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sony sr11 footage issues
hey folks,
looking for a little newbie help here. i’m new to non-linear systems, not film and video in general. But some of the technical issues of importing/format etc, are beyond me at this point.
I just did a shoot for a college i’m working for, in studio, pretty straight forward. We used two cameras (so i’ve have something to cut away to, mostly), and since our panasonic p2 was out for repairs, i had to use the 2 new sony sr11’s we keep for more informal use.
I did a lot of work to make sure i had an ok workflow to import the footage into fcp (we use g4’s in the office, so i’m using my macbook for the actual import, saving to harddisk, then transferring to the edit suite computers).
The footage from the camera i use most of the time looks great. I wanted that cinematic look, so we used HD. But the camera the other guy ran, which has the main shot, is stretched and distorted when imported through “log and transfer” in fcp.
so, 2 questions: what did i do wrong? clearly i got a setting wrong somewhere, though i didn’t actually change anything.
and how do i most easily fix the footage? i’m re-importing with imovie now, so maybe that will work. the image didn’t look wrong in the camera, or in the fcp log and transfer window. only when i open it up in the viewer.
thanks for any help you can give this simpleton.
jb
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1 Reply
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You should have used Final Cut Pro > Easy Setup prior to capturing/transcoding footage. That is the bullet proof way of dealing with different formats.
Just re-import the footage with the proper setting.
Please, since you are new, post questions like this in the FCP Basics forum. No offense, but we try to keep the basic questions over there to keep the noise down in this forum. The advice there is just as good as this forum, it’s just for more basic questions.
Thanks.
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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