Adam Smith
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Nope, it does not. No add-on option either.
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You could copy the MXF Contents folder onto the client’s drive, then run Raylight to create the reference QT movies on that same drive. The movies should work in any quicktime aware software that can understand DVCPro / DVCProHD or whatever you shot in.
However – since the QT movies are reference files and directly using the MXF media, you can’t move the Contents folder or rename the drive or anything that will cause the movies to lose their link to the footage.
So… it might be safer just to Log & Transfer the clips like suggested above, or do something similar like use your Raylight clips in Quicktime Pro to save out self-contained .mov files.
-Adam
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I had that gravity well thing once before… tough to troubleshoot unless you can move the whole edit rig. Test the other options first.
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I think he mentioned in another thread that he hasn’t got FCP.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “You can use P2CMS to Ingest individual clips (which then become their own contents folder), or select a group of clips and export them to a new P2 Folder.”
I’m gonna second Jeremey here – get P2CMS, open the card you want, select a number of clips and chose Export to make a new Contents folder with just the selected clips.
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I believe the DVX should have presets similar to the ‘200 – try to get the image settings as close as possible, and of course shoot 24p.
To downconvert your 1080 footage I’d use Compressor… ProRes422 at 720×480 Anamorphic, 29.97 fps. You say your HD footage is 24p, so I’m assuming that’s 24p over 60i (and not 24pA) and should match the DVX100’s frame rate.
There will certainly be differences to the look, but that should get you closer.
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Woohoo, thanks Hans!
I just got my ShuttlePro v2 last week and was really wondering why I didn’t find it very useful… didn’t seem to work well at all and I was wishing it worked more like a shuttle knob on a deck.
Then I noticed how whenever I used the ShuttlePro, my sequence (and possibly FCP itself) was deselected or no longer active, and my dock icons were flickering and flashing. Thanks for the tip!
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Did the two test clips that you shot have audio? On the LCD, when shooting 60p does the frame rate show as “60p” or “24:60”?
RECORDING SETUP > REC FORMAT should be where you set the size and frame rate for normal shooting.
To shoot with under- or over-crank you’d set the REC FORMAT to one of the 720pN options, then adjust to your desired shooting frame rate with the SCENE FILE > FRAME RATE field.
If you were to shoot in 720pN24 with a frame rate of DEFAULT or set to 24 then you’d have the usual 24p clip you’d expect. But set the FRAME RATE to 60 – and now you’re recording 60 frames per second for your 24p movie – 250% slow motion. Setting the frame rate to 12 would give you double-speed clips… 12 frames per second recorded, played back at 24. And since all 3 of the above examples are recorded as 720pN24 – they’d all show up (rightly) as 24p both during playback and in Log & Transfer.
The reason your clips show up as DVCProHD 60p is that the Native (pN) shooting mode is specific to these cameras, and it is not a standard 720p format. HD 720p spec requires 60 frames per second – so the Compressor field in FCP shows up at DVCProHD 60p – there is no other setting unless you pick 720p50 (PAL).
All the non-pN shooting modes are all ‘over 60’. Shooting 720p30 or 720p24 result in a clip with the look of 30 or 24p, but over a 60p signal. Lots of duplicated frames… which is why shooting pN is so much more efficient.
I think your camera is fine. Do some testing and see if things make sense.
-Adam
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I’m beginning to wonder why I always think I need to send these types of jobs to Compressor…
HD to SD, anamorphic to letterbox – is the scaling in FCP as good as what I’d get out of Compressor with all settings tailored for best quality?
-Adam
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Do verified exports only take forever? Every time I’ve tried it looked like it was stuck for so long that I gave up. The progress bar and text stop updating after verifying the first clip.
Guess I still have a reason to keep my Leopard partition…
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