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Media Manager messes up speed altered clips, why!?
I’ve been working on a lot of projects with clips that are sped up or slowed down recently, once they are off-lined they get media managed and sent to me so I can recapture at 8bit colour and then grade/play out. However, when I get them, things that have had the speed changed come through very strangely. For instance in the project I started today a clip that should be at 72% speed came in at 0.85%. All the media is there if I pull out the clip, so it’s fixable, but without the references this can be a pain, and going to the edit suite and looking at the offline project for each instance isn’t an ideal situation, especially when another edit has started there!
Any ideas, fixes or explanations would be grand, it would be nice to at least know why it happens, even if it isn’t fixable. I can’t be the only person having this problem (can I!?), but couldn’t find any other references to it online.
Cheers,
Michael Lansdell
Online Editor,
Available Light Productions LtdMy system:
2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
5GB DDR2 RAM
512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XT
OS X 10.4.11
Final Cut Pro 6.0.4
Blackmagic Design DeckLink HD Extreme (6.6.2) -
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How long was the original media file the slomo was taken from?
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
Speed altered clips can be the most difficult and buggy part of an online.
I am often forced to manually re-capture off speed clips when re-conforming to tape. One trick that makes this a little easier, is to make a reference movie of the original offline edit, with the Timecode reader plug-in added to every clip in the sequence. Then I can tell what my ins and outs should be for capturing tape, and if my speed settings equal the space I need to fill.
STeve
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