howdie.
I have been given footage from a 3 camera shoot, all the footage is broken up into the 2gb quicktimes. I need to join these together or create a reference QT for editing in in FCP 6.0.6
It seems if this could have easily been done within the utilities menu on the Firestore device itself ( Focus Enhancements ). But I dont have the device, just the clips stored on harddrives, though the footage is still in the originally created folders from the firestore.
If I create the reference movie in FCP, the only way I know how to do it is to lay the clips on a sequence and then export the Quicktime (but I feel this will kill the original timecode which I need to easily sync the angles for multiclip editing).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Why would this kill your timecode? I assume these clips are one continuous clip, right?
Just set you sequence timecode to that of the first clip and drop the rest of this clips in order. Check your timecode for accuracy. Then export.
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