Arnie Schlissel
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Re-read my post above. This has nothing to do with FCP- it’s the way your camera was made. Those 2 black bars are a part of how it records the image, which is not uncommon for this class of cameras. They will not be seen on most TVs because they’re in the overscan area that typically gets cut off of most TVs. This is probably why you didn’t notice them before.
Arnie
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[Core25] “I don’t know where to look to turn this action off.”
I’m not trying to be mean or crass, but the 1st place to look is either on your tutorial disk or in your FCP manual. What you want to do is ‘overwrite’, but what you’re doing is an ‘insert’. The manual will explain that when you drag a clip to the timeline you will see an arrow that points either down or to the right. You want it to point down for an overwrite, right for an insert. It’s simply a matter of subtly moving the clip up or down a little bit so that the arrow is pointing the right way before you release the mouse button.
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OK, compare what the solution was to what the “engineer” from JVC said. Am I the only one here that’s scared?
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[jwedit] ” For instance, you render a scene out of after effects or other software that will replace where a current scene now lives in the edit. It will take the same time and have the same timing so all you really need to do is replace this.”
And if you didn’t include the pre & post roll the 1st time, you need to export the clip back to AE & re-do it.
[jwedit] “In systems like a Smoke, if you don’t have link transitions set, you can just replace the clip keeping the transitions in place.”
Which is exactly what FCP’s replace edit does. It will leave transitions in place, simply swapping in the new clip for the old.
Arnie
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The 1st thing you should know about documentaries is that very few of them make money. For every “March of the Penguins” or “Roger & Me” there are a few thousand that are lucky to land a slot in a festival that they had to pay a submission fee to.
If it was me, I’d tell the producer that I’d love to work on the project at my regular rates. If he didn’t mind working with no deadlines, I might be able to work out a discounted rate for weekends/nights/othewise spare time. Alas, I could not work on it for free because my co-op, the phone company, etc, won’t let me. And if the project is important to him, then it should be important enough for him to find the money to have it done properly.
BTW, Good luck!
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And this suprises you, somehow? From the same people who are now bringing you “Avid Liquid”?
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Indeed it is not. Varicam is 720p. Most (all?) 1080 cameras are 1080i or 1080Psf.
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[MonkeyBoy] “is this a problem from when I input my footage? or what?”
No, it’s a problem from when Cannon built your camcorder! IOW, those black lines are pixels on your camcorder that don’t record any picture on them. A lot of consumer/”pro”-sumer cameras have those lines. Most people don’t notice these things, though, because they’re in the ‘overscan’ area that’s typically cut off on most TV screens.
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FCP is marking the actual in & out of the clip including the pre & post roll needed for your transition. Since FCP will not allow you to overwrite (or insert) into the middle of a transition, there wouldn’t be much point in marking it any other way. Have you considered using a “replace” edit, instead of an overwrite? That way, you don’t even have to mark the clip!