Need help!!!!

[Shane Ross]

What format are the dailies tapes? How do you intend to get the audio to the audio mixer?

Depending on the format you will be editing, different steps will need to be taken.

Shane

FCP Preferences set to UNCONTROLLED ADVICE
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Kevin Ham]

The daily tapes are on Beta SP, which will be used for the online.

As for the audio, they are on separate Beta SP tapes. The sound editor will have to digitize those tapes to use. They are not synced up to picture so I did it myself in FCP. I kept the audio at 29.97 fps in FCP and for some reason that I don’t understand, they were in sync with my 24 fps picture.

I will hand the sound editor and music composer an OMF (for a guide only) as I did not have a mixing board.
I will also hand them a quicktime file for a guide. Not sure what frame rate yet. This is the big question for me.
I will hand them a DVD for a guide. Already done.
I will hand the sound editor an audio EDL.

Thanks for helping!!!

[Shane Ross]

[SPeditor] “The daily tapes are on Beta SP, which will be used for the online. “

OK…and you edited on a 24fps timeline? Here’s what you need to do. Export an EDL…CMX3600. Then use Cinema Tools to convert it to a 29.97 EDL. FILE>EXPORT>CONVERT EDL. Convert it from 24fps to 30fps. Reimport that into FCP and recapture.

[SPeditor] “As for the audio, they are on separate Beta SP tapes. The sound editor will have to digitize those tapes to use. They are not synced up to picture so I did it myself in FCP. I kept the audio at 29.97 fps in FCP and for some reason that I don’t understand, they were in sync with my 24 fps picture. “

Because audio doesn’t have a frame rate, it has a data rate. Since the audio and video both were transferred to beta at 29.97fps, you should have no troubles at all. BUT…i’d send a test OMF from the 24fps timeline to see if it syncs. It might not. You might have to resend the OMF after you recapture.

[SPeditor] “I will also hand them a quicktime file for a guide. Not sure what frame rate yet. This is the big question for me. “

Send them a 29.97fps one. My guy is nice enough to take the DVD only. He then captured it at the rate he needs to mix to.

Shane

FCP Preferences set to UNCONTROLLED ADVICE
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Kevin Ham]

Yes I edited at 24 fps on my timeline because the director orginally wanted to go to negative. Not he can’t because of cost.

So you are saying I have no choice but to go the 29.97 route? Couldn’t go 23.98 for video? Want to be sure before I head down this road.

I would have to rent a BSP deck to do this, so is there anyway to relink to the already digitized video clips on my drive that are 29.97? When I went trough Cinema Tools a while back to convert the video to 24 fps, I believe Cinema Tools created new clips and kept the old 29.97 clips.