Problem with edit.

[Aaron Keeny]

My dilema with that is I dont know exactly which shots where shot in 60p. The same shot could be shot in 30p first then in 60p or visa versa and there was no one logging shots or anything on set.

I guess my option is to capture at 30 then FRC on the entire clip that may be in slow motion.

[Jeremy Garchow]

The clips that are supposed to be slow motion will come in playing fast and the 30p stuff will look normal. Any clip that comes in at the wrong speed you will need to recapture to 60p.

Next time, tell the DP to keep a separate tape(s) for slomo stuff so he or she doesn’t confuse the edit process like you are finding out. It’s also best to roll lots of heads and tails on off speed shots and it’s really nice when someone holds a piece of paper in front of the lens announcing the frame rate for off speed shots (you know, like a good ole slate).

Jeremy

[Aaron Keeny]

Brilliant. Thank you so much.

[Aaron Keeny]

So I think I fixed my original problem. I opened a new sequence and made the preset
720p30 and copied the edit to that new sequence when I did that the edits
that where playing at the wrong cut where playing as they did in the
exported version. In other words the wrong version plays out in my sequence
so I was then just able to fix the cuts that where not playing correctly.

This Varicam stuff is just a little frustrating. But I thank you for all your help. Im sure I will have a problem in the future that I may have to come to you for some advice. Hopefully someday I will be able to return the favor with some good advice but I doubt it.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Aaron Keeny] “Hopefully someday I will be able to return the favor with some good advice but I doubt it. “

Ha! You never know, Aaron. Information flows both ways.

Good luck and post back with anything else.

Jeremy

[Jurrian Bevelander]

Hallo,

At the company where I edit for, we are facing very frustrating behaviour inside FCP 6. This problem is just like Aaron described:

All footage is captured with FCP preset DV-PAL 48 (720×568). After editing the footage to the timeline, everything looks good. However when I export my edit from the sequence and watch it in a quicktime player it shows different cuts and footage (at some places) than was played back, originally.

I tried to put my exported mov in a new sequence with on top of that videotrack, footage from the original captured source-material (at places where FCP replaced frames) in the exported movie.

This didn’t give me any satisfiing result.

Mostly this problem occurs when footage is not captured at once. Sometimes it just replaces, the selected frames in the timeline, with other frames from that same file, or mixes it up; playing the in or out point a little bit earlier or later.

It also happens that FCP sees duplicated frames and connect this with another file. For example: where it shows duplicated frames in file 1 it takes frames from file 2 (with the same colourbar “duplicated frames”) and put those frames from file 2 in the place of file 1, where it says duplicated frames.

I wonder, if anyone has experienced the same problem and if there is a solution for it? Recapturing might be one but sometimes not on the long term.

thanks

Jurrian

[Aaron Keeny]

The short term fix I found that worked without recapturing the footage is to make a new sequence make the sequence preset whatever frame rate you need not sure what you will need with the whole PAL thing. Then copy everything to that sequence and the clips that are playing back wrong will show and then you just need to reedit them.