[Andy Mees]

hey, ya know I was just nitpicking right? 🙂
yeah IPTC is primarily a news thing, has been used extensively by photojournalists for years … of course these days everyone is shooting RAW so it seems like thats where its exploited most these days, but yeah, its been around a long time.

[Andy Mees]

>I’ve stay on Lower from capture to sequence to mpeg render. Any ideas?

I believe, if you captured the footage via SDI to 8-bit Uncompressed, then you should be working in Upper field first

[Andy Mees]

>I was told here recently that for digital broadcasts we need to send a -20db tone and have our ceiling at -10db.

what you should do first is find out the specific delivery specifications of the broadcaster who is going to air your programme.

[Andy Mees]

Well if I was going to nitpick (and obviously I am!) I’d have to say that IPTC data is by no means specific to the RAW format, its also in the JPEG, TIFF and PSD formats, and possibly more … I believe its in AVI files too, so it’s not too much of a stretch to imagine that it might be capturable by FCP. But no, as it stands, that data isn’t captured. And I’d also agree that that might be a nice feature to see in a future release.

[Andy Mees]

No offence Dan, but I think you’re possibly missing the point here.
Charlie was asking whether something was inherently possibly with FCP, and we’re just pointing out how to acheive that if that is what he truly wants to do. He is already doing the obvious (copying to scratch disc then importing) … now he’s looking for a way to make that 2-step process into a 1-step process.
The iTunes analogy is just an example of how a built-in function of that nature might be enabled as a user preference in FCP, should Apple choose to implement it … and moreover, it’s an illustration of the fact that they already have the code to do it. As a user preference it would, of course, be entirely up to you whether or not to use it.

[Andy Mees]

for the missing audio, you need to demux the audio when you convert it to the “usable” MPEG’s

[Andy Mees]

unfortunately Apple don’t yet provide hooks into FCP setup data, so there’s no way of discerning the current Scratch disc settings other than manually setting them

if you’re ok with that then you could create an AppleScript droplet for the desktop called “Add to Project” or some such, which could copy the drpped file(s) to your Scratch disc folder (as set in the droplet preferences) and then tell FCP (via XML) to import it into the current open project … esentially you would have is a template XML file to which you would add the file’s pathurl and then tell the Finder or FCP to “Open” the XML.

[Andy Mees]

you know that wouldn’t be an altogether bad option.
it would be a simple user preference, akin to the one in iTunes for managing your Music library

imagine a simple checkbox preference “Copy files to Scratch disc when adding to project”

you should drop that into the feature request bucket over at https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

[Andy Mees]

also note that Gary has “HD & Film Consultation, Post and Production Workflows” in his sig file … and whilst Shane does not, he is also available for consulting work

[Andy Mees]

thats because by default Page Peel will peel off the outgoing clip …. you need to tell the transition to act in reverse:

add the transition to the start of the clip
select it and press enter to load it into the viewe
directly to th eright of th esliders that control the start and end percentage of completion for the transtion, you will see a small rectangukar gray button containing a transition icon and a small right pointing arrow within
toggle that button and you will see the arrow changes to point left, that now indicates that the transition will work in reverse

see if that works now