[Alex Gat]

Joseph and David thank you.

I have tried your method David but it does not replace anything.

Edit: actually, it works when selecting one media at a time but not with all the clips selected. I guess this is a (long) way.

As for why certain clips do not conform, it appears that all cut after 01:00… are properly replaced but the ones below 01:00 do not.

[Alex Gat]

Ok, I have found my error.

The TC of the clip from my friend started at 01: while mine started at 00:

So here is what I have tried (without success).

I have replace the clip from the media tab and then in the attribute, I have change the TC back to 00:.

It actually works for around 2/3 of my cuts but not all of them. Any idea why and if not how can I do this ? Thanks

[Alex Gat]

Thanks, yes this is what I want to do, but with a precise number of frame. Where is the slip command you are talking about. There are slip commands in the Trim menu, but they do not offer to enter a desire number of frame.
Thanks

[Alex Gat]

The moot question made the free advice not to pass on you.

“Idioms are made for those who wants to believe we know something for sure.” Me Myself and I

[Alex Gat]

[Brent Marginet] “What type of media is it.
Long Gop Media can be very difficult to playback so that could be part of the problem.”

It is a Lacie 5Big Thunderbolt 2, appart from that I don’t know where to look for Long Gop Media.

[Brent Marginet] “What do you mean by the benchmark looks fine.”
“Try running the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test utility to see what kind of performance you can get from that Drive.”
This is what I did, I have attached the screenshot of the results above, and the disk seems to run fast enough, that is what I meant.

[Brent Marginet] “I will say that I really dislike the Lacie Big Series of Drives, they’re really slow.
I’ve also had one drive fail in two different clients drives and the RAID 5 wouldn’t rebuild the Volume.”
Yes I have heard that, you are scarring me.

Anyway, the speed test seems not to incriminate the disc transfert speed. But then how to explain, frames are dropped when media is playedback from that disc.
I just did another test with some other clips from another day shooting (same format, prores) As a surprise the played back was fluid, so I suspected the clip making the frame drop might be corrupted. But then how to explain that once copied onto a SDD drive, they do not present any playback problem, well, this is tricky.

Alex

[Alex Gat]

Me again,
After some investigation, it looks like the cause comes from my drive: I exported the whole edit onto another drive (a sdd) and the playback from there is just fine. Thing is I ran a benchmark on the faulty drive ( a Thunderbolt2 5big drive) and it looks fine !
https://idoia.com/thunderbolt-bench.png

I’ll be glad to have any suggestion because I am really stuck.
Alexandre

[Alex Gat]

Thank you Marc,

I thought about it yes and I never expected to have my clips and tracks synced right at the frame.
In fact I expect the timecode to allow me to overlay multicam clips and sound tracks quicly on the timeline without having to look if each clip correspond to each track. Once the clips overlaid, I expect when looking closer to have them unsynced by not by far.

Does that make sense to you ? Is that worthy ?

Anyway, that does respond to “how to insert the clips (and track)” at the time they were shot. I have found a way around, I do a multicam, then I create a timeline with that multicam, I open the multicam clip in the timeline to see all my clip at the right timecode. Then I position them down on track 1 (because so far each clip has its own track !). I copy the whole bunch of clips. I create a new timeline into which I paste the clips. That is all what I have found so far.

It surprising that Create a timeline with clips respecting their timecode” is not an existing feature.

Thanks a lot.
Alex

[Alex Gat]

I was looking at how to combine timelines in davinci and I dug up this old thread. It is seems that even today it is not possible to combine timelines in davinci. But then how do you guys edit long feature films ? I come from FCP and I liked the possibility to created severals sequences and to combine them into new ones to edit larger part of my movies. You cannot do that in davinci ? But then another question comes to my mind : what are multiple timelines useful for then ?
Thanks

[Alex Gat]

Hello,

I did not receive an answer to my post, so I send it at the top again.
My question is :
Is the conversion from DNG to prores only to edit ? Will I be able to get back to the DNG files when color grading ? Is such case I don’t need to worry too much if I did not get the white balance right or any other adjustement when I created my prores proxies.

thanks.
Alex

[Alex Gat]

Thank you both. It’s clear to me now.

A last question though.
I see a lot of people go back and forth from and to resolve/premiere. I come from FCP7 and did not choose to go into FCPX. Is not resolve a ‘good enough’ editing software to prefer to go to premiere ?
If the reason is to use its relationship with adobe afterfx I understand but as I am not a VFX kind of editor, I’d like to give a shot at resolve for editing. Beside, I understand that the editing part of resolve is very new, but my guess is that they will want to make it a serious alternative to others editors.
What are you thoughts about this ?

Thank again.
Alex