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Anyone have experience with mixed resolution footage in FCP 5.x?
I’m starting a new HD project, and there will footage from all resolutions in it. From 1080i HDV & DVCPROHD to 720p DVCPROHD to regular DV.
Can Final Cut handle this kind of mixing and matching?
Will the audio go out of sync with multiple framerates?
Will I be rendering clips in the timeline just to view them?
This is a feature, and will eventually be upped to 35mm.
We’ll have a tricked out FCP system, whatever that is one month from now, as a reference point.
Anyone who can share their wisdom & experience a project like this?
Best,
Franco
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9 Replies
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Franco,
FCP really does not handle this kind of mixing and matching well at all, so, you the editor have to handle it well. Your tricked out FCP system should be tricked out with a good HD capture card, and you should capture everything to a single HD format.
DRW
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Get a capture card that will allow you to CAPTURE all of the footage to one CODEC (DVCPRO HD for offline for example)
A KONA card would allow you to capture all of the formats you mentioned to either HD or SD resolutions.
FCP is not a “drag any shot you want to into a timeline” type of system.
Get a professional to teach you haw to use it if you are new to it.
Use an easy setup to captue and edit anything to any codec, Just pick one CODEC to edit in and go with that until you rez up.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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[David Battistella] “Get a capture card that will allow you to CAPTURE all of the footage to one CODEC (DVCPRO HD for offline for example)”
Ditto to this and everything else David says. We run the AJA Kona 2’s and 3’s in our shop and they’re perfect for this type of work.
Though I will say if you have a fast system and fast drives, you can mix DV and 8bit SD footage in an 8bit SD timeline in realtime with the Kona 2. I’m doing that for a project right now on a Mac Pro Quad 3.0 and just a G-RAID 800. DV plays in realtime in the 8bit timeline and this is allowing me to mix BetaSP footage and DVCAM in one timeline but capture each natively.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[walter biscardi] “Though I will say if you have a fast system and fast drives, you can mix DV and 8bit SD footage in an 8bit SD timeline in realtime with the Kona 2.”
Should have said the Kona 2 AND the Kona 3, and probably any of the Kona family.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[walter biscardi] “Should have said the Kona 2 AND the Kona 3, and probably any of the Kona family.”
Ooh, have AJA started to support my Kona1 again?
Peter
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mixing resolution was a nightmare for me. i have dcvpro hd 720p and 720p 10-bit all at 59.94 on the same timeline and all i get is dropped frames every other 5-10 seconds, I’m running on a GSpeed, wished it would work. -I rendered it out trying to get playback for edit reviews but still dropped frames. It’s taking forever to re-capture all the footage to 10-bit, but when i get there….oh what a feeling, then hopefully no more dropped frames!
– i tried exporting some of the dvcprohd footage as 10-bit uc, seemed to be ok, anyone experienced disasters down the road pulling that little move?
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Aside from the larger demands on disk space I can see why that’d be a problem. 10 Bit uncompressed will actually let you do graphics and effects a little better too.
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Cool,
So the common theme seems to be: Get an ingest system that xfers all codecs to one editing codec. The Kona 3 card does that.
What we’ll probably do is injest in DV, then re-dig in HD for graphics and finishing.
Question: If I’m capturing 1080i HDV, and the 720p at 24fps…
Would the Kona Card do a good job going from frame rate to frame rate? Or would it be better to shoot and cut in 60i and then let a Teranex box do the heavy lifting during the film transfer to minimize motion artifacts?
We’re going out to 35mm film.
Thanks guys.
Franco
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[FrancoB411] “Question: If I’m capturing 1080i HDV, and the 720p at 24fps…
Would the Kona Card do a good job going from frame rate to frame rate?”
You mean the cross-convert of 1080i-720 or 720-1080i? It’s pristine with the Kona 3.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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