Atticus Culver-rease
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Unless you a visual effects wiz, or know someone who is, I think you’d have better luck doing this practically rather than using green screen. You could have a sign/print shop print your backplate onto a large piece of vinyl (or preferably something with a more matte finish, you’d have to research what would be best). Then stretch it on a frame and place it behind your band, light it convincingly, and pull it away as you planned to do with the green screen.
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You don’t want to import a bunch of footage with different framerates into FCP and throw them all into the same timeline. Final Cut doesn’t really know how to handle conforming between timebases like that. You’re going to want to decide what framerate you want to edit with and convert everything to that framerate using another application like After Effects or Compressor, then import to FCP.
If you want to stay in a 24p timeline it will be more difficult to convert your 29.97 sources to 24p while maintaining image quality than it would if you added pulldown to your 24p sources and edited in a 29.97 timeline. On the other hand, your 25p stuff will convert to 24p easier than 29.97. So you have to look at how much of each type of footage you have, what your final output needs to be, and decide what the best format to work in is, then convert everything to that.
Another option to look into would be Nattress’s standards conversion plugin, which I believe is supposed to let you work with your original sources and their different framerates within the same timeline, doing the conversion within FCP, but I haven’t worked with it enough to know if it’s up to the task you have.
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When you say it doesn’t look so good, do you mean it looks heavily compressed or what? When you exported out the QT of your sequence does it look okay there? If it does then the problem must be with something that you’re doing in the compression for DVD.
How long is your sequence? The “DVD Best Quality 120 mins.” setting in Compressor uses a fairly low bit rate, so if your sequence is short enough you can use a higher bit rate, but how high you can go depends on how long your show is, whether you’re burning to DVD-5 or DVD-9, and how much space your menus and anything else you’re putting on the DVD take up.
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I don’t know why anyone jumped to that conclusion either.
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From what I can follow of your description, it doesn’t sound like log and transfer is converting anything. It sounds like you’re putting 60p footage into a 30p timeline and FCP is playing it back at 30p, dropping every other frame of your 60p footage as I would expect it to do. What you probably want to do is use Cinema Tools to conform your 60p footage to 30p, then import to FCP and it will play back in slow motion.
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I think this can happen if you’re cutting and pasting between sequences that have different timebases, so I would double check that your sequences are the same framerate.
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Unless Ken knows something I don’t, I think the issue is just that you don’t want to color correct (or apply other filters) and then render back to XDCAM EX. But you can still work in an XDCAM EX timeline and avoid this by opening your sequence settings, going to the render tab and setting it to render to ProRes. This saves you from having to transcode everything up front but still gives you the image quality benefits of ProRes’s superior compression when applying filters, transitons, etc. Not to mention that it keeps you from having to deal with conforming the long-GOP structure every time you render…
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Is there a particular reason you’re transcoding to ProRes? You can edit natively in the XDCAM EX codec and set your sequence settings to render to ProRes if you’re just trying to edit the footage.
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Maybe crippled is too strong… what the original post is proposing would definitely be cool regardless. I guess I’m just saying that in a perfect world you would have this functionality coupled with the ability to generate a text transcript. I know that Premiere does this, and from what I’ve heard their implementation of it isn’t that great. I am hopeful that someone else could do it better, because if it worked well it would be a huge timesaver.
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Yeah, while I can’t imagine any sane editor that wouldn’t love to have something like this, its usefulness is somewhat crippled unless it also includes the ability to generate transcripts.
That said, even without speech-to-text capability I’d love to have something that was integrated with Final Cut Pro to allow me to speech search all clips in a project, or to restrict the search based on other metadata criteria like reel name, or to only search within a specific bin, etc. It would also be good to have the option to point it at a folder that contains media that isn’t necessarily imported into your project and search that way too. But the holy grail would be something that generates timcoded transcripts and then lets you search the transcript to locate bits of speech within the source media.