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Question/Issue about Smoothcam filter in FCP
I have a question/issue with the new smoothcam filter in FCP.
Heres the backstory: I recently transferred an old 16mm cut neg to D5 so I could import it into FCP and re-edit it. The neg had been made in A/B roll fashion (meaning that both rolls run simulatneously through the optical printer. The shots are checkboarded on each roll. So while shot 1 is on the A roll, the B roll has a black slug. The next shot on the B roll is timed perfectly with a black slug on the A roll. etc.)
In a nutshell what I got were two amazingly unwatchable 40 minute takes. I went through with the blade tool and created edits on both clips and merged every other clip from each take into one sequence. All was good, except, I noticed a bobble at every cut where the neg was going through the telecine head (I guess the splice was slightly thicker than the film and made the film jump).
OK, I thought, I have this nifty smoothcam filter now. I will just drop it on a clip. Here’s the problem…. Rather than it just analysing the clip its been added to, it is analysing the entire 40 min roll!! It tells me it will need 4 hours to analyse before it acts… (I digitzied through a Kona card at 1080p 10 bit uncompressed, so the files are HUGE).
So here’s the questions:
1> Assuming I let it have the 4 hours it needs, how does it know that each shot is different. In other words, when it hits a black slug how does it interpret that? Does it create thousands of points and then only deal with the in and out points on the clip that I have chosen? Seeing as I will be needing to do this on many of the clips, I dont mind giving it the time it wants if it is smart enough to realize there are a multutude of different shots on the clip and not try to take the whole clip as one really weird horrible camera move.
2> Besides using Media Mangler (I cant afford to rent another D5 deck if it screws up my footage… they are about $1500/day!… not to mention the hours needed to put add-edits on every cut and merge the shots into I sequence) is there any way I can force FCP to only look at the individual clips in question?
Thanks guys
Dave
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[filmcutter] “is there any way I can force FCP to only look at the individual clips in question?”
Did you try turning them into Master Clips?
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