Ben Holmes
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[Shane Ross] “Showed off Picture Ready…ingesting of 4 streams of uncompressed footage simultaneously that you can begin editing SECONDS after the capture has started. Edit it while it is capturing.”
Shane – who’s product is this, sounds interesting?
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Got to echo other comments – yes, you can do it, but it AIN’T AE. That said, keep it simple and the moves are great quality on output – motion blur is even passable, with some adjustments. It’s just a shame that FCP REQUIRES the sort of fiddling it does. As I’ve said before in this forum, I loathe the UI in After Effects, but it does do motion SO WELL.
Use wireframe mode on a nice big canvas, zoom out so you can see past the edge of the visible frame, and make GENTLE adjustments to bezier points. As with AE, the fewer points the better. Easing the speed AND the coordinates in FCP does give some unexpected results, unfortunately, as you are adjusting TIME as well (like, wow!)
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Sorry Bob – not familiar with edl imports, although it seems likely that fcp can’t get enough ‘hooks’ to reconnect this data. It uses timecode, reel info and clip name; if these all match….
I have found in the past that reconnecting individual clips or a small number can be easier than trying to get fcp to relink everything – sometimes a single clip, or a phantom media-manager clip (MM is a notorious glitcher in some versions of FCP) can cause a problem, where 99% are fine. Have you tried a random selection of single clips to see if ANY reconnect?
Sorry to be of little help. The Cow will know.
ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Have you tried using the wireframe view in your canvas to adjust the positioning for your zoom? Gives the ability to smooth moves in FCP pretty much the same as AE. Not sure without trying if there is an Ease function.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Have you recaptured using different settings? Frame-rate the same?
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Have you looked at 3d Invigorator – a piece of software available as a stand-alone app or AE plug-in? Logomotion sounded good – I’d love a simple to use piece of software that ‘3d’s’ logos and text. Marquee is the Avid app I’d most like to see on FCP (at the risk of starting a heated discussion starting “Marquee? Are you nuts? What I miss from Avid is…”)
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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There are a number of good, reliable SDI cards available. The cheapest is probably the Decklink standard card, which is very cost effective (a few hundred dollars) and will allow you to capture embedded audio as well as SDI and then lay back to digibeta. If you think you may need a card that allows analogue/AES audio inputs, or analogue video in/out (particularly YUV or composite output for an analogue monitor) then consider a more expensive Decklink card (see http://www.decklink.com).
The Kona cards are excellent as well, particularly if you want to do HD work in the future – see http://www.ajavideo.com for more details. AJA also offer an external capture solution, the IO, which has one key advantage of being useable with a laptop to capture SDI.
To capture SDI, you will need a faster disk array. The cheapest option (and a robust and reliable one IMHO) is a firewire 800 drive, such as the excellent G-raid from http://www.g-technology.com – This will easily and reliably cope with 10-bit uncompressed. Other drives are available, obviously, and many recommendations are available on this forum. More recently SATA arrays have become popular – They are fast arrays, and have a key advantage of using cheaper SATA drives than SCSI Arrays.
If you want a faster solution, use a SCSI or Fibre-Channel RAID array, which will give you more speed, and the potential to have redundant drives or mirrored solutions for safety. They require a SCSI or FC card for your G5, such as those from Adaptec. Well regarded makes for SCSI/FC arrays include Huge (now Ciprico??) or Medea and many others.
Find a good reseller, and good luck!
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS and FCP specialists
Current Mac systems All Dual 2.7Ghz with Kona 2 and Digital Voodoo cards, 6Gb Ram, Sapphire, SCSI320 Medea and Huge Arrays.FCP projects include Sky TV coverage of the Ryder Cup and US Open Golf – Live OB specialists. Edit/slomo vehicle.
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You know, just tried a render based on my bizarre advice, and it looks a bit worse than the 133 scaled footage – plus it actually NEEDS rendering on my PB.
That may be the most pointless work-around ever posted!
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS and FCP specialists
Current Mac systems All Dual 2.7Ghz with Kona 2 and Digital Voodoo cards, 6Gb Ram, Sapphire, SCSI320 Medea and Huge Arrays.FCP projects include Sky TV coverage of the Ryder Cup and US Open Golf – Live OB specialists. Edit/slomo vehicle.
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You could achieve the same thing as follows:
Drop the footage onto the timeline.
Leave the scale setting to 100.
Open the ‘distort’ section on the motion Tab.
Set all the figures in the Upper/Lower/Left right boxes as follows:
-480, -288
480, -288
480,288
-480,288Finally, set aspect ratio setting below to 0. (It’s normally -33 for anamorphic footage).
This MAY cause the footage to be rendered differently/better, as in effect you are stretching rather than zooming, but I doubt it’ll look any different – FCP is probably misleading you with the 133 scale figure in reality, as it re-frames the anamorphic footage. Let us know!
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS and FCP specialists
Current Mac systems All Dual 2.7Ghz with Kona 2 and Digital Voodoo cards, 6Gb Ram, Sapphire, SCSI320 Medea and Huge Arrays.FCP projects include Sky TV coverage of the Ryder Cup and US Open Golf – Live OB specialists. Edit/slomo vehicle.
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It seems pretty unlikely that Apple are planning to abandon something they have put on their latest laptop. All these rumours are based around the notion that no-one supports firewire except Apple, but there are plenty of companies making FW800 drives, so why abandon it? It’s a space-conscious, high bitrate solution, and whilst SATA is potentially better, it will also require an express-card adaptor for laptops.
Don’t believe the hype.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS and FCP specialists
Current Mac systems All Dual 2.7Ghz with Kona 2 and Digital Voodoo cards, 6Gb Ram, Sapphire, SCSI320 Medea and Huge Arrays.FCP projects include Sky TV coverage of the Ryder Cup and US Open Golf – Live OB specialists. Edit/slomo vehicle.
http://www.editec.co.uk