Ben Insler
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Jerry’s right. However, if you’re setting up the deck to downconvert to DVCPRO HD (which it sounded like you might be doing since you mentioned DVCPRO), you can capture that through firewire, but you should still invest in a FW800 external drive and not capture to your internal drive. Let me qualify this too by saying that I’m not sure you can capture 1080i DVCPRO HD via firewire, but I’m sure you can do 720p.
-Ben
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Select all the incorrect clips in your browser, then right click in the Field Dominance field of one of the selected clips and select the correct setting from the pop-up menu. If you have broken master/affiliate connections for clips in the timeline, you will have to do this through the item properties window for each clip in the timeline (or drag all your master clips in the timeline back to the browser first).
Hope that helps,
Ben
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do the video files play in quicktime?
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So this is not a drop frame vs non-drop issue? I would think that 59.94 would be the drop frame equivalent of 60i non drop. I haven’t done TOO much work with it, so I have to say I’m not as informed as I should be, but I would only think there would be a problem down converting if you were talking about 60p footage.
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I haven’t done it yet, but supposedly there are settings either in the Log and Transfer window (that’s what it’s called in FCP 6, right?) or in the preferences where you can tell final cut to transcode media coming from P2, XDCAM, or even REDCODE (soon) to ProRes422 as it pulls it in. You shouldn’t have to pull it all in natively and then media manage or batch export it all. However, there’s not much benifit for using ProRes422 in place of DVCPRO HD – I think it actually takes up more space, and you don’t gain any quality. ProRes422 is more for economizing Uncompressed formats.
-Ben
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Get two. You’ll have more horizontal desktop space, and you won’t have to suffer with smaller text sizes as a result of the higher resolution of the 30 inch. If you were looking into 2 30s vs. 2 23s, I’d say go with the 30s (obviously! I’d love to be so lucky…), but in your situation I’d prefer two 23s. Plus, for me anyway, there’s something about a definitive division of my desktop (being the border between the two monitors) that actually makes me use my available desktop space in a more constructive way. Regardless of how big my monitor is, I don’t like cramming a bunch of windows on one monitor. I’d rather have two monitors, each with 4 or 5 windows than one large monitor with 10 windows.
All the best,
Ben
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Thanks Msacci. Good Info. But I was just curious if you can do this totally outside of FCP. I want to convert the entire unedited captured clip, and would prefer to work in FCP while the encode is going on.
Thanks again for any additional input anyone may have.
-Ben
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no, you can trash them. Final Cut will recreate them on your assigned scratch disk when you open that project again…wherever you move it to…
-Ben
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Final Cut Pro User Manual – Volume 1, page 290.