[Arthur Luhn]

I recorded a 15 sec clip at 480 NTSC 30fps and seeing that there is no NTSC 30fps in the FCP easy setup, set up a DV-NTSC sequence. When I tried to import the clip from the P2 card, it said the clip was in queue, but idle.

Is this related to maybe the incompatibility of the sequence I just set up and the format I recorded in?

many thanks

FCP 5.1.4
OS X 10.4.8
G5 2.66 GhHz Dual-core Intel Xeon
Panasonic AJ-PCD20
HVX-200
1 TB Lacie
MBE v.2

[Arthur Luhn]

Tom,

Thanks very much for the reference. I appreciate it. I’ve purchased the book online.

[Arthur Luhn]

Many thanks..

Does this also cover active morphing? I.e., while the timeline is in motion, we see the original frame with a caller, and then there’s another frame (with the other caller) that enroaches, from the right, sort of pushing the original frame into a cropped position on the left side?

[Arthur Luhn]

In my experience with B & H Photo Video, they have been professional and their customer service is usually top quality. I have been involved in several situations where I returned merchandise for refunds and haven’t had any trouble.

If you can wait until passover is finished, I am sure that if you call customer service, you can probably get the situation resolved without any problem.

[Arthur Luhn]

I went straight to compressor h.264 from FCP.

But someone did say to try to open in quicktime pro and select export and choosing h.264 as codec and 24 as the frame rate.

Thanks,

FCP 5.1.4
OS X 10.4.8
G5 2.66 GhHz Dual-core Intel Xeon
Panasonic AJ-PCD20
HVX-200
1 TB Lacie
MBE v.2

[Arthur Luhn]

I exported the MB footage in compression following this Ken Stone article

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/hd_dvds_on_sd_dvds_young.html

However I don’t see anything in export that accomodates 24fps. Someone suggested exporting to quicktime pro and exporting in 24. I will do more research on that.

What I want to do is figure out the best way to export 720p24PN to DVD Studio Pro.

Thanks

FCP 5.1.4
OS X 10.4.8
G5 2.66 GhHz Dual-core Intel Xeon
Panasonic AJ-PCD20
HVX-200
1 TB Lacie
MBE v.2

[Arthur Luhn]

Absolutely did render everything- and after I ran the two small tests and discovered that the MBE- altered footage took much longer, I went back and compressed the 56 sec footage and just left it and it came out good as far as I can see- took about 2.5 hours to compress.

However it will only compress to 59.94 which is another problem I need to work with since I shot in 24PN. I think for me to keep going this way is asking for a SNAFU.

FCP 5.1.4
OS X 10.4.8
G5 2.66 GhHz Dual-core Intel Xeon
Panasonic AJ-PCD20
HVX-200
1 TB Lacie
MBE v.2

[Arthur Luhn]

Right but how do you get to the bottom of this? All I see is a red horizontial band in one clip- how do I even start to link the clip to it’s missing source?

Many thanks..

[Arthur Luhn]

I have the 0.6x from Cavision which was $298.00 so the $595 price does seem to be approximate for the Century optics fisheye. You’d be suprised how much field the HVX captures, having a 82mm lens to work with in the first place. Cavision is not top of the line, but works for the moderately budgeted.

Also check other outlets such as BHphotovideo.com for prices on Cavision products, they carry them, but those products tend to be on backorder.

[Arthur Luhn]

Output to 24fps DVD via FCP DVD studio pro.