[Bob Flood]

sam.

were you shooting in 24P native? or was it 24p over 59.94?

if the latter there is some conversion you need to do if you want true 24.

waht happens when you drop the shots into a 59.94 timeline? do they play? if so then there ya go!

hope this helps

bee eph

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

Sean

My understanding was that you had to buy the dvcpro50 or dvcprohd codec if you want it on a PC, but that it was free with mac. I think its a quicktime component, so you can get it anytime.

am i wrong?

bee eph

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

i hear ya cluckin big chicken!!! 🙂

i think its a mistake for apple to preach “there can be only one!” since most producers dont go “oh lets use that new company ‘gottalottabluescreen?” since they all have apple computers!”

its rarely about the gear, and its always about the people, and if ILM uses PCs, macs, or stone knives and bearskins it does not matter. what matters it that they can do the job and do it well.

adobe sees that. but then thats probabaly cuz adobe doenst make computers.

my 3.13175 cents

bee eph

[Bob Flood]

hi all

we have fcp for editing, but AE and Lightwave on a pC for efx.

we have been using the sheer codec for a massive chromakey job, and it has been good. pretty fast export times (dvcproHD to Sheer RGB 10 bit)

the down side is we have to composite the shots in fcp at dvcprohd which even using the sheer codec takes for ever to render. but you will always get that

there is another codec made by microcosm that also fills the bill.

we were using rayligh dvcprohd on the pc, but seemed to get better gamma and color translation using sheer.

[Bob Flood]

Hi

Deck control in a Broadcast environmnet is usually executed via An rs 422 connection using a specific control protocol (no doubt sony)
Talk to your engineering dept about runing an RS422 cable from your BM card to the deck. If the deck is shared with another controller, like station automation or linear editing, you can get a simple switch to go between fcp and the other app

hope this helps

bee eph

[Bob Flood]

thanx all!

i guess it sounds like…”sign me up!” 🙂

bee eph

[Bob Flood]

Hi, and thanx
As painful as it might be, i am glad for the honest answer:

YUV-RGB differences will drive you n-u-t-s, nuts! There are NO known ways to equate the two color spaces… no known formulas

We have been trying something called “the sheer codec” by Bit jazz. After a lot of experimentation i found that if i export from FCP using the Sheer 10 bit RGB codec, and have the AE artist render it out the same way (no itu expansion) the stuff comes back pretty close. I do it in QT conversion, 960×720, and setting the RGB input range in the sheer options for full range, and leave it alone on the AE side, adn that seems to work the best, although its still not perfect, but its a lot easier to correct.

thanx again and hope this helps

[Bob Flood]

Hi, and thanx
As painful as it might be, i am glad for the honest answer:

YUV-RGB differences will drive you n-u-t-s, nuts! There are NO known ways to equate the two color spaces… no known formulas

We have been trying something called “the sheer codec” by Bit jazz. If i export from FCP using the Sheer 10 bit RGB codec, and have the AE artist render it out the same way (no itu expansion) the stuff comes back pretty close. I do it in QT conversion, 960×720, and setting the RGB translate in the sheer options for

[Bob Flood]

thanx to you All!

our “IT GUY” said that the OS could access as much ram as you put in, but i know this forum to be pretty darn close to the definitive word on this stuff

It sounds like 8 gB might be good to have, but anything over 8 gb would be a waste of money, at least until FCP is 64 bit

thanx again

[Bob Flood]

Alexander

Someone here once said that when you cut and paste your nests from one sequence to another, you lose the link and FCP treats the copy as a separate iteration ( I believe they call this a feature)

HOWEVER

nesting does not work! i tried creating a timeline, doing some work in it, then cutting it into another timeline. it stayed linked for a period of time, but then “myseriously” becam unlinked just like you described. for the life of me i cannot figure out how.

SO

i don’t do it that anymore. I always export a native quicktime of my sub-timeline and bring it back in. If i have to make changes, i avoid the “file in use” error when i try to overwrite by rendering it to the root of the media drive (aka the topmost level) and copy it over the old one in the media folder.

its a pain, but at least I know which timeline i am working on. What i find scary is that FCP lets you make multiple copies of timelines, bins, or anything, all with the same name!

hope this helps

bee eph