[Bouke Vahl]

There are other options.
FCP relinks first on name. (And you can force it to link at any clip.)

Then, it starts looking for TC. If the start TC fcp expects falls within the start / end of the clip, FCP will use that TC.
Now this can be great if the new/to link clip is something like a captured tape source with different start/end (the warning will tell you), but it can be hell as well.
So, if the clips are the right clips, just with a TC offset, the trick might be to remove the TC track prior to relinking (backup and test first!)
If there is no tc (or, no matching TC, the expected start not within the in/out tc), fcp relinks based on framecount, starting at the beginning of the clip.

hth,

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

Lots of options, but it highly depends on how you sync.
Do you have common timecode on both video and sound?
If so, is it needed that the entire sound file is used?
(QT can hold a short piece of sound in a long video file, but the other way around is difficult, at least for FCP)
WIth commont TC< I’ve got tools to merge the two, but if you need to sync manually on clap or something, that won’t help you.
If that is the case, you probably need to export.
Mind you, this is NOT a render (since you won’t be transcoding),
thus the speed will be directly related to your drive speed.
Meaning, it will be way faster than RT, and thus will be doable…

hth,

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

read the manual again and again…
Don’t forget the restart FCP part.

Of course there will be a small speed difference between unlocked recorders, but not that big.

If all fails, export the clips to QT audio only, wave or aiff, see if that works (that should remove the timestamp that fools FCP)
Since you probably don’t have any use for the BWF timestamp, you’ll be fine.

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

To add, the extension for BWF is still .wav
(that confuses a lot of people…)

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

If it is very quick, you suspect the downconversion to be bad?
I’m not sure what part of the entire chain does the downconvert, but you could try putting your HD movie in an IMX sd project, and render to a simple codec, see if you get the same speed.

Otherwise, pick any app. you like to do a good downconversion, put that in an SD project and export…

But, did you look at the outputfile on a CRT? Does that look right?
(I hate the look of SD on my gorgeous expensive HD monitor and switch back to a good old CRT when i can…)

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

it’s here for a week or two.

Link to file:
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1479900297/53d3a2e0deeb83e58dd103325ec53294

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

the glow is an unwanted thing?
Sounds like premultiplied vs straight alpha.
do a Save As from photoshop to PNG. That has straight alpha and you have worry free, clean import.

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

you do the mapping in the inspector (if it’s called like that, not behind a mac now).
set it to color instead of grayscale, and pick colors.
Make sure your bg is fully transparant, and that you set your anti-alias color to a mix of title / outline (in case it is there),
or outline half transparant (if it is between outline and video)
Just toy with the sliders, you’ll see.

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

Third party apps for fast import are plenty, any package that allows you to export to QT based on the normal qt install (and the codecs on your machine) will do the trick.
(check in QT pro, you can export to DNxHD…)

But then you still have to import (but this is fairly fast)
If you really need speed, you can also re-wrap the QT’s into Avid MXF, so you can drag the media database in a bin, and have your clips, or use the media tool to get them in a bin (thus, no import needed!)
My ‘offloader’ tool can do this, and is free for the Windows version.
(it is intended to offload cards on the shoot and be ready to edit when you get home. Make sure you have enough battery power on your laptop!)

But if you can afford to wait (i prefer waiting overnight, it does not hurt when my machine is busy when i’m asleep), import in AVID either trough AMA or a ‘normal’ input (that i prefer, it does a better job on levels IMHO, but that may depend on your avid version), is just fine.
If your machine crashes on this, you’ve got a corrupt / rotten / broken install / os / machine / ram whatever.
It should work just fine, do a re-install of avid, if that does not work do a re-install of your os, if that does not work check your RAM yadda yadda.
(bottom line, it works for most of us, so your machine is to blame 🙂

hth,

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

You can override the colors in DVD SP.
I suspect it’s the default palette for bitmaps, where red / blue / white / black is used as input, where those colors get mapped to the final values.

Bouke

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