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“Start recording at” for feature reels
I will soon be outputting five reels of a feature from the Resolve, perhaps you guys and girls out there with more feature experience can clue me in.
I’m leaving the client with 2K DPX files that they will likely pocket for potential future film prints, and HD Quicktimes for tape output.
For the DPX sequences, would a large US post facility doing a film print want to see it come in like this: Five labeled folders with one DPX sequence per folder, each with a countdown, with timecodes so that the first frame of picture begins 1hr, 2hr, 3hr etc. and filenames starting so that the first frame of picture is at 00086400.dpx, 00172800.dpx, 259200.dpx, etc? And get 5 reels of sound, each with a 2-pop?
That’s what I would expect…
Also, I use the “start recording at” feature in the render window, it correctly puts the timecode in the DPX files at, for example, 2hrs and the filename at 00172800.dpx. But when I render the same clip as a quicktime and enter 2hrs to start recording, it correctly names the quicktime file 00172800.mov but does not correctly begin timecode at 2hrs. In my test, it begins the clip at 2:00:05:22 (which is neither the source or timeline timecode – however 2 hrs is what i entered and 1:00:05:22 was the first event in the EDL I originally created the timeline with – it now begins at 1:00:00:00).
The manual only mentions DPX regarding the “begin recording at” field, does anyone know more about it? Or how else I might specify what timecode rendered Quicktimes will begin?
Thanks!
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This sounds very similar to the issue I had about 4 months ago during my first feature on the mac resolve. I really thought the bug was fixed.
If you have any questions about dpx and “start recording” shoot me an email off the forum and I will help you out.
Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
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[Kevin Cannon] “And get 5 reels of sound, each with a 2-pop?”
A number of facilities also like a tail-pop in case there is a 23.98/24 speed issue to reconcile.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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I just output 5 reels for a feature over the weekend and ran into the quicktime render timecode issue as well. Told it to start each reel with a specific timecode (that was built into the edl as well), and it was off every time(ex Reel 01 was to start at 00:59:52:00, but instead started at 00:59:57:22 no matter what I did).
I reassmbled the film in fcp anyway for titles etc, and wrote new timecode anyway, but this must be a fixable bug.
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
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Yeah, I had the issue with a music video last week, but I needed to go through FCP for sound anyway…
Now that I am outputting those reels, it is not working correctly for DPX files either… Usually giving me something arbitrary but close – which is actually worse than it just being way off or nonsensical…
Hoping I’ll have an update soon…
KC
prehistoricdigital.com
hardworkingpixels.com
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