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Sony A7S and FCP 7 Workflow
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I think development on MPEG STREAMCLIP is stalled, so it might not work with newer formats. EDITREADY by divergentmedia.com is a great solution, though.
Shane
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Hi
I am editing a documentary shot on A7S on fcp7.
The director has used tentacle sync while shooting..so syncing in post is being done using tentacle sync software which also can transcode to pro res.
My question is this..
If i use pro res LT to edit how do i reconnect to native media later if fcp7 can’t recognise it.Do i then transcode all the rushes to HQ and reconnect to that? Won’t it be a rather tedious process to transcode twice?
Thanks in advance for the help!
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[Diksha Sharma] “If i use pro res LT to edit how do i reconnect to native media later if fcp7 can’t recognise it.”
What do you plan on using, software wise, to finish the show? Online? FCP 7? If so, they should transcode to ProRes HQ and you use that all the way through to the end. Plan on using something like Resolve? Well, how much metadata does Tentacle save, and include in the clips? Enough for Resolve to RELINK? Actually, what is the master footage, .MTS? Resolve doesn’t work with .MTS, so that might be out.
You need to figure out what software you’ll be using to finish, and what it is capable of doing. If it is FCP 7, then you need to export a high end ProRes file for FCP. If another, you need to do all sorts of testing to see what works, and what doesn’t.
I’ve never heard of Tentacle, so I can’t give specific advice.
Shane
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Maybe it’s best to only post when you are sure of something. You started saying MPEG Streamclip would do it..it doesn’t. (it is great but hasn’t been updated for years) You suggested BP which also seems not to work and I can only imagine Compressor would struggle. Have you actually converted using the ones you suggest as it whittled down to Divergents offering. I have used Adobe Media Encoder successfully. Giving out information that is of no use, how ever well the intention is a waste of everyone’s time.
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Hello!
I would like to buy the latest IMac, but i am afraid FCpro7 will not work on it. can anybody tell me??
the processor is Intel Core i5 and i7. thank you in advance!
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It’s the OS that will be the issue. The last fully supported OS for FCP 7 was 10.6.8. Any OS beyond that risks stuff not working. I do know that FCP 7 will work on 10.9.5….and 10.10, and some report success with 10.11. Just know it won’t be fully functional…some things might not work, because again, the OS wasn’t designed to remain compatible with that version.
I do know that Compressor, Motion, and QMASTER all stop working in 10.9.5 and beyond. So really the only apps you can run are DVD STUDIO PRO, FCP and Cinema Tools.
Shane
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Thank you very much for your helpfull answer!
have a nice day
gabriella -
Shane,
Camera: SONY ALPHA 7s 2
Here is a screenshot of the native footage played in VLC player.
Here is a screenshot of the footage after to converting to ProRes in EditReady. It seems to have a haze over it and the colors are not as saturated:
NOTE: click to enlarge the photos in a different browser tab. The larger the picture the more noticeable the difference. I noticed right away when I opened up the first clip in VLC.
Any idea why this is happening?
Best,
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I just converted to ProRes using Sony’s Catalyst Browse software and the picture is better.
Native:
ProRes using Sony’s Catalyst Browse software
AGAIN NOTE: click to enlarge the photos in a different browser tab. The larger the picture the more noticeable the difference.
Best,
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Sorry, I don’t. I’m an editor, not a programmer. I don’t know what goes on internally in the software. Both shots look like they need color correction anyway, and I always do that…
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