Arnie Schlissel
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[joseph wilkins] “I have an HVX200 with a P2 card – I capture HDV in QT format.”
Umm… no you don’t.
You capture DVCPro HD.
And why are you trying to use QT to media manage? I’m not trying to be crass, but it looks like you don’t really know or understand the process.
FCP has a tool called Media Manger (like most NLEs). Look it up in the manual, & read it VERY THOROUGHLY. Many people are confused by the Media Manager, & it’s easy to get tricked up & miss a step.
Another option is to use the Batch Export feature in FCP. Again, it’s in the manual- look it up. You can set in & out point on each clip, send them to batch export, then create a new project with the new, exported clips, & delete the old ones.
But then, again, hard drives are cheap. Why bother?
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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If you tear the CC tab off of the viewer, then click on the video tab in the view so that you can see the video, your changes should be seen in your NTSC monitor in real time. I think. But it’s past 1 AM here in Moscow, & I’m on my 3rd beer…
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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[micah ginn] “Does anyone know if there are HD formats unsupported by FCP? “
Short answer: FCP has supported HD via 3rd party capture cards since at least version 3.x, & had been supporting DVCPro HD & some forms of HDV since version 4.5.
Longer answer: JVC & Cannon don’t play by the same rules as the rest of the industry. If you’re using JVC or Cannon gear, you may be out in the wilderness. Get details from them.
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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We’ve just wrapped 6 weeks of shooting for a feature using the HVX-200 & the BT-LH1700W. They’re a great combination together. Our only problem was that the PA we assigned to set up the monitor couldn’t plug in a video cable properly. And the PortaBrace case for the monitor is pretty good, despite the hood design being a little stupid.
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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Even better than Tom’s most excellent suggestion to shoot a greyscale chart, you should fix this in camera when you shoot. You either use gell filters over the lights to balance them to daylight, or you use a filter over the lens to compensate. Roscoe makes gel filters for the lights that are an industry standard. Tiffen, B&W, Heliopan, etc, make filters for your camera lens. IOW, you don’t ‘fix it in post’, you shoot it properly to begin with.
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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[walter biscardi] “Why do you need to know your source TC when it’s in the timeline? I can’t think of ever needing to know that while playing a clip in the timline.”
For example:
The Deva recorder on the feature I’m working on delivers audio to me as individual files for each mic in each take. Our sound recordist is using anywhere from 2 to 8 mics, so I get anywhere from 2 to 8 files per take. Each file has matching TC. I synch picture & one audio file to the clapper slate (hey, it ain’t state of the art, but it works!), the copy & paste the TC from the in on that file to all the other audio files for that take & drag each file down to the timeline. Checking the TC for the source clip tells me if I dragged one or more files to the wrong spot (which happens a couple of times a day).
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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[Shane Ross] “Friday, Sept 29 at 8:00PM ET/PT on The History Channel.”
Nuts! I’m still in Moscow, & my apartment here doesn’t have cable. I’ll just have to catch a re-run.
Congrats!
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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[Barry Green] “You will need to have the proper directory structure, but you certainly don’t need a card to do it.”
Well, I wasn’t clear enought, but that was the point I was trying to make. We didn’t have the directory structure. It turns out that we couldn’t recover the files, anyway (which I didn’t think we would). So we solved the problem by firing the assistant who screwed up & by re-shooting the scene. Thanks for offering to help, though!
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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FCP 5.0.4 or later will, and Imagine Software’s P2 Log will.
They will if you have a P2 directory. I was looking for software to read an MXF file that’s not on a P2 card. As it turns out, the director expected we’d never recover the files anyway, & was expecting to reshoot. It was our producer who kept insisting that we wait to see if we could recover the files first. The reshoot is scheduled & I can finally put this behind me.
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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Brought to you by the same people who brought you the VHS vs BetaMax war. “When will they ever learn, when will they eeeeever leeaaaarn”
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
https://www.arniepix.com/blog