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Final Cut back to Digibeta
I shot a feature on Super16mm and had it telecined over to digibeta. I have made mini dv copies of the digi masters and plan on importing to FCP for the edit. My plan is to to cut on FCP and then reconform back to Digibeta on AVID for color correction etc. Does anyone know of a better way to work this? Is creating an EDL list with FCP the way to go here? Thanks for advice.
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HI Sacha,
that seems pretty sensible. An edl should work fine if you havent got too many effect, just cuts. Or yu can use Automatic Duck if you have a more complicated sequence.YOu could online in FCP of course…
best wishes
NIck -
Why not take your final project to a post house with FCP and digibeta facilities. I can do it for you if you are in Australia.
Baz
What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!
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Hey Sacha,
Why don’t you want to online on a Final Cut system? EDL’s are sloppy, imperfect and out of date technology. There are plenty of decent color correction tools on FCP.
EDL? I wouldn’t. Look you can probably make the EDL work if you need to. Is that really what you want to spend your time doing? Kluging EDLs? Yuck. If you insist on finishing on the Avid you should offline on an Avid system.
Holy cow… good luck what ever you do.
Just my 2 cents.
Jason
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Got a bit emotional there…sorry.. EDL’s bring back the memory of so much pain.. If you really need to bring you FCP stuff into an AVID please use the automatic duck software. It works very well. If you don’t want to buy it perhaps someone on this forum would be so kind as to do the conversion for you (for a modest fee?)…
jason
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[Sasha Torres] “My plan is to to cut on FCP and then reconform back to Digibeta on AVID for color correction etc. Does anyone know of a better way to work this? “
Final Cut Studio has a better color corrector in Color than anything you’ll get on an Avid.
But if you really want to finish on an Avid, get the Automatic Duck plug-in that allows you to send an FCP project to an Avid system.
Here we use the Duck the other way around. We’ve finished about 70 projects that were started on an Avid and then we finished it on our FCP systems.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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“Final Cut Studio has a better color corrector in Color than anything you’ll get on an Avid. ”
Yeah. The only advantage of Colour correcting on AVid Symphony is the speed you can grade at because it’s real time. Any time saved there, however would be negated by having to conform and FCP online in Avid. FCPs built in CC is a bit pony, but Color gives you so many grading options, its difficult to see the advantage on moving to Avid.
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[Dan Marlow] “Yeah. The only advantage of Colour correcting on AVid Symphony is the speed you can grade at because it’s real tim”
Real time vs. an 18 level color corrector plus color fx. I’ll take the 18 levels of grading per shot.
Of course realtime playback is achieved if you have a nice fast system like ours. When grading a shot, I’m always vignetting and such anyway so I make my changes, play the shot, pause and make changes, play the shot, etc…
I need to look up how Digital Film Tree is using a cluster to render Color even faster now that we will have a network set up across our shop.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Why not edit on FCP with full quality or DV and then make stuff you need and output directly to digibeta. You could edit on pretty slow laptop using DV and then online on studio mac and output to tape. Less pain and more speed id say. I think avid is a bit over rated these days if your not a tv station.
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Margus
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