Exporting from FCP problem

[Callum Mclay]

Hi Lawrence

What format and resolution is your original footage that you have captured/working with in Final Cut Pro?

Which of the Blackmagic Easy setups are you using for this?

Callum McLay
Technical Support Consultant
Blackmagic Design EMEA

[Lawrence Gray]

Hi,

Not exactly easy to answer this question. I’m not capturing with the device as I’ve got a PMW EX1 camera. Nor am I exporting to tape.

So I’m importing into FC with 1920/1080 25fps XDCAM EX 1080p and I note that the time line is exporting in 1440/1080 23.98fps

Quicktime Render with the Letterbox setting produces the wrong aspect ration but if I use fit Within Dimensions I get the correct one.

Similarly H264 for Video Podcasting gives me the correct aspect ration but Mpeg 4, ProRes 422 for Progressive material (High Quality) does not. Nor does the h 264 Webcasting setting.

I’ve just changed the Easy Set up to XDCAM EX 1080p so perhaps that will help. At the moment the Sequence Settings see to default back to the 1440/1080 setting no matter what I do. The Pixel ratio doesn’t give me a 1920 choice at all. If I use the Custom setting to set the 1920 ration I get black space either side on the canvas.

So no idea what the setting there should be.

It seemed OK before I put the card in so something has happened.

By the way, before I put the card in the machine couldn’t cope with PMW EX1 material, despite everyone saying it should be able to. It doesn’t. Much too slow. Lots of freeze ups. Afterwards, it works fine. Except for this one thing. I can’t get the Letterbox setting.

Lawrence Gray

[Callum Mclay]

HI Lawrence

This is a bit of a strange one, as our cards do not do any processing or rendering. They are purely a capture/playback device.

As such, the card itself does not affect the way video files are rendered from the timeline. The only settings affected would be those applied by using one of our Easy Setups to a sequence.

So maybe it is your render settings that are introducing the problems. Have you tried rendering off a Blackmagic Easy Setup Timeline?

It may also be helpful to look up this problem with the Final Cut support too!

Callum McLay
Technical Support Consultant
Blackmagic Design EMEA

[Lawrence Gray]

The consensus seems to be that the Easy Setup has caused the problem and that I need to make sure it’s set to conform with what I’m importing. Though it also needs to conform with what Color renders out so that files from Color don’t go out of sync with the sound… haven’t tested everything yet, so we’ll see.

Lawrence Gray