Captain Mench
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My guess is that your DVD wasn’t encoded properly. I’ve encoded both 30p and 60i footage without issues. That said, it’s hard to get a good read from what you mean Jerky… bandwidth issues come up and make the DVD seem to jump/skip… is that what you mean?
As for shooting and editing… neither of these formats will affect FCP in the least. Your choice, all things else being equal, should be a ‘look’ only.
CaptM
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It really depends on a few things… one of which is your computer. What type and how much ram??
Also — FCP can only handle so much audio at one time. I think the default is 6 tracks without filters… maybe more based on your processor.
You could TRY (though I’ve never done it…) somewhere in your preferences there is a spot to change REAL TIME audio tracks to a higher number. Flip through your preferences and see if you can find it. If not, I’ll find it later.
Other than that… yes, when the little red line pops up you’re gonna have to render.
CaptM
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Both will affect quality… It really depends on how far from the original speed you are correcting.
I’m not sure of the specific plugin we’ve used with protools, but for VERY small % changes on professional orchestral CDs we’ve edited it works great.
Now, that said, I’ve had some great results with the FCP filter too… though mainly for speech.
Again, don’t go far… and make sure you are listening on the best possible monitors. You don’t want cheap things coloring the sound after it leaves FCP.
CaptM
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https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
There you go… I know you should be searching for it… but I’ve got it on my BOOKMARKS list.
Make sure you search these vast archives for other issues you might have first though.
Thanks,
CaptM
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I’ve got a great way…
You need Compressor or you can do it in Shake too…
But basically, you convert it to 720p60 AT 60 frames per second and then use cinema tools to conform to 24.
Fantastic slow motion… https://homepage.mac.com/captmench/WaterTest.mov
https://members.shaw.ca/alex.mitchell/slowmotutorial.pdf
Or… for the shake way…
https://www.proapptips.com/videos/60iTO24pqt6.mov
CaptM
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Could be… I just saw another post on a different forum that stated he had problems logging and capturing. I’m sure running 5.0.x in Rosetta is going to be a nightmare especially for HD footage. Chunk chunk chunk!!
CaptM
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That is confusing and I’m jumping WAY out on a limb here…
Dbl check in your canvas’s pulldown buttons… on the top of the canvas window — does it say view as square pixels??
Also — another leap into nothingness… Though I’ve never heard of this before, maybe FCP has a little 6 legged creature when it comes to handling the math for PAL anamorphic? I know for NTSC, the aspect should be some form of 33.33 — maybe PAL IS 37ish??
Are you droppng clips from the anamorphic sequence or are you dropping the entire sequence into the new STANDARD sequence? If it’s clips, you might want to click on a right-click (control-click) and say remove attributes and only check the DISTORT box. See if that helps. If not — well, don’t do it for the other clips.
CaptM
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If you shot anamorphic, why not cut in an anamorphic sequence?
Try that.
CaptM
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No — it’s just code.
But where is your media anyway? Is it ALL on that drive? Where this would be a perfect situation would be if you bought yourself a drive and kept the same media at home as at work. You could even email the xml back and forth.
CaptM
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I think your answer might be to export XML each time you bring it home and back.
If you are working on the same media in both places it won’t care where you put it… only that it’s the same media.
Plus, it will also bring any color corrections etc with it. Now — I’m not sure if this will work for a full project or an individual timeline… but it might be worth a shot.
CaptM