Bouke Vahl
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Then why not ingest HDV, edit, consolidate with generous handles (and perhaps pieces you want to keep.)
I don’t care in what foreign country you are, but you should be able to pick up a decent 1 TB FW or USB drive anywhere in the world.
(Could be a few hours drive if you’re in deep africa, but then you can pay someone a dollar to do it for you.)
1 TB will give you like what, 70 hours of HDV?Redigging can be frame accurate, but will be dog slow. There are no problems, except for the problems you can solve manually, at the cost of attended redigging and added up to a minute per clip to capture.
Pick your poison…
Bouke
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Dude,
At HDV data rates, how many footage do you have?
What deck do you have, and do you know how hard you can suffer redigging HDV?
Buy extra storage and go at your desired online quality straight away.Bouke
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Well, i could (and should) make a demo video, but currently i’m swamped.
But the demo will give you a good idea.
Also the manual covers a lot of gotcha’s in Avid.Do toy with it…
hth,
Bouke
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Swami,
With ingested, i mean if it’s already digitized or still lives on tape.And yes, my utils can work with XdCam EX files. (And a lot of them use FFmpeg, so that part you got covered yourself i would think.)
About FFmpeg, why not compile for Mac and keep it there?
(Runs great under OSx)As for a specific tool to get your proxies with TC, contact me direct.
bouke at videotooldhed.comIf you want to make something yourself, it’s also possible.
If you do a render to a proxy file using FFmpeg, and the duration stays the same, just copy / paste (self contained!) the QT TC track from source to proxy QT.
While you’re at it, copy the proxy into an empty fast start QT, and save that as self contained (If people want to have web access to the clips that will save a huge amount of time)
By default FFmpeg saves the fast start atom at the end, kinda sucks (although there are workarounds)
All doable with Applescript.As for the different codecs, why not make a double set, one for the editors, one for the rest.
Even with your insane amount of footage it’s doable.Last but not least, if you set up your sequence properly, you CAN edit real time with H264.
(But you have to render every effect)
Depending on how complex the edit is before going back to the sources, it might be good enough.Bouke
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There are a few issues:
The proxies image quality suck, but it depends how important that is to you.
You MUST ingest file based and assign a Disk Label, if you want to do a file based conform.
Adding a disk label later on is impossible afaik.
(Unlike a Reel name, you can add that later on..)
You’ll love file based ingesting, way faster than ingesting over 422 / SDI, and since you keep everything native, the amount of storage you need is way less while maintaining your max quality.)The proxy audio sucks BIG TIME, and can add a lot of time to the re-ingesting.
If you have a PDW-U1, check this out:
https://www.videotoolshed.com/?page=products&pID=35
This will take some time as well, but way less than ingesting the full media, so you can edit your sound in online quality.hth
Bouke
https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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I have NO idea what the exact problem is, but to my understanding, the GOOD thing about sync ‘n link is that it keeps the entire length of both video and audio.
Now if you don’t want that, FCPauxTC reader comes with an helper application that merges BWF with QT (it copies the BWF into the QT), where the length of the file is limited to to the length of the video.Perhaps that would be a solution for you?
Have a look here and try the demo, should give you enough info to see if it fixes things.
https://www.videotoolshed.com/?page=products&pID=26Currently it uses the video length, but i could also make it so that it uses only the part where there is overlap, or pad the missing audio with silence.
Bouke
https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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It highly depends on how long the footage is that the editors have to work with.
If it’s not too much, they can transcode the proxies to something handier before the edit starts.FFmpeg is golden for you. It definitly can do everything you want, EXCEPT timecode. But i can probably fix that for you.
(I have my clients log with FFmpeg generated proxies as well, and i’ve made a util that inserts the QT TC)
Or, you can always use Compressor for the proxy generation.
Slower than FFmpeg, but it can retain the TC info.
But with your amount of footage, if it’s not ingested, look into something that ingests the footage to proxy QT in one pass.
(doable)Another thing is how to reconnect to the online files.
If you are going to batch capture from the tapes, you only need TC and Reel info.
If it’s file based, you MUST keep track of your file names, as FCP refers to that for relinking.
I have made a util that can do the conversion, but it’s not perfect if clips have long names. (Still trying to improve that…)If you are handy with a commandline, do continue to study FFmpeg, and join the FFmpeg user list.
As for XDcam, it can very well be that the discs contain plain SD DV files instead of IMX. But for the workflow, it does not really matter.
You could have a look at my tools for this.
On my site you’ll find an app that can extract proxies with HQ audio, a util that can do a file based conform on XDcam disks, and a decent logger that will work with the proxies and FCP.
(and i can customize those for you if needed)Bouke
https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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No.
QT and QT pro are equal for codecs.
If he can play the file in QT, Premiere should support it as well.
But i guess he can’t.
Are you sure it is Apple uncompressed, not another form of uncompressed?Bouke
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Most pulldown removers use TC to find the cadence.
In Avid, you can set cadence start. No idea about FCP though.It is possible to detect the cadence in software (i made such a thing years ago), but you need to have a fair bit of motion in the shot or it does not work.
Next, there is a huge difference in Advanced Pulldown and normal pulldown.
Don’t let the nake fool you, advance pulldown is easier to remove, as it creates a new interlaced frame that simply can be kicked out.Normal pulldown adds a FIELD every now and then, merging it with a unique field.
Both an be removed without quality loss, but removing normal pulldown is a bit harder.Advanced pulldown is ideal for shooting when the carrier is a NTSC system, normal pulldown is ideal for end use (dvd/broadcast)
Bouke
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well, do a simple test.
Import a BWF file in FCP and look at the duration.
Now switch the BWF import, then import a copy of the same file.
You’ll see the duration change.
This is not good…
(a 48Khz 20 min. clip imports as 20 min. in Drop, but as 19:58:06 in Non-drop…)Anyways, for those who get bitten by this the archives will be there 🙂
Bouke
https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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