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What’s the right way to edit Sony XDCAM HD422 1080i60 in Final Cut Pro?
Hello Everyone,
I’m a video editor at “TheHappiest Place on Earth . . . Disneyland, CA.” About 3 month ago, our production team finally went full HD with a purchase of a Sony PDW-F800 and PDW-F1600. The system I am using is Apple QuadCore Intel Xeon. 2.26 Ghz. 6GB of Memory. NVIDIA GeForce GT120
I have a few questions that I need help being answered before i start going “goofy.”
All of our footage is shot in Apple XDCAM HD422 1080i60 (50Mb/s CBR). Footage is being imported to Final Cut Pro by using XDCAM Transfer.
Every time I create a new project and export timeline to a new XDCAM disc on the F1600. When the video is playing on a preview monitor after transfer, the footage seems to be de-interlaced as if the fields are off or the if the video is “lagging behind”. It jitters or strobes on playback. I’ve gone back and forth. Checked the settings they all match. Other times, only 3 shots of a timeline will be “lagging/stobbing” from the rest of the project.
Any idea on how to solve this issue?
My FCP Sequence Preset is set to “XDCAM HD 1080i60 CBR” (From what i was told to do). Is this the right Sequence setting I need to be in to editing my XDCAM footage?
Any recommendations to editing these clips and how to export timelines out at there best quality would be much appreciated.
Thanks for the help.
Creating Magical Memories at The Happiest Place on Earth
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Another Disney editor! I’m currently working at the Disney Channel myself.
Use a ProRes 422 sequence. When I work with XDCAM, I avoid the native timelines as they seem to cause issues with FCP. But when I use a ProRes timeline, things are far more stable.
Shane
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Funny. I match my sequence to my XDCAM clip settings and have no problems. I’ll edit native if I don’t plan on doing many effects on the footage. If it is to be a composite-heavy edit I will either transcode everything to ProRes or do an assemble edit and transcode that footage.
Not an answer, but just my experiences.
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I guess “it’s a small world after all.” Sorry, had to drop that line.
So let’s say I’m going to start from scratch on a project in FCP.
When setting my Sequence Preset Should I be using Apple ProRes 422 1920X1080 60i 48kHz (since this is the format the clips are shot on the XDCAM Camera
or should it be on XDCAM HD 1080i60 (even do the Frame size in this sequence is 1440X1080.
Any clue to why previous exports would have been “strobbing/jittering?”
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[Adrian Garcia] “When setting my Sequence Preset Should I be using Apple ProRes 422 1920X1080 60i 48kHz (since this is the format the clips are shot on the XDCAM Camera”
Yes. Choose the Easy Setup for the ProRes 422 setting that best matches your footage.
[Adrian Garcia] “or should it be on XDCAM HD 1080i60 (even do the Frame size in this sequence is 1440X1080.”
I prefer to work in ProRes. System more stable doing so. And, at least on my end, the final delivery is always a ProRes file anyway.
[Adrian Garcia] “Any clue to why previous exports would have been “strobbing/jittering?””
Well, what is your current workflow and how are you exporting? Do you all have a proper setup with AJA card and external monitor to view the cuts while editing?
Shane
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I am now working on a XDCAM HD project in FCP 7.0.3. with multi clips (4 angles) After FCP quitting on me every 10 minutes, I have converted everything to ProRes LT and everything is working fine now.
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