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FCP 5 Black Magic help
I’m a newbie to the Mac and I’m having a heck of a time with some digibeta footage that I inherited from someone else’s project. The footage was captured in FCP with a Black Magic card. (which I don’t have). It was shot Digibeta 16X9 and it appears to have been captured in 16 by 9 when I play it in my FCP. I have the latest Black Magic codecs installed on my Mac and PC. The first issue I have is when I try to open up any captured footage in FCP, I get a warning that it is looking for movie data in an ancillary file that I don’t have. The file still loads and plays, but the audio is all distortion. I’ve been assuming that the ancillary file I’m missing is the audio.
When I try to read any of these quicktime files on a pc, it gets stopped dead in it’s tracks and demands that ancillary file. One of the PC progams went as far as telling me that the missing file was last seen on drive “tek120fw-8”, ok, that seems to confirm my suspicions that the audio was captured to a different drive. I’ve got several questions and I’ve tried lots of different things, and I’m going on and on here, I know, sorry, Question number one…
Can I somehow disassociate that ancillary file from the main file in FCP? My goal is to have the originally captured picture information available on a PC. I’ve tried rendering out of FCP but the 16 by 9 formatting doesn’t seem to come across like I think it should. (that might be my problem as well) I’m assuming it’s anamorphic, the file info in FCP is CCIR 601, 720 by 486, Black Magic 8 bit (2Vuy) Any help would be warmly received and sorry for the lengthy post.
dual 2 ghz g5, 4gb ram, fcp 5 osx 10.4
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Hi Gus
You might want to try a Batch Export. It not something I have experience of using but i’ll try to outline it.
Select the clips in FCP’s browser window, then choose ‘Batch Export’ from the File menu.
A new ‘Export Queue’ window should open with those clips inside a folder. select the folder and press the ‘Settings’ button at the bottom of the window.
In the next dialog, under ‘Format’, choose QuickTime (Custom), then select the ‘Options’ button.
Under the ‘Movie Settings’ dialog that opens, again select the (Video) ‘Settings’ button and choose the target Video Codec you want (same as the capture original). Deselect the Sound checkbox. Then Click OK.
Set a Destination for your new clips and click OK again.That should have set everything up to save out new clips whilst stripping out any audio reference.
Click the Export button to start the process.Again, this isn’t something I’ve used, so give it a test run with a single clip first.
Hope it helps
Andy -
Thanks. That seems to work just fine. Keeps everything properly anamorphic as well.
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