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Consolidating to raid
Hi,
My client’s come to me with his DV-PAL footage on G-raids. For the online I wanted to use Media Manager to consolidate the footage with handles and on the way, recompress to ‘Uncompressed 10-bit’. This last bit is because I’ve heard from a couple of sources that Colour operates better with the higher-end codecs… Maybe that’s not right, but anyway, the problem is that FCP turns the anamorphic footage to letterbox or the 4:3 footage to pillar boxed depending on whether the anamorphic option is ticked on the codec page (I went into the Custom settings on the recompression options).
Is this right? Is there no way of getting FCP to completely ignore the frame size and just recompress using another codec? It’s happy enough ignoring the frame rate. The same thing happens if I just media manage to my local raid using the same DV-PAL setting as the source.
I suppose this is something to do with the source clips being reported as ‘DV-PAL 720×576 (1024×576)’. I’m assuming that when capturing anamorphic DV footage that’s what the setting becomes. FCP doesn’t seem to be able to handle mixed 4:3 and anamorphic footage in Media Manager. I’ve also tried clicking all the anamorphic tick boxes in the bins on and off with the same results…..
Hope I’m wrong and one of you lot can tell me where I’m wrong! 🙂
Thanks,
Todd.
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Hmmm… haven’t had this exact problem, but here’s what I would try (on one clip to see if it works): Uncheck Anamorphic from your original clip and then Media Manage. That should give you a 720×576 Uncompressed clip on output. Then bring this new clip back into FCP and try checking the Anamorphic box.
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Thanks Matt,
The problem is that that will work on one clip, either 4:3 or FHA. It’s when there’s multiple clips some of which are 4:3 and some FHA. Media Manager will only output *all* 4:3 clips or *all* FHA clips for the new sequence so the footage gets letterboxed or pillarboxed. I still can’t make it work and am giving up and having to finish the online using the client’s external drives. Which makes me feel daft for purchasing a raid array worth a couple of grand! 🙁
Shame on Apple (until such time as I’m proved wrong, that is!).
Todd.
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Are you media managing from the timeline? What if you media manage from the browser in 2 batches, one with all 4:3 clips and the next with just anamorphic?
You’d have to relink the media in your time line afterward.
2 x3Ghz Quad MacPro
9 GB RAM
Mac OS X 10.5.5
QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
AJA Kona 3 (6.0.1 drivers)
G-Speed XL 12 RAID -
Ahhhh! Will the sequence link ok? I guess I could create an offline version with the same amount of handles and that should relink…..
I’ll see if I have time on this project for this. There’s also the little matter of all the picture files they’ve dragged into the project so the browser is quite something to navigate.
Cheers!
Todd.
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