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Bronwen Mackay
May 19, 2011 at 2:05 pm in reply to: Very confused about what to set my FCPro project to with 720p/25pn

Thanks folks. I think we’ve now established that I am looking to learn and am clearly in the wrong place. 🙂

“may you always do for others and let others do for you” ~Bob Dylan
Bronwen Mackay
May 19, 2011 at 12:50 pm in reply to: Very confused about what to set my FCPro project to with 720p/25pn

Thank you. 🙂

“may you always do for others and let others do for you” ~Bob Dylan
Bronwen Mackay
May 19, 2011 at 12:29 pm in reply to: Very confused about what to set my FCPro project to with 720p/25pn

With all due respect- I am wanting to learn about how to do this right from the outset. “Easy Set-up” sounds like it would do my thinking for me and I do not wish to set up a new project with one setting and have the clips force the project’s sequence to conform to another setting. Knowing how to avoid that being the case kind of was my reason for posting. 😉

“may you always do for others and let others do for you” ~Bob Dylan
Bronwen Mackay
May 19, 2011 at 12:12 pm in reply to: Very confused about what to set my FCPro project to with 720p/25pn

When I set up a new project I am asked about the sequence preset among other things (yes, scratch disk et al is OK- I understand that. :))

I really would just like to know what I ought to answer to that.

Because unless I do I will never learn the whys and wherefores. Meaning I cannot improve my skills and speed up the process: I have to edit a heck of a lot of different delivery formats and it is a case of the blind (my fellow students giving me the footage) being led by the very blind (me) until I get to grips with it.

“You L&T to DVCPROHD into FCP” is what I was looking for, thank you so much.

“may you always do for others and let others do for you” ~Bob Dylan
Bronwen Mackay
May 19, 2011 at 11:51 am in reply to: Very confused about what to set my FCPro project to with 720p/25pn

Yes, as it states in the title, I am “very confused”.

But I am not confused about the info- I am merely reading what it says on the camera’s settings. Perhaps read too much, of course. Sorry for neglecting to state that I was using P2. I know that 720 is HD.

I would like to know how to set up the project to reflect the raw data on the P2, given the camera’s settings as above (whichever part is relevant to the exercise). This is because I KNOW how to log and transfer and I do understand about the sequence adapting to the clip.

Basically, given my limited knowledge, I would like to know what to answer when asked how I’d like to set up the new project. 😉

“may you always do for others and let others do for you” ~Bob Dylan
Bronwen Mackay
January 5, 2011 at 6:51 pm in reply to: P2 Log and Transfer Error no data

I haven’t thought on it entirely yet but what jumped out at me is that it is possible to “transfer” clips in part. Could you try to import the first 15 minutes by setting an in and an out and then get that in. Then try again with the next 4 or so minutes? Keep going in small chunks, avoiding the need for a “span”? I know- long shot, incredibly complicated but I will give it some thought and get back to you if I find anything. Unless someone really much cleverer than I…?
Bronwen Mackay
July 25, 2010 at 8:51 pm in reply to: FC Pro Log and Transfer’s “Add to Queue” stalls- what’s wrong?

All I know is that the camera shows the following data: Rec Format: 1080i/25p and Rec Mode: DVCPRO50. It is also what the Final Cut Pro app shows the data to be. 🙂

Thank you so much for the information- it is all rather more than I know what to do with but I will do my best to follow through. Just typical that the firewire cable has just broken, the deadline is very soon and the learning curve is steep when under stress. They say little knowledge is a bad thing- so true in my case… LOL!