Final Cut Pro and Long Format TV

[Andrew Kimery]

We have some older Blackmagic Multibridges here that are finicky but for the past couple of months we’ve been running the newer Multibridge Eclipses on Mac Pros w/o any headaches so far.

[Joe Espina] “As far as frame accuracy in laying off from Final Cut, what steps need to be done to make sure I hit on every frame I intend to start on? Frequency Settings, Reference, HD Sync. “
In FCP go Audio/Video settings->Device Control Presets tab and you’ll see a list of all your presets. One of the settings is Playback offset and you can use this to adjust the timing if everything is hooked up right but you are still not frame accurate. Our setup here was coming in a frame late so I made a duplicate of the proper Preset and changed the default offset of 4 frames to 5 frames. Now we are dead on.

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[Joe Espina]

Thank you Mark and thank you all for that matter. Sorry for not responding til now…our internet has been down all day.

> do you have a waveform/vectorscope? Closed caption inserter? Hardware legalizer? These are the things that professionals rely upon to get the job done.

Waveform/vectorscopes are in the budget, Close captioning we probably do out of house – but I get what youre saying. Don’t go cheap on the equipment.

I came in to this situation with Blackmagic Cards, (wasn’t too thrilled about it) so I’d like to maybe pitch to my bosses the Kona Card solution

For the most part our setup is pretty basic. I’m pushing to build on more sophisticated equipment as we pick up more speed and projects.

[Joe Espina]

“In FCP go Audio/Video settings->Device Control Presets tab and you’ll see a list of all your presets. One of the settings is Playback offset and you can use this to adjust the timing if everything is hooked up right but you are still not frame accurate. Our setup here was coming in a frame late so I made a duplicate of the proper Preset and changed the default offset of 4 frames to 5 frames. Now we are dead on. ”

Thank you Andrew. I will take that into consideration.

Anyone here shoot on Red and finish long format? Or because the workflow is still being refined are people still staying away from it?