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media manager 23.98/24 issues
I am editing a film at 23.98 DVCPROHD codec (from hvx200 720×960 shot at 23.98).
I have been media managing material with no handles in order do some after effect work.
Here’s the problem: The shots I’ve been exporting are longer than the original! At first I thought that media manager was adding handles, but then I realized that the longer the original shot, the longer the Media managed shot. I suspect that media manager is turning the material into pure 24 frame material. The confimation of this is that if I take the MMed shot and do a fit-to-fill edit on track 2 above the original, it matches perfectly. The speed for the fit-to-fill is 101.77.I tried many different settings for Media manager. I tried copying the files (keeping the original codec) and I tried recompressing into a variety of different codecs, making sure each time that I am maintaining the 23.98 fram rate – all with the same result. WTF?
Stephen Eckelberry
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4 Replies
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Don’t use the Media Manager. Load the clip into the Viewer, mark your IN and OUT points and export a Quicktime Movie, self contained. That will have exactly the same properties.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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I agree, that works great. But I am trying to export entire timelines, 5 reels at 500 edits per reel. that’s a lot of cuts. yes I can export big huge sections, but that reduces flexibility, as I want to have an interchangable workflow, with the AE guy color correcting as I lock reels.
I suspect that this might be because I never actually captured the footage, instead using P2 cards. So the footage is probably missing metadata. I have heard that Avid keeps all the metadata from P2 footage, while FCP is more selective.
I do not have a decklink/kona card installed, which might add the necessary meta-data – sort of like a virtual timecode blackburst generator?
Stephen Eckelberry
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Get Automatic Duck Pro Export for AE.
And it doesn’t matter if you imported from P2 rather than tape. If you lose a file you can always reimport from the original MXF files and relink, just like batch capturing from tape.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net -
Thanks for the tip. That is an amazing program.
Stephen Eckelberry
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