key code generator in FCP

[Shane Ross]

Did you not use Cinema Tools from the start?

Generally what happens is you get a tape of the telecined footage and an ALE or FLEX file. You import that file into Cinema Tools…the file contains all the timecode and keycode information…and then export a batch list from Cinema Tools for FCP to import and batch capture the footage. Cinema tools maintains the database of the they keycode and timecode information.

When you are done, you use Cinema Tools to look at the final cut and output a cut list for the negative cutter.

if you didn’t do it this way, then you are in a bit of trouble.

Shane

Alokut Productions

http://www.lfhd.net

[Pballon]

Thanks for getting back to me Shane.
I was not the original editor on the film and it appears that they did not use Cinema Tools from the beginning. They had the film transferred to mini DV w/ TC on it. They edited it as if it were a normal DV movie.
Any suggestions on what I can do from here?
Thank you.
Paul

Paul Ballon
http://www.steelcityfilms.com

[Shane Ross]

Sorry, I have none to offer. I have not been in your situation. Hopefully someone else here has and can solve this dilemma.

Shane

Alokut Productions

http://www.lfhd.net

[Shane Ross]

Sorry, I have none to offer. I have not been in your situation. Hopefully someone else here has and can solve this dilemma.

Shane

Alokut Productions

http://www.lfhd.net

[Daryl K davis]

Were there any telecine logs created at all?

I have come in at the end of projects and have been able to create the database but there were FLX files. I was able to trace the EDL to create a neg cut list. It is certainly not the best way to do things and it definitely is not easy. Lot’s of EDL management (changing reel numbers to match etc.) to contend with.

[Frank Nolan]

[pballon] “They edited it as if it were a normal DV movie. “

OUCH!!
Chances are it was edited at 29.97df if it was imported as normal DV footage, so that will make it even more difficult to deal with.
Do you have .flx files from the lab?

[Frank Nolan]

For some reason this wouldn’t post and all of a sudden it’s posting multiples.
Sorry about that!

[Misha Aranyshev]

Do you have keykode burn-in?

[Sanjeev Talukdar]

I have capture the telecine manually and also make the database manually through cinematools. Lab didn”t send me the FTL. is it correct system? will i got correct cut list??

[Misha Aranyshev]

[Sanjeev Talukdar] “will i got correct cut list??”

Depends on how accurate is your database. Yu should check every clip in it by comparing burn-in to the numbers your logged a few frames from the beginning, in the middle and a few frames before the end.