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Can I edit FlipCam into my P2 documentary?
Hi,
I am making a documentary shooting dvcprohd 720p and I would love to incorporate some footage that I will shoot with the Flip Mino HD.
I have done a test and I cant play it in the same timeline as my p2 footage. It looks like it is rendered – it just won’t play. I am thinking this might be because it is 30fps as oppose to 25? (PAL land)
Does anyone know a way around this and how I can work these two formats together.
Many thanks,
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Just won’t play like how just won’t play. The playhead doesn’t move? The screen is unrendered? The screen is black? White? Green? Did you convert the media into an FCP useable format?
All the best,
Tom
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Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
The audio continues but the image freezes. Also forgot to mention that the flipcam shoots mpeg4. So it is an mpeg4 30 fps image.
It works fine in its own sequence but in the 720p 50fps sequence the render bar is orange, which Ive never seen, so It doesn’t need rendering but just freezes although the audio continues.
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You need to convert that footage to a more edit friendly codec. Compressor might be able to this.
When we get into situations like this, we simply take whatever video feed comes out of the camera and feed it through our Kona 3 to capture / convert the footage to what we need during ingest. We’re actually about to do this with a JVC HD consumer disk-only camera that only has HDMI as it’s HD output.
I’m picking up the AJA HA5 convert to convert that signal to HD-SDI and we’ll just capture it in as 720/60 ProRes to match the rest of the footage.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Orange means you’re in Unlimited RT and that the file will play back with dropped frames. Orange does not mean it does not need to be rendered. Read the manual sction on rendering and color displays in the timeline. You can either render and keep rendering or you can do as Walter says convert this media into something that approximates a video format, which these cameras most certainly do not shoot.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
Thanks a lot Tom and Walter.
Another question I have on dropped frames, since you mention it is:
Will increasing the RAM in my computer decrease the likelyhood of dropped frames. My computer has 2gb RAM and generally runs fine – except I occasionally get dropped frames in fcp whatever my settings are at.
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Usually, dropped frames are an indication of a slow drive.
John
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