Arnie Schlissel
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[bbalser] “Just use Capture Now and get the whole tape. Then in FCP use the “DV Start/Stop Detect” function to break it up into individual takes.”
In my experience, start/stop detect won’t work past the 1st TC break if you capture across the breaks. It seems to mess with whatever metadata is used to enable this feature.
Arnie
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Without the original TC, there’s no way for FCP to know where to stop.
Your only option is to set a limit to the Capture Now feature that matches the length of your tape.
Arnie
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An often overlooked and critical 1st step- before you open up the media manager, select your entire timeline, right click & choose “Make independant clip”.
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[walter biscardi] “Most likely they will have to recapture all the material to an Avid native codec but by using the Duck, this is done very easily.”
IOW, they’ll need both your FCP project file and the original source tapes, but not your DVCPro HD media files on disk.
Arnie
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If you tell FCP to ignore TC breaks, then your TC will not match. Period. FCP will start to assign new TC as soon as it hits the 1st change or break in TC.
If you actually do need your original TC, then your best bet would be to actually spend the time needed to properly log the tapes.
Arnie
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In Photoshop, you need to create an alpha channel that will be transparent around the logo, and opaque underneath the logo. With the magic wand, you can select the white that you want to knock out, invert your selection, and in the bottom of the channels tab, you click the button that copies your selection to an alpha channel.
You can consult your Photoshop manual for more information.
Arnie
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I think your Boris plugins, Title 3D and such, may be AE plugins. What happens if you trash or reinstall those?
Arnie
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[Mendy855] “I shot in 24p i dont think 24pa”
So you don’t know what mode you shot in. It’s quite likely that you shot some footage in each mode.
You still don’t say how you’re monitoring. The 1st thing to do is monitor your footage properly. It’s entirely possible that there is no problem, but if you’re not monitoring your video properly you may think you have a problem where you don’t.
Arnie
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It sounds to me like you don’t have an external video monior, and you’re seeing this on your computer display. Or perhaps you shot 24PA, and didn’t remove the pulldown?
Arnie
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Jerry, I can’t tell you how much I agree!
Before we started shooting Perestroika last September, I mapped out an entire strategy that involved me being on set (or pretty darn close) and burning every P2 card to DVD as footage was being transfered off of it to a FW800 drive.
Everything was done in sets of 2. 2 sets of DVDs and 2 sets of FW drives for redundancy. If anything broke, we had a backup. As soon as a card was done importing into FCP, the media drive was mirrored to it’s backup. As soon as 1 DVD was finished burning, a 2nd one was burned.
The 1 time a drive went down on set I brought it back with Disk Warrior, but I had the backup drive attached, & could have formatted & restored the drive in minutes, with 0 data lost.
Arnie
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