Andreas Kiel
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As Shane said, there is no need (or no sense) to display timecode in milliseconds with normal video. Video is always recorded in frames per second.
With high-speed cams which go up to a 1000 frames or more the frames may not have two digits but more. But this is special and custom.
With audio which records at 48 kHz (or whatever else kHz) you will have quite lot of apps which do show the timecode with milliseconds – or again “audio frames”.Regards
AndreasSpherico
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Hmmm,
Sure you can drag around chapter markers in DVDSP, which is different from FCP and sometimes easier..
But they will only lock on I-Frames (12/15 and it might be slow) and I still do know no method to select several chapter markers in DVDSP at a time. And even if – I don’t know a method to move them all at once. From my point of view it’s even more difficult as you my create a new chapter marker by accident.
But maybe I do not know enough about DVDSP.Regards
AndreasSpherico
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Sure you can do, as same as in FCP.
But how do move all at once?
Andreas
Spherico
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To make those things easier in the future:
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/maM/maM.zipIt’s a small freeware with a lot of stupid dialogs (that’s the price) which will move any amount of sequence markers in a sequence XML within a second.
The app doesn’t take care about the kind of markers nor about the 99 chapter limit of DVDSP.
You have to export the sequence as XML from FCP and then re-import the converted one (just double-click that file in Finder or drag the file to the FCP browser window).
The original FCP XML also can be dragged to the app’s icon to convert it.Regards
AndreasSpherico
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Bret is right.
Some additions below.As far as I know Compressor won’t do a real resampling on this file (at least with the standard settings) but just replaces parts of the header – means 44100 will be replaced by 48000.
This will give you a 8.125% speed up with an additional file which is the same as the original but has a different header and therefore speed.
Think of the sampling of an audio file like the FPS of a video – if you change the rate of 30 fps of it to 60 fps it will run twice as fast as the original. If you apply a filter to resample pictures to get the double amount of pictures FPS will still stay the same but it runs twice as long.
So with audio you have to use an app to interpolate the “missing” samples and to merge both of the above – keeping “FPS” at the same level and calc the “missing” frames. FCP can do that as Bret described.Regards
AndreasSpherico
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Bret,
I understood your intention and the idea is good.
But unfortunately it doesn’t work with the current version of FCP.Chapter markers on clips will be just ignored on export for DVPSP (or Compressor) as they are not on sequence level.
They will be in the XML as “chapter markers” and with some knowledge about XML you’re able to “lift them up” to sequence level, but that includes a lot of computation work as you always have retrieve the relative marker timing regarding to the clips and convert that to an absolute level regarding the sequence.If people are interested I can upload a PDF which show some more details about the method I described earlier – it’s easier than it sounds.
Regards
AndreasSpherico
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“copy paste” doesn’t work with markers. Additionally “chapter markers” have to be at sequence level to be considered as “chapter markers”.
Andreas
Spherico
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After a long time I lurked here a bit.
Simple answer for this question- you can use XML and some clicks and fantasy ( though 45 markers may be not worth the effort)
Below roughly how it works:
Export the sequence as XML. Open that file in TextEdit. Go down to the end of the file and you’ll find ““. Copy from the last line up to the first of all those entries – starting with “” in this “row of similar looking lines. Paste that into a new plain text document and save. Import that new document ino EXCEL or FMP or whatever spreadsheet.
The marker timing will have it’s own column as FCP uses tabs to make the XML more human readable. Now create a formula for a new column which says “‘markerTime column’ +50” (or whatever amount of frames) with no result if ‘markerTime column’ is empty . Now export the spreadsheet including the new column but excluding the old markerTime column as tab text.
Open that file in TextEditor and copy all. Select the original XML (with all the ‘markers’ still selected and paste. Save the XML.
Then import that XML into FCP – and voila all markers are shifted.As said this doesn’t make too much sense with only a few markers – but it’s a good exercise :).
Andreas Kiel
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