[Andreas Kiel]

In CT you have to open the final show (as QT movie) and conform it to 25. This would speed up the program and sound has to be done in STP to avoid the change of pitch
And why the hell do you want to go to HDV?

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Andreas Kiel]

If it’s already the correct format (AIF or BWF) then your system might not be able to handle this amount of tracks in real time – especially when they are long. Try to lower the audio playback quality.

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Andreas Kiel]

You may search the LAFCPUG site for “Compressor Script” or something similar. I posted it there quiet long time ago.

Good luck
Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Andreas Kiel]

Hi,

In theory that should work somehow.

But it will be a PITA.

If you export your little clip sequences it will take the timecode, but it won’t take the reel. So re-importing those files you manually have to assign the reel for each clip (or in a batch). Otherwise the second reconnect will give you an error on each clip.
After you’ve done your editing and did replace/reconnect your clips (with correct Reels assigned in the former process) you won’t have both the subtitles and where they belong to and you have to re-assign those again.
XML could be a solution to figure out which titles are finally used and where, using a going back to the first “clip sequence with title” within a search of all those sequences you hopefully would have saved as XML when using this road of working.

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Andreas Kiel]

> (already merged clips with audio)
This probably is the problem.

Try to make them a subclip first and then use “Inpoint” for multiclip creation.
I personally (and there are many others with me) would not recommend to create multiclips or subclips using external audio.

Regards
Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Andreas Kiel]

Ryan,

If you use Final Cut only then import all your BWAVs with a “fixed” setup of Final Cut Pro. Then export your BWAVs to (self-contained) Quicktime to make the playback speed independent from Final Cut Pro settings.
If you use BWF2XML you can create self-contained QT files directly including an XML with contains the metadata.
From there you can edit as normal.
The OMF will work fine.
The naming doesn’t matter as long as you don’t need an audio EDL.

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Andreas Kiel]

Have a look at the mxf4mac component, it will allow you to handle each P2 MXF as it would be native Quicktime.

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Andreas Kiel]

Hi Ryan,

You can use the referenced files. But as said – and mentioned quite often here – if you use referenced files, you really should know how they work. Up from QT 7.5.5 it’s bit easier to deal with them.

Exporting the referenced files to OMF is not really an exact mirror of the original BWAV as this may loose some metadata, but regarding the actual sound bytes it’s an 1:1 mirror.
Doing a batch export from Final Cut Pro to Quicktime does pretty much the same if you import the BWAVs into FCP then export the linked channels, re-import and edit from there.

Hope this helps.
Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Andreas Kiel]

Hi Roz,

I know a real lot of people having the same problem – this includes me.

So what I did – sorry some self advertisement – I wrote a program named BWF2XML. This app will put your BWAV files into a QT wrapper with a QT timecode track matching the audio timestamp. (no data changed). Working this way Final Cut can sync by timecode. Additionally you’ll never have playback speed issues.
This app works like the “Log & Transfer” but it’s for audio. Have a look at my website and try it, there is a free demo.

Regards
Andreas

P.S.
If you’re interested in testing an application with does auto-sync and multiclip preparation send me an email kiel at spherico dot com

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Andreas Kiel]

You can’t sync by timecode – audio doesn’t have have a QT timeode which is needed in this case. Audio does use tc64 timecode, which can be displayed within Final Cut, but as said it can’t be used for things like sync by timecode.
You’ve to link the clips, create a subclip and make the multiclip using in points.

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools