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Brain teaser
Okay, so I’ve run into this strange phenomena and am curious if anyone else out there has seen this. I’m running FCP 5.0 digitizing using a DSR 11. We originally shot on HD but downconverted to DVCAM. I’ve logged the tapes meticulously based on the camera cuts, so that every frame of footage is accounted for. all the clips had sequential time code, as in the in point timecode of a clip would be one frame greater than the previous clips out point timecode. I batch digitized. I finished this 5 days ago. Today I opened up some clips I hadn’t seen before and the showed up in a time code as needing rendering. the had a pal aspect ration. I rediged them to be NTSC. Confirmed it in the bin settings saved it. Double clicked on the clips and they were again PAL. I rediged them again, and they were fine. However, I now found a weirder phenomena. In the bin I selected to view them by media in. The time codes were no longer consecutive. In a time line they also showed up with dupe detection. The ins and outs did not correspond to the ones I had logged and now crossed over camera cuts. I relogged and rediged some of the clips with sequential time codes, but when they digitized they left gaps. I tried to batch digitize 2 clips and there was a 10 frame discrepency between their timecodes. While digitizing they also produced a third clip, and I know you can opt to do that in digitizing when there’s a time code break, but I don’t have that option selected and the third clip didn’t include the 10 missing frames. They were just a duplicate 10 frames from one of the clips.
And another thing, I went back through all the tapes and half of them are as I logged them. About half of them are not, But within a tape, the time code shifts, where half the tapes will have digitized as logged and half the tape won’t have. It makes no sense to me. It doesn’t seem like that would be an issue with either the tape or the program. Both seem to have the capacity to do exactly as they’re asked. Could it be the deck is going? A bad firewire issue?
Now as we downconverted from HD to DVCAM we want to be able to online with our HD tapes. All the footage seems to be accounted for, but is this going to open us up to headaches in the online. As far as I can tell, the tape time code is correct. So while this isn’t how I’d prefer things to be, do i really need to redigitze all the footage? Then again, I’m not even sure i can without gaps.
So I’m stimied. None of this makes sense to me. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Have you tried taking the project to another FCP suite and testing out the most scewed up parts of it. Just redigitize the most badly affected part. If it dose the same thing it’s the timecode or tape. If it works peachy then it is the FCP edit or OSX screwing over the files.
Hope this helps-
Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 4.5/AE 6.5/DVDSP3
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