GARY FCP Settings

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Just use the easy set up that corresponds with the settings it was shot at.

[Charles Roberts]

720P24 HDV in the easy setup. You have to do it that way, or you won’t get the HDV capture window. Do this for Firewire capture. Also, if you are shooting with that camera and you want to be able to edit do NOT shoot principle photo in 720P60 or you will cry. Effects shots sure, but you can only edit 24P or 30P in a sequence. And record lots of head and tail on each shot. Trust me.

[Gary Adcock]

[chawla] ” do NOT shoot principle photo in 720P60 or you will cry. Effects shots sure, but you can only edit 24P or 30P in a sequence. And record lots of head and tail on each shot. Trust me.
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Charlie is correct. the extra heads and tails compensate for FCP’s time code break issue.

and you have to be in 5.1.2 or later version of FCP.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Mike K. kroesen]

HI Gary,

I attended the JVC seminar that you spoke at. It was excellent. I want to confirm what I have in my notes. I wrote down that you prefer to shoot in 720p HD (1280×720). Is this correct? The post above says that shooting in 720p60 will make me cry. So I’m a tad confused. Is there a different flavor of 720p other than 60 that I can use that will not make me cry? Also why are there time code breaks?

Thanks,

Mike

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720p refers to the frame size and progressive video. The 60 refers to the frame rate, aka 60 fps other examples of frame rates are 24 fps, 30 fps. and if you are in PAL country 50fps.

[Mike K. kroesen]

It sounds like if the footage is shot at 720p 24 or 720p 30 I will have better luck than 720i 60. Is this correct? I thought 720i 60 refers to the fields not the frame rate. 720i 60 would be 720i 30. Where the 30 fps is made up of two fields so it is called 60.

[Gary Adcock]

[michael_kroesenx] “I attended the JVC seminar that you spoke at. It was excellent. I want to confirm what I have in my notes. I wrote down that you prefer to shoot in 720p HD (1280×720). Is this correct?”

I shoot in 720p correct, I only use 720p60 as a delivery format, I shoot my content at 24p and allow my Kona Card to add the pulldown to the delivery format.

The issue we are talking about is not the camera, but how FCP cannot yet understand how to extract all 60 frames from the 720 HDV stream over FW, it is a QT issue.

720p on a computer can be any frame rate, as HD video it can only be played on a monitor at 60 fps.(59.94)

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Gary Adcock]

[michael_kroesenx] “I will have better luck than 720i 60. Is this correct?”

No

there is no “i” in the 720 workflow, 720 is Always P.

but you are correct that choosing 24 or 30 fps will work in FCP.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Mike K. kroesen]

Thanks to everyone who responded. I think I’m all set now.

Cheers!

[Mike K. kroesen]

Hi Gary,

As I do not yet have a Kona card (should have one soon) after I’m done editing with FCP using a 24p timeline how to I lay back to tape using Firewire? It sounds like I need to add the pull down in order for it to play back correctly. Is this correct? If so will Cinema Tools be an option?

Thanks for your help.